Wednesday 14 July 2021

14-07-21 Wednesday - Yellow-legged Gull

Mainly sunny with some cloud, pleasant breeze when it blew - 24°C

Marsh Harrier
Hobby
Yellow-legged Gull

14-07-21 Little Grebe - working flat out to save it CVL (Ian Stapp)

BRISTOL


Redland - garden:
1 Woodpigeon, 4 Feral Pigeon, 8 Swift - more than the usual "Redland 2 and flying around roofs nearby- maybe, as bristolswiftman says, it's the third wave. Perhaps one might investigate my nestbox for next year, 6 Herring Gull, 1 Magpie, 1 Blue Tit - juvenile, 2 Blackbird, 10+ House Sparrow

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Yate:
Kingsgate Park - 2 Little Grebe - plus 3 juv, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap
Garden - 15 Swift over.

NORTH SOMERSET

14-07-21 Oystercatcher Portishead (Ian Stapp)
Portishead - pool and point:

60+ Canada Goose, 2 Greylag Goose - pool, 2 Shelduck - shore, plenty of Mallard - pool, 2 Oystercatcher, 40+ Lesser Black-backed Gull, 10+ Herring Gull, 1 Cormorant, 2 Magpie - park, 4 Jackdaw - pool, 6 Carrion Crow, 20+ Starling, 16 House Sparrow, 4 Pied Wagtail, 3 Rock Pipit,  2 Linnet - point, 8 Goldfinch - point
14-07-21 Rock Pipit Poet's Walk (Pete Bunniss)

Clevedon - Yeo:

30 Mute Swan, 71 Shelduck - 18 adults, 53 juv from 6 broods, 90 Mallard, 9 Coot, 4 Little Grebe, 6 Oystercatcher, 1 Whimbrel, 170 Curlew, 1 Black Tailed Godwit, 25 Dunlin, 7 Common Sandpiper, 60 Redshank, 725 Black-headed Gull, 30 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 125 Herring Gull, 1 Yellow-legged Gull - adult, Clevedon Pill, 5 Cormorant, 4 Grey Heron, 4 Great White Egret - KP, 16 Little Egret, 1 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Hobby - Dowlais, 7 Skylark, 60 Swallow, 1 Cetti’s Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff, 6 Reed Warbler, 4 Whitethroat, 50 Starling, 2 Pied Wagtail, 5 Meadow Pipit, 45 Linnet, 2 Reed Bunting.

14-07-21 Reed Warbler Strawberry Line Yatton (Mark Savage)
Yatton - Strawberry Line:

3 Swift, 1 Grey Heron, 2 Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 8 Swallow, 4 Reed Warbler, 2 Whitethroat, 1 Chaffinch, 2 Reed Bunting

Sand Bay:
300 BH Gull, 4 Raven.

BELOW M4 & BANES

Newton St Loe:
2 Mute Swan - plus 5 cygnets, 1 Tufted Duck (f), 7 Stock Dove, 1 Coot, 5 Grey Heron, 2 Buzzard, 1 Great and Green Woodpecker, 150 mixed corvid, 4 Raven, 2 Swallow, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 3 Chiffchaff, 6 Blackcap, 1 Nuthatch, 1 Song Thrush, 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 Bullfinch, 2 Greenfinch, 2 Linnet, 12 Goldfinch

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

14-07-21 Reed Bunting CVL (George Stacey)
Hollowbrook:

2 Reed Bunting - inc juv

Stratford:
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker

Heron's Green:
148 Canada Goose, 4 Little Grebe - lots of work piling up weed on the nests, 1 Yellow-legged Gull,     2 Grey Heron, 1 Great White Egret, 1 Sedge Warbler, 3 Reed Warbler, 5 Pied Wagtail, 2 Reed Bunting

14-07-21 Garganey CVL (George Stacey)
Herriott's inc Pool:

1 Garganey (f), 1 Goldeneye (f) +5 ducklings, 1 Lapwing, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Green Sandpiper, 1 Yellow-legged Gull, 1 Grey Heron, 2 Great White Egret, 1 Little Egret, 1 Marsh Harrier (m), 1 Kingfisher - back of pool, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Grey Wagtail, 2 Reed Bunting

Reports: Nancy Barrett, Mark Coller, Jane Cumming, Alan Daniells, Andy Davis, Annie & Nick Hawkridge, Steve Sanins, Mark Savage, Ian Stapp, Bri Thompson, blagdonlakebirdsCVRSnslbirdingopsbirdingsevernsidebirdsTBOSG