11-05-24 Saturday - Spotted Flycatcher/Tern Day

Temp 14°C to 25°C - Very warm again with hazy sunshine. A force 1 ENE wind.

Spectacular overnight show from the aurora borealis. Should be another good showing tonight from late evening onwards but a good telephone or long-distance camera is definitely recommended!

Sandwich Tern, Little Tern

Gannet

Short-eared Owl

Spotted Flycatcher : Good number recorded on passage today

Whinchat

11-05-24 juvenile Stonechat, Stoke Park (Steve Richardson)

BRISTOL

The Downs:

5 Swift, 1 Swallow

Stoke Park inc Duchess Pond:

3 Swift, 2 Common Sandpiper, 1 Buzzard, 1 Swallow, 2 Reed Warbler, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 juv Stonechat, 2 (m/f) Bullfinch 

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

11-05-24 Short-eared Owl, Oldbury Power Station (Peter Hazelwood)

Oldbury Power Station:

1 Avocet, 1 Grey Plover, 19 Ringed Plover, 1 Whimbrel, 1 Bar-tailed Godwit, 10 Dunlin, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Little Tern - upriver, 1 Short-eared Owl, 2 families of Long-tailed Tit

New Passage:

2 Spotted Flycatcher - The Glen

Severn Beach:
2 possible Brent Goose, 2 Sandwich Tern - upriver, 2 Spotted Flycatcher, 1 Whinchat

Wickwar:
2 Red Kite, 3 Greenfinch

11-05-24 Greenfinch, Wickwar (Paul Sadley)

Yate - garden:

2 Swift

Two Mile Hill:

3 Red Kite - over at 19:30

Oldland Common:
3 Swift - back on territory

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead:
Blackrock Quarry:

40+ Raven

Ecology Park:

4 juv Stonechat

11-05-24 Red Kite, Gordano (Jason Williams)

Gordano:
1 Red Kite - first record here of one grounded

Clevdedon - Highdale Road:

1 Woodpigeon, 1 Herring Gull, 2 Magpie, 1 Blue Tit, 1 Robin

Watercress Farm:
1 Red Kite, 1 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 4 Skylark, 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap, 1 Whitethroat, 1 Yellowhammer

Sand Point/Middle Hope:
Vismig:

2 Greylag Goose, 17 Shelduck, 2 Oystercatcher, 70 Bar-tailed Godwit - north, 25 Herring Gull, 103 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 2 Gannet, 1 Sand Martin, 18 Swallow, 4 House Martin, 17 Spotted Flycatcher, 1 Yellow Wagtail, 1 Meadow Pipit, 3 Tree Pipit, 20 Linnet, 22 Goldfinch, 6 Siskin

Present:

3 Whimbrel, 2 Willow Warbler, 17 Chiffchaff, 10 Blackcap, 1 Garden Warbler, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 24 Whitethroat, 7 Spotted Flycatcher, 5 Stonechat, 9 Greenfinch, 1 Reed Bunting

Sand Bay:

2 Egyptian Goose, 1 Cuckoo - calling

BELOW M4 & BANES

Keynsham - Broadmead:

1 Egyptian Goose, 2 Grey Heron, 1 White Wagtail

Keynsham - Charlton Fields:

2 Yellowhammer

Hallatrow:
5 Red Kite

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake
1 Lapwing - south, 1 Osprey, 4 Red Kite, 2 Hobby

Heron's Green:

1 Gadwall, 1 Little Grebe

11-05-24 Reed Warbler, Moreton-CVL (Karen Wilkinson)

Moreton:

63 Canada Goose, 10 Stock Dove, 1 Great White Egret, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Hobby, 1 Raven, 2+ Reed Warbler, 2 Goldcrest

Herriott's Pool:

33 Mute Swan, 1 Shoveler, 11 Gadwall, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Black-headed Gull

Out of area - Lavernock (Glamorgan):

26 Black Tern upriver at 08:30 this morning

Reported by: Derek John Angell, Paul Bowerman, Paul Bowdler, Alan Daniells, Tim Ford, Andy Gibb, Paul Gregory, Peter Hazelwood, Julian Head, Matt Hull, Andy Leggatt, Brian Mulgrew, Nigel Povey, Aravind Ramesh, Steve Richardson, Paul Sadley, Joe Sargent, Graham Smith, Larry Sweetland, Karen Wilkinson, Jason Williams.

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