Sightings 2/4/16

Summary:
Some overnight rain followed by a fantastic birdy day with stuff pouring into the area.
Chiffchaff & Willow Warbler arriving in force everywhere plus some new migrant species, Sedge Warbler, Ring Ouzel and Redstart.
Lovely raptor weather too, 4 Red Kite, 1 Marsh Harrier. 6 Sandwich Tern at Middle Hope and a couple of good counts of Wheatear.
Thanks everyone...loads of stuff for Mrs Trellis to get her teeth into.

2/4/16 Chiffchaff at Clevedon (Howard Taffs)

Stockwood (Bristol):

Open Space: 1 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Jay, 1 Goldcrest, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 12 Chiffchaff, 2 Starling, 4 Greenfinch, 20+ Goldfinch.

Bishopsworth (Bristol):
Crox Bottom: 1 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Long-tailed Tit, 7 Chiffchaff, 5 Blackcap, 1 Song Thrush, 3 Grey Wagtail, 8 Goldfinch.

Stoke Park (Bristol):
1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Jay (nesting), 10 Chiffchaff, 1 Willow Warbler, 1 Blackcap.

Ashton Court (Bristol):
1 Barn Owl seen at dawn (Ed Drewitt dawn chorus walk).
Other stuff, 2 Buzzard, 2 Green Woodpecker, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Jay, 3 Goldcrest, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 3 Chiffchaff, 8 Nuthatch plus corvids plucking fur off the deer for nesting material.

Redland (Bristol):
Waverley Rd: 1 Ring-necked Parakeet.

Avonmouth (Bristol):
Docks: 28 Gadwall, 2 Ringed Plover (at a nesting site), 15 Redshank.

Chipping Sodbury:
Common: The Smew still on the lake, 1 Red Kite 4.15pm (Darren Pearce), 2 Sand Martin, 1 male Redstart 3.40pm (Darren Pearce).
Quarry Rd: 2 Dipper, river Frome.

Almondsbury:
Lower Knole Farm: 3 Willow Warbler, 1 Redpoll.

Oldbury Power Station:
Ring Ouzel:  A male around lagoon 2 this morning (Pete Hazelwood), our first of the season.
Other stuff, 1 Greylag Goose, 10 Ringed Plover, 3 Dunlin, 30 Turnstone, 7 Sand Martin, 3 Swallow, 2 Willow Warbler, 1 Blackcap, 1 Wheatear, 1 Siskin, 2 Redpoll, bathing in puddles lagoon 2.

New Passage-Northwick:
Egyptian Goose: 1 fly-through briefly to south (John Martin). Patch rarity.
Red Kite: 3+ birds, flyovers noted at 1.10pm, 1.20pm and 1.25pm (Brian Lancastle, Rich Miles).
Marsh Harrier: 1 fly-through male bird, at the wetland mid-afternoon (Ed Drewitt).

2/4/16 Red Kite (Brian Lancastle)

Other stuff, 1 Little Egret, 1 Merlin, 50 Oystercatcher, 4 Little Ringed Plover, 6 Black-tailed Godwit, 14 Curlew, 80 Redshank, 2 Coal Tit, 200 Sand Martin, 15 Swallow, 1 House Martin, 30+ Chiffchaff, 12 Willow Warbler, 1 Blackcap, 3 Wheatear, 20+ Pied Wagtail, 40 Meadow Pipit, 2 Water Pipit.

Severn Beach:
20 Shelduck, 14 Oystercatcher, 3 Ringed Plover.

Abbots Leigh:
Pool car-park:  1 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Coal Tit, 2 Nuthatch.
50 Acre Wood: 4 Chiffchaff.

Pill:
Crockerne Drive: 2 Siskin, garden feeders.

Portbury Wharf:
5 Sand Martin, 1 Blackcap, Chiffchaff and Willow Warbler numbers in double figures.

Portishead:
Boating Lake: 2 Mute Swan, 1 Greylag Goose, 2 Canada Goose, 8 Tufted Duck.

Weston Moor:
2 Canada Goose, 5 Tufted Duck, 1 Grey Heron, 4 Buzzard, 1 Swallow, 4 Long-tailed Tit, 50+ Chiffchaff, 2 Willow Warbler, 2 Reed Bunting.

Dundry Hill:
10 Chiffchaff, 1 Willow Warbler, 1 male Redstart, 26 Wheatear (field by Carpenter's pub), all this evening.

Clevedon:
Fairleigh Rd: 6 Chiffchaff, garden.

Clevedon coast:
Dowlais: 1 Kestrel, 1 Merlin, 1 Peregrine, 1 Little Ringed Plover, 1 Barn Owl (evening),1 Short-eared Owl, 3 Willow Warbler, 1 Stonechat, 8 Wheatear.
Wain's Hill: 12 Sand Martin, 7 Swallow, 17 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap, 6 Siskin this morning.

2/4/16 Little Ringed Plover (Howard Taffs)
the bird was being eyed up by the raptors here this morning

Sand Pt:

1 male Redstart, south slopes mid-way between Trig Pt and tip (Nigel Kempson).
Other stuff, 1 Sparrowhawk, 4 Sand Martin, 10 Swallow, 20+ Chiffchaff, 2 Willow Warbler.

Sand Bay:
'Endless' Chiffchaff, 2 Willow Warbler, 6 Blackcap, 1 Redstart, 18 Wheatear.

Middle Hope:
6 Sandwich Tern, Woodspring Bay side and close in this afternoon (Paul Gregory). Other stuff here, 1 Little Egret, 2 Willow Warbler.

W-s-M:
Worlebury Hill environs: 11 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 1 Redwing.

Bleadon:
Walborough NR: 6 Reed Bunting of note.

Keynsham:
Manor Rd Woodland: 1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Buzzard, 45 Woodpigeon, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Jay, 50 Rook (25 nests), 4 Goldcrest, 2 Coal Tit, 9 Long-tailed Tit,  5 Chiffchaff, 1 Willow Warbler, 2 Blackcap, 9 Blackbird, 4 Song Thrush, 34 Chaffinch, 2 Greenfinch, 12 Goldfinch of note.

2/4/16 Long-tailed Tit (Ian Stapp)

Barrow Tanks:
1 Egyptian Goose, 2 Common Sandpiper, 14 Sand Martin, 1 Willow Warbler, 1 Wheatear, 1 White Wagtail.

Blagdon Lake:

1 Greylag Goose, 18 Canada Goose, 2 Egyptian Goose, 1 Pochard, 3 Goldeneye, 1 Snipe, 7 Chiffchaff, 4 Willow Warbler, 1 Blackcap.

Bishop Sutton:
Church Lane: 4 Siskin, garden feeders.

Planet Chew:
Sedge Warbler: 1 around the CVRS site this morning (Chris Craig), our first of the season.
Other stuff, 6 Greylag Goose, 2 Barnacle Goose, 5 Shelduck, 80 Tufted Duck, 5 Scaup still, 8 Goldeneye, 6 Buzzard, 4 GBB Gull, 2 Green Woodpecker, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Jay, 1 Raven, 200 Sand Martin, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 6 Long-tailed Tit, 20 Chiffchaff, 7 Willow Warbler, 2 Blackcap, 1 Grey Wagtail, 6 Goldfinch.

Reports: John Brodie-Good, Teresa Chard, Chris Craig, Phil Crouter, Nick Cryer, Mark Dadds, Pete Dommett, Ed Drewitt, Steve Emery, Laurie Garner, David Gibbs, Paul Gregory, Robert Hargreaves, Dan Hill, Adrian Hockey, Rich Keil, Nigel Kempson, Wilf King, Brian Lancastle, Rich Miles, Paul Milsom, Dave Nevitt,  Darren Pearce, Chris Perry, Marcus Rhodes, Karin Rhodes, John Rickard, Gill Sapsed, Ian Stapp, Chris Stone, Howard Taffs, Mrs Trellis, BL birds, opsbirding, severnsidebirds.