Temp 17°C to 25°C - overcast and very murky after overnight rain, clearing and brightening in the afternoon with sun, high cumulus clouds and a freshening SW wind.
Common Terns, Black Terns
Ruffs, Wood Sandpipers
Glossy Ibis
Spotted Flycatchers, Whinchats, Wheatears
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| Ringed Plover & Dunlin at Stratford (Ian Stapp) |
Ashton Court:
1 Kestrel, 7 Spotted Flycatcher, 2 Wheatear, 3 Whinchat
St Andrews:
flock of 20 Cormorant over, heading NE.
Stoke Park inc Duchess Pond:
1 Reed Warbler, 13 Whitethroat, 1 Spotted Flycatcher, 1 juv Stonechat, 2 Whinchat (first for the patch this year), 3 Tree Pipit, 1 Reed Bunting.
Withywood:
Sparrowhawk..
Oldbury Power Station:
1 Grey Plover (flew upriver, calling), 1 (2S) Mediterranean Gull, 1 Spotted Flycatcher (Lagoon 2 outfall).
NORTH SOMERSET
no reports
BELOW M4 & BANES
BELOW M4 & BANES
Hunstrete:
1 Red Kite, 2 Buzzard
Chelwood
1 Red Kite
Chew Magna:
Red Kite (over)
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| Greenshanks at Herriotts Bridge (Ian Stapp) |
Blagdon Lake:
8 Egyptian Goose (along Burmah Road), 11 Pintail (Top End), 1 Snipe (Tiny’s Shallow), 7 Greenshank, 14 Great Black-backed Gull, 8 Little Egret, 4 Great White Egret.
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| Glossy Ibis, Grey Heron & ducks at Stratford (Ian Stapp) |
Chew Valley Lake
Mute Swan family inc. 'Polish' cygnet, 4 Little Grebe, 6 Lapwing, 1 Dunlin, 3 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Greenshank, 4 G BB Gull, 11 Little Egret, 5 GW Egret, 1 Cattle Egret, 7 Grey Heron, 2 Buzzard, 1 Peregrine, 5 Sand Martin, 12+ Swallow, 1 Cetti's Warbler.
Stratford:
4 Wigeon, 2 Pintail, 7 Ringed Plover, 10 Ruff, 1 Dunlin, c.30 small wader species ~(flew past), 2 Wood Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank, 4 G BB Gull, 1 Common Gull, 6 Common Tern, 3+ Black Tern, 1 Glossy Ibis (in front of the main reedbed), 5 Little Egret, 6 Grey Heron, 11 Great White Egret, 1 juv. Cattle Egret, 2 Buzzard, 2 Hobby, 1 GS Woodpecker, 20+ Swallow, Cetti's Warbler, 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Reed Warbler.
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| Black tailed Godwit on Herriott's pool (Ian Stapp) |
Herriotts inc Pool (probably much duplication with Stratford reports, above):
2 G BB Gull, 23 Lapwing, 22 Ringed Plover, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 7 Ruff, 11 Snipe, 9+ Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Wood Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank, 8 G W Egret, 13 Little Egret, 6 Grey Heron, 1 Glossy Ibis, 2 Kingfisher, 6 Jackdaw, 20+ Swallow, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Reed Warbler, 7 Pied Wagtail.
OUT OF AREA
Cheddar Reservoir:
1 Little Stint, 5 Common Tern, 4 Black Tern.
Goldcliff, Gwent:
Wryneck
Reported by: Andy Davis, Ian Stapp, Larry Sweetland, all contributors to local WhatsApp groups, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, opsbirding severnsidebirds.
