Saturday, 14 June 2025

14-06-25 Saturday - Desert Wheatear

Temp 13°C to 21°C - Sunny spells with the odd deluge of rain but only a bit more cloud towards evening. The moderate breeze was mainly from the west with gusts to 29mph.

The Desert Wheatear was favouring the weedy side of the path near the playing fields at Somerdale in Keynsham, and regularly perched on the fence. Please note both car parks require payment 24 hours a day and have APNR, so you will get a ticket if you don’t pay. The bird was seen at this Location .  

Desert Wheatear
Wood Sandpiper
Common Tern
Cattle Egret
Spotted Flycatcher
Black Redstart

BRISTOL

Bishopston:
6 Starling inc 4 juv - fighting for feeder space

Sea Walls - Clifton Down:
3 Peregrine - feathers flying while feasting! 

Withywood - garden:
6 Swift

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE
14-06-25 Sedge Warbler OPS (Pete Hazelwood)
Oldbury Power Station:
1 Great White Egret, 1 Tawny Owl - calling, 2 Kestrel, 2 Raven, 2 Sedge Warbler, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 or 2 Nuthatch, 1 Black Redstart

Chipping Sodbury Common:
1 Red Kite

NORTH SOMERSET

Leigh Woods:
1 Coal Tit, 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Garden Warbler, 1 Treecreeper, 1 Song Thrush, 2 Spotted Flycatcher

Wraxall - Watercress Farm:
1 Stock Dove, 2 Little Egret, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Green Woodpecker, Kestrel - family of nestlings, 1 Coal Tit, 6 Skylark, 3 Yellowhammer

Felton Common:
1 Red Kite, 15 Skylark, 3 Stonechat

Sand Point/Bay:
1 Common Scoter, 1 Swift, 1 Curlew, 3 Great Black-backed Gull, 1 Arctic Skua, 2 Swallow & 1 Grey Wagtail - very early migrant

BELOW M4 & BANES

Wick - service station:
1 Red Kite 

14-6-25 Desert Wheatear Keynsham (Rob Laughton) 

Keynsham
:
Desert Wheatear 

Bath - Kilkenny Lane:
2 Red Kite, 3 Buzzard - fracas in the newly cut hay

Paulton:
1 Barn Owl

RESERVOIRS
14-06-25 Common Tern CVL (Bri Thompson)
Chew Valley Lake


Herons Green:
1 Redshank, 2 Cattle Egret

Stratford:
1 Cuckoo, 1 Tawny Owl, 1 Kingfisher    
14-06-25 Wood Sandpiper CVL (Ian Stapp)
Herriotts inc Pool:

2 Egyptian Goose - 3 Gosling, 3 Shoveler (f&m), 50+ Gadwell, 6 Teal, 40+ Great Crested Grebe, 1 Oystercatcher, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Wood Sandpiper, 2 G BB Gull, 1 Common Tern, 1 Cattle Egret, 3 Grey Heron, 2 Great White Egret, 1 Little Egret, 3 Reed Warbler, 1 Song Thrush - singing, 4 Pied Wagtail, 1 Reed Bunting

Reported by: Peter Coslett, Chris Craig, Phil Crouter, Neil Delaney, Brenda Evered, Jen Goodwin, Matt Hull, Rob Laughton, Andy Mears, Mike Owen, Nick Page, Les Reynolds, Paul Sadley, Ian Stapp, Jon Swift, Paul Tompkins, Bri Thompson
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