Wednesday 2 June 2021

02-06-21 Wednesday - Golden Plover

Warm, with a warm breeze and a bit of rain after 1:30pm - max 22°C

Spotted Flycatcher
Golden Plover
Cuckoo

BRISTOL

02-06-21 Greenfinch Stapleton (Martin Tayler)
Stapleton - garden:
Greenfinch

02-06-21 Great SW juv - Stoke Park (Allan Chard)
Stoke Park:

Great Spotted Woodpecker - chicks waiting to be fed

Withywood - garden:
3 Swift - late arrivals this yr!

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
plenty of Reed Warbler

02-06-21 Treecreeper CS Woods (Alan Daniells)
Chipping Sodbury - Ridge Woods:
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Coal Tit, 1 Blue Tit, 1 Great Tit, 2 Chiffchaff, 4 Wren, 2 Treecreeper - ad + juv, 1 Song Thrush, 2 Bullfinch, 1 Goldfinch

Easter Compton - Wild Place:
4 Swift, 1 Stock Dove, 1 Red Kite, 1 Buzzard, 3 GS Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Raven, 6 Swallow, 4 Chiffchaff, 10 Blackcap, 5 Goldcrest, 4 Nuthatch, 4 Treecreeper, 1 Song Thrush, 2 Mistle Thrush - incl 1 juv, 2 Spotted Flycatcher - carrying nesting material, 2 Bullfinch (m + f)

02-06-21 Bullinch NP (Lisa Presland)
New Passage:
Bullfinch - unexpected but welcome

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead - Lake Grounds - BBS:
68 Canada Geese (but only 2 juvs.), 3 Greylag Geese, 12 Mute Swan, 5 Shelduck, 55 Mallard (only 4 juvs.), 5 Tufted Duck, 3 Swift, 1 Stock Dove - calling, 3 Moorhen, 1 Great Black-backed Gull, 120+ Herring Gull - inc 100+ anting over East Wood, 3 Lesser Black-blacked Gull, 1 Buzzard, 2 Jay, 35 Carrion Crow - mostly on the lake's grass lawn, 1 House Martin, 2 Blackcap, 1 Rock Pipit, 1 Linnet.

Clevedon - Yeo:
21 Shelduck - + one brood of 11 small young, 2 Tufted Duck, 3 Little Grebe, 6 Oystercatcher, 6 Lapwing plus one possible juvenile, 1 Golden Plover, 2 Whimbrel, 1 Curlew, 1 Little. Egret, 1 Buzzard, 1 Tawny Owl, 6 Raven, 2 Cetti’s Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff, 10 Reed Warbler, 1 Blackcap, 7 Whitethroat, 1 Wheatear, 
1 Reed Bunting.

BELOW M4 & BANES

Hanham - Keynsham:
1 Red Kite - over the R Avon headed South

Stanton Wick:
1 Red Kite - over grass cutting

Chelwood:
2 Red Kite, 2 Buzzard - grass cutting


Pensford:
9 Mallard, 1 Moorhen, 20+ Jackdaw, 1 Dipper, 2 Grey Wagtail, 

High Littleton:
1 Red Kite - flying low and spiralling high

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake
 
Dam:
Canada Goose + 4 goslings, 1 Egyptian Goose, 2 Blackcap, 2 Garden Warbler, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Song Thrush, 3 Pied Wagtail

Woodford:
1 Egyptian Goose - in transit from the dam, 3 Chiffchaff, 1 Garden Warbler

Heron's Green:
108 Canada Goose, Mute Swan + 6 Cygnets, 4 Little Grebe - pool, 2 Grey Heron, 2 Sedge Warbler, 1 Whitethroat, 2 Grey Wagtail, 2 Pied Wagtail, 4 Reed Bunting

02-06-21 Garden Warbler CVL (Ian Stapp)
Moreton:

128 Canada Goose, 1 Cuckoo, 1 Grey Heron, 2 Buzzard, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker - calling, 2 Jay, 2 Raven, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 4 Long-tailed Tit,  4 Chiffchaff, 7 Reed Warbler, 2 Blackcap, 3 Garden Warbler, 1 Whitethroat, 2 Wren, 2 Robin, 

Herriott's inc Pool:
22 Canada Goose, 62 Mute Swan - broods of 5 & 2, 6 Shelduck, 4 Pochard (m), 2 Grey Heron, 1 Red Kite - 10:30 heading south, 4+ Buzzard - circling over grass cutting, 8 Jackdaw, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Reed Warbler, 2 Pied Wagtail

Reports: Allan Chard, John Croxton, Jane Cumming, Mark Dadds, Alan Daniells, Neil Delaney, Heather England, Alastair Fraser, Donna Harvey, Trevor Riddle, Marcus Smith, Ian Stapp, Martin Tayler,