12-8-23 Saturday - Storm Petrel

Temp 16°C to 21 °C - mainly cloudy, some sun and sharp showers. Blustery wind to 30mph from the West South West.

Storm Petrel

Spotted Flycatcher

BRISTOL

Cumberland Basin:

2 Mallard, c45 Feral Pigeon, c12 Woodpigeon, 44 Black-headed Gull, 15+ Herring Gull - inc 5 juv, c12 Lesser Black-backed Gull - inc 4 juv, 1 Cormorant, 4 Jackdaw, 1 Carrion Crow

12-8-23  Dipper EP (Allan Chard)

Eastville Park:

1 Little Egret, 1 Spotted Flycatcher, 1 Dipper

Hotwells - garden:

1 Sparrowhawk - missed a meal of House Sparrow

Stoke Park:

2 Swift, 1Peregrine, 5 Swallow, 6 House Martin, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 3 Whitethroat

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

12-8-23 Stonechat OPS (Pete Hazelwood)

Oldbury Power Station:
9 Little Egret, 5 Stonechat - inc 3 newly fledged 

Aust Cliff / Services:

1 Stock Dove, 1 Woodpigeon, 1 Collared Dove, 3 Herring Gull

Aust Warth:
1 Mallard, 1 Moorhen, 1 Curlew, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Magpie, 2 Carrion Crow, House Martin

New Passage/Northwick:
4 Collared Dove, 2 Oystercatcher, 3 Curlew, 3 Turnstone, Dunlin, 1 Herring Gull, 1 Little Egret, 1 Green Woodpecker, Swallow, Song Thrush, 

Pilning Wetlands:
127 Canada Goose, 4 Gadwall, 2 Stock Dove, 9 Lapwing, 50 Redshank, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Buzzard, Swallow, Chiffchaff, Blackcap

12-8-23 Storm Petrel SB (Matty England)

Severn Beach:
1 Storm Petrel, 1 Grey Heron, 6 Little Egret, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Cetti's Warbler, Blackcap, Whitethroat, Song Thrush

12-8-23  Whitethroat - House Sparrow Wickwar (Paul Sadley)

Wickwar - garden:

1 Whitethroat - juv, several House Sparrow - juv

Yate - garden:
1 Sparrowhawk - brief visit

NORTH SOMERSET

Wraxhall - Watercress Farm:

1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Raven, Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap, 1 Song Thrush, 1 Yellowhammer

BELOW M4 & BANES

12-8-23 LBB Gull ringed Bath Park (Geoff Hardman)

Bath - park:
1 Lesser Black-backed Gull - ringed White A-B

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

Dam:
1 Chiloe Wigeon hybrid (f) - been coming to the lake for 6 yrs, very pretty but easily overlooked in the maelstrom of moulting Mallard

Reported by: Dru Brooke-Taylor, Raoul Chandrasakera, Allan Chard, Matty England, Andy Gibb, Geoff Hardman, Pete Hazelwood, Steve Newland, Paul Sadley, Joe Sargent, Larry Sweetland, Chris Teague

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