12-08-21 Thursday - Common Scoter

Variable, overcast with sun and showers.  Mild and a bit muggy, 22°C.

Common Scoter

Spotted Redshank

Mediterranean Gull

Redstart

Yellow and Blue-headed Wagtail

BRISTOL

Filton:
juv. Sparrowhawk eating a pigeon

Hotwells:

5 Swift @ 3.40

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

12-8-21 Mandarin, OPS (Heather England)

Oldbury Power Station:

1 Teal, 1 Mandarin, 1 Common Scoter, 1 Red Kite, 1 Peregrine down river, 1 Willow Warbler, 2+ Whitethroat, 1 juv. Reed Bunting.

Seawall: 21 Ringed Plover, 15 Dunlin, 1 Common Sandpiper, 8 Turnstone.

Pilning Wetland:

3 Little Ringed Plover, 160 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 juv. Spotted Redshank, 1 juv Mediterranean Gull, 1 Blue-headed Wagtail

Yate, Kingsgate Park:
78 Mallard, Gadwall, Tufted Duck, 3 Chiffchaff, 1 Willow Warbler, 2 Blackcap.

Chipping Sodbury Common:

3 Raven, 12+ Chiffchaff, 4 Willow Warbler, 7 Lesser Whitethroat,  1 Whitethroat, 3 Blackcap, 4 Redstart, 2 Yellow Wagtail. 

Coalpit Heath:

family of Buzzard, singing Willow Warbler, Whitethroat, 2 Yellowhammer.

NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon - Yeo:
Mistle Thrush over Dowlais.

North Worle:

2 House Martin, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Willow Warbler, 1st local Goldcrest of the autumn (migrant or dispersed juvenile).

BELOW M4 & BANES

Bath, Englishcombe Lane:

c.10 Swift @20.30

Cameley:

"10 noisy Ravens at 06:00 this morning – truly an ‘Unkindness’?"

A minor fall of migrants ahead of the rain this morning: 12 Chiffchaff, 3 Willow Warbler, 2 Blackcap.

(yesterday, 64 Swallow)

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

Heron's Green:
3 Oystercatcher, 1 Greenshank

Stratford:
1 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Greenshank (then flew south), 100 Sand Martin, 1 Sedge Warbler.

Reports: Liza Barker, Paul Bowerman, Dru Brooke-Taylor, Mark Coller, Bryan Cook, Chris Craig, Andy Davis, Heather England, Matt Hull, Mike Jackson, Bob Medland, Andy Middleton, Matt Plenty, Aravind Ramesh, Howard Taffs, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG