19-08-21 Thursday - Swifts passing through

Overcast and rather dull with some light showers inland, but brighter in the afternoon.  Little wind, fairly warm at 19°C.  

Swifts (worth watching for now as many have gone)

Yellow-legged Gull

Great White Egrets

Wheatear, Redstarts

Tree Pipits

Great White and Little Egret at Chew (George Stacey)

BRISTOL

Henbury (near Blaise):

f. Sparrowhawk, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Raven calling, 3 Coal Tit. 8 Chiffchaff, Nuthatch.

Stoke Park:

1 juv. Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Spotted Flycatcher.

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Upton Coombe (Hawkesbury Upton):

Redstart

Willsbridge Mill:

Tawny Owl

Chipping Sodbury Common:
Mandarin Duck (over), 2 Willow Warbler, 15+ Chiffchaff, 5+ Blackcap, 1 Garden Warbler, 7 Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Whitethroat, 1 Wheatear, 4-5 Redstart.

NORTH SOMERSET

Portbury Wharf:

Canada Goose, 6 Gadwall, Mallard, Pheasant, 1 Feral Pigeon, Woodpigeon, Moorhen, Coot, 1 Little Grebe, BH Gull, 1 GBB Gull, Herring Gull, 67 LBB Gull (37 ads, 30 imms), Cormorant, Magpie, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, Swallow, Chiffchaff heard, Pied Wagtail, 30 Goldfinch.  

Sand Point / Middle Hope / Woodspring Bay:

5 Oystercatcher, 15+Curlew, 1 Common Sandpiper, 17 Redshank, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Kestrel, 2 Peregrine, 11 Swallow, 10 Chiffchaff, 7 Blackcap, 2 Lesser Whitethroat (1 juv), 2 Whitethroat, 3 Tree Pipit, 1 Yellow Wagtail.

BELOW M4 & BANES

Bath:

A Swift over Englishcombe Lane.

Chew Magna:
2 Tawny Owl calling in the small hours.

Shelduck at Herriotts pool (Ian Stapp)

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake
6 Great White Egret, 5 Little Egret around the lake.

Dam:

1 Egyptian Goose, 1 Goldeneye, 2 Swift (out over the lake), 2 GBB Gull, 1 Green Sandpiper, 8 Swallow, 6 House Martin, 7 Pied Wagtail.

Dunlins at Hollow Brook, Chew (George Stacey)

Hollowbrook:

2 Dunlin

Woodford:

3 GBB Gull, 20+ mixed tit flock with LT, Blue and Great Tit, 1 Bullfinch.   

Villice:
2 Redshank

Heron's Green:

2 Grey Heron, 4 Little Grebe, 2 Moorhen, 2 GBB Gull, 1 Yellow-legged Gull, 1 Common Gull, 1 Sparrowhawk, 5 Swallow, 12 House Martin, 2 Sand Martin, 4 Pied Wagtail.

Moreton:

40 Wood Pigeon, 2 Stock Dove, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker,  2 Jay, 30+ Carrion Crow, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Chiffchaff, 2 Reed Bunting.

Herriott's inc Pool:

2 Shelduck (adult and large juv.), 32 Shoveler, 50+ Gadwall, 7 Teal, 5 Moorhen, 14 Little Grebe, 4 GBB Gull, 8 Green Sandpiper on the pool, 3 Grey Heron (one eating a freshwater mussel), 1 f. Marsh Harrier, 1 Kingfisher, 6 Swallow, 30+ House Martin, 5 Sand Martin, 1 Raven, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Reed Warbler, 1 Reed Bunting.

Little Grebes on the pool at Herons Green (Ian Stapp)

Reports:  Dru Brooke-Taylor, Mark Coller, Bryan Cook, Stephen Curtis, Andy Davis, Paul Francis, Matt Hull, Frankie Macrow, Vic Polley, George Stacey, Ian Stapp, Larry Sweetland.