Sunday, 1 September 2024

01-09-24 Sunday

Temp 15°C to 24°C - Misty to start which was cleared by the light north east wind, but thunder and rain in the late afternoon and gusts to 21 mph.

Curlew Sandpiper
Nightingale
Osprey

BRISTOL

Snuff Mills:
1 Dipper

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

New Passage/Northwick Warth/Pilning Wetlands:
2 Stock Dove 50 Oystercatcher, c30 Lapwing 6 Ringed Plover, 1 Whimbrel, 100 Curlew, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Ruff - juv, 100 Redshank 2 Wheatear
01-09-24 Curlew Sandpiper SB (Brian Lancastle)
Severn Beach:
200 Ringed Plover, 2 Curlew Sandpiper - juv, 1 Sanderling - juv, 1 Turnstone, 100 Dunlin, 1 Common Sandpiper, 

Wickwar:
2 Hobby, 1 Spotted Flycatcher

Chipping Sodbury Common: 
1 Raven, 1 Swallow, 1 Willow Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff, some Blackcap, Lesser Whitethroat, some Whitethroat, 6+ Redstart, 2 Whinchat, 1 Yellow Wagtail,  80 Goldfinch

NORTH SOMERSET

Portbury Wharf:
1 putative Nightingale heard - recording inconclusive HERE

Portishead:
Swallow  - on the move over the R Severn

Clevedon - Highdale:
2 Woodpigeon, 1 Herring Gull, 2 Magpie, 1 Jackdaw

Clevedon - Wain's Hill - vismig
some Ringed Plover - heard only, 5 Sand Martin, 66 Swallow, 17 House Martin -
01-09-24 Raven W Big Wood (Jason Williams)
Weston Big Wood:
1 Red Kite, 25 Raven

Sand Point/Middle Hope - vismig:
1 Sanderling, 1 Marsh Harrier, 424 Swallow -  with 2 Firecrest, 1 Redstart, 1 Whinchat, 5 Stonechat, 1 Wheatear

BELOW M4 & BANES

Hanham Hill:
2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 103 Swallow - perched on power lines, 2 Blackcap (m), 7 Greenfinch, 

Emerson's Green, Pomphrey Hill:
2 Grey Heron, 1 Raven

Downend - Cleeve Hill:
1 Cormorant, 1 Red Kite, 1 Buzzard 

Saltford:
2 Little Owl - back at traditional roost

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

Bernard King Hide:
2 Little Ringed Plover, 1 Black Tern

Woodford:
200 Cormorant - on Denny Island

Villice:
1 Pochard - juv, 13 Little Grebe,1 Lapwing - flock of 200 mixed tits, warbler and crest.

Nunnery:
1 Black Tern - prob same as BK bird, 1 Green Woodpecker

Herons Green:
37 Pochard, 1 Dunlin, 2 Common Sandpiper, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Marsh Harrier - Herriot bird
01-09-24 Marsh Harrier  CVL (Bri Thompson)
Stratford:
3 Garganey (f), 2 Pintail (m), 3 Lapwing, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank, 1 Yellow-legged Gull, 42 Common Tern, 2 Arctic Tern, 3 Black Tern,  4 Osprey, 2 Sparrowhawk (m), 6 Marsh Harrier, 1 Kingfisher, 2 Hobby, 5 Sand Martin

Herriotts inc. Pool:
9 Egyptian Goose, 1 Garganey, 3 Lapwing, 8 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Snipe, 11 Green Sandpiper, 1 Cattle Egret, 1 Marsh Harrier, 1+ Kingfisher

Out of Area:

Brue Estuary:
1 Sabine's Gull - juv

Reported by: Karle Burford, Mark Coller, Alan Craddock, Jane Cumming, Barry Dursley, Julian Eastoe, Julie Evans, Anthony Goodwin, Dave Hughes, Matt Hull, MJ, Brian Lancastle, James Packer, Nick Page, Nigel Povey, Paul Sadley, Paul Sawyer, Howard Taffs, Bri Thompson, Jason Williams