Tuesday 3 May 2016

Sightings 3/5/16

3/5/16 Cormorant (Bob Brewer)
Planet Chew
A few small waders starting to come through at the coast. The morning tides 6 May onwards could be very productive.

Stockwood (Bristol):
Stockwood Lane: 2 Buzzard.

Snuff Mills (Bristol):
1 Dipper, 2 Grey Wagtail.
3/5/16 Grey Wagtail (Martin Tayler)
Marshfield:
2 Marsh Tit, 1 Redstart, 4 Wheatear of particular note.

Oldbury Power Station:
L1-L3: 2 Mute Swan, 2 Canada Goose + 5 goslings, 5 Tufted Duck, 1 Kestrel, 1 Short-eared Owl (L3 early morning), 1 Cuckoo (Orchard, afternoon), 3 Green Woodpecker, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Skylark, 7 Swallow, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 11 Chiffchaff, 11 Blackcap, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, 20 Whitethroat, 17 Sedge Warbler, 3 Song Thrush, 2 Linnet, 3 Reed Bunting.

Aust Warth:
18 Shelduck, 8 Mallard, 18 Oystercatcher, 3 Whimbrel, 1 Curlew, 2 Skylark, 6 Swallow, 3 Meadow Pipit.

New Passage-Northwick:
60 Shelduck, 10 Gadwall, 1 Pintail still, 6 Tufted Duck, 1 Little Egret, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 5 Ringed Plover, 40 Dunlin, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Whimbrel, 2 Common Sandpiper, 1 Redshank, 4 BH Gull, 2 Swift, 1 Grasshopper Warbler still, 1 Whinchat, 3 Wheatear, 3 White Wagtail, 2 Linnet, 1 Redpoll.
3/5/16 Grasshopper Warbler (Dan White)
scrub by Chestle Pill outflow
3/5/16 Whinchat (Robert Hargreaves)
Severn Beach:
2 Gadwall, 15 Ringed Plover, 1 Sanderling, 1 Whimbrel, 3 Turnstone, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 5 flyover Redpoll.

Gordano Valley:
3 pairs Lapwing breeding, Snipe also present but status unknown at the moment.

Clevedon coast:
Wain's Hill-Yeo Est: 135 Shelduck, 6 Tufted Duck, 10 Oystercatcher, 1 Little Ringed Plover (Yeo Est), 85 Ringed Plover, 1 Golden Plover, 10 Lapwing, 270 Dunlin, 33 Whimbrel, 1 Curlew, 1 Common Sandpiper, 2 Redshank, 2 Turnstone, 2 Arctic Skua (flying up Yeo Est), 25 Sand Martin, 100 Swallow, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 8 Blackcap, 4 Whitethroat, 3 Sedge Warbler, 6 Reed Warbler, 17 Wheatear, 7 Yellow Wagtail, 7 White Wagtail.

Sand Pt:
2 Cuckoo, 2 Swift, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Grasshopper Warbler, 3 Stonechat, 2 Tree Pipit.
3/5/16 Cuckoo (Dave Gibbs)

3/5/16 Brown Hare (Dave Gibbs)
Willsbridge Mill:
10 Long-tailed Tit, 12 Chiffchaff, 10 Blackcap, 1 Treecreeper, 2 Song Thrush.

Pensford:
Lord's Wood: 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Skylark, 3 Goldcrest, 8 Long-tailed Tit, 20 Chiffchaff, 12 Blackcap, 3 Song Thrush, 1 Spotted Flycatcher, 7 Chaffinch, 2 Goldfinch.

Paulton:
1 Sparrowhawk, 3 Buzzard, 2 young Raven (about to fledge), 1 Skylark, 5 Swallow, 11 Blackbird, 3 Wheatear, 30 Linnet, 10 Yellowhammer.

Bishop Sutton:
9 House Sparrow.

Barrow Tanks:
8 Sand Martin, 1 White Wagtail of note.

Blagdon Lake:
2 Egyptian Goose, 2 Shelduck, 1 Grey Heron, 2 Hobby, 1 Dunlin, 1 Common Sandpiper, 3 Whitethroat.

Planet Chew:
40 Mute Swan, 2 Greylag Goose, 2 Canada Goose + 5 goslings, 5 Barnacle Goose, 24 Shelduck, 4 Gadwall, 6 Teal, 1 Scaup, 8 Pochard, 2 Goldeneye, 8 Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 4 Hobby, 1 Ringed Plover, 1 Lapwing, 3 Dunlin (fly-bys at Moreton), 2 Whimbrel, 14 Common Sandpiper, 2 Herring Gull nesting, 2 GBB Gull, 250 Swift, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Jay, 2 Raven, 200 mixed Hirundines, 5 Cetti's Warbler, 6 Long-tailed Tit, 8 Chiffchaff, 6 Blackcap, 4 Garden Warbler, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Sedge Warbler, 2 Nuthatch, 2 Whinchat (Stratford car-park area), 5 Siskin (unusual for May), 4 Reed Bunting.
3/5/16 Whimbrel (Ian Stapp)
Heron's Green

Reports: Bob Brewer, Teresa Chard, Dave Gibbs, Patrick Hancock, David Hanks, Robert Hargreaves, Pete Hazelwood, Mike Jenkins, Dave Poulton, Lyndon Roberts, Steve Sanins, Ian Stapp, Martin Tayler, Mrs Trellis, Keith Vinicombe, Dan White, Bl birds, severnsidebirds, TBOSG.