14-03-18 Wednesday - early migrants

Overcast, with a cold wind today, quite a change from yesterday.

Scaup 
Red Kite
Hawfinch
plus Sand Martin, Swallow and Chiffchaff at CVL

A couple of welcome spring sights:

14-03-18 singing Coal Tit (NSL Birding)

14-03-18 soaring Buzzard (NSL Birding)

BRISTOL

14-03-18 Nuthatch, Stoke Park, Bristol (Patrick Hardyman Richards)

Stoke Park:
2 Grey Heron, 2 Herring Gull, 9 Woodpigeon, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 11 Magpie, 38 Jackdaw, 11 Carrion Crow, 3 Coal Tit, 9 Blue Tit, 17 Great Tit, 6 Long Tailed Tit, 1 Nuthatch,5 Blackbird, 3 Robin, 4 House Sparrow, 1 Dunnock, 4 Goldfinch

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

14-03-18 Peregrine Aust Cliff (Chris James)

Aust:
Cliff-  Peregrine

Aust Warth:
1 Barn Owl, 1 Merlin

New Passage/Northwick:
190 Wigeon, 17 Shoveler, 27 Tufted Duck, 8 Little Grebe, Water Rail, 11 Dunlin, 3 Common Gull, Stock Dove, 3 Redwing, 2 Mistle Thrush
                                                                                                                
Chipping Sodbury:
2 Red Kite (heading west over Chipping Sodbury towards Yate)

NORTH SOMERSET

Butcombe:
2 Buzzard, 1 Magpie, 2 Carrion Crow, 2 Coal Tit, 1 Blue Tit, 1 Great Tit, 2 Blackcap (1m 1f) , 1 Blackbird, 2 Robin, 2 Chaffinch, 2 Bullfinch (1m 1f), 2 Greenfinch, 3 Goldfinch.

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield:
1 Hawfinch again on garden feeder

Bath:

14-03-18 Peregrine, St Mark's Church, Bath (Bath Urban Peregrine Project)

St Mark's Church: Countdown to laying for 2018: in the past couple of days the BUPP falcon has taken to overnight roosting in the nest box. Last year the first of her eggs was laid on 19 March.

14-03-18 Prior Park, Bath (Glen Maddison)

Prior Park: 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 12 Hawfinch (feeding in the Yews below Prior Park School - see photo above) 

14-03-18 Hawfinch, Newton St Loe (NSLBirding)

Newton St Loe:
8 Grey Heron (2 starting to nest), 3 Buzzard, 25 Stock Dove, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, 5 Skylark, 10 Starling, 50+ Fieldfare, 17 Hawfinch seen (more in yews), 20 Yellowhammer

RESERVOIRS:

Chew Valley Lake

14-03-18 Sparrowhawk, Dam, CVL (Ian Stapp)

Dam:
12 Goldeneye, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Song Thrush, 1 Grey Wagtail

Woodford:
4 Goldeneye, 1 Raven, 1 Mistle Thrush

14 - 03-18 Goldeneye, Heron's Green, CVL (TalkingtoBears)

14-03-18 Common Sandpiper, Heron's Green, CVL (George Stacey)

Heron's Green:
2 Goldeneye, 1 Buzzard,  1 Common Sandpiper

14-03-18 Kestrel, Moreton, CVL (Ian Stapp)

Moreton:
6 Goldeneye,  3 Scaup (2M/1F), 3 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker,1 Kestrel,  2 Jay, 7 Sand Martin, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 5 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Chiffchaff, 2 Goldcrest, 20+ Redwing,1 Stonechat ,2 Reed Bunting

Stratford:
7 Little Egret (field in lane), 25+ Sand Martin, 1 Swallow (from Stratford Hide)

Herriotts Bridge:
5 Shelduck, 32 Shoveler, 9 Pintail, 17 Teal, 1 Water Rail (calling), 25+ Sand Martin,  3 Swallow (over Stratford Hide area & Herriotts Pond), 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Grey Wagtail


Reports: Rich Allsop, Nick Beamson, Chris James, Glen Maddison, John Martin, Duncan McLaughlin, Patrick Hardyman Richards, George Stacey, Ian Stapp, TalkingtoBears, Birdguides, BUPP, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS,  nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG