Sunday 20-09-26 Pectoral Sandpiper

Temp 08°C to 20°C -  some overcast but sunny after lunch, A light breeze with gust of up to16 mph starting out westerly then veering to north west before backing to west after tea time.

Spotted Redshank

Pectoral Sandpiper

Lesser Yellowlegs

Glossy Ibis

Spotted Flycatcher

BRISTOL

20-09-26 Sparrowhawk Bishopston (Roger Buglass)

Bishopston:

1 Sparrowhawk - juv feeding in the garden and unwilling to give up its meal!

Clifton Down - PE watch point:

1 Peregrine (Leigh Woods side), 1 Chiffchaff - calling. 

New Cut - B Bond:

1 Raven - over

Purdown - vismig:

41 Meadow Pipit, 1 Chaffinch

Sea Mills - Harbour and R Avon:

14 Mallard, 1 Common Sandpiper, 33 Redshank, 130 BH Gull, 1 G BB Gull, 1 Little Egret, - a parade of Corvid going from one side of the river to the other and back - bewildering numbers

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

New Passage/Northwick:
300 Canada Goose, 14 Shelduck, 16 Mallard, 5 Teal, 2 Oystercatcher, 6 Curlew, 5 Black-tailed Godwit, 20 Redshank, 2 Grey Heron, c20 Jackdaw, 80 Rook, c40 Starling

Pilning Wetlands:
1 Buzzard

Yate - garden:
1 Chiffchaff, 11 Goldfinch - on the teasels 

Chipping Sodbury Common:

1 Red Kite, 13 Swallow, 11 House Martin, 16 Chiffchaff, 6 Blackcap, 5 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Whitethroat, 1 Spotted Flycatcher, 2 Redstart, 1 Whinchat, 2 Stonechat, 1 Wheatear,  4 Siskin

NORTH SOMERSET

Abbots Leigh - pool:

1 Mandarin (f)

Tyntesfield - wander round the woods:

1 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Raven, 5 Coal Tit, 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Goldcrest, 2 Nuthatch, 1 Treecreeper, 1 Chaffinch

Walton Common:

1 Spotted Flycatcher, 1 Stonechat

Yatton - Wemberham Lane:
4 Moorhen, 3 Grey Heron, 1 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 20 Rook, 1 Raven, 1 Swallow, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 6 Chiffchaff, 3 Yellow Wagtail, 20 Meadow Pipit

Sand Point - Middle Hope:

1 Sparrowhawk, 3 GS Woodpecker, 5 Jay 28 Skylark, 1 Sand Martin, 100 Swallow, 43 House Martin, 18 Chiffchaff, 4 Blackcap, 2 Whitethroat, 4 Firecrest, 3 Goldcrest, 4 Song Thrush, 1 Whinchat, 13 Stonechat, 1 Grey Wagtail, 3 Pied Wagtail, 117 Mipit, 6 Chaffinch, 150 Linnet, 3 Reed Bunting

BELOW M4 & BANES

Willsbridge:

4 Buzzard

Oldland Common - Jarretts:

6 Red Kite , 1 Buzzard

Chelwood

2 Red Kite, 2 Buzzard and a lot of Crow

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
2 Ruff, 1 Wheatear

20-09-2026 Pectoral Sandpiper CVL (Bri Thompson)

Chew Valley Lake

False Island or Little Denny Island:

40 Great Black-backed Gull

20-09-26 Redshank & Spotted Redshank CVL (Merv Carlyon)

Herons Green:
7 Ringed Plover, 1 Black tailed Godwit, 2 Green Sandpiper, 1 Redshank, 1 Spotted Redshank, 1 Common Gull, 3 G BB Gull, 8 Little Egret, 22 G W Egret, 8 Cattle Egret, 6 Grey Heron, 1 Marsh Harrier, 2 Buzzard,  2 Grey Wagtail, 9+ Pied Wagtail

Herriotts inc Pool:
2 Egyptian Goose, 1 Water Rail, 28 Lapwing, 3 Black tailed Godwit, 24+ Snipe, 2 Common Sandpiper, 8+ Green Sandpiper, 1 Lesser Yellowlegs, 2 Ruff, 1 Pectoral Sandpiper, 1 Common Gull, 4 G BB Gull, 1 Glossy Ibis, 7 Little Egret, 13 G W Egret, 4 Grey Heron, 2 Kingfisher, 1 Hobby, 2 Jay, 4 Jackdaw, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 4 Grey Wagtail, 6 Pied Wagtail

Reported by: Ann, Helen & Roger Buglass, Karle Burford, Merv Carlyon, Mark Coller, Chris Craig, Alan Daniells, Andy Davis, Mike Dilger, Julie Evans, Chris Hall,  Annie & Nick Hawkridge, David Horlick, Dave Hughes, Matt Hull, Mike Jackson, Nigel Jones, John Lewis, Nick Page, Lee Patch, Lois Pryce, Trevo Riddle, Ian Stapp, Bri Thompson

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