16-05-22 Monday - Bar-tailed Godwit

Temp 14 to 20°C. Variable day, some sunshine but a lot of cloud. Light winds

Greylag Goose
Cuckoo
Bar-tailed Godwit, Sanderling
Gannet
Tree Pipit
Goshawk

BRISTOL

Filton garden:

Swifts back since Thursday, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Blue tit, 2 m/f Blackcap

Whitchurch:

1 Goshawk

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station, WeBS:
9 Canada Geese, 35 Shelduck +19 ducklings, 26 Mallard + 13 ducklings, 2 Little Grebe + 2 grebelings, 1 Cuckoo, 2 Peregrine, 4 Cetti's Warbler, 13 Chiffchaff, 2 Sedge Warbler, 9 Reed Warbler, 4 Blackcap, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 7 Whitethroat, Stonechat,  + 1 Painted Lady

16-5-22 Tree Pipit, Aust STW (Matt Hall)

Aust:

1 Spotted Flycatcher, 1 Tree Pipit

16-5-22 Turnstone with Dunlin, New Passage (Paul Bowerman)

New Passage:
1 Turnstone, a few Dunlin

Littleton WeBS:

1 imm Mute Swan, 7 Mallard, 3 Oystercatcher, 11 Ringed Plover, 7 Curlew, 8 Whimbrel, 1 Turnstone, 14 Dunlin, 2 Wheatear

Yate garden:

First 2 Swift over

NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon, Channel View:

3 Greylag Goose, 9 Whimbrel, 1 Wheatear, 2 Yellow Wagtail

16-05-22 Avocet CL-Y (Paul Chapman)

Clevedon, Dowlais:

2 Avocet, Lapwing - plus 3 chicks, 2 Dunlin, Redshank - displaying, Skylark - singing, 4 Wheatear

Kenn Moor Drove:

10 Canada Geese, 3 Mute Swan, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Swallow, 1 Whitethroat

Backwell Lake:

19 Canada Geese with gosling broods 4 and 8, 13 Mute Swans with 3 and 9 cygnets (1 nest still siting), 1 Muscovy Duck, 1 f Gadwall, 6 Feral Pigeon, 3 Moorhen, 4 Coot, 1 LBB Gull, 1 Grey Heron

Sand Bay/Point and Middle Hope:
1 Swift, 1 Cuckoo, 3 Whimbrel, 15 Bar-tailed Godwit, 5 Sanderling, 15 Dunlin, 60 Gannet, 2 Tawny Owl, 7 Swallow, 10 House Martin, 4 Lesser Whitethroat, 19 Whitethroat, 1 Spotted Flycatcher, 2 Wheatear, 2 Yellow Wagtail, 3 Tree Pipit

BELOW M4 & BANES

Paulton:

2 Herring Gull, 12 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 2 Red Kite, 1 Buzzard, 5 Skylark, 1 Swallow, 1 Starling, 10 Blackbird, 3 Chaffinch, 4 Linnet, 6 Goldfinch, 2 Yellowhammer

Clandown Bottom (east of Paulton):

2 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 1 Whitethroat, 2 Song Thrush, 1 Spotted Flycatcher

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

Picnic 2:
lots of Warblers

16-5-22 Reed Bunting, CVL (George Stacey)

East Shore:
2 Reed Bunting

Reports: Liza Barker, Paul Bowerman, Paul Chapman, Alan Daniels, Richard Giles, Paul Gregory, Mathew Hall, Patrick Hancock, Matt Hull, Tim Marks, Andy Middleton, Matt Plenty, David Poulton, George Stacey, Howard Taffs,  blagdonlakebirds, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG

A late event notice - - - 

Just getting in touch to let you know about our free online event this Weds 18th May 7pm:
'Celebrating the Woodland Dawn Chorus' with Steve Oakes from South Wilts RSPB.
Apologies for the short notice. Full details of the event and how to register your free place can be found here: https://www.avonneedstrees.org.uk/events/ Please scroll down our events page to the online events.
I hope this is of interest to you and would be very grateful if you could circulate this.
Many thanks
Susan Barker. Project Coordinator for Avon Needs Trees