18-07-21 Sunday - Lesser Black-backed Gulls

Temp 17 to 32°C. Kinda hot

Garganey

Yellow-legged Gull

Lesser Black-backed Gull 

Red Kite

18-7-21 Kestrel over Bristol (Maulanawale)

BRISTOL

Fishponds:
c200+ LBB Gulls hawking insects

Knowle:

21 Swift - best count in 25yrs

Westbury - Canford Park:

12 Swift - screaming party

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Thornbury, Castle School:

1 Red Kite

Kingsgate Park:

1 juv Peregrine

North Yate:
200+ LBB Gulls hawking insects

Chipping Sodbury Common:
2 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker, 8 Skylark, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Whitethroat, 7 Linnet, 12 Goldfinch

NORTH SOMERSET

Portbury Wharf NR:
1 f Teal, Tufted Duck with 6 precocious ducklings diving, 1 Oystercatcher chick with parents

BELOW M4 & BANES

Hanham garden:

1 Peregrine

Willsbridge lawn:

5 Mistle Thrush

Bath, Pennyquick: 

150-200 Herring and LBB Gulls hawking insects

RESERVOIRS

Barrow Tanks:
200+ LBB Gulls seen hawking insects over South Bristol

Chew Valley Lake

Herriotts:

2 Garganey at 1 Oystercatcher, 9 Green Sandpiper, 1 Yellow-legged Gull

Reports: Mark Coller, Alan Craddock, Alan Daniells, Sean Davies, Chris Hall, Rob Hargreaves, Maulanawale, Hugh Maynard, Andy Mears, Brian Mulgrew, Dendy Platt, Mathew Rogers, Larry Sweetland, blagdonlakebirds, BUPP, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG