31-05-21 Whit Bank Holiday Monday - Quail

Warm sunshine all day - and  Bristol temperature up to 25 °C

Mandarin

Cattle Egret

Marsh Harrier, Red Kite 

BRISTOL

No reports

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Yate:
Ridge Woods - 1 Collared Dove, 1 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 4 House Martin, 2 Blue Tit, 1 Great Tit, 3 Long Tailed Tit, 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 1 Nuthatch, 1 Song Thrush, 1 Dunnock, 3 Bullfinch, 1 Greenfinch

NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon:

Colehouse Lane BBS visit highlights - drake Mandarin, 3 Moorhen one with 3 juvs, 3 Swallow, 1 Swift, 1 Reed Warbler, Whitethroat, Chiffchaff, Pied Wagtail

Weston-Super-Mare STW:
1 Marsh Harrier

West Wick:

Locking Head Drove - 1 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 15+ House Martin (collecting mud), an assortment of Swallow, 1 Cetti’s Warbler, 1 Chiffchaff, 2 Reed Warbler, 1 Whitethroat, Goldfinch

 

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield:
Shire Valley - 2 Stock Dove, 1 Grey Heron, 4 Great Spotted Woodpecker - inc 1 juv, 1 Green Woodpecker - calling, 1 Raven but the Gunners Wood site empty, with the following all singing; 1 Skylark, 5 Blackcap 1 Whitethroat, 2 Song Thrush, 9 Chaffinch, 2 Greenfinch

Shire Lane - 1 singing male Quail audible from highest point of lane 16.15 pm

31-05-21 Peregrine, St John's Church, Bath (Tony Bridges)
[3 chicks this year, now between 26 and 29 days old]

 RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake
 

Denny Island:

1 Cattle Egret roosting

Herriott's inc Pool:
1 Red Kite going SE at 10.50a.m.

Reports: Tony Bridges, Jane Cumming, Mark Dadds, Alan Daniells, Andy Davis, Nick Hawkridge, Adrian Hockey, John Thorogood, BirdGuides