Thursday, 10 August 2023

10-08-23 Thursday

Temp 14°C to 25°C. Sunny with breezy south-easterly.

Mandarin Duck
Common Tern
Marsh Tit
Spotted Flycatcher
Redstart
Wheatear
Tree Pipit

BRISTOL
10-08-23 LBB Gull City Centre Galleries (Sova)
City Centre - Galleries:
1 Lesser Black-backed Gull - ringed in Spain (thanks to Peter Rock)

Clifton / Downs:
6 Swift, 2 Raven, 1 Coal Tit, 8ish Blue Tit, 8+ House Martin, 2 Blackcap, 1 Bullfinch,1 Greenfinch

St Annes - R Avon:
2 Kingfisher

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
1 Mandarin Duck (on shore at Shepperdine), 2 Mallard, 25 BH Gull, 5 Common Tern, 1 Sparrowhawk (juv), 1 Peregrine (juv), 4 Willow Warbler singing, 1 Tree Pipit calling

Lower Woods:
3 Coal Tit, 4 Marsh Tit, 1 Willow Warbler, 1 Treecreeper, 1 Spotted Flycatcher

Inglestone Common: 
4 Red Kite, 1 Buzzard, 2 Marsh Tit, 2 Blackcap, 3 Whitethroat, 2 Redstart 

Hawkesbury Upton:
7 Red Kite
10-08-23 Wheatear, Wickwar (Paul Sadley)
Wickwar:
1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Kestrel, 1 Hobby, 1 Peregrine (juv, had a ministoop at a Cormorant), 1 Wheatear

Chipping Sodbury Common:
3 Stock Dove, 2 Hobby, 5 Jay, 2 Raven, 20+ Swallow, 10+ Willow Warbler, lots of Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap,12+ Lesser Whitethroat, 15+ Whitethroat, 1 Spotted Flycatcher, 6 Redstart, 1 Wheatear

NORTH SOMERSET

Yatton, Little River & Wemberham Lane:
2 Stock Dove, 3 Heron, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, 2 Raven, 20 House Martin, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap, 1 Lesser Whitethroat

BELOW M4 & BANES

No reports

RESERVOIRS
10-08-23 Great White Egret with pike, CVL (NSL birding)
Chew Valley Lake

Herons Green:
3 Common Sandpiper, 5 Little Egret, 1 Marsh Harrier
10-08-23 Kingfisher, Stratford CVL (Dave Hughes)
Stratford:
1 Common Tern, 3 Great White Egret, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Hobby

Reported by Mark Coller, Andy Davis, Pete Hazelwood, Dave Hughes,  Mike Jackson, Trevor Riddle, Paul Sadley, Gill Sapsed, Joe Sargent, Sova, Wayne & Lauren Tucker