Friday 8 September 2023

8-9-23 Friday - Guillemot

Temp 20°C to 28°C - sunny with some cloud later, a light easterly wind to start before going round to the west by lunch time - gusting to 8mph !!!

Guillemot
Osprey
Black Tern
Grasshopper Warbler
Osprey
Wigeon
Spotted Flycatcher
Cattle Egret

BRISTOL
8-9-23 Cormorant EP (Allan Chard)
Eastville Park:
1 Cormorant - princely lunch

Stoke Park, Duchess Pond:
1 Tufted Duck, 1 Ring-necked Parakeet, 1 Spotted Flycatcher, 2 Stonechat    

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Aust Cliff/Services:
3 Stock Dove, 2 Oystercatcher, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Osprey, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Peregrine, 2 Raven, 3 Willow Warbler, 54 Chiffchaff, 15 Blackcap, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Whitethroat, 1 Mistle Thrush, 7 Spotted Flycatcher, 2 Grey Wagtail, 1 Chaffinch    

New Passage/Northwick/Pilning Wetlands:
150 Canada Goose, 1 Greylag Goose, 4 Shelduck, 27 Shoveler, 14 Gadwall, 10 Wigeon, 355 Teal, 1 Tufted Duck, 1 Little Grebe, 1 Stock Dove, 2 Oystercatcher, 26 Lapwing, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 1 Whimbrel, 12 Curlew, 14 Black-tailed Godwit, 30 Turnstone, 1 Knot, 1 Ruff, 5 Dunlin, 28 Snipe, 1 Common Sandpiper, 145 Redshank, 1 Great Black-backed Gull, 1 Guillemot,1 Grey Heron, 2 Little Egret, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Kestrel, 1 Raven, 2 Skylark, 1 Reed Warbler, 7 Swallow, 8 Chiffchaff, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Whitethroat, 2 Wheatear - juv, 1 Grey Wagtail, 3 Meadow Pipit, 1 Tree Pipit, 7 Greenfinch, 1 Reed Bunting
8-9-23 Wheatear SB (Rosemary Setter)
Severn Beach:
3 Great White Egret - by the pipes, 1 Wheatear - path to NP
8-9-23 Goldfinch Wickwar (Paul Sadley)
Wickwar, West End - garden:
Goldfinch - started on the teasels

Nibley - Tubbs Bottom:
5 Stock Dove, 3 Buzzard, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Raven, many Willow Warbler and Chiffchaff - singing, Blackcap - singing, 2 Spotted Flycatcher, Greenfinch - juv, 

Emerson Green:
c10 House Martin

NORTH SOMERSET

Sand Point - Middle Hope:
5 Willow Warbler, 23 Chiffchaff, 1 Sedge Warbler, 1 Grasshopper Warbler, 12 Blackcap, 2 Garden Warbler, 5 Lesser Whitethroat, 9 Whitethroat, 4 Goldcrest, 5 Spotted Flycatcher, 3 Wheatear, 3 Yellow Wagtail, 6 Grey Wagtail, 69 Meadow Pipit, 4 Siskin, 

Worle:
1 Ring-necked Parakeet, 

BELOW M4 & BANES
8-9-23 Ring-necked Parakeet Keynsham (Simon Isgar)
Keynsham
1 Ring-necked Parakeet - calling

Keynsham, Fry's Football ground:
100 to 200 Swallow with some House Martin massed over the pitches, 8 Pied Wagtail

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
20-30 Cattle Egret

Chew Valley Lake
1 Common Tern, 
 
Sutton Wick - seen from Stratford hide:
a good candidate for a Black Kite - 10 am, flew in from the north and went away south west, without stopping 

Woodford:
9 Black Tern
8-9-23 Black Tern CVL (Bri Thompson)
Nunnery Point:

Black Tern

Moreton:
1 Osprey, 1 Marsh Harrier - juv, 

Stratford:
3 Wigeon, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Marsh Harrier (f) - new bird, 1 Peregrine - juv, 

Herriotts inc Pool:
3 Snipe, 5 Green Sandpiper, 

Reported by:  Phil Barlow, Allan Chard, Derek Clarke, Andy Davis, Oscar Dewhurst, Barry Dursley, Matt Hall, Julian Head, Matt Hull, Michal Hutchinson, Simon Isgar, Nige Milbourne, Mike Prior, Paul Sadley, Rosemary Setter, Mark Smith, Andy Stockhausen, Larry Sweetland, Bri Thompson