Friday, 23 July 2021

23-07-21 Friday - Wood Sandpiper

Slightly cooler today (28°C the peak), with a breeze.

Garganey
Wood Sandpiper
Yellow-legged Gull
Yellow Wagtail

23-07-21 Wood Sandpiper, Pilning (Paul Bowerman)

BRISTOL

Stockwood Openspace:
1 Sparrowhawk (f), 2 Bullfinch (m), 2 Reed Bunting - pr

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

23-07-21 Wood Sandpiper, Pilning (Paul Bowerman)
Pilning Wetlands:
Snipe, 1 Wood Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail

NORTH SOMERSET

22-07-21 Wheatear, Kenn Moor (Ian Loats)
Kenn (22.07.21):
2 Buzzard, 3 Skylark, 1 Wheatear

Banwell (garden):
1 ad m & 3 juv Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Nuthatch, 1 f Blackbird feeding a juvenile

BELOW M4 & BANES

No reports yet.

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake
1 Egyptian Goose, 5 Teal, 2 Garganey, 70 Gadwall, 1 Pochard, 5 Goldeneye, 2 Lapwing islandica, summer plumaged Black-tailed Godwit, 13 Green Sandpiper, ad summer plumaged Redshank, third-year Yellow-legged Gull, 8 Great White Egret, 1 Little Egret. Also Great White Egrets on Denny Island - number goes up as the water level goes down).

Dam:
1 Common Sandpiper

23-07-21 Common Sandpiper, Dam (CVL) (George Stacey)

Heron's Green:

148 Canada Goose, Mute Swan & 5 Cygnets, 2 Moorhen, 4 Little Grebe, 3 GBB Gull, 1 Yellow-legged Gull (comes for bread from the ice cream man), 3 Grey Heron, 1 Great White Egret, 2 Buzzard, 30+ Corvids (Jackdaws & Carrion Crows), 10+ Swallow & House Martin (drinking from pool), 2 Sedge Warbler, 3 Reed Warbler, 6 Pied Wagtail, 2 Reed Bunting

23-07-21 Yellow-legged Gull, Heron's Green (CVL) (Ian Stapp)

Moreton:

5 Stock Dove, 5 GBB Gull, 1 Grey Heron, 2 Great White Egret, 2 Buzzard, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Jay, 4 Magpie (including 2 juvs), 2 Raven, 20+ Blue, Great & Long-tailed Tit flock, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Chiffchaff, 4 Reed Warbler, 1 Garden Warbler, 1 Treecreeper, 12+ Chaffinch, 6 Goldfinch, 4 Reed Bunting, 3 Silver-washed Fritillary, 2 Roesel's Bush Cricket

Herriott's inc Pool:
61 Canada Goose, 130 Mute Swan (1 Cygnet on pool), 50+ Gadwall (plus more on lake), 7+ Teal, 4 Goldeneye (5 later), 3 Moorhen, 200+ Coot (pool and lake), 3 Lapwing, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Common Sandpiper, 12 Green Sandpiper (14 this evening), 10 GBB Gull (one of four on the lake was eating a big Pike), 4 Grey Heron, 5 Great White Egret, 3 Buzzard, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Peregrine, small numbers of Swallow & House Martin, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 3 Reed Warbler, 1 Grey Wagtail, 2 Reed Bunting

23-07-21 Black-tailed Godwit, Herriott's Pool (CVL) (Ian Stapp)

OUT OF AVON:
3 juv Linnet at Priddy Pool area

Reports: Paul Bowerman, Chris Craig, Paul Francis, Robert Hargreaves, Ian Loats, George Stacey, Ian Stapp, John Thorogood, Keith Vinicombe, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG