29-07-25 Tuesday - Yellow Wagtails

Temp 16°C to 22°C - and some very welcome rain!  Showers on and off till mid-afternoon when the skies brightened for a pleasant evening with some sun though still a lot of cloud.  Mostly a light northerly wind but some stronger gusts now and then.

Yellow-legged Gull

Spotted Flycatcher
Yellow Wagtails

Yellow-legged Gull in Manor Road, Keynsham (Ian Stapp)

BRISTOL

Stoke Bishop (garden):

2 Peregrine (circling and calling), 2 Green Woodpecker, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Raven (over)

Stoke Park inc Duchess Pond:

Garden Warbler.

29-07-25 Tawny Owl Wickwar (Paul Sadley)

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
Kingfisher (and Water Rail yesterday).

Wickwar:

Tawny Owl

NORTH SOMERSET

Gordano - Walton Common and coast path:
(BOC walk)  6 Pheasant, 8 Feral Pigeon, Woodpigeon, 12 Herring Gull, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 1 Red Kite, 3 Buzzard, 4 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Green Woodpecker, 1 Jay, Magpie, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, 4 Coal Tit, 20 Blue Tit, 12 Great Tit, 1 Swallow, 2 House Martin, 5 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap, 7 Goldcrest, 4 Wren, 4 Nuthatch, 1 Treecreeper, 1 Starling, 2 Song Thrush, 3 Blackbird, 1 Spotted Flycatcher, 10 Robin, 1 Dunnock, 1 Bullfinch, 14 Greenfinch, 23 Goldfinch.

BELOW M4 & BANES

Keynsham, Manor Road:
ad. Yellow-legged Gull

Cameley:

14 Greenfinch, 13 of them juv. at sunflower feeder

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake
5 Little Egret trying to fish in the middle of the lake with the Cormorants and gulls.

Herons Green:
40+ Little Egret (inc 4 juveniles).

Stratford:

5 Swift, 4 Ringed Plover, 1 Turnstone, 3 Greenshank, 4 Cattle Egret.

Herriott's Bridge:

4 Egyptian Geese, 5 Lapwing, 3 juv. Little Ringed Plover, 2 Dunlin, 11 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank, 2 Yellow Wagtail.

Out of Area

Cheddar Reservoir:

Wood Sandpiper

Reported by:  Andy Davis, Bob Medland, Rich Mielcarek, Ian Stapp, Roger White, contributors to local WhatsApp groups, blagdonlakebirds, opsbirding, severnsidebirds