29-07-21 Thursday - Sandwich Tern

 The calm before the storm?  Becoming more overcast with a fresh westerly wind but no rain.  Cooler - 21°C.  A very quiet day bird-wise, it seems no-one is bothering with mid-summer birding!

Goldeneye brood

Sandwich Tern

Great White Egrets

Wood Sandpiper

Mediterranean Gull

Hobby

Garganey

Redstart

Wheatear

Lapwings at Chew (George Stacey)

BRISTOL

Stockwood Openspace:

3 Bullfinch (f&2m)

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Wickwar - Lower Woods:

2 Marsh Tit, 3 Spotted Flycatcher, Bullfinch - family party

Frampton Cotterell:

1 Buzzard, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, 1 probable Peregrine flyover, 12 Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap, 1 Whitethroat, 3 Song Thrush, 3 Bullfinch, 6 Greenfinch.

Chipping Sodbury Common:

14 Canada Goose, 1 Raven, 1 Willow Warbler, 9 Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap, 5 Lesser Whitethroat, 6 Whitethroat, 3 Redstart (2f  & m), 

Pilning Wetlands:

4 Avocet, 3 Little Ringed Plover -juv, 7 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Green Sandpiper, 1 Wood Sandpiper

1 Blue-headed Wagtail - last seen 24th

NORTH SOMERSET

Worle:

1 Peregrine - over my mum's garden

A Chiffchaff at Chew (George Stacey)

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield:

1 Wheatear

Hunstrete - Lords Wood:

3 Sparrowhawk - juv 

Great White Egret (George Stacey)

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

Dam:

1 Mediterranean Gull, Sandwich Tern  reported at 6:05 pm, 

Hollowbrook:
1 Great White Egret

Heron's Green:

3 Common Sandpiper

Stratford:
2 Greylag Goose, 3 Lapwing, 1 Mediterranean Gull - nr full sum plum, 1 Hobby - lane, 1 Chiffchaff, 3 Nuthatch, 1 Bullfinch (f) - on the feeders

Herriott's inc Pool:
2 Greylag Goose, 1 Garganey, 7 juv. Goldeneye, 1 Swift, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 5 Green Sandpiper, 1 Yellow-legged Gull,  f. Marsh Harrier, 4 Great White Egret, 50 Sand Martin, 10 House Martin, 2 Cetti's Warbler

Reports:  Mark Coller, Stephen Curtis, Andy Davis, Paul Francis, Matt Hull, Mike Jackson, Dean Reeves, Carol Rushton, George Stacey

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