Tuesday 7 September 2021

07-09-21 Tuesday - Little Stint

Temp 16 to 31°C. Another very hot day with masses of sunshine but still with the cooling NE wind

Ruff, Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint
Hobby
Spotted Flycatcher
Redstart, Whinchat
Yellow Wagtail
Chaffinch

7-9-21 Common Sandpiper, Severn Beach (Paul Dunham)
BRISTOL


Stoke Bishop:
1 Parakeet - flying around the garden - calling again tonight. "almost musical call is very different from the usual sharp repetitive call of the RR"

Stoke Park:
5 Swallow, 3 Chiffchaff, 5 Blackcap, 1 Whitethroat, 1 Spotted Flycatcher

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

9-7-21 Little Stint & Snipe, Pilning Wetland (Rob Hargreaves)
Pilning Wetland:
40 Lapwing, 1 Ruff, 1 Curlew Sandpiper, 1 Little Stint, 7 Snipe, 25 Redshank, 1 Kestrel, 2 Whitethroat, Meadow Pipit, 

7-9-21 Wheatear, New Passage (Lisegirl)
New Passage:

10+ Oystercatcher, 15+ Curlew, 100+ Black-tailed Godwit, 6 Turnstone, 1 Curlew Sandpiper, 100+ Redshank, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Little Egret, 3+ Yellow Wagtail, 20 Pied Wagtail, 6+ Wheatear, 40 Linnet

7-9-21 Curlew Sandpiper, Severn Beach (Paul Dunham)
Severn Beach:
100+ Ringed Plover, 1 Curlew Sandpiper, 300+ Dunlin, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Kestrel, 1 Wheatear

Chipping Sodbury Common, 06:40 to 10:00:
2 Raven, lots of hirundines, 30+ Chiffchaff, 1 Sedge Warbler, 40+ Blackcap, 20+ Lesser Whitethroat, 15+ Whitethroat, 4 Spotted Flycatcher, 4 Redstart, 6 Whinchat, 8 Yellow Wagtail, 1 Tree Pipit

NORTH SOMERSET

Easton-in-Gordano BOC Walk:
2 Stock Dove, 2 Collared Dove, 65 Herring Gull, 2 LBB Gull, 1 Grey Heron, 2 Sparrowhawk, 6 Buzzard, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Jay, 10 Magpie, 29 Jackdaw, 4 Rook, 2 Carrion Crow, 2 Raven, 5 Coal Tit, 6 Blue Tit, 3 Great Tit, 12 House Martin, 7 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Blackcap, 1 Goldcrest, 2 Wren, 1 Treecreeper, 6 Starling, 2 Blackbird, 12 Robin, 2 Dunnock, 1 Chaffinch!

Clevedon-Yeo:
Black-headed Gull with 1 Mediterranean Gull - 1st wint , 7 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Greenshank, 10 Chiffchaff, 1 Sedge, Warbler, 2 Reed Warbler, 7 Blackcap, 5 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Whitethroat, 2 Spotted Flycatcher, 2 Yellow Wagtail, 15 Pied Wagtail

Bristol Airport:
4 Grey Wagtail passing through

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield: 
1 Red Kite (Shire Bridge), 3 Sparrowhawk, 7 Buzzard, 1 Little Owl, 1 Kestrel, 100+ Jackdaw, 15 Rook, 1 Raven, 50+ Swallows and House Martin, 6 Whitethroat, 2 Whinchat, 4 (+6 Drifton Hill) Wheatear, 3 Pied Wagtail, 30+ House Sparrow, 30+ Linnets, 3 Goldfinch, 1 predated female Yellowhammer

Hanham Hill, by Abbots Road:
Whinchat

RESERVOIRS

07-09-21 Little Egret CVL (Wayne Tucker)
Chew Valley Lake

3 Egyptian Geese at the east end of the Main Dam, 3 Wigeon, 5 Pintail, 64 Pochards, 5 Little Grebes, c.125 Great Crested Grebes, 26 Great White Egrets, 9 Little Egrets, 1 juv Ringed Plover, 2 juv Dunlin, 6 Snipe, 3 Black-tailed Godwits on Herriott's Pool, 5 juv Ruff on Herriott's Pool, 5 juv Greenshanks at Stratford Hide, 6 Green Sandpipers on Herriott's Pool, 2 Ravens, 2+ Cetti's Warblers calling
and two feeding Ravens on the shore by the Main Dam

Villice:
1 Green Sandpiper, 2 Little Egret, 11 Great White Egret, 1 Red Kite, 2 Buzzard, 1 Hobby

Stratford:
1 Ringed Plover, 4 Snipe, 5 Greenshank, 2 Marsh Harrier

Reports: Paul Bowerman, Paul Chapman, Mark Coller, Peter Coslett, Alan Daniells, Paul Dunham, Patrick Haigh, Rob Hargreaves, Adrian Hockey, Simon Isgar, Lisegirl, Chris Mott, Chris Perry, Rosemary Setter, Larry Sweetland, Howard Taffs, Wayne Tucker, Keith Vinicombe, Roger White, blagdonlakebirds, BUPP, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG