Tuesday 26 September 2023

26-09-23 Tuesday - Grey Phalarope

Temp 9°C to 18°C -  Started and finished wet, sunny from around 10am to 3pm. Gentle westerly breeze veering through South to South Easterly

Grey Phalarope
Common Tern
Firecrest
Spotted Flycatcher
Little Stint

BRISTOL

Westbury-on-Trym (garden):
An unusually large Tit flock including; 2 Long-tailed Tit,  1 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap (fem)
Firecrest, Clifton Down (Debbie Berry)
Clifton Down (Ed Drewitt Zoo bank ringing Demo):
1 Firecrest

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
6 Ringed Plover, 3 Curlew, 32 Turnstone, 3 Dunlin, 1 Great White Egret, 6 Little Egret, 6 Swallow, 1 Wheatear
Wheatear, New Passage (LiseGirl)
New Passage:
2 Wheatear
(L-R) Turnstone/Dunlin/Little Stint, Severn Beach (Brian Lancastle)
Severn Beach:
50 Ringed Plover, 6 Turnstone, 450 Dunlin, 1 Little Stint

Chipping Sodbury Common:
1 Raven, 81 Swallow, 1 House Martin, 11 Chiffchaff, 6 Blackcap, 2 Stonechat, ++ Meadow Pipit

NORTH SOMERSET

No reports

BELOW M4 & BANES

Stanton Drew (BOC Walk):
3 Mallard, 2 Pheasant, Woodpigeon, 2 Collared Dove, 1 Moorhen, 12 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 4 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Green Woodpecker, 2 Kestrel, 4 Jay, Magpie, Jackdaw, Rook, Carrion Crow, 4 Raven, 1 Coal Tit, 4 Blue Tit, 4 Great Tit, 3 Swallow, 13 House Martin, 4 Long-tailed Tit, 4 Chiffchaff, 1 Whitethroat, 5 Wren, 8 Starling, Robin, 1 House Sparrow, 4 Dunnock, 3 Grey Wagtail, 2 Pied Wagtail, 1 Meadow Pipit, 1 Greenfinch, 20 Goldfinch

Chew Stoke:
1 Little Egret (in stream in village centre)

RESERVOIRS

Barrow Tanks (Nos 1 & 2):
1 Mute Swan, 1 Moorhen, 12 Little Grebe, 10 Great Crested Grebe, 3 Common Sandpiper, 1 Common Tern (1st winter), 2 Little Egret, 1 Wheatear, 3 Grey Wagtail, 20 Pied/White Wagtail

Chew Valley Lake
Grey Phalarope, Dam (Lucy Masters)
Dam:
1 Egyptian Goose, 1 Grey Phalarope, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Common Gull (1st Winter), 1 Great Black-backed Gull, 180+ Cormorant, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Goldcrest, 10+ Pied/White Wagtail

Bittern Trail:
1 Cetti's Warbler (heard)

Herons Green:
1 Common Sandpiper, 12+ Swallow, 1 Cetti's Warbler
Spotted Flycatcher, Stratford (Ian Stapp)
Stratford:
4 Pintail, 25+ Pochard, 1 Snipe, 1 Common Tern, 2 Grey Heron, 4 Great White Egret, 3 Little Egret, 1 Marsh Harrier, 1 Hobby (juv), 45+ Swallow, 2 Cetti's Warbler, ++ Long-tailed Tit (in mixed flock of 30 birds), 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Spotted Flycatcher, 8 Meadow Pipit (flyover)

Herriotts inc Pool:
9+ Pintail, 1 Great Black-backed Gull, 2 Cetti's Warbler

Reported by:  David Allward, Debbie Berry, Mark Coller, Alan Daniels, Andy Davis, Ed Drewitt, Andrew Harrison, Brian Lancastle, Lucy Masters, Andrew Middleton, Lisa Presland, Robert Proctor, Ian Stapp, Thomas Weston
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