30-05-25 Friday - inland Sanderling

Temp 13°C to 19°C - Overcast, warm and muggy, clearing later with high cirrus cloud.  The wind has dropped to a light SW. No rain.

Garganey

Sanderling

Spotted Flycatchers

One of the Sanderling on the dam wall at Chew (Merv Carlyon)

BRISTOL

Horfield:

two pairs of Swift entering nest sites

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:

2 Mute Swan, 3 Shelduck, 5 Mallard + 6 young, 1 Pheasant, 1 Stock Dove, 2 Moorhen, 3 Coot + 1 young, 1 Jay, 3 House Martin, 9 Chiffchaff, 2 Reed Warbler, 4 Blackcap, 4 Whitethroat, 2 Song Thrush, 2 Bullfinch, 3 Linnet.

Oldbury Village: 

4 Swift, 1 GS Woodpecker, 1 Greenfinch.

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead, Redcliffe Bay:

Red Kite

Hewish to M5:

2 Buzzard, 3 Moorhen families (one with juvs.), Swallows, House Martins, Magpie, 2 Sedge Warbler, 2+ Reed Warbler, recently fledged Pied Wagtail, 4+ m. Reed Bunting

Spotted Flycatcher at Dunkerton (Merv Carlyon)

BELOW M4 & BANES

Bath:

Red Kite (over Queens Square in the centre of the city)

Bath - Newbridge:

4 Swift - into 3 nest boxes

Dunkerton:
Spotted Flycatcher

Burnett:

1 Kestrel

Sanderlings at Chew dam (Ian Stapp)

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

Dam:

8 Sanderling  (on the wall; 10 is the largest count for the lake), 2 GBB Gull and 2 LBB Gull (with a big fish on the wall), 1 Great White Egret, 1 Little Egret,  3 Pied Wagtail

One of the Sanderling at Chew dam (Merv Carlyon)

Herons Green:
56 Canada Goose, 2 Little Grebe, 2 Great White Egret, 2 Grey Heron, 2 Reed Warbler, 1 Sedge Warbler (showing & singing), 2 Reed Bunting.   

Stratford:

2 Mute Swan (+6 cygnets, one the Polish pale colour morph), 1 Cuckoo (calling), 2 GBB Gull, 1 Great White Egret, 1 Tawny Owl, 1 G S Woodpecker,  3 LT Tit, 1 Cetti's Warbler (showing), 3 Reed Warbler, 

1 Chiffchaff (singing in the car park), 1 Spotted Flycatcher (reported by the bird feeders).

Herriotts Bridge: 

2 Egyptian Goose (+3 goslings on the pool), 2 Shelduck, 2 Shoveler (m. & f.), 3 Teal (2 m., 1 f.), 72 Gadwall, 1 m. Garganey, 2 Pochard, 1 f. Goldeneye (no sign of juvs.),2 Cuckoo (calling). 30+ Great Crested Grebe, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 1 Ringed Plover, 6 GBB Gull, 3 Great White Egret, 2 Grey Heron, 1 Kingfisher, 4 Reed Warbler, 1 Song Thrush (singing), 6 Pied Wagtail, 1 Grey Wagtail, 2 Reed Bunting

Another Sanderling at Chew dam (Merv Carlyon)

 Reported by:  Andy Davis, Michael Moxon, Lois Pryce, Chris Rawlings, Ian Stapp, all contributors to the local WhatsApp groups, blagdonlakebirds, opsbirding, severnsidebirds