Sunday 3 April 2016

Sightings 3/4/16

3/4/16 Willow Warbler at Stoke Park (Gill Sapsed)
Summary:
Generally quieter for migrants today though we did get our first Grasshopper Warbler and Tree Pipit. 3 Ring Ouzel also noteworthy.
1 Red Kite (Redhill) and 1 Osprey (Blagdon) this evening.

Bishopsworth (Bristol):
Crox Bottom: 1 Kestrel, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 5 Jay, 18 Magpie, 1 Goldcrest, 3 Long-tailed Tit, 7 Chiffchaff, 1 Willow Warbler, 2 Blackcap, 7 Song Thrush, 17 Wren, 18 Robin, 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 Greenfinch, 4 Goldfinch.

W-o-T (Bristol):
Canford Lane/River Trym: 2 Sparrowhawk, 1 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Jay, 3 Goldcrest, 4 Coal Tit, 3 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap, 2 Nuthatch, 2 Grey Wagtail.

Avonmouth (Bristol):
Old Philblack factory: 1 immature Yellow-legged Gull (Karle Burford).

Marshfield:
Rushmead Farm: 150 Linnet.

Wick:
Golden Valley: 1 Little Grebe, 4 Buzzard, 2 Green Woodpecker, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Goldcrest, 2 Coal Tit, 1 Swallow, 6 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Dipper, 2 Nuthatch, 2 Song Thrush, 1 Mistle Thrush, 2 Grey Wagtail.

Warmley Forest Park:
3 Buzzard, 1 Tawny Owl, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Coal Tit, 6 Chiffchaff, 4 Bullfinch, 7 Greenfinch, 6 Goldfinch.

Chipping Sodbury:
Frome Valley: 5 Chiffchaff, 1 Bullfinch.
Quarry Rd: 1 Buzzard, 1 Dipper, 1 Grey Wagtail.
Waitrose: 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker.
Lake: The Smew still present.
Common: 1 male Ring Ouzel 6pm (David Hanks), 2 Wheatear.
3/4/16 Ring Ouzel (David Hanks)
New Passage-Northwick:
2 Greylag Goose up, 1 Common Scoter down, 9 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Common Gull, 1 Yellow-legged Gull, 55 Sand Martin, 2 Swallow, 20 Chiffchaff, 7 Willow Warbler, 1 Wheatear.

Abbots Leigh:
Sandy Lane end: 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Coal Tit, 2 Chiffchaff, garden.

Portbury Wharf:
Pools: 9 Mute Swan, 1 Greylag Goose, 1 Shelduck, 4 Wigeon, 10 Gadwall, 4 Teal, 5 Shoveler, 8 Tufted Duck, 1 Grey Heron, 5 Little Grebe, 4 Oystercatcher, 1 Little Ringed Plover, 50 Sand Martin, 3 Cetti's Warbler.

Clevedon coast:
Wain's Hill: 1 Ring Ouzel (Jim Payne).
Channel View: 1 Short-eared Owl.
Dowlais-Kenn leg: 2 Canada Goose, 12 Shelduck, 10 Oystercatcher, 2 Ringed Plover, 8 Lapwing, 1 Jack Snipe, 12 Curlew, 60 Redshank, 6 LBB Gull, 8 Herring Gull, 7 Sand Martin, 3 Chiffchaff, 1 Wheatear, 1 Rock Pipit.

Backwell Lake:
7 Mute Swan, 15 Canada Goose, 2 Gadwall, 4 Tufted Duck, 1 Little Egret, 3 Chiffchaff, 1 Willow Warbler.

Middle Hope:
Grasshopper Warbler: 1 reeling early this morning, our first of the season (Paul Gregory).
Other stuff (this evening), 1 Merlin, 15 Sand Martin, 7 Swallow.

Sand Pt:
Tree Pipit: 1 this morning, our first of the season (Paul Gregory).
Ring Ouzel: 1 this morning (Nigel Workman).
Other stuff, 3 Canada Goose, 2 Little Egret, 13 Sand Martin, 4 Swallow, 5 House Martin, 10 Willow Warbler, 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 Wheatear, 2 Siskin, 1 Redpoll.

W-s-M:
Worlebury Hill: 8 Chiffchaff, 2 Willow Warbler, 1 flyover Redpoll.

Dundry:
5 Chiffchaff, 25 Fieldfare. No Wheatear here today (but 26 yesterday!).

Redhill:
1 Red Kite, near Lulsgate airport 5.30pm (Andrew Waygood).

Keynsham:
Memorial Park: 1 flyover Grey Heron, 1 flyover Peregrine, 2 Goldcrest (with nest material), 5 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Willow Warbler, 1 Mistle Thrush, 2 Grey Wagtail, 15 Goldfinch.
Manor Rd woodland: 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 4 Jay, 5 Goldcrest, 2 Coal Tit, 6 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Chiffchaff, 3 Willow Warbler, 1 Blackcap, 2 Treecreeper, 8 Robin, 34 Starling, 14 Blackbird, 2 Fieldfare, 4 Song Thrush, 35 House Sparrow, 21 Chaffinch, 5 Goldfinch, 1 Bullfinch.
3/4/16 Jay (Ian Stapp)
Batheaston:
3 Teal, 15 Cormorant, 3 Grey Heron, 1 Snipe, 1 Woodcock (Brian Edge), 1 Kingfisher, 7 Sand Martin, 4 Swallow, 10 Chiffchaff, 1 Willow Warbler, 3 Redwing, 4 Greenfinch.

Blagdon Lake:
1 Osprey 5.15pm (Nigel Milbourne).
Other stuff, 5 Goldeneye, 1 Blackcap.

Planet Chew:
Nunnery Pt: 1 Black-necked Grebe.

Reports: Karle Burford, Nick Cryer, David Gibbs, Paul Gregory, David Hanks, Phil Hemming, Craig Lewis, John Martin,  Dave Nevitt, Nick Page, Jim Payne, Lois Pryce, Karin Rhodes, Harvey Rose, Gill Sapsed, Ian Stapp, Howard Taffs, Mike Thomas Mrs Trellis, Andrew Waygood, TBOSG.