Monday 29 August 2022

29-08-22 Monday - Tree Sparrow, Great Grey Shrike

Temp 15 to 25°C. Bright Sunshine, bit of a breeze with cloud later in the morning.

Great Grey Shrike
Tree Sparrow

Pintail, Black-necked Grebe, Red-necked Phalarope, Wood Sandpiper, Spotted Redshank, Black Tern, Osprey, Spotted Flycatcher, Yellow Wagtail, Tree Pipit

29-8-22 Steppe Great Grey Shrike, CSC (Mark Coller)
BRISTOL


Filton Park:
4 Blue Tit, 5 Long-tailed Tit

Whitchurch old Airfield:
1 Red Kite

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

29-8-22 Tree Sparrow, Wickwar (Paul Sadley)
Wickwar:
1 Buzzard, 1 Peregrine, 100 Swallow, 1 Whinchat, 1 Wheatear, 3 juv Tree Sparrow

Shepperdine:
2 Little Egret, 3 Spotted Flycatcher,  Stonechat

Severn Beach:
203 Ringed Plover, 1 Turnstone, 100 Dunlin, 1 Wheatear

Coalpit Heath:
1 Little Egret, 1 Kestrel, 2 Hobby, 14 Swallow, 3 House Martin, 1 Willow Warbler, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Spotted Flycatcher, 1 m Redstart, 1 Tree Pipit

29-8-22 Black-headed Gull, Kingsgate Park (Mark Coller)
Yate, Kingsgate Park:
1 f Gadwall, 100+ Mallard, 2 Little Grebe, 1 BH Gull with blue ring T6PH

29-8-22 Wheatear, CSC (Les Williams)
Chipping Sodbury Common:
1 Sparrowhawk, 5 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, stream of Swallows, 1 Steppe Great Grey Shrike, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 6+ Redstart, 40 Goldfinch 2 Wheatear, 13+ Yellow Wagtail

29-8-22, Yellow Wagtail, CSC (Craig Lewis)
NORTH SOMERSET


Portbury Wharf - Salt marsh and Pil - 09:30 HT:
9 Shelduck, 5 Oystercatcher, 24 Curlew, 35 Redshank, 1 Cormorant, 60 Starling - small flock

Clevedon-Channel View:
13 Shelduck, 7 Oystercatcher, 15 Curlew, 6 Little Egret, 10+ Swallow, 2 Blackcap, 6 Wheatear

29-8-22 Chiffchaff, Banwell garden (John Thorogood)
BELOW M4 & BANES

Oldland Common:
1 Redstart

Bridgeyate, The White Heart:
1 Red Kite, 2 Swallow

29-8-22 Chiffchaff, Saltford Long Wood (Andy Harrison)
Saltford, Long Wood:
5 Blue Tit, 12 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Chiffchaff

Bitton, Meadow Wood:
6 Swallow, 25 House Martin

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
35 Little Grebe, 1 Black-necked Grebe, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Spotted Redshank, 9 Greenshank, 4 Grey Heron, 17 Great White Egret, 20 Little Egret, 1 Kestrel, 2 Jay

29-8-22 Cattle Egret & Red-necked  Phalarope, Herriotts (Ian Stapp)
Chew Valley Lake
only 1 Osprey, 1 Black Tern

29-8-22 Common Sandpiper, Picnic1 (George Stacey)
Dam:
2 Common Sandpiper

Hollowbrook:
2 Green Sandpiper

Herons Green:
1 Cattle Egret, 30+ Pied Wagtail

29-8-22 Red-necked Phalarope, Ruff, Wood Sandpiper, Herriotts (George Stacey)
Herriotts:
22 Canada Geese, 6 Egyptian Goose, 2 Pintail, 3 Water Rail, 46 Great Crested Grebe, 19 Lapwing, 61 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Ruff, 26 Snipe, 1 Red-necked Phalarope, 5 Common Sandpiper, 16 Green Sandpiper, 2 Wood Sandpiper, 1 Spotted Redshank, 4 Greenshank, 6 GBB Gull, 1 Yellow-legged Gull, 5 Cattle Egret, 6 Grey Heron, 5 Great White Egret, 6 Little Egret, 1 Osprey, 3 Buzzard, 2 Kingfisher, 1 Great Sotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 3 or 4 Hobby - in at sunset, 1 Raven, a few hirundines, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 4 Reed Warbler, 4 Grey Wagtail, 20+ Pied Wagtail, 2 Reed Bunting, 1 Squirrel swimming the Channel
 
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