25-07-25 Friday - Arctic and Black Tern

Temp 16°C to 23°C.  Clear, hot and sunny with a moderate-to-fresh SW breeze.

Cuckoo, Pied Flycatcher

Arctic Tern, Black Tern

Redstart, Yellow Wagtail

Cuckoo juv. at Greenbank Cemetery (Andy Davies)

BRISTOL

Eastville:

Ring-necked Parakeet (over Glenfrome Road - a garden tick)

Greenbank Cemetery:

juv. Cuckoo (species nr 99, see below).

Stoke Park inc Duchess Pond:

1 Garden Warbler, 1 f. Pied Flycatcher (at bottom of slope below BT tower, and species nr 100 for those dedicated patch-watchers at Eastville/Stoke Park).

Whitchurch:

Red Kite.

Green Woodpecker juv. at Dyrham (Caron Thornton-Trippit)

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:

4 Oystercatcher, 4 Turnstone, 1 Common Sandpiper, 8 Redshank, 1 Willow Warbler, 2 Chiffchaff, 4 Blackcap, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 9 Whitethroat, 2 Greenfinch.

Chipping Sodbury Common inc. golf course:

(7:30-10:30, 57 species) 

3 Swift, 1 Great  White Egret, 2 Little Egret, 4 Raven, 23 Swallow, 5 House Martin, 1 Willow Warbler, 12 Chiffchaff, 13 Blackcap, 12 Whitethroat, 5 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Redstart, 1 Yellow Wagtail.

NORTH SOMERSET

Kenn:

1 juv. Grey Wagtail (visiting garden pond)

Kenn Moor:  Buzzard, Kestrel.

Yatton:
6 Swift plus 250+ Swallow & 180 Starling - pre roosting on high voltage cablers before flying south.

Weston-Super-Mare:
3 Swallow south off the beach.

Congresbury Moor:
4 Swallow, 5 Whitethroat, 3 Stonechat (1 juv.), 2 Reed Bunting.

A Wren, probably a fledgling, at Dyrham (Caron Thornton-Trippit)

BELOW M4 & BANES

no reports

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
(yesterday, 24th)  
2 Garganey, 1 Greenshank, juv. Yellow-legged Gull, 30 Little Egret, 9 Great White Egret, 20+ Cattle Egret.

Chew Valley Lake

Bernard King Hide:
1 ad. Arctic Tern

Herons Green:
1 Common Sandpiper

Stratford:

m. Garganey in flight, 1 Oystercatcher, 1 ad. Black Tern (in full summer plumage), 3 Common Tern, 1 

Marsh Harrier.  3 small waders flew over, probably Dunlin.

Herriott's Bridge:
4 Lapwing, 11 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Sandpiper, 2 ad. Cattle Egret.

Out of Area

Slimbridge WWT, Glos:

Caspian Tern

Reported by: John Croxton, Andy Davis, Pete Harrison, Michael Hutchinson, Andy Middleton, Trevor Riddle, Larry Sweetland, all contributors to local WhatsApp groups, blagdonlakebirds,