Sunday 30 June 2024

30-06-24 Sunday - Greenshank

Temp 13°C to 20°C - Early rain and then overcast the rest of the day. A light north wind kept it feeling cool.

Greenshank
Spotted Flycatcher
Cuckoo
Redstart
Osprey

BRISTOL

Bishopston - garden:
1 Red Kite - chased by noisy Carrion Crow

Sims' Hill
1 Lesser Whitethroat

Stoke Park - garden:
2 Stock Dove, Woodpigeon, 2 GS Woodpecker - inc juv, 2 RN Parakeet, Jay, Jackdaw, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Robin, Dunnock

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
9 Common Sandpiper - flew in, Common Gull, GBB Gull, Reed Warbler, Meadow Pipit, Chaffinch, Bullfinch, Greenfinch, Reed Bunting

Northwick Warth/Pilning Wetlands:
15 Swift, Little Grebe, 16 Lapwing, 3 Little Ringed Plover - inc juv, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 8 Redshank, 1 Greenshank, 80 BH Gull, 2 Grey Heron, 1 Little Egret, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, 1 Sand Martin

Wickwar:
Swift, 1 Peregrine, Rook, Swallow, House Martin

Yate - Goose Green Way:
1 Red Kite

30-06-24 Green Woodpecker NSL (NSL Birding)
Yate Common:
Woodpigeon, Herring Gull, LBB Gull, Sparrowhawk, Jay, Magpie, Jackdaw, Rook, Carrion Crow, 1 Little Egret, Buzzard, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Whitethroat, Wren, Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush, Blackbird, Robin, House Sparrow, Greenfinch, Linnet, Goldfinch

Kingsgate Park:
2 Mute Swan, Mallard, Moorhen, Coot, Kingfisher, Coal Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Goldcrest

Chipping Sodbury - Barnhill Quarry:
1 Little Grebe, Buzzard, Kestrel, Grey Wagtail

Chipping Sodbury Common:
1 Cuckoo, 6 Stock Dove, 4 Buzard, 2 Kestrel, 1 Peregrine, Skylark, 20 Swallow,  Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Lesser Whitethroat, Whitethroat, 5 Redstart (2f 3m), Linnet, 2 Reed Bunting

NORTH SOMERSET

Pill:
Lots of Large Gulls, & 1 Red Kite - following the plough

Portishead - Lake Grounds BBS:
121 Canada Goose, 1 Tufted Duck, 1 Great Crested Grebe - flying upriver, 24 BH Gull - sum plum, 50 Carrion Crow, 1 Chiffchaff, 2 Goldcrest, 13 Blackbird, 1 Pied Wagtail

BELOW M4 & BANES

Lyde Green - Science Park:
Moorhen, Grey Heron, 6 House Martin, Chiffchaff, 2 Sedge Warbler (m) display, Reed Warbler, Blackcap, Whitethroat, Goldcrest, Wren, Starling, House Sparrows, Dunnock, 2 Greenfinch, Goldfinch, Reed Bunting

Warmley, North Common - Jarretts:
10+ Red Kite
30-06-24 Spotted Flycatcher NSL (NSL Birding)
Newton St Loe:
2 Red Kite, 2 Kestrel, 1 Buzzard, 1 Kingfisher, 2 Great spotted Woodpecker, 3 Green Woodpecker, 6 Raven, 6 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 3 Whitethroat, 2 Spotted Flycatcher

Bath Spa  - Campus:
2 Mistle Thrush

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

Herons Green:
4 Gadwall - large duckling, 3 Pochard, 80 Swift

Moreton:
1 Osprey

Ringing Station:
2 Lesser Whitethroat - 1st to be ringed this year

Herriotts inc. Pool:
11 Lapwing, 1 Curlew, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Green Sandpiper, 35 BH Gull - incl 3 juv, 5 GBB Gull, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Great White Egret, 1 Little Egret, 1 Kingfisher, 30 House Martin, 1 Reed Bunting

Reported by: Paul Bowerman, Karle Burford, Mark Coller, Chris Craig, Jane Cumming, Barry Dursley, Tim Ford, Anthony Goodwin, Pete Hazelwood, Nigel Jones, Rachel Khan, NSL Birding, Nick Page, Alan Piper, Steve Richardson, Matt Rogers, Larry Sweetland, Bri Thompson,  Martin Wightman