Hot & sunny.
Red Kite
Red Kite
BRISTOL
Stockwood Open Space:
3 Collared Dove, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Goldcrest, 8 Long-tailed Tit, 4 Blackcap, 4 Whitethroat, 2 Song Thrush, 1 Greenfinch, 7 Bullfinch.
Kingsdown:
One Red Kite at 6:30 tonight - being mobbed by stooping Peregrine pair and lots of gulls.
SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Oldbury Power Station:
1 Red Kite 12.20 - straight across the river, 1 Male Cuckoo - calling, calling, always calling.
The Shelduck ducklings back at Shepperdine - all 21 of them.
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| 17/06/2017 Shelduck creche OPS Pete Hazelwood. |
New Passage/Northwick Warth:
5 Teal, 6 Tufted Duck chicks, 8 Black-tailed Godwit, 9 Redshank, 2 Black-headed Gull and one rare Roe Deer
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| 17/06/2017 New Tufted Duck brood NP/NW Wetlands (John Martin) |
Marsh Tit - juv.
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| 17/06/2017 Marsh Tit juv Lower Woods (Wonkypaws) |
Red Kite 15:00, 8 Buzzard riding the thermals and one Juvenile Little Owl nearby.
Frampton Cotterell:
Overheated Peregrine juv on pylons 'wings drooping'.
NORTH SOMERSET
Portbury:
Rugby Club Ground:
Red Kite 12:50
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| 17/06/2017 Kingfisher BLR (Gwen Thomas) |
Marsh Lane:
Red Kite 13:00, Sparrowhawk ♀, 2 Lesser Whitethroat.
Backwell Lake:
Kingfisher ♂
River Chew:Dipper
BELOW M4 & BANES
Red Kite 13:00, Sparrowhawk ♀, 2 Lesser Whitethroat.
Backwell Lake:
Kingfisher ♂
River Chew:Dipper
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| 17/06/2017 Dipper River Chew (Wildwood) |
BELOW M4 & BANES
Bath, St Johns Chuch:
Peregrine juvenile PY flying confidently around St John's and is venturing further afield.
Peregrine juvenile PY flying confidently around St John's and is venturing further afield.
RESERVOIRS
Litton Resrs:
Reports: Phil Baber, Teresa Chard, Lee Gardiner, Dominic Godfrey, Peter Hazelwood, Tom Marsh, John Martin, Chris Stone, Gwen Thomas, Ma Trellis, Wonkypaws,
Litton Resrs:
Correction- Not a Tufted Duck.
This is an immature female Scaup - Note the dark 'nail' at the tip of the beak and the pale crescent at rear of ear coverts. Alas no facial blaze (thanks go to the duckmasters)
Do you remember the Red-backed Shrike found in Horton last month? (29th) Well the same or another has surfaced near Cricklade on Wiltshire Wildlife Trust land at Blakehill.
This is an immature female Scaup - Note the dark 'nail' at the tip of the beak and the pale crescent at rear of ear coverts. Alas no facial blaze (thanks go to the duckmasters)
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| 16/07/2017 Scaup imm female, Litton Resr Mrs Trellis |
Do you remember the Red-backed Shrike found in Horton last month? (29th) Well the same or another has surfaced near Cricklade on Wiltshire Wildlife Trust land at Blakehill.
Reports: Phil Baber, Teresa Chard, Lee Gardiner, Dominic Godfrey, Peter Hazelwood, Tom Marsh, John Martin, Chris Stone, Gwen Thomas, Ma Trellis, Wonkypaws,
