05-09-24 Thursday - Hirundines on the move

Temp 10°C to 17°C - Wet! North/North north easterly breeze gusting to 20mph.

Large numbers Swallow & House Martin on the Severn

Little Stint

Common Tern & Black Tern

Grasshopper Warbler

Pied Flycatcher

05-09-24 Swallow grounded at Severn Beach (Brian Lancastle)

BRISTOL

Stoke Park garden:

6 Ring-necked Parakeet

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

05-09-24 Wheatear, Aust Cliff (Andy Stockhausen)

Aust Cliff:
Vismig: 1 Swift, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2,645 Swallow, 390 House Martin, 8 Yellow Wagtail, 6 Tree Pipit, 10 Linnet

On site: 1 Kestrel, 1 Peregrine, 2 Willow Warbler, 50+Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap, 4 Goldcrest, Wheatear, 4 Spotted Flycatcher, 1 Pied Flycatcher

New Passage:
2 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Knot, 91 Redshank, 7 Little Egret, 2 Wheatear

05-09-24 Redshank & Common Sandpiper, Severn Beach (Brian Lancastle)

Severn Beach:

c120 Ringed Plover, c30 Turnstone, 75 Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Redshank, 1 Sand Martin, 200 Swallow & 1 House Martin - grounded on sea wall by rain, 7 Wheatear

Kingsgate Park:
1 Shoveler, 2 Gadwall 

Winterbourne Down:

c30 House Martin

NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon garden:
1 Woodpigeon, 1 Magpie, 1 Robin

Watercress farm, Wraxall:
1 Hobby

Sand Point/Middle Hope:
Vis mig: 1 Sand Martin, 140 Swallow, 140 House Martin, 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 Tree Pipit, 1 Linnet

Present: 450 Ringed Plover, 1 Knot, 7 Sanderling, 150 Dunlin, 1 Little Stint, 4 Greenshank, 8 Kestrel, 1 Raven, 160 Swallow,  1 Grasshopper Warbler

BELOW M4 & BANES

No reports    

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:

2 Egyptian Goose, 4 Wigeon, 6 Grey Heron, 7 Great White Egret, 4 Little Egret, 1 Osprey, 2 Buzzard, 1 Hobby 

Chew Valley Lake

05-09-24 Egyptian Goose, Dam CVL (Rob Hargreaves)

Dam:

2 Egyptian Goose

Bernard King Hide:

1 Little Ringed Plover, 5 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Common Sandpiper, 3 Green Sandpiper, 4 Greenshank, 1 roosting Common Tern

Wick Green Point:
Pintail

05-09-24 very wet Marsh Harrier, Herons Green CVL (Rob Hargreaves)

Herons Green:
30+ Pochard, 5 Lapwing, 1 Greenshank, 4 Common Sandpiper, 3 Green Sandpiper, 1 Marsh Harrier

Moreton:

5 Sand Martin, 120+ Swallow, 1 Song Thrush

05-09-24 Black Tern, CVL (Bri Thompson)

Stratford:
Shoveler, Teal, 8 Pintail, 1 Water Rail, 1 Greenshank, 1 Common Tern, 1 Black Tern, 2 Marsh Harrier (juvs), 5 Sand Martin, 80 Swallow, 300 House Martin

Herriotts inc. Pool:

1 Snipe, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Osprey

Reported by: Paul Chapman, Mark Coller, Andy Davis, Rob Hargreaves, Matt Hull, Mike Jackson, Brian Lancastle, Nick Page, Nigel Povey, Steve Richardson, Andy Stockhausen:

blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG