Red Kite: At least 1 bird through Marshfield, another over Bath.
Osprey: 2 birds through Planet Chew, 1 over Dundry.
Bar-tailed Godwit: Large influx off Severn Beach this evening. A few Grey Plover and Whimbrel also recorded so some decent wader passage may be in the offing. Terns too maybe.
Common Sandpiper: Large influx at Planet Chew today.
Iberian Chiffchaff: 1 at Hanham, a potential 1st Avon record.
Wood Warbler: 1 at Yate Common, our first of the Spring.
Stoke Park (Bristol):
Duchess Pond: 1 Great Crested Grebe, 1 Common Sandpiper (unusual here), 2 Swallow, 1 Willow Warbler, 1 Lesser Whitethroat.
Stockwood (Bristol):
Open Space: 2 Whitethroat, 1 male Redstart.
Hanham (Bristol):
A putative Iberian Chiffchaff (Rob Laughton). Bird at Hanham Court Gardens park, off of Ferry Rd.
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| thanks Rob |
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| 19/4/16 putative Iberian Chiffchaff (Rob Laughton) 1st Avon record if accepted |
Iberian tricky to separate from the other Chiffchaff lookalikes and call is best feature.
Redland (Bristol):
Kersteman Rd: 2 flyover House Martin.
Clifton (Bristol):
Sea Walls: 10 flyover House Martin 5pm.
Marshfield:
At least 1 Red Kite today, 3 separate reports received, 1.36pm, late afternoon and 6pm (Derek Angell, Robert Hargreaves, Marcus Smith).
Other stuff, 2 Red-legged Partridge, 1 Sparrowhawk, 7 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 50 mixed LBB/Herring Gull, 1 Green Woodpecker, 6 Skylark, 6 Swallow, 2 Redstart, 1 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Grey Wagtail, 2 Linnet, 4 Yellowhammer, 1 Corn Bunting.
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| 19/4/16 Red Kite (Robert Hargreaves) this one seen 1.36pm |
Chipping Sodbury:
Common: 1 Short-eared Owl still present this evening.
Yate:
Common: 1 Wood Warbler, our first of the season. |
| 19/4/16 Wood Warbler (David Hanks) still present into the evening |
Shepperdine:
1 Short-eared Owl this evening.Oldbury Power Station:
3 Ringed Plover, 25 Dunlin, 22 Bar-tailed Godwit (evening passage), 6 Whimbrel, 25 Curlew, 1 Common Sandpiper, 7 Redshank, 1 Cuckoo (lagoon 1), 1 Short-eared Owl, 2 Sand Martin, 25 Swallow, 6 House Martin.
Aust Warth:
Cake Pill leg this evening: 14 Shelduck, 3 Teal, 5 Shoveler, 1 Little Egret, 1 Grey Heron, 2 Buzzard, 13 Oystercatcher, 5 Dunlin, 24 Black-tailed Godwit, 8 Whimbrel, 1 Common Sandpiper, 5 Redshank, 8 Chiffchaff, 5 Willow Warbler, 5 Blackcap, 3 Wheatear, 1 Yellow Wagtail, 2 White Wagtail.
New Passage-Northwick:
Ringing (Ed Drewitt): 4 Blackcap, 1 Redstart, 1 Greenfinch (local rarity), 1 Linnet, 1 Reed Bunting.
Coot: 9 nests with 60 eggs (Ed Drewitt).
Other stuff, 1 Little Egret, 1 Water Rail, 5 Little Ringed Plover, 1 Ringed Plover, 6 Lapwing, 5 Dunlin, 7 Snipe, 21 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Whimbrel, 3 Common Sandpiper ( 1 with white on upper left leg, green above orange lower leg), 49 Redshank, 5 BH Gull, 31 Swallow, 6 House Martin, 23 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Sedge Warbler, 1 Reed Warbler, 1 Redstart, 2 Wheatear, 5 Yellow Wagtail, 9 Pied Wagtail, 23 White Wagtail, 8 Meadow Pipit.
Severn Beach:
Some wader movement this evening at long last.
Bar-tailed Godwit: 800 birds on the estuary this evening (Matt Hobbs). Best spring numbers we've had for many years.
Shore: 55 Shelduck, 2 Gadwall, 1 Little Egret, 12 Ringed Plover, 9 Grey Plover, 40 Dunlin, 30 Whimbrel, 3 Short-eared Owl out this evening (pipes section), 1 Garden Warbler, 1 Grasshopper Warbler, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 3 Whitethroat, 8 Yellow Wagtail,
Orchard Pools: 1 Little Egret, 1 Little Grebe, 1 nesting Jackdaw, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Willow Warbler, 4 Blackcap, 1 Sedge Warbler.
Portishead:
East Wood: 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Nuthatch, 1 Treecreeper.
Walton Common:
3 Buzzard, 3 Green Woodpecker, 3 Jay, 5 Sand Martin, 12 House Martin, 4 Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap.
Other stuff, 2 Short-tailed Field Vole, 2 Peacock, 1 Brimstone butterfly.
Clevedon:
Lower Strode Rd: 1 Cetti's Warbler singing.
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| 19/4/16 Hedgehog (Howard Taffs) in the garden this evening, nearly a rarity these days! |
Clevedon coast:
Dowlais: 5 Lapwing, 2 Redshank.Channel View-Yeo Est inc Blake's Pool: 8 Tufted Duck, 6 Little Egret, 2 Little Grebe, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Whimbrel, 4 Redshank, 7 Swallow, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 5 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 2 Reed Warbler, 7 Wheatear.
Worle:
Plumley Park: 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 2 Whitethroat, 1 Reed Warbler.
W-s-M:
Anchor Head: 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Swallow this morning. Hardly any migration evident.
Birnbeck Pier: 1 Little Egret.
Dundry:
1 flyover Osprey to north (Dave Nevitt).
Bath:
Brassmills Trading Est: 1 flyover Red Kite 11.25am to south (Pete Coslett).
Newton St Loe:
3 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Coal Tit, 1 Skylark, 7 Swallow, 6 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap, 1 Whitethroat.
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| 19/4/16 Chiffchaff (Lauren Tucker) |
Paulton:
Village surrounds: 3 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Jay, 6 House Martin, 11 Chiffchaff, 11 Blackcap, 18 Blackbird, 4 Song Thrush, 1 Mistle Thrush, 7 Chaffinch, 3 Goldfinch, 1 Bullfinch.Sewage Works: 3 Grey Wagtail, 2 Pied Wagtail.
Radstock:
Wellow Brook: 1 Common Sandpiper, unusual here.
Blagdon Lake:
2 Egyptian Goose, 2 Shelduck, 3 Common Sandpiper.
Planet Chew:
Osprey: 2 birds through, 10.20am and 1.50pm (Mike Jenkins).
Other stuff, 1 Greylag Goose, 2 Barnacle Goose, 18 Shelduck, 2 Wigeon, 1 Scaup, 7 Goldeneye, 1 Little Egret, 4 Grey Heron, 1 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 2 Hobby, 1 Peregrine, 2 Whimbrel, 25 Common Sandpiper (large influx), 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 GBB Gull, 2 Swift, 1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Raven, 4 Goldcrest, 29 Swallow, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 6 Chiffchaff, 3 Willow Warbler, 6 Blackcap (Herriott's end, all in 1 tree), 1 Sedge Warbler, 3 Reed Warbler, 1 Water Pipit (dam).
Reports: Derek Angell, Roger Bingham, Allan Chard, Pete Coslett, John Croxton, Mark Dadds, David Gale, Dave Gibbs, Patrick Hancock, David Hanks, Matt Hobbs, Adrian Hockey, Mike Jenkins, Andy Middleton, Paul Milsom, Dave Nevitt, Nick Page, Greg Poole, Dean Reeves, Marcus Smith, Ian Stapp, Mrs Trellis, Lauren & Wayne Tucker, Andrew Waygood, BL birds, severnsidebirds.
