06-09-24 Friday - Little Gull

Temp 13°C to 18°C - Early mist, then rain all day with more mist to finish and more rain with a grumble of thunder. A light mainly west south west wind.

Little Gull

BRISTOL

Bishopston - garden:

1 Jay - shrieking, 2 Magpie - eating fatballs, blast them, 3 House Sparrow, 7 Goldfinch - inc juv

Blaise Estate:

1 Buzzard, Crow, 1 Raven,  Blue Tit, Great Tit, 3 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Chiffchaff, 5 Nuthatch, 3 Robin, 6 Goldfinch

Sea Mills:

1 Marsh Harrier - flying downstream at 19:00

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:

2 Shoveler, 1 Gadwall, 1 Teal, 1 Curlew Sandpiper - juv, 50 Ringed Plover, 30 Dunlin, 1 Osprey - fishing the tidal res, 2 Stonechat, 1 Wheatear

Northwick Warth:

6 Ruff, 5 Snipe, 3 Green Sandpiper, 3 Greenshank

06-09-24 Buzzard Severnside (Brian Lancastle)

Chittening Warth:
1 Little Gull - 1st wint, 1 Buzzard, 5 Wheatear

Yate - garden:

1 Chiffchaff - singing 

Yate, Kingsgate Park:

1 Shoveler, 2 Gadwall, 4 Tufted Duck, 1 Kingfisher, 5+ Chiffchaff

NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon - garden:
2 Woodpigeon, 1 Herring Gull, 2 Magpie

Worle - garden:
6 Greenfinch, 30+ Goldfinch

BELOW M4 & BANES

06-09-24 Greenfinch Keynsham (Andrew Harrison)

Keynsham - garden:

Blue Tit, Great Tit, House Sparrow, 1 Greenfinch

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:

2 Common Sandpiper, 6 Great White Egret, 4 Little Egret, 1 Osprey, 1 Marsh Harrier - juv, 1 Hobby, lots of Sand Martin, Swallow & House Martin, 1 Wheatear - juv

Chew Valley Lake
4 Turnstone, 4 Common Sandpiper, 1 Green Sandpiper, c150 of Swallow and c300 House Martin - -  all flying around the lake

Bernard King Hide:
1 Oystercatcher, 7 Ringed Plover, 2 Common Sandpiper, 1 Greenshank, 1 Cormorant - ringed green SPF

Villice:
2 Hobby 1 Pied Flycatcher (f), 

Nunnery:
4 Common Tern, 5 Black Tern

Herons Green:
2 Egyptian Goose, 4 Common Sandpiper, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Hobby

Moreton:
1 Oystercatcher - preening on the mud, 4 Turnstone, 4 Snipe, 1 Kittiwake - ad, 6 Common Tern, 3 Black Tern

06-09-24 Sedge Warbler CVL (Merv Carlyon)

Stratford:
2 Egyptian Goose, 1 Wigeon, 26 Pintail,  2 Water Rail, 1 Oystercatcher, 4 Lapwing, 1 Ringed Plover, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 9 Snipe, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Green Sandpiper, 4 Greenshank, 1 Kittiwake - ad, 11 Common Tern, 4 Arctic Tern, 5 Black Tern, 3 Osprey (f&m + juv), 5 Marsh Harrier, 1 Tawny Owl, 3 Hobby, 1 Sedge Warbler

06-09-24 Common Sandpiper CVL (Merv Carlyon)

Herriotts inc. Pool:

4 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Snipe, 1 Common Sandpiper, 9 Green Sandpiper, some Great White Egret, 1 Osprey - juv, 

Reported by: Paul Bowerman, Di Bunniss, Merv Carlyon, Mark Coller, Chris Craig, Alan Daniells, Andy Davis, Markas Gilmartin, Andrew Harrison, Nick Hawkridge, Pete Hazelwood, MJ, Brian Lancastle, Nick Page, Nigel Povey, Dean Reeves, Ben Searle

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