Saturday 31 March 2018

31-03-18 - Lesser Spotted Woodpecker

Wet and cold but a bit better in the afternoon

Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
Scaup, Common Scoter, Little Gull, Red Kite
Swallow
Barn Owl
Short-eared Owl, Merlin

BRISTOL
Chiffchaff 3ist Mar 2018 Eastville Park (Allan Chard)
Eastville Park:
Fall of Chiffchaff - over 6 on the islands.

Stockwood Open Spaces:
2 Buzzard, 30 + Woodpigeon, 3 Jay, Blue and Great Tit pairing off, a calling Nutchatch, 1 Song Thrush, 4 Goldfinch.

Stoke Park - Hermitage and Barn woods:
6 Herring Gull, 14 Feral Pigeon, 16 Woodpigeon,3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 10 Jay, 6 Magpie, 15 Jackdaw, 10 Carrion Crow, 1 Marsh Tit, 26 Blue Tit, 10 Great Tit, 3 Long Tailed Tit, 3 Goldcrest, 2 Wren, 4 Nuthatch,7 Blackbird (5m 2f) , 2 Song Thrush (m), 7 Robin, 3 Dunnock and 1 Chaffinch.


SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Avening Green area:
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker

Oldbury Power Station: (combined report)
8 Tufted Duck, 1 Grey Plover, 10 Curlew, 1 Bar-tailed Godwit, 2 Turnstone and Dunlin at yacht club, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker, I Peregrine, 1 Raven, 2 or 3 Chiffchaff singing half-heartedly and 1 Singing Blackcap by the station that brings the patch total to 100.

Thornbury:
1 Ring-necked Parakeet - along Streamside walk again.

Aust Warth:
1 Merlin,1 Short-eared Owl

New Passage/Pilning wetland: (combined report)
15 Canada Goose, 2 Mute Swan, c.40 Shelduck, 8 Shoveler (pairs doing circular dance in water), 4 Gadwall, 15 Wigeon, 1 Teal, 12 Tufted Duck, 1 Little Grebe, 2 Grey Heron, 1 Little Egret, 1 Moorhen, 13 Coot, 5 Lapwing, 10 Redshank, 1 Kestrel (on ground eating prey), 1 Swallow, 2 Chiffchaff, 7 Pied Wagtail, 11 Meadow Pipit.

Northwick Warth:
1 Peregrine


NORTH SOMERSET

Nuthatch 31st Mar 2018 Ham Green (Paul Milsom)
Ham Green:
Treecreeper and Nuthatch from the flat window.

Portbury Wharf:
Little Gull - (ad wint), different bird from yesterday - no darkening of the hood yet, on this one.

Yatton - Stowey Rd
Barn Owl - quartering the fields at tea time

Clevedon-Yeo / Dowlais:
5 Shoveler, 3 Wheatear (m)


BELOW M4 & BANES


Golden Plover 3ist Mar 2018 Marshfield. (Karle Burford)
Marshfield:
4 Red-legged Partridge, 25 Stock Dove, 50 Golden Plover (sum plum), 3 Raven, 30 Fieldfare, 3 Corn Bunting, 10 Yellowhammer.

Willsbridge:
2 Buzzard - trying to catch thermals, 2 Coal Tit - investigating nest box, 2 Great Tit - fighting.


RESERVOIRS:

Blagdon Lake:
Egyptian Goose, Common Sandpiper

Chew Valley Lake
Hybrid Chileo Wigeon 3ist Mar 2018 CVL (Lee Gardiner)
Dam:
Hybrid Chileo Wigeon

Woodford:
1 Red Kite

Moreton:
4 Scaup (3f+1m) 2 Common Scoter (f&m) 2 Little Gull (1st wint), 

Herriotts Bridge:
2 Swallow

OUT OF AREA

Cheddar Res
Slavonian Grebe still - early part of transitioning into sum plum. 1 Kittiwake (ad), 

Reports: Allan Chard, Teresa Chard, Chris Craig, Sean Davies, Lee Gardiner, GingerBirder, Chris Hall, Andy Middleton, Paul Milsom, Mervyn Pearce, Matt Plenty, Mike Saffery, Chris Stone, Adam Rawson, Patrick Hardyman Richards, Howard Taffs, Gary Thoburn, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG

Friday 30 March 2018

30-03-18 Friday - Lots of Bramblings

Bright at first and then rain and more rain and then bright again and then more rain.

Brambling 30th Mar 2018 Claverham (Higgy)

Wheatear,  

Scaup
Brambling
Little Gull

BRISTOL


Sparrowhawk v Blackcap 30th Mar 2018 St George (Lee Gardiner)
St George:
Sparrowhawk, Coal Tit, (unusual garden visitor), Blackcap (f)

St Anne's
Blackcap (m) back on the feeder + the usual garden favourites.


SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Thornbury - ish:
records taken while doing a 13 mile run. - glad you stayed in S Glos.
4 Buzzards 1 Sparrowhawk, Green Woodpecker, Singing Skylark and 12 singing Chiffhaff.

New Passage/Northwick/Pilning wetland:
c.70 Shelduck, 6 Shoveler, 4 Gadwall, 1 Teal, 7 Tufted Duck, 1 Little Grebe, 1 Moorhen, 5 Coot, 2 Curlew, c.30 Dunlin, c.60 Redshank, 2 confiding juv Mistle Thrush on power lines, 7 Pied Wagtail, 12 Meadow Pipit, 2 Greenfinch, flock c.20 Goldfinch.

Gadwall 26th Mar 2018 Kingsgate Park Yate (Dan White -- Mondays pic, this time f)
Yate Kingsgate Park:
6 Gadwall, 1 Cormorant, 4 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, and a Nuthatch.

Filton Airfield:
1 Buzzard - very wet!

Siston Common:
3 Great Spotted Woodpecker - courtship display flight


NORTH SOMERSET
Brambling 30th Mar 2018 Claverham (David Playle)
Claverham:
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, and 51 Brambling - yes FIFTY ONE - in the garden, on, under and around the feeders.

Portbury Wharf:
1 Little Gull - just starting to see the hood coming through.

Clevedon-Yeo:
16 Canada Goose, 23 Mute Swan - (Part of the N Somerset flock?), 50 Shelduck, 12 Shoveler - (At KP), 45 Wigeon, 25 Teal, 2 Pochard 2 - (At KP), 15 Tufted Duck - (At KP), 2 Little Egret, 5 Cormorant  - (At KP), 23 Oystercatcher, 3 Lapwing, 3 Grey Plover, 22 Turnstone, 8 Dunlin - (migrant schinzii's), 95 Redshank - (15 at Kenn and 80 up Yeo), 1 Black-headed Gull, 10 Herring Gull, 3 Raven, 2 Wheatear - (m), 15 Linnet.

Wain's Hill:
Several calling Chiffchaff.

Blind Yeo/Dowlais: combined report
3 Ringed Plover, only 9 Redshank left - 130 normal in winter, 5 Wheatear, 2 Grey Wagtail (f & m)

Sparrowhawk 30th Mar 2018 Weston-super-Mare (David Gibbs)
Weston-Super-Mare:
Sparrowhawk  - on x Feral Pigeon.


BELOW M4 & BANES

Willsbridge:
Little Egret,


RESERVOIRS:

Blagdon Lake:
11 Teal, 1 Sparrowhawk, 5 or 6 singing Chiffchaff, a Blackcap doing the same, 8 Redwing and 21 Meadow Pipit.

Chew Valley Lake

Parkland:
Wheatear (m)

Dam:
Egyptian Goose, 2 Chileo Wigeon (hybrid) 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Green Sandpiper,

Moreton:
2 Little Gull (1st wint), Chiffchaff - several all singing.

Stratford:
4 Scaup (2f+2m), 60 Sand Martin

OUT OF AREA:

Slimbridge:
2 Sandwich Tern just pitched up outside Discovery Hide

Cheddar Res
Slavonian Grebe



Reports: Andrew Archer, Karl Burford, Mark Coller, Sean Davies, Lee Gardiner, David Gibbs,Anthony Goodwin, Higgy, Robert Kelsh, Chris Mott, David Playle, Lois Pryce, Harvey Rose, Gill Sapsed, Matt Scott, Chris Stone, Howard Taffs, Gary Thoburn, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG

Thursday 29 March 2018

29-03-18 Thursday - Osprey


Rain showers with a high of 9℃

Osprey
Ring-necked Parakeets
Red Kites
Little Gulls 
Sand Martins and Swallows
Wheatear and Chiffchaff


BRISTOL

Finzell's Reach:
Pair of Peregrines
Blackcap 29th Mar 18 St George (Lee Gardiner)
St George:
Blackcap (f)

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
2 Ring-necked Parakeets feeding on new buds in trees by Anchor car park, Oldbury village, then flew off noisily to NE. (New species for at OPS patch!)


29-3-18 Jay in Almondsbury garden (Vera Carpenter)

Severn Beach:
15+ Linnet


29-3-18 Kestrel at Aust Warth (Ian Loats)

Aust Warth:
Kestrel, lots of Skylark, 15+ Meadow Pipit

Almondsbury:
(Garden) 2 Jay, 1 male Blackcap, 1 Chaffinch, 1 Greenfinch

Easter Compton:
1 Little Egret, flock c.50 mixed Herring and LBB Gull with c.30 Jackdaw, 24 Rook, 2 LT Tit,
1 singing Blackcap, 1 Song Thrush, 2 Bullfinch.

Falfield:

Peregrine

Thornbury:

Streamside Walk: Ring-necked Parakeet

Kingswood:
Red Kite - tea time - heading South East

NORTH SOMERSET

Portbury coast:
1 Curlew, 1 Redshank, 2 Blue Tit, 10+ House Sparrow, 5 Goldfinch,  2 Rock Pipit,  7 Linnet, 

Portbury Wharf:
Little gull Ad winter. First Sand Martin of year and a Barn Owl

Clevedon-Yeo:
Dowlais Farm scrape:
16 Lapwing, 1 Curlew, 7 Dunlin, 20 Redshank, 4 Skylark, 1 Wheatear.


BELOW M4 & BANES

29-3-18 Red Kite in poor light at Marshfield (Peter Coslett)
Marshfield:
Red Kite this morning over Down Road Marshfield heading north

Oldland Common:
(28-3-18) St Anne's Church: 2 Ring-necked Parakeets


29-3-18 Starlings in Keynsham garden (Talking to Bears)

Keynsham:
Keynsham ST6567 Garden Room full of Starlings

Peregrine box in preparation (@avglochris)
4 sightings of Peregrines flying around @The_ChocolateQ (old Cadbury/Fry's Keynsham) so hopefully box which has been supported by St Monica Trust and is having a camera installed will have been noticed.

Bath:
Prior Park NT:
First Chiffchaff


RESERVOIRS:

Chew Valley Lake

Burledge Hill:
Red Kite

Moreton:
Osprey, 4 Little Gulls (2 1st winter, 2 adult winter), 60 Sand Martin & 3 Swallow 


Reports: Talking to Bears, Peter Coslett, Chris Craig, VÄ“ra Carpenter, Lee Gardiner, Chris Hall, Rob Laughton, Ian Loats, Glen Maddison, Duncan McLaughlin, Matt Plenty, Lois Pryce, Adam Rawson, Trevor Riddle, Chris Stone,
blagdonlakebirdsCVRSnslbirdingopsbirdingsevernsidebirdsTBOSG

Wednesday 28 March 2018

28-03-18 Wednesday - Willow Warbler

Wet start today, cold in the wind, not bad in the Sun.

Long-tailed Duck
Little Gull
Willow Warbler (1st this year)
Water Pipit


28-03-18 Water Pipit, Northwick Warth (Brian Lancastle)
(One of two associating with 25+ Pied Wagtails and a few Meadow Pipits near the 1st sentry box.)

BRISTOL

Eastville Park:

1 Willow Warbler (1st of year), 1 Treecreeper

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

New Passage/Northwick:
Greylag Goose ( patch year tick), 2 Water Pipit between Chestle Pill and the 1st sentry box.


28-03-18 Teal, Three Brooks Nature Reserve (Vera Carpenter)
Three Brooks Nature Reserve, Bradley Stoke:
2 Mute Swan, 2 Teal, many Mallard, 1 Moorhen

Almondsbury:
1 Tawny Owl (heard last night), 1 Jay, 1 f Blackcap, 1Bullfinch, 1 Greenfinch

NORTH SOMERSET

Portbury Wharf:
1 Ringed-necked x Tufted Duck, 1 Little Gull, 1 Chiffchaff, 3 Sand Martin

Worlebury Hill and Golf course, W-s-M:
c.40 Woodpigeon (including two juveniles),  2 Green Woodpecker, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1  Redwing, 4 Chaffinch,1 Greenfinch

BELOW M4 & BANES


28-03-18 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Willsbridge (avglochris)
Bath:
28-03-18 Peregrine , St Mark's Church Bath (BUPP)
This photograph shows an early morning incubation changeover 86 hours after the fourth egg was laid. Clearly the Bath falcon is living up to her four-egg breeder performance

RESERVOIRS:

Barrow Tanks:
4 Gadwall, 2 Teal, 1 Long-tailed Duck, 10 Great Crested Grebe, 1 Little Grebe, 1 Common Sandpiper

Chew Valley Lake

Around the lake: 3 Barnacle Goose,  4 Shelduck,  6 Pintail, 34 Shoveler, 5 Buzzard,1 Sparrowhawk,  1 Common Sandpiper, 3 Little Gull, 3 G BB Gull, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Raven, 3 Chiffchaff , 4 Cetti's Warbler, 10 Swallow, 40 Sand Martin, 1 Stonechat, 2 Grey Wagtail, 10 Goldfinch, 3 Reed Bunting
Evening: 120 Sand Martin, 1 Swallow
Heron's Green:

28-03-18 Common Sandpiper, Moreton, CVL (Ian Stapp)
Herriott's Pool:

2 Gadwall,7 Pintail, 4 Teal, 1 Little Grebe, 2 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Green Sandpiper

28-03-18 Stonechat, Moreton, CVL (Ian Stapp)
Reports: Paul Bowerman, Vera Carpenter, William Earp, avglochris, Robert Hargreaves, Dave Nevitt, George Rabin, Ian Stapp, Larry Sweetland,  blagdonlakebirds, BUPP, CVRSnslbirdingopsbirdingsevernsidebirdsTBOSG

Tuesday 27 March 2018

27-03-18 Tuesday - White Wagtail

Temp 7 to 13℃. Damp start ending with some sun, light SW wind

Little Gull
Marsh Tit
White Wagtail
Hawfinch


27-3-18 Little Gull at Portbury Wharf (Robin Martin).jpg

BRISTOL
27-3-18 Peregrine, Clifton (Chris@avglochris)
Clifton College:
1 Peregrine
27-3-18 Robin, Stoke Park (Patrick Richards)
Stoke Park:
14 Feral Pigeons, 14 Woodpigeon, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Jay, 14 Magpie, 13 Jackdaw, 10 Carrion Crow, 7 Blue Tit, 12 Great Tit,  4 Long Tailed Tit, 1 Goldcrest, 1 Wren, 1 Nuthatch, 1 Treecreeper, 7 Blackbird, 1 Song Thrush, 8 Robin, 7 House Sparrow, 2 Dunnock, 10 Goldfinch

27-3-18 Jay (Chris@avglochris)
Gardens:
Cormorant, 2 juv fledged Woodpigeon (Worlebury), Jay, 1 m Blackcap in song, 1 f Blackcap, Song Thrush

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE


27-3-18 Snipe & Lapwing, Severnside (Paul Bowerman)

NORTH SOMERSET



27-3-18 hybrid Ring-necked Tufted Duck at Portbury Wharf (Chris Stone)
Portbury Wharf:
10 Canada Goose, 6 Mute Swan, 10 Shelduck, 10 Shoveler, 6 Gadwall, 10 Wigeon, 4 Teal, 3 Pochard, c12 Tufted Duck, 1 Ring-necked x Tufted Duck (hybrid duck late of Severnside), 3  Little Grebe, 2 Grey Heron, 6 Oystercatcher, 1 ad winter Little Gull, 20 Sand Martin, Skylark singing, 4 Chiffchaff, 1 White Wagtail (1st this year - Chris Stone), Bullfinch singing, 3 Greenfinch, 20 Goldfinch

BELOW M4 & BANES
27-3-18 Treecreeper above Wick Quarry (Alan Gilbert)
Wick, Golden Valley:
1 Grey Heron, 1 Buzzard, 1 Coot, 4 Green Woodpecker, 1 Peregrine calling, 1 Jay, 3 Coal Tit, 4 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 2 Goldcrest, 3 Nuthatch, 3 Treecreeper, 2 Song Thrush, 1 Mistle Thrush, 2 Grey Wagtail, 2 Chaffinch, 7 Greenfinch, 8 Goldfinch

Bath University:
2 Marsh Tit

Bath, Prior Park:
2 Hawfinch

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
2 Greylag Geese, 1 Egyptian Goose, 1 Common Sandpiper, 10 Sand Martin, small flock of Fieldfares 

Out of Avon
27-3-18 The Jack Snipe at Slimbridge (David Hughes)
Reports: Paul Bowerman, Chris@avglochris, Lee Gardiner, Alan Gilbert, Nick Hawkridge, David Howes, Robert Kelsh, Glen Maddison, Robin Martin, Nigel Milbourne, George Rabin, Adam Rawson, Patrick Richards, Chris Stone, blagdonlakebirds, BUPP, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, Talking to Bears, TBOSG

Monday 26 March 2018

26-03-18 Monday - Little Gull

Temp 2 to 12℃.  Another nice day today, cooler than yesterday, bright and dry and Sunny

Great White Egret
Little Gull
Short-eared Owl
Sand Martin
Chiffchaff
Fieldfare, Redwing
Water Pipit


26-3-18 Nuthatch, Bittern Trail (George Stacey)
BRISTOL

Bishop Rd to Horfield Common:
2 Herring Gull, 1 LBB Gull, 14 Woodpigeon, 1 Collared Dove, 9 Magpie, 5 Crow, 3 Wren, 7 Starling, 4 Blackbird, 5 Fieldfare, 6 Redwing, 8 Robin, 15 House Sparrow, 3 Dunnock, 4 Greenfinch, 3 Goldfinch

Eastville Park:
1 Grey Heron

Stockwood Open Space:
2 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Coal Tit, 4 Ltt, 1 Chiffchaff, 2 Song Thrush, 2 Greenfinch, 3 Linnet, 7 Goldfinch
26-3-18 Blackcap (Lee Gardiner)
Gardens:
2 Peregrine, 4 Blackcap

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
2 Great Crested Grebe (last had 2 in 2007), 4 Coal Tit

26-3-18 Kestrel at Aust (Chris James)
Aust:
1 Sparrowhawk, 7 Buzzard, 1 Short-eared Owl, 1 Raven, 1 Kestrel, 1 Peregrine

26-3-18 Sand Martin, New Passage (Aravind Ramesh)
New Passage/Northwick Warth:
1 Black-tailed Godwit, 51 Turnstone, 1 Kestrel, 7 Sand Martin,Water Pipit

Chittening Warth:
1 Kestrel, 55 Shelduck, 2 Chiffchaff

26-3-18 Gadwall, 1 of 4 at Yate (Dan White)
NORTH SOMERSET

Ham Green:
Goldcrest in the garden.

Portbury Wharf:
1 ad winter Little Gull, 3 m Bullfinch, 3 Greenfinch

26-3-18 Buzzard, Wraxall (Ian Loats)
Wraxall:
4 Buzzard

Tyntesfield:
2 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Jay, 1 Raven, 2 Nuthatch, 3 Blackbird, 2 Song Thrush, 2 Robin, 1 Greenfinch

Backwell Lake:
2 Great White Egret, 11 Little Egret

BELOW M4 & BANES

Keynsham, River Chew:
2 Heron
26-3-18 Dipper, Pensford (Ian Stapp)
Pensford:
2 Dipper, 2 Grey Wagtail, 2 Pied Wagtail

26-3-18 Grey Heron nesting at NSL (Rob Hargreaves)
Newton Park:
4 Teal, 2 nesting Grey Heron, 4 Moorhen, 4 Coot, 2 Green Woodpecker, 1 Mistle Thrush, 4 Grey Wagtail, 7 Roe Deer

RESERVOIRS
26-3-18 Wren, Moreton (Ian Stapp)
Chew Valley Lake:
3 Barnacle Geese, 11 Shelduck (2 at Dam), 48 Shoveler, 4 Pintai, 6 Teal, 3 (2f) Scaup, 19 Goldeneye, 4 Pintail, 6 Teal, 3 Little Egret (Stratford lane), 10+ Buzzard, 1 Green Sandpiper, 3 Little Gull (middle of Lake), 2 GBB Gull, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Jay, 2 Raven, 4 Sand Martin, 4 Cetti's Warbler, 5 Long-tailed Tit, 7 Chiffchaff, 3 Goldcrest, 2 nesting Nuthatch, 3 Mistle Thrush, 3 Reed Bunting

Out of Avon:
Cheddar Reservoir:
8 Goosander, 1 Slavonian Grebe

Reports: Paul Bowerman, John Budd, Allan Chard, Teresa Chard, Sean Davies, Lee Gardiner, Peter Hazelwood, Bob Hindle, Chris James, Brian Lancastle, Ian Loats, Paul Milsom, Jean Oliver, Aravind Ramesh, Adam Rawson, Trevor Riddle, Tony Scott, George Stacey, Ian Stapp, Chris Stone, Mike Thomas, Dan White, blagdonlakebirds, BUPP, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, Talking to Bears, TBOSG

Sunday 25 March 2018

25-03-18 Sunday - Kittiwakes

Temp 6 to 14℃.  Warm in the Sun today, dry and a little breezy, lots of birdsong

Garganey
Grey Partridge
Red Kite, Marsh Harrier
Kittiwake, Little Gull
Ring-necked Parakeet
Chiffchaff
Wheatear
Brambling, Hawfinch, Siskin
Corn Bunting


25-3-18 Garganey, Moreton (Ian Stapp)
BRISTOL

Bradley Stoke Garden:
singing Blackcap, 1 Siskin


25-3-18 Wren, Southville (Ian Loats)
Greville Smyth Park, Southville:
4+ Long-tailed Tit, 1 Goldcrest, 2 Wren, 1 Goldfinch

St Andrews Park:
10 Redwing maybe our last

St Anne's Park:
1 Buzzard, Long-tailed Tits

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Aust Warth:
1 Barn Owl, 2 Short-eared Owl, 2 Wheatear

Severn Beach:
20 Kittiwake
25-3-18 Kestrel, Chipping Sodbury (Paul Woolams)
Chipping Sodbury Common:
4 Buzzard, 3 Kestrel, 2 Peregrine,  Skylark, 1 Wheatear

NORTH SOMERSET

Portbury Wharf:
1 f/imm Marsh Harrier, 1 Little Gull

25-3-18 Sparrowhawk, Portishead (Dee Pope)
Portishead, Kilkenny Place:
1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Buzzard over Marina, 1 Greenfinch, 3 Goldfinch

25-3-18 Ring-necked Parakeet, Easton-in-Gordano (Jason Williams)
Easton-in-Gordano, Church Rd/football field:
Ring-necked Parakeet

25-3-18 Black-tailed Godwit, Clevedon (Jason Williams)
Clevedon-Yeo:
6 Shelduck, Shoveler, 4 Teal, 8 Lapwing, 5 Black-tailed Godwit, 20 Dunlin, 2 Redshank

Walton Common:
2 Barnacle Goose, 6 Buzzard, 1 Chiffchaff singing, 1 Nuthatch singing, 2 Treecreeper

Yatton, Wemberham Lane:
2 Peregrine (Unusual here)

24-3-18 Brambling near Cleeve (David Playle)
Claverham, nr Cleeve, 24th:
22 Brambling

Tickenham:
1 or 2 Kingfisher.

W-s-M, Worlebury: 
1 Collared Dove, 2 m/f Green woodpecker, 2 Raven west towards Steepholm, 1 Song Thrush, 1 Greenfinch

BELOW M4 & BANES

25-3-18 Meadow Pipit, Marshfield (Peter Coslett)
Marshfield:
Northfield Lane:
8 Red Legged Partridge, 1 Grey Partridge, singing Sky Larks, 31 Pied Wagtail, 8 Meadow Pipit, 60 Yellowhammer
Rushmead Lane:
11 Common Buzzard, 1 Raven, 20 Linnet, 40 Corn Bunting, 1 Red Admiral
Town:
1 Hawfinch

Keynsham Garden:
1 Woodpigeon, 2 Jackdaw, 1 Rook, 2 Greenfinch, 3 Goldfinch

Willsbridge:
30 Meadow Pipit in field, seem most days

25-3-18 Any suggestions about this bird found in Twerton (Jean Tye)
Bath:
1 Kingfisher, 2 m/f Bullfinch, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Coal Tit, 1 f Blackcap, 2 Goldfinch

25-3-18 Blackcap, Bath (Brian Martin)
Compton Dando, River Chew:
1 Kingfisher, 1 Great Spotted and 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Raven, 1 Coal Tit, 2 singing Chiffchaff,  5 Treecreeper, 1 Dipper, 15 Siskin

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake:
4 Buzzard (around lake hills)

25-3-18 Chiffchaff, Moreton (Ian Stapp)
One ringed at CVRS?
Moreton:
2 Shelduck, 1 Garganey, 6 Goldeneye, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Marsh Harrier, 1 Curlew, 1 Redshank, 4 Little Gull (1 adult), 2 Cetti's Warbler, 7 Chiffchaff, 4 Mistle Thrush, 4 Siskin,  6 Goldfinch, 2 Reed Bunting

Stratford:
Red Kite

CVRS:
5 Chiffchaff ringed

Herriotts:
1 Barnacle Goose, 8 Shelduck, 2 Goldeneye, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Yellow-legged Gull (2nd wint), 1 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Grey Wagtail

25-3-18 Peregrine, St Johns (BUPP)
Four eggs again for the falcon
Reports: Terri Borash, Paul Bowerman, Ken Carruthers, Paul Chapman, Allan Chard, John Clark, Geoff Dring, Lee Dutton, Lee Gardiner, Gingerbirder, Ian Loats, Glen Maddison, Brian Martin, Paul Milsom, Dave Nevitt, David Playle, Dee Pope, Mike Prior, RobPthebirder, George Rabin, Trevor Riddle, Harvey Rose, Ian Stapp, Mike Trew, Jean Tye, Denise Whittle, Trevor Wilkinson, Jason Williams, Paul Woolams, blagdonlakebirds, BUPP, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, Talking to Bears, TBOSG