18-03-18 Sunday - Little Gull

Temp -2 to 0℃.  Cold today, wind NE, 10 mph, SNOWY

Long-tailed Duck
Red Kite
Ringed Plover, Golden Plover, 
Little Gull, Yellow-Legged Gull
Barn Owl, Short-eared Owl
Sand Martin, still no House Martins reported
Chiffchaff 
Redwing and Fieldfare back in large numbers
Wheatear
Meadow Pipit - large numbers reported
Brambling, Hawfinch

18-3-18 Meadow Pipit, Northwick Warth (Brian Lancastle)

BRISTOL

Bedminster Bridge:
2 Meadow Pipit

18-3-18 Kingfisher, Eastville Park (Rich Scantlebury)

Eastville Park:

7 Canada Geese, 3 Moorhen, 2 Coot, 1 Kingfisher, 100 Starling, 30 Redwing, 3 Grey Wagtail, 1 Pied Wagtail

Henleaze:
100 Fieldfare and 50 Redwing over in 10 minutes this morning
2 hours later for 30 mins:

15 Golden Plover, 59 Starling, 232 Fieldfare, 172 Redwing, 27 Goldfinch all going East

18-3-18 Chiffchaff, Southville Park (Ian Loats)

Longwell Green and Southville:
1 Chiffchaff

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

18-3-18 Short-eared Owl at Aust (Hilary Billinghurst)

Aust Warth, 17.15:
1 Barn Owl, 2 Short-eared Owl, large Starling flock, 1-2000 Fieldfare off river going East, many Meadow Pipits, 1 sum plum Water Pipit, several Reed Bunting

18-3-18 New Passage (John Martin)

New Passage/Northwick Warth:
1 Golden Plover, 3 Snipe, 11 Skylark, 1000 Starling murmuration

18-3-18 Red Kite, Thornbury (Theo Stowell)

Thornbury:
1 Red Kite at 12.50

Yate, Coopers Lake:
1 ad Yellow-Legged Gull

NORTH SOMERSET

18-3-18 Little Gull, Portbury Wharf (Jason Williams)

Portbury Wharf:
5 Pochard, 2 ad winter Little Gull (Chris Stone)
Yesterday's 2nd winter Iceland Gull was seen 3 days earlier than a 1st winter Iceland Gull last year

18-3-18 Goosander, Portishead (Chris Clarke)

Portishead Rhyne:
1 m Goosander

Backwell Lake:
15 Mute Swan, 3 Canada Geese, 1 Muscovy Duck, 3 Shoveller, 14 Mallard, 12 Tufted Duck, 1 Moorhen, 8 Coot, 50 Black-headed Gulls

Nailsea gdn:

2 m Blackcap, 1 Grey Wagtail

Weston-super-Mare, town centre:
1 Peregrine hunting

Hewish:
9 Collared Dove, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Magpie, 15 Starling, 4  Robin (using feeders), 9 House Sparrow, 2 Dunnock, 2 Pied Wagtail, 6 Chaffinch, 10 Goldfinch, 1 m Reed Bunting

Butcombe, The Batch:

2 Woodpigeon,  1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Carrion Crow, 1 Coal Tit, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Blackcap ( 1M 1F), 1 Garden Warbler, 1 Wren, 4 Blackbird (3M 1F), 1 Song Thrush, 3 Robin, 1 Dunnock, 4 Chaffinch (2M, 2F), 3 Bullfinch (2M, 1F), 2 Greenfinch (1M, 1F)

Uphill:
1 Little Egret, 1 Buzzard, 8 Meadow Pipit, 1 Linnet

18-3-18 Green Woodpecker, Bleadon (Bill Hewitt)

Bleadon:
2 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Blackcap, 2 Fieldfare, 2 Redwing, 1 Song Thrush, 2 Reed Bunting

BELOW M4 & BANES

18-3-18 Rook, Keynsham (TtB)

Keynsham:

1 Woodpigeon, 1 Collared Dove, 4 Jackdaw, 1 Rook, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Robin, 3 Goldfinch

Corston gdn:
1 Sparrowhawk

18-3-18 Peregrine, St Johns (BUPP)
Falcon laid egg 20.17 yesterday and had to wait till late today
for tiercel to take his turn

Bath, St Johns:
Peregrine braving the snow in East facing nest

Bath gdn flyover:
4 Cormorant, 1 Red Kite, 1 Redshank, 100's Fieldfare and Redwing, Hawfinch
A flock of Linnets on bird feeders

Bath, Prior Park:
Stock Doves, Great Spotted Woodpeckers drumming, Nuthatches, plenty Hawfinch

18-3-18 Redwing, Twerton (Jean Tye)
Crossbill version

Bath, 2 Twerton gdns:
7 Woodpigeon, 3 Collared Dove, 1 + 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 + 4 Magpie, 1 Jay, 2 Jackdaw, 2 Carrion Crow, 1 m Blackcap, 14 Starling, 11 Blackbird, 1 Fieldfare, 1 + 4 Redwing, 2 Song Thrush, 1 + 2 Robin, 23 House Sparrow, 2 Pied Wagtail, 2 + 1 m Chaffinch, 

Paulton:
1 Grey Heron, 3 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, 2 Goldcrest, 2 Coal Tit, 1 Chiffchaff, 2 Treecreeper, 13 Redwing, 2 Mistle Thrush, 2 Greenfinch

SWT: 1 Redwing, 3 Pied Wagtail, 60 Meadow Pipit

RESERVOIRS

Barrow Tank:
1 Long-tailed Duck (No.1), 2 Wheater, 1 Sand Martin

Blagdon Lake:
1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Ringed Plover, 16 Snipe, 1 Peregrine, 2 Sand Martin

gdn: 1 Fieldfare, 1 ad ♀ Brambling 

18-3-18 Meadow Pipit, Herriotts (Bob Brewer)

Chew Valley Lake:

Meadow Pipits all over the place

Dam:
20 Goldeneye

18-3-18 Redwing, Woodford (Ian Stapp)

Woodford:
1 Sparrowhawk, 100 Redwing & Fieldfare, 2 Song Thrush, 1 Mistle Thrush

Herons Green:

2 Buzzard, 4 GBB Gull, 30+ Starling, 10 Meadow Pipit

Moreton:
1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Jay 

18-3-18 Dunlin, Herriotts (Bob Brewer)

Herriotts:
4 Shelduck, 16 Shoveler, 12 Pintail, 4 Teal, 3 (1m) Goldeneye, 1 Dunlin, 1 GBB Gull, 20 Fieldfare. Meadow Pipits

Breeding started for peregrines yesterday so be careful not to interfere with Schedule 1 Birds over the next few months

Reports: Rich Andrews, Derek Angell, Andrew Archer, Rich Allsop, Hilary Billinghurst, Terri Borash, Paul Bowerham, Bob Brewer, Chris Craig, Anne Crowe, Sean Davies, Tim Ford, Paul Francis, Richard Giles, Gingerbirder, Patrick Hancock, Robert Hargreaves, Bill Hewitt, Matt Hobbs, Robert Kelsh, Brian Lancastle, Lisegirl, Ian Loats, Glen Maddison, John Martin, Duncan McLaughlin, Paul Milo, RobThe Birder, Darren Pearce, Geoff Rudge, Vic Savery, Richard Scantlebury, Ian Stapp, Theo Stowell, Chris Stone, Martin Tayler, Sue Taylor, Jean Tye, Keith Vinicombe, Jason Williams, blagdonlakebirds, BUPP, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG, Talking to Bears