26-07-21 Monday - Ruff

Largely sunny without the heat of last week.  Bristol max 26°C

Garganey

Avocet, Wood Sandpiper, Ruff

Mediterranean Gull, Yellow-legged Gull 

Little Owl

Yellow Wagtail, Tree Pipit

26-07-21 Yellow-legged Gull, Heron's Green Bay, CVL (Ian Stapp)

BRISTOL

Ashton Gate:

Riverside Garden Centre - 1 m Kestrel

Stoke Park:

17 Stock Dove

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
3 Oystercatcher, 3 Common Sandpiper, 1 juv. Dunlin, 1 ad Mediterranean Gull, 2 Sand Martin, 2 Willow Warbler, 2 Yellow Wagtail, 1 Siskin 

Littleton-on-Severn :

4 Buzzard,1 Little Owl, 1 Hobby, 2 Raven

26-07-21 Green Sandpiper (left) and Wood Sandpiper, Pilning Wetland (Paul Bowerman)

Pilning Wetlands:

3 Avocet (1 ad + 2 juveniles), c 20 Lapwing, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Wood Sandpiper

26-07-21 juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker, Almondsbury (Vera Carpenter)

Yate:

Ridge Woods - 17 Woodpigeon, 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 3 Magpie, 5 Jackdaw, 2 Rook, 2 Carrion Crow, 1 Raven, 3 Coal Tit, 6 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, 1 Chiffchaff, 3 Goldcrest, 5 Wren, 6 Blackbird, 2 Robin, 5 House Sparrow, 2 Dunnock, 1 Bullfinch

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead:
Boating Pool park and sea-shore - 2 Feral Pigeon, 6 Wood Pigeon, 2 Oystercatcher, 1 Curlew, 27 Herring Gull, 107 BH Gull, 24 L BB Gull, 2 GBB Gull, 5 Carrion Crow,12+ Jackdaw, 2 Magpie,  2 Wren, 2 Blackbird, 28 House Sparrow, 2 Rock Pipit, 7 Linnet, 9 Goldfinch 

Woodspring Priory:

Collum Lane area - 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Peregrine, 10 Swallow, Sand Martin, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Whitethroat, 15 Reed Warbler, 8 Greenfinch 

Sand Point and Middle Hope:
1 Swift, c50 Woodpigeon, 55 Swallow, 5 Chiffchaff, 3 Whitethroat, Blackcap, 4 Yellow Wagtail,  Grey Wagtail, 10 Pied Wagtail, 26 Meadow Pipit, 1 Tree Pipit, 1Reed Bunting

Uphill:

WeBS count - 7 Shelduck, 29 Mallard, 6 Oystercatcher, 2 Curlew, 3 Common Sandpiper, 15 Redshank, 570 Black-headed Gull, 1 GBB Gull, 100 Herring Gull, 4 LBB Gull,  1 Grey Heron, 6 Little Egret

BELOW M4 & BANES

No reports

RESERVOIRS

Barrow Tanks:
4 Mute Swan, 1 Gadwall, 48 Mallard, 230 Tufted Duck, 7 Woodpigeon, 2 Moorhen, 54 Coot, 13 Little Grebe, 18 Great Crested Grebe, 3 Common Sandpiper, 11 Black-headed Gull, 600 Herring Gull (with LBBG on T3. About 60% juveniles), 130 LBB Gull (80% juveniles), 2 GBB Gull (one took a dying Trout from T2 which was then appropriated by a Raven), 21 Cormorant,5 Grey Heron, 5 Little Egret,3 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 3 Magpie, 22 Jackdaw, 4 Rook, 7 Carrion Crow, 2 Raven (feeding on trout by the side of T2), 1 Coal Tit, 14 Sand Martin, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Song Thrush, 12 Grey Wagtail (post breeding gatherings. 6 on T1, 6 on T2/T3 causeway) 21 Pied Wagtail (post breeding gathering on T2/T3 causeway), 1 Linnet

Blagdon Lake:
Inc WeBS count - 176 Canada Geese, 60 Mute Swan, 2 Egyptian Geese, 18 Gadwall, 269 Mallard, 3 Teal, 4 Pochard, 466 Tufted Duck, 57 Moorhen, 880 Coot, 21 Great Crested Grebe, 1 Lapwing, 1 Common Sandpiper, 79 BH Gull, 1 Cormorant, 8 Grey Heron, 2 Great White Egret, 3 Little Egret, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Marsh Harrier, 2 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 2 Grey Wagtail

Chew Valley Lake

Green Sandpiper, 2 Kingfisher, Swallows and House Martin, 3 Reed Bunting

26-07-21 juvenile GBB Gull +  ring Z43, Dam, CVL (Ian Stapp)

Dam:

24 Canada Goose, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 GBB Gull juv with ring white on green (Z43), 1 Common Gull, 5 Little Egret, 5 Pied Wagtail

26-07-21 Little Egrets, Hollowbrook, CVL (George Stacey)

Heron's Green:
112 Canada Goose, 4 Mute Swan + two broods of 5 cygnets,  2 juv Goldeneye  later all 5 back in Herriotts Pool), 4 Little Grebe,  2 Moorhen, 2 Common Sandpiper, 3 GBB Gull, 1 Yellow-legged Gull, 3 Grey Heron, 1 Buzzard, 1 Sparrowhawk, 14 Pied Wagtail 

26-07-21 juvenile Goldeneye, Heron's Green Bay, CVL (Ian Stapp)

Stratford:

The 6th cygnet which appeared to have been separated from its five siblings and parents, seemed to have been reunited (despite a bit of pecking from one of the other juveniles).

26-07-21 all 6 cygnets reunited, Stratford, CVL (Lucy Masters)

  
Herriott's inc Pool:
26 Canada Goose, 27 Mute Swan,+ 1 cygnet, 1 Garganey, 5 juv Goldeneye (ducklings can all fly now), 2 Little Grebe, 4 Lapwing, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 m Ruff  9 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common

Sandpiper, 1 imm Mediterranean Gull,  6 G-BB Gull, 3 Grey Heron, 5 Great White Egret

26-7-21 Mediterranean Gull, Herons Green (Phil Delve)

26-07-21 Linnets, Priddy Pool (George Stacey)

Reports: Roger Acreman, Paul Bowerman, Vera Carpenter, Peter Coslett, Jane Cumming, Alan Daniells, Andy Davis, Phil Delve, Rob Hargreaves, Matt Hull, John Lewis, Bryony Lewis and  Peter O'Byrne, Lucy Masters, Tony Scott, George Stacey, Roger Staples, Ian Stapp, Larry Sweetland, opsbirding