16-09-22 Friday - Ospreys & LIttle Stints

A fine sunny day but cooler with a fresh NW wind.  Max temp 18°C.  Dry apart from a very light shower around 2 p,m.

Mandarin, Goldeneye 

Black-necked Grebe

Little Stints

Pectoral Sandpiper 

Spotted Redshanks

Ospreys

Cattle Egrets at Herons Green (Mike Trew)

BRISTOL

Stoke Park, Duchess Pond:

1 Cetti's Warbler, 3 Spotted Flycatcher.

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
1 Treecreeper with a tit flock, 4 Spotted Flycatcher, 2 juv/fem Redstart.

Aust Warth:
25 Ringed Plover, 1 Dunlin and 1 Little Stint flew past NE.

15 flyover Greylag Goose, 3 Peregrine, 1 Hobby, 1 Kestrel, 1 Coal Tit, 2+ Spotted Flycatcher, 1 Redstart, 2+ Redpoll.

Pilning Wetlands:

200+ Canada Goose, 200+ Teal, 6 Wigeon, 2 Gadwall, 40 Lapwing, 140 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Knot, 2 Ruff, 1+ Curlew Sandpiper, 35+ Dunlin, 200+ Redshank, 1 Greenshank, 4 Grey Heron.

Chiffchaff in an Almondsbury garden (Vĕra Carpenter)

Severn Beach:

(Shaft Rocks) juv. Ringed Plover,  juv. Whinchat.

A small mixed flock of Dunlin, Ringed Plover and Turnstone, 1 (2S) Mediterranean Gull.

Almondsbury:

Chiffchaff in a garden.

Nuthatch at Tyntesfield (Martin Tayler)

NORTH SOMERSET

Portbury Wharf:
1 Little Stint, 2 Common Sandpiper, 1 Greenshank, 6 Little Egret, 1 Raven, 1 Cetti’s Warbler, 2 Blackcap, 1 Whinchat, 2 Stonechat.

Sand Point:
2 Cormorant over, 30 Dunlin over, 1 Jay, 2 Raven, 200 Swallow, 39 House Martin, 7 Blackcap, 6 Chiffchaff, 5 Stonechat, 2 Wheatear, 1 Tree Pipit, 135 Meadow Pipit, 2 Pied Wagtail, 1 Grey Wagtail, 40+ Goldfinch, 2 Redpoll.

BELOW M4 & BANES

Bath:

1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Buzzard, 12 Barn Swallow, 8 Chiffchaff, 9 Long-tailed Tit, 19 European Goldfinch.

Newton St Loe:

2 Mutes Swan, 1 f. Mandarin, 25 Mallard, 1 f. Tufted Duck, 4 Little Grebe, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Buzzard, 12 Moorhen, 7 Coot, 1 BH Gull, 8 Herring Gull, 3 LBB Gull, 1 Stock Dove, Woodpigeon, Jackdaw, Rook, Carrion Crow, Blue Tit, Great Tit, House Martin, LT Tit, 2 Willow Warbler, 1 Chiffchaff, 3 Mistle Thrush, 2 Grey Wagtail, Goldfinch.

Hobby at Chew (Tony Bridges)

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

Note: total of at least 3 Osprey, with one suggestion of 5 individuals, listed below at each of the sites where they were seen today.

There is no doubt a lot of overlap in the egret and wader counts too, viewed from different points.

Little Denny:

1 m Goldeneye

Black-necked Grebe at Herons Green (Mike Trew)

Heron's Green:

13 Little Grebe, 1 juv. Black-necked Grebe,  2 Ringed Plover, 1 juv. Pectoral Sandpiper, 1 juv. Little Stint, 1 Greenshank,  1 ad. Yellow-legged Gull, 2 GBB Gull, 18 Cattle Egret, 3 Grey Heron, 2 Great White Egret, 5 Little Egret, 1 Osprey, 1 Marsh Harrier, 2 Hobby - over early, 2 Raven (flyover), 3-400 hirundines (mainly Sand Martin), 1 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Grey Wagtail, 30+ Pied Wagtail, 5 Meadow Pipit. 

16-09-22 Sparrowhawk CVL (Richard Clease)

Moreton:

50+ Great Crested Grebe, 5 GBB Gull, 2 Grey Heron, 2 Great White Egret, 4 Little Egret, 3 Osprey, 3 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Jay, 2 Raven, 2 Reed Bunting.  

Hobby at Chew (Tony Bridges)

Stratford:

1 Garganey, 1 Swift, 31 Ringed Plover, 21 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 juv. Curlew Sandpiper, 10 Dunlin, 5 Ruff, 5 Snipe, 3 juv, Greenshank, 2 Spotted Redshank, 2 ad, Yellow-legged Gull, 1 ad. Common Gull, 

1 Cattle Egret, 4 Great White Egret, 6 Little Egret, 4 Sparrowhawk, 2 juv. Osprey, 1 (2nd CY) Marsh Harrier, 2 Red Kite (over Burledge Hill), 1 Kestrel, 1 ad. Hobby, 3 Peregrine, 2  Meadow Pipit.

Kingfisher at Chew (Andrew Harrison)

Herriott's Bridge:

1 Shelduck, 56 Shoveler, 30+ Gadwall, 1 Water Rail, 5 GBB Gull, 19 Lapwing, 11 Black-tailed Godwit, 5 Ruff,  2 Curlew Sandpiper, 38 Snipe, 2 Common Sandpiper, 8 Green Sandpiper, 4 Cattle Egret, 5 Grey Heron, 4 Great White Egret, 5 Little Egret, 1 Osprey, 1 m. Sparrowhawk, 4 Buzzard, 1 Peregrine,

2 Kingfisher, 8 Jackdaw, 3-400 hirundines (mainly Sand Martin, plenty of House Martin), 2 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Grey Wagtail, 20+ Pied Wagtail.  

Meadow Pipits on the mud at Herons Green (Ian Stapp)

Reports: Vĕra Carpenter, Richard Clease, Tony Cook, Andy Davis, Andy Gibb, Rob Hargreaves, MJ, Andy Mears, Mike Moxon, Rick Seery, Ian Stapp, Larry Sweetland, Mike Trew, ABNG Whatsapp contributors, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG