14-07-25 Monday - Wood Sandpipers

Temp 18°C to 25°C - slightly cooler with a moderate W/SW wind when it blew, muggy when it didn't. Gusts to 35mph. And some very welcome rain, a massive 1.6mm.

Wood Sandpipers- a rare bird in Avon the last couple of years

Garganey

Common Tern

BRISTOL

Stoke Park inc Duchess Pond:
1 Garden Warbler - early returner

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

NorthwickWarth/Pilning Wetlands:
5 Little Ringed Plover, 1 Wood Sandpiper, 1 Greenshank

New Passage:
3 Common Sandpiper

NORTH SOMERSET

No reports.

BELOW M4 & BANES

Cameley:
1 Kingfisher

Chew Magna:
1 Red Kite

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
2 juv Shelduck, 4 Lapwing, 9 Common Sandpiper, 35 Cattle Egret, 11 Little Egret, 17 Great White Egret

Chew Valley Lake
51 Little Egret, 17 Great White Egret

14-07-25 Wood Sandpiper, CVL (Bri Thompson)

Dam:
1 Common Sandpiper

Denny/Bernard King Hide:
1 Garganey, 7 Little Ringed Plover, 11 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Common Sandpiper

Herons Green:
50+ Canada Goose, 1 Green Sandpiper, 2 Cattle Egret, 3 Grey Heron, 1 Red Kite, 4 Pied Wagtail

Stratford:
1 Garganey, 11+ Little Grebe

14-07-25 Common Tern, CVL (Ian Stapp)

Herriotts inc. Pool:
3 Lapwing, 1 Snipe, 14 Green Sandpiper, 5 Common Sandpiper, 1 Wood Sandpiper, 3 GBB Gull, 1 Common Tern, 5 Grey Heron, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Grey Wagtail

Reported by: Raoul Chandrasakera, Andy Davis, Matt Hall, Bob Medland, Andy Mears, Nick Page, Ian Stapp, Larry Sweetland, Bri Thompson

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