08-08-21 Sunday - Sanderling

Temp 14 to 18°C. 3mm of rain over night and this morning but sunshine this afternoon. 30 mph winds

Swift

Sanderling, Snipe
Manx & Balearic Shearwater

Bittern

8-8-21 Bittern, CVL (Raoul Chandrasakera)

BRISTOL

No reports

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

8-8-21 Common Sandpiper, OPS Yacht club (Heather England)

Oldbury Power Station:
12 Ringed Plover, 2 Curlew, 3 Turnstone, 2 Sanderling (3 on 7th), 2 Dunlin, 2 Common Sandpiper, 12 Redshank, 2 Kestrel, 1 Willow Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff

Chipping Sodbury Common:
1 Grey Heron, 5 Swallow, Meadow Pipit, 1 Bullfinch, 15 Linnet, 20 Goldfinch

NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon, Ladye Bay:
3 Fulmar, 14 Manx Shearwater

Clevedon Pill:

1 juv Mediterranean Gull, 2 Little Egret, 2 Peregrine, 

Weston-s- Mare, Anchor Head:
2 Fulmar, 100+ Manx Shearwater, 1 Balearic Shearwater

Weston Airfield:

1 Snipe

BELOW M4 & BANES
lots of fresh Chiffchaffs being very vocal here and in North Somerset

East Harptree Parish Church:

4 active House Martin nests

Bath, Englishcombe Lane:

10 Swift at 20.30

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:

2 Egyptian Goose, Swift - going through, 3 Lapwing, 2 Ringed Plover, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Greenshank, 3 Great White Egret, 4 Little Egret, 3 Marsh Harrier, Sand Martin - going through, 2 Spotted Flycatcher

Chew Valley Lake
Lots of Coot, A few Sand Martin, many House Martin, 4 Pied Wagtail, 

Heron's Green:

2 Great White Egret, 2 or 3 Swallow

Stratford:

big raft of Great Crested Grebe, 1 Bittern at 09.30, 1 Little Egret, 

Herriott's:

5 juv Goldeneye - "the young ones are now more or less in first year plumage and so look like their mother"

Out of Avon

Black-winged Stilt at Otterhampton Marsh, WWT Steart again

Reports: Dru Brooke-Taylor, Peter Bryant, Raoul Chandrasakera, Paul Chapman, Bryan Cook, Barry Dursley, Heather England, Paul Gregory, Andy Middleton, Phil Quinn, Dean Reeves, Howard Taffs, blagdonlakebirds, BUPP, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG