Tuesday, 15 July 2025

15-07-25 Tuesday

Temp 14°C to 21°C - Overcast at first, then patchy sun with light rain on and off all day.A fresh breeze from the south west, going further westward after lunch, gusts to gale force at 41 mph. 

Wood Sandpiper

BRISTOL
15-07-25 Kestrel Sea Walls (Mike Owen)
Clifton Down, Sea Walls:
Kestrel

Stoke Park inc Duchess Pond:
1 Cetti's Warbler, 3 Reed Warbler

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE
15-07-25 Chiffchaff NP (Lisa Presland)
New Passage/Northwick:
50 Oystercatcher, 1 Whimbrel, 6 Curlew, 13 Dunlin, 5 Common Sandpiper, Chiffchaff - new family in the garden
15-07-25 Greenshank PIL (Paul Bowerman)
Pilning Wetlands:
2 Mute Swan, 6 Little Grebe inc 3 chicks, 47 Oystercatcher, 4 Little Ringed Plover, 1 Whimbrel, 3 Curlew, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 7 Dunlin, 7 Common Sandpiper, 1 Green Sandpiper, 8 Redshank, 1 Wood Sandpiper, 1 Greenshank, 3 Grey Heron, 1 Little Egret, 2 Raven, 1 Grey Wagtail

Severn Beach:
7 Coot, 2 Curlew

Wickwar:
1 Red Kite

Chipping Sodbury Common:
2 Stock Dove, 1 Red Kite, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Green Woodpecker, 3 Skylark, 12 Swallow, 4 House Martin, 2 Willow Warbler, 11 Chiffchaff, 6 Blackcap, 10 Lesser Whitethroat, 7 Whitethroat, 3 Song Thrush, 6 Mistle Thrush, 1 Redstart, 5 Bullfinch

NORTH SOMERSET

Bourton Combe - BOC walk:
inc - 2 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Coal Tit, 3 Blue Tit, 12 Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap, 5 Goldcrest, 10 Wren, 1 Nuthatch, 1 Treecreeper

BELOW M4 & BANES
no reports

RESERVOIRS
15-07-25 Wood Sandpiper BG (Bri Thompson)
Barrow Gurney Tanks:
34 Swift - over southerly, 18 Little Grebe, 9 Common Sandpiper, 1 Redshank, 1 Wood Sandpiper, 4 Cattle Egret, 1 Great White Egret, 7 Little Egret, 30 Sand Martin, 5 Yellow Wagtail

Chew Valley Lake

Bernard King Hide:
3 Little Ringed Plover - juv, 7 Cattle Egret - over
15-07-25 GC Grebe CVL (George Stacey)
Herons Green:
Great Crested Grebe - family

Stratford:
10 Swift, 2 Greenshank 

Herriotts inc Pool:
2 Little Ringed Plover - ad & juv, 1 Snipe, 2 Great White Egret, 1 Kingfisher, 20 Sand Martin

Reported by: Graham Blacker, Paul Bowerman. Derek Clarke, Mark Coller, Alan Daniells, Andy Davis, Marc Hunt, Brian Lancastle, John Lewis, Mike Owen, Stewart Pointer, Lisa Presland, Paul Sadley, George Stacey, Larry Sweetland, Bri Thompson
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