Sightings 6/5/16

6/5/16 Blackbird at Abbots Leigh (Karin Rhodes)

Sneyd Park (Bristol):
1 flyover Red Kite 3.40pm (Hugh Maynard).

Sea Mills (Bristol):
1 Canada Goose, 15 Shelduck, 1 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 20+ House Martin (mud collecting for nearby nests), 1 Chiffchaff.

Chipping Sodbury:
Common: 1 Red Kite 2.50pm to south and towards the town (Dave Poulton).
Other stuff, 3 Buzzard, 2 Kestrel of note.

Shepperdine:
Evening tide: 4 Little Egret, 3 Ringed Plover, 4 Dunlin, 4 Whimbrel, 22 BH Gull, 1 Common Gull.

New Passage-Northwick:
55 Shelduck, 10 Gadwall, 1 Pintail, 1 Little Egret, 4 Little Grebe, 1 Water Rail, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 20 Ringed Plover, 2 Grey Plover still, 1 Lapwing, 2 Sanderling, 97 Dunlin, 5 Ruff, 14 Whimbrel, 2 Curlew, 1 Greenshank, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Turnstone, 13 BH Gull, 2 Commic Tern, 2 Swift, 1 Garden Warbler, 4 Lesser Whitethroat, 3 Spotted Flycatcher, 4 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Grey Wagtail (bred), 1 Siskin, 2 Redpoll.
Ringing/retraps: 10 Sedge Warbler, 10 Reed Warbler.

6/5/16 Linnet (Alex Carlisle)
plenty of these around today

Severn Beach:
4 Gadwall, 4 Ringed Plover, 18 Dunlin, 6 Whimbrel.

Portbury Wharf:

WeBS: 8 Mute Swan, 3 Canada Goose, 4 Gadwall, 3 Tufted Duck, 1 Cormorant, 4 Little Grebe, 5 Moorhen, 9 Coot, 1 Oystercatcher, 1 Common Sandpiper, 11 LBB Gull, 21 Herring Gull, 1 GBB Gull.
Other stuff, 2 Wigeon hanging on, 2 Oystercatcher, 1 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Common Sandpiper, 4 Cetti's Warbler, 4 Chiffchaff, 5 Blackcap, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 8 Whitethroat, 7 Reed Warbler, 1 White Wagtail.

Portishead:
Battery Pt: 3 Common Sandpiper, 5+ Linnet.

North Weston:

6/5/16 (escaped) Lanner Falcon (Melvin Hedges)
How Ham farm this afternoon

It belongs to the head-keeper at Noah's Ark (per Howard Taffs, thanks H). The bird has already moved on from How Ham...so if you see it, please report it Chris at Noah's Ark 01275 852606. Thanks.

Yatton:

Strawberry Line: 3 Buzzard, 1 Hobby, 2 Tawny Owlets, 1 Jay, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 6 Chiffchaff, 11 Blackcap, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 3 Whitethroat, 5 Sedge Warbler, 22 Reed Warbler, 28 Wren, 1 Linnet, 2 Reed Bunting.

Churchill:

8 Swift, 15 Swallow, 15 House Martin, at the sports centre field during the observer's PE lesson. Common warblers also in song in the background.

Rowberrow:
A38: 1 Wryneck 11am (Paul Milsom). Flying around by the garage at junction for Shipham. Unfortunately, just inside the Somerset boundary.

Sand Pt:
Morning watch: 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Sandwich Tern, 3 Black Tern, 1 Arctic Tern, 1 Cuckoo, 1 Willow Warbler, 6 Garden Warbler, 5 Spotted Flycatcher, 1 female Pied Flycatcher (car-park),  1 Whinchat, 1 Yellow Wagtail, 20 Redpoll (Paul Bowyer, what a minty haul).

Blagdon Lake:
WeBS: 35 Mute Swan, 36 Canada Goose, 2 Egyptian Goose, 4 Gadwall, 56 Mallard, 3 Pochard, 60 Tufted Duck, 6 Cormorant, 7 Grey Heron, 4 Little Grebe, 14 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Moorhen, 129 Coot, 7 Common Sandpiper, 35 LBB Gull, 5 Herring Gull.
Other stuff, 2 Spotted Flycatcher (Top End).

Bishop Sutton:
Church Lane: 5 Siskin, still on the garden feeders.

Planet Chew:
Red Kite: 3 fly-throughs 11.45am, 2.50pm, 3.35pm (Mike Jenkins).
Osprey: 1 at 11.05am but distant (Mike Jenkins).

Other stuff, 2 Greylag Goose, 6 Barnacle Goose (2 on nests), 22 Shelduck, 3 Goldeneye, 3 Sparrowhawk, 5 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 6 Hobby, 1 Peregrine, 2 Lapwing, 1 Dunlin, 8 Common Sandpiper, 2 Herring Gull (eggs near to hatching now), 2 Common Tern, 5 GBB Gull, 1 Cuckoo, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Jay, 2 Raven (+2 chicks still at nest),  3 Cetti's Warbler, 7 Chiffchaff, 6 Blackcap, 6 Garden Warbler.
Sedge & Reed Warbler 'plentiful'.


Reports: Paul Bowyer, Alex Carlisle, Melvin Hedges, Mike Jenkins, Richard Kiel, Brian Lancastle, John Martin, Hugh Maynard, Paul Milsom, Dave Poulton, Lois Pryce, Phil Quinn, George Rabin, Karin Rhodes, Trevor Riddle, Nigel Sluman, Chris Stone, BL birds, opsbirding, severnsidebirds.