Thursday, 1 August 2024

01-08-24 Thursday - Garganey, Common Scoter

Temp 20°C to 26°C - Started warm and rainy, then become very muggy. A light to moderate SW/WSW wind did little to cool it down. Blog will be updated by 9pm if people havnt melted and send more reports in.

Bar-tailed Godwit
Garganey
Common Scoter
Common Tern
Osprey, Snipe

BRISTOL

No reports.

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE
01-08-24 GWE, OPS (Peter Hazelwood)
Oldbury Power Station:
1 Tufted Duck, 3 Green Sandpiper, 1 Great White Egret
01-08-24 Green Sandpipers, OPS (Peter Hazelwood)
Aust Warth/Sewage Works/Services:
6 Curlew, 1 Jay, 2 Raven, 2 Willow Warbler, 6 Chiffchaff, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Whitethroat, 2 Stonechat, 15 Pied Wagtail, 1 Bullfinch

New Passage/Northwick Warth/Pilning Wetlands:
3 Teal, 1 Bar-tailed Godwit, 9 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Dunlin, 1 Snipe, 84 Redshank, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 2nd yr GBB Gull, 17 Little Egret, 2 Buzzard, 6 Kestrel (4 juvs), 2 Reed Warbler, 1 Yellow Wagtail

Severn Beach:
2 Green Woodpecker
01-08-24 Red Kite, Wickwar (Paul Sadley)
Wickwar:
1 Red Kite

Yate:
Garden: 2 Swift, 1 Green Woodpecker

Bradley Stoke:
1 Hobby over garden

NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon:
Garden: 1 Herring Gull, 1 Magpie, 1 Jackdaw

Dundry:
2 juv Sparrowhawk

BELOW M4 & BANES

Burnett:
2 Red Kite

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
11 Egyptian Goose

Chew Valley Lake

01-08-24 Osprey, CVL (Tony Scott)
Picnic Site 2:
3 GBB Gull, 1 Great White Egret, 1 Little Egret, 4 Reed Warbler

Sutton Wick:
1m Common Scoter, 1 Common Tern

Herons Green:
2 Little Grebe, 1 Great White Egret, 1 Little Egret, 2 Willow Warbler (singing), 1 Sedge Warbler
01-08-24 Marsh Harrier, CVL (Chris Teague)
Moreton:
1m Common Scoter (same as above), 2 Stock Dove, 4 GBB Gull,  2 Osprey (same as above), 2 Great White Egret, 4 jay

Stratford:
2 Egyptian Geese, 1m Common Scoter (same as above), 2 Osprey (same as above), 1 Marsh Harrier, 1 Hobby
01-08-24 Ospreys, CVL (Ian Stapp)
Herriotts inc. Pool:
1 Black Swan, 8 Egyptian Goose, 1 Garganey, 2 Shoveler, 1m Common Scoter (same as above), 5 Lapwing, 4 Ringed Plover, 1 Dunlin, 8 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Sandpiper, 2 Redshank, 5 GBB Gull, 2 Yellow-legged Gull, 3 Great White Egret, 4 Little Egret, 2 Osprey (same as above), 1 Kingfisher
01-08-24 Dunlin, CVL (Ian Stapp)
Reported by: 
Adam, Matt Coward, Chris Craig, Andy Davis, Simon Harding, Peter Hazelwood, Andy Mears, Nigel Milbourne, Nick Page, Nigel Povey, Ian Stapp, Paul Sadley, Tony Scott, Andy Stockhausen, Chris Teague,  blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG