05-05-18 Saturday - Skua

Temp 10 to 23℃. Hot and sunny and people staying out

Red Kite
Arctic/Great Skua
Yellow Wagtail

BRISTOL

Eastville Park:

2 families Canada Geese with goslings, Peregrine on spire, lots Chiffchaff and Blackcap, Treecreeper

5-5-18 Wheatear at Purdown, Stoke Park (Rich Scantlebury)

Stoke Park:
1 Sparrowhawk, 6 Swift, lots Chiffchaff, Blackcap and Whitethroat, 1 Wheatear (a 1st for RS), Bullfinch

Withywood:
1st Swift 09.00

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
1 Arctic/Great Skua up river

5-5-18 Gadwall at New Passage (John Martin)

Severnside:
Shoveler, Gadwall, 1 Ringed Plover, Whimbrel, Lesser Whitethroat, Whitethroat, 2 Yellow Wagtail

Thornbury:
1 possible Goshawk, 1 Red Kite

NORTH SOMERSET

Backwell Lake:
3 Canada Geese, 21 Mute Swan (now 2 nest sites), 6 Mallard, 3 Moorhen, 1 Kingfisher

Worlebury:
4 Buzzard

BELOW M4 & BANES

Dyrham Park:
1 Red Kite - several primaries missing on its left wing

Marshfield, Tolldown:
Red-legged Partridges, single figure House Martin in town, 4 Wheatear on drywalling stones, Corn Buntings with Yellowhammers

Willsbridge:
1 Grey Heron, 1 Peregrine

5-5-18 Dipper on River Chew (Lee Gardiner)

River Chew:
Dipper feeding young

Bath, St John's Church:
2 Peregrine and 3 pulli, the runt died this morning

5-5-18 Starling, Keynsham (TtB)

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

2 Barnacle Goose, 1 Black Swan, 1 Common Sandpiper

Out of Avon:
Glossy Ibis + 2 Wood Sandpiper at Coombe Hill, Grundon Hide
Green Heron still in Llanmill, Narbeth, Cornwall

Reports: Karle Burford, Chris@avglochris, Neil Delaney, Lee Gardiner, Richard Giles, Peter Hazelwood, Mike Jackson, John Martin, Paul Masters, Me Bear, Phil Quinn,  George Rabin, Adam Rawson, Rich Scantlebury, Nigel Sluman, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG