Tuesday 27 June 2017

27th June '17 Tuesday - Common Gull

Mild but overcast, rain by evening

First Common Gull of the autumn reported

BRISTOL

Stockwood Open Space:
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Swift, 5 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap, 2 Song Thrush, 2 Goldfinch

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Pilning Wetland:
3 Teal, 1 Little Egret, 8 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Lapwing chicks, Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Redshank, 30+ BH Gulls, 2 Stock Doves, 3 Green Woodpeckers, 1 Coal Tit. Skylarks

NORTH SOMERSET:

No Reports

BELOW M4 & BANES

27-6-17 Dipper at Pensford (Robert Hargreaves)
Pensford:
1 Dipper, 4 Grey Wagtail, 2 Pied Wagtail

RESERVOIRS:

Barrow Tanks:
2 Mute Swan, 1 Greylag Goose, 1 Egyptian Goose, 26 Mallard plus two little, 2 Pochard, Tufted duck (130 arrived No 1 tank @ 3.30pm), Goldeneye (juv), 3 Cormorant, 1 Grey Heron, 5 Great Crested Grebe, 70 Coot, 3 Common Sandpiper, 5 Sand Martin, 1 Grey Wagtail

Blagdon Lake:
1 Little Egret, 2 Great Crested Grebe broods

Chew Valley Lake:
Dam:
2 Egyptian Goose, 1 Common Sandpiper, 12 Swallows

Woodford:
1 Jay, 1 Blackcap, 2 Song Thrush

Herons Green:
62 Canada Goose, 1 Yellow-legged Gull (2nd summer), 11 House Martins, 2 Song Thrush, 10 House Sparrows 

Moreton:
6 Buzzard, 1 Hobby, 2 GBB Gull, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker (juv), 2 Jay, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Song Thrush, 2 Bullfinch

Stratford:
1 Black Swan (lake with Mute Swans), 4 Buzzard, 1 Peregrine, 6 Lapwing, 9 G BB Gull, 1 Raven, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Song Thrush

Lapwing at Stratford (Ian Stapp)
Herriotts:
1 Shelduck, 2 Little Egret, 7 Buzzard, 2 Red Kite (one 11.55am, another earlier), 3 Redshank, 2 Common Gull, 15 Sand Martins, 1 Cetti's Warbler

Redshank at Herriots (Ian Stapp)
Other:
2 Buzzard Chelwood Roundabout

Velvet Bottom - BOC walk:
1 Buzzard, 3 LBB Gulls, 7 Wood Pigeon, 2 Stock Dove, 7 Swallows, 3 House Martin
4 Meadow Pipit, 10 singing Wrens, 1 Dunnock, 2 Robins + juvs, f. Redstart and 2 juvs
Stonechat family, at least 5 birds mostly juv, 2 Blackbirds, 3 singing Song Thrush
2 Blackcap, 7 Whitethroats, 4 Willow Warbler, 4 Chiffchaff, 1 Goldcrest,
2 Spotted Flycatchers with juvs, 2 Blue Tit, 3 Great Tit, 2 Coal Tit, 1 Marsh Tit
Nuthatch family with juvs, 2 Reed Buntings


Reports: Teresa Chard, Jane Cumming, Lee Gardiner, Robert Hargreaves, Nick Hawkridge, Ian Stapp, Chris Stone, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds