28/3/16 Tufted Duck with a female Scaup (Bob Brewer) Planet Chew, Moreton today This is how Aythya hybrids occur... |
A few seabirds seen today on the coat-tails of storm Katie. 2 Eider off Anchor Head of particular note, this species is pretty scarce in Avon.
The Smew was still at Chipping Sodbury (2 day long-stayer), plus a flyover Red Kite too.
Bishopsworth (Bristol):
Crox Bottom: 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Jay, 2 Raven, 2 Goldcrest, 5 Long-tailed Tit, 3 Chiffchaff, 1 Grey Wagtail, 5 Goldfinch.
City Docks (Bristol):
1 Great Crested Grebe, by the SS Great Britain.
Charfield:
Huntingford Mill: 6 Redpoll, by the engineering works on the Little River Avon.
Chipping Sodbury:
1 flyover Red Kite 2.30pm to south.
28/3/16 Smew (Phil Hemming) still present on the pond today |
Warmley Forest Park:
Bradley Stoke:
Three Brooks NR: 1 Mute Swan pair nesting, 2 Little Grebe, 2 Water Rail, 1 Chiffchaff.
28/3/16 Water Rail (Gill Sapsed) |
Oldbury Power Station:
1 Sandwich Tern off the yacht club this morning, 6 Chiffchaff.New Passage-Northwick:
Shore & wetland: 4 Mute Swan, 1 Canada Goose, 30 Shelduck, 4 Shoveler, 6 Tufted Duck, 2 Little Egret, 12 Coot, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 3 Ringed Plover, 2 Dunlin, 3 Black-tailed Godwit, 70 Redshank, 70 Sand Martin, 1 Swallow, 2 Grey Wagtail, 1 White Wagtail, 100 mixed Pied Wagtail/Meadow Pipit, 4 Water Pipit.
Severn Beach:
8 Common Scoter, 2 Gannet, 15 Kittiwake this morning.
Portbury Wharf:
Pools: 1 Shelduck, 35 Wigeon, 6 Gadwall, 10 Teal, 2 Shoveler, 12 Tufted Duck, 5 Little Grebe, 1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Oystercatcher, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 4 Chiffchaff.
28/3/16 Oystercatcher (Jason Williams) on north pool |
Portishead:
Marina: 6 Redshank, estuary side of the lock gates this morning, 1 Raven also.Boating Lake: 3 Mute Swan, 1 Greylag Goose, 4 Canada Goose, 7 Tufted Duck (6m, 1f).
Clevedon coast:
Dowlais: 3 Sand Martin, 1 Cetti's Warbler.
W-s-M:
Anchor Head: 1 Greylag Goose, 2 Eider (Paul Bowyer), 21 Common Scoter, 4 Gannet, 1 Sandwich Tern down 11.12am.
Birnbeck Pier: 1 Gannet up this morning.
Old Town Quarry: 2 Raven, 1 Blackcap.
Worle Headland: 1 very early Hobby reported (previous earliest 30/3/90). Hopefully, someone else will see it too.
Keynsham:
Waitrose: 1 singing Chiffchaff.
Newton St Loe:
1 Barn Owl, 3 Tawny Owl this evening.
Barrow Tanks:
1 Kestrel, 1 Green Woodpecker, 10 Sand Martin, 1 Swallow, 10 Chiffchaff, 1 Stonechat.
Blagdon Lake:
1 fly-through Osprey (per Bristol Water).
Planet Chew:
Little Gull: 1 out on the lake this morning (Sean Davies, Ian Stapp).
Sandwich Tern: 1 fly-through this morning (Chris Craig).
1 Greylag Goose, 5 Barnacle Goose, 12 Shelduck, 2 Pintail, 4 Scaup (Moreton again), 6 Goldeneye, 1 Little Egret, 1 Sparrowhawk, 3 Buzzard, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Green Sandpiper, 2 GBB Gull, 200 Sand Martin, 15 Swallow, 2 House Martin, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap, 5 Redwing, 7 Meadow Pipit, 2 Water Pipit, 2 Bullfinch, 1 Reed Bunting.
26/3/16: 3 Wigeon.
28/3/16 Water Pipit (Ian Stapp) Moreton track to Stratford |