26-05-22 Thursday - Arctic Terns

Overcast, fairly mild, very hazy.  Strong and blustery west wind with a bit of rain on it later.  Temp 12 to 17°C.

Sanderling

Arctic Skuas

Arctic Terns 

Little Grebe at Stoke Park (Patrick Richards)

BRISTOL

Fishponds - garden:

House Sparrow - parents feeding juv 

Stockwood Open Space:

1 Tawny Owl - juv, grounded, 4 Swallow, some Chiffchaff & Blackcap, 1 Garden Warbler, some Whitethroat

Stoke Park, Duchess Pond:

2 Canada Goose with 5 juvs, 1 Mute Swan, 21 Mallard, (includes 5 juv), 11 Feral Pigeon, 1 Stock Dove, 12 Woodpigeon, 1 Collared Dove,7 Swift, 14 Moorhen, (includes 5 juv), 21 Coot, (includes 14 juv), 1 Little Grebe, 3 Herring Gull, 1 Cormorant, 1 Jay, 20 Magpie, 22 Jackdaw, 5 Carrion Crow, 2 Blue Tit, 1 Great Tit, 14 Long-tailed Tit (includes 2 broods of 5 juv), 3 Chiffchaff, 4 Blackcap, 1 Whitethroat, 3Wren, 26 Starling, 5 Blackbird, 3 Song Thrush, 1 Mistle Thrush, 3 Robin, 27 House Sparrow, 4 Dunnock, 4 Greenfinch, 15 Goldfinch, Reed Bunting.

Blackcap with a mouthful (Patrick Richards)

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Itchington:

1 Whitethroat - singing constantly in the garden 1st thing

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead:
LT Tit, Blue Tit and Blackbird fledglings all being fed and watched over by the parents.

Sand Point:

(06:30 - 08:30) 12 auk sp., 2 distant Arctic Skua upriver, 2 Cormorant downriver.

Weston-super-Mare - disused airfield:

Canada Geese, 2 Shelduck, Mallard, many Swift, Herring and Lesser Black-backed Gulls. Grey Herons, Buzzard, many House Martin, some Skylark, Reed Warbler, Whitethroat, Pied Wagtail with juvenile

BELOW M4 & BANES

Keynsham Memorial Park:

31 Mallard, 8 Feral Pigeon, 10 Woodpigeon, 1 Moorhen, 2 Herring Gull, 2 Carrion Crow, 1 Blue Tit, 7 Long-tailed Tit, 3 Wren, 10 Blackbird, 1 Robin, 2 Chaffinch.

Sanderling at Chew (George Stacey)

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:

prs. Canada Goose  with goslings, 6 Hobby. 1 m. Cuckoo, 1 Cetti's Warbler. 

Chew Valley Lake

Dam:

Canada Goose family.

Wick Green Point:
Garden Warbler.

Heron's Green:

1 Sanderling in summer plumage.

Canada Goose family at Chew (George Stacey)

Moreton - Stratford over lake:

3 Arctic Tern (2 adult and 1 first-summer)

Stratford:
3 Great White Egret, 1 Little Egret, 1 Red Kite over Burledge Hill, 2 Kingfisher.

Herriott's inc Pool:

14 Black-tailed Godwit,.2 Hobby.

Reports: Allan Chard, Jane Cumming, Andy Davis, Heather England, Paul Francis, Patrick Richards, Matt Hull, Andrew Harrison, Rod Taylor, John Thorogood, blagdonlakebirds