02-08-23 Wednesday - Arctic Skua & Goosander

Temp 14°C to 20°C. Rain for most of the day, some sun to start and finish. A moderate breeze from the W/SW to start, veering round to N by the end of the day, gusts up to 25mph.

Arctic Skua 

Manx Shearwater

Ring-necked Parakeet

Goosander 

Bar-tailed Godwit

BRISTOL

Clifton - Worrall Rd:

2 Swift - will these be the last this yr?

Eastville Park:

6 Black-headed Gull, 2 Cormorant

Frenchay:

14 House Martin at colony

Sims Hill:

4 Swallow, 1 Whitethroat, 70 Starling, 1 Linnet, 52 Goldfinch

Stoke Park, Duchess Pond:

3 Ring-necked Parakeet, 2 Willow Warbler, 1 Sedge Warbler, 1 Reed Warbler, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Whitethroat, 2 Reed Bunting

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

New Passage/Northwick:
1 Whimbrel, 52 Turnstone, 4 Knot, 112 Dunlin, 5 Common Sandpiper

Pilning Wetlands:
3 Ringed Plover, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 3 Green Sandpiper, 1 Yellow Wagtail

02-08-23 Arctic Skua, Severn Beach (Raoul Chandrasakera)

Severn Beach:
1 Goosander (earliest South Glos record), 1 Ringed Plover, 1 Bar-tailed Godwit, 2 Turnstone, 7 Common Sandpiper, 1 Arctic Tern, 4 Arctic Skua (2 pale and 2 dark phase), 320 Manx Shearwater

Chipping Sodbury Common:
1 Willow Warbler, 12+ Chiffchaff, 1 Reed Warbler, 3 Blackcap, 4 Lesser Whitethroat, 5 Whitethroat, 2 Redstart

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead:
1 Whitethroat on garden feeder

Sand Point/Bay:
1 Arctic Skua, 1 Cormorant, 9 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap, 4 Lesser Whitethroat, 6 Whitethroat, 3 Stonechat

BELOW M4 & BANES

Chew Magna - Winford Brook
1 Great White Egret

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

Woodford:
60 Swift

02-08-23 Black-headed Gull, CVL (Merv Carlyon)

Heron's Green:
1 Black-headed Gull - pink breasted

02-08-23 Great White Egret, CVL (Merv Carlyon)

Herriott's inc Pool:
1 Great White Egret, 10 Sand Martin, 70 House Martin

Reported by: 

Merv Carlyon, Raoul Chandrasakera, Mark Coller, Jane Cumming, Andy Davis, Oscar Dewhurst, Matt Hall, Matt Hull, Joe Sargent, Larry Sweetland, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG