12 March '17 Sunday - more migrants

Overcast early, a few sprinkles of rain, then a lovely evening.

2 Spoonbills at Chew must have been a nice surprise.
Lots of WeBS reports leavened with a few spring migrants, like this one:

Chiffchaff at New Passage (Brian Lancastle)

BRISTOL
Blaise Castle:
1 Peregrine.

Southmead (Badock's Wood);
1 Buzzard, 3 Grey Wagtail, 3 singing Chiffchaff, 2 Goldcrest, 2 Long-tailed Tit.

Dundry:
m. Wheatear.

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

New Passage/Northwick Warth:
Water Rail, Chiffchaff.

Severnside / Avonmouth:

Hoar Gout:
1 Little Grebe, 1 Mute Swan, 3 Canada Goose, 1 Teal, 2 Shoveler, 3 Tufted Duck, 1 Moorhen, 4 Coots, 1 Cetti’s Warbler, 1 Chiffchaff, flyover Raven.

Accolade Wines Lake:
2 Mute Swan, 4 Mallard, 5 Tufted Duck, 2 Coot, 1 Moorhen.

Orchard Pools:
2 Mallard, 1 Little Grebe, 1 Tufted Duck, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Cetti’s Warbler, 5 Chiffchaff.

Yate:
Kings Gate Park:
1 Little Grebe, 1 Buzzard, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Blackcap, 3 singing Chiffchaff. 2 Siskin, Redpoll.

Old Sodbury:
2 Mandarin (flying over).

Wick, Golden Valley:
2 Mallard, 1 Mandarin, 2 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Grey Wagtail, 2 Dipper, 4 Wren, 1 Blackcap, 2 Nuthatch.

Toghill Farm, Doynton:
Negative report - no Cattle Egret found this evening.

Kelston:
2 Grey Heron, 3 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Meadow Pipit, 1 Goldcrest, 2 Jay.

NORTH SOMERSET:

female Black Redstart at St Andrews Church, Clevedon
(Jason Williams)

Clevedon:
f. Black Redstart at St Andrews Church.

Clevedon-Yeo:
(WeBS count, early on the high tide)
20 Canada Goose (some in pairs now), 90 Shelduck, 150 Wigeon, 35 Teal, 5 Shoveler (at Dowlais), 4 Tufted Duck, 1 Cormorant, 4  Little Egret (7 flying over), 1 Grey Heron, 20 Oystercatcher (some in pairs now), 28 Grey Plover, 15 Lapwing (9 at Dowlais), 3+ Ringed Plover, 120 Curlew (all roosting on the coastal path near the mouth of the Yeo), 8 Black-tailed Godwit, 34 Turnstone, 42 Knot, 350 Dunlin, 210 Redshank (130 up Yeo + 80 at Kenn), 1 Snipe, 110 Black-headed Gull (at Blackstone), 24 LBB Gull, 15 Herring Gull,  1 Raven, 6 Skylark (some singing), 6 Rock Pipit, 3 Wheatear, 2 Sand Martin (Wains Hill).

Short-eared Owl at Uphill (Martin Tayler)

Uphill:
Short-eared Owl again in the afternoon.  Also present: Skylark, Stonechat, Chiffchaff.

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield:
Wheatear at Down Road this morning.

Bath:
(Audley Park) 8 Siskin (feeding in silver birch).

Treecreeper at Newton St Loe (Wayne Tucker)

Newton St Loe:
(WeBS count)
2 Mute Swan, 13 Mallard (9 on lake), 16 Teal, 3 Coot, 6 Moorhen, 10 Grey Heron (4 on nests), 1 Cormorant, 2 Little Grebe (pair), 6 Buzzard, 3 Stock Dove, 2 Green Woodpecker, 1 Kingfisher, 8 Skylark, 25 Meadow Pipit, 3 Pied Wagtail, 1 Grey Wagtail, 6 Mistle Thrush, 2 Song Thrush, 7 Redwing, 4 Chiffchaff, 13+ Goldcrest, 10 Long-tailed Tit, 10 Blue Tit, 10 Great Tit, 1 Coal Tit, 5 Nuthatch, 4 Treecreeper, 2 Jay, 15 House Sparrow, 15 Starling, 20 Goldfinch, 1 Bullfinch.

Pensford:
Dipper.

Paulton:
4 Skylark, 4 Meadow Pipit, 1 Stonechat, 1 Wheatear, 8 Chiffchaff, 7 Goldcrest, 4 Yellowhammer.

RESERVOIRS:

Blagdon Lake:
Egyptian Goose, 2 Shelduck, 26 Mute Swan, 72 Shoveler, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Swallow, 25 Sand Martin.

Dunlin at the dam this morning (Roger Staples)

Chew Valley Lake:
Dam:
1 Dunlin.

Stratford:
16 Scaup, 1 m. Common Scoter.

A nice surprise at Herriotts Pool - two Spoonbills
(David Hughes)

And another photo of them from Roger Staples

Herriotts End:
2 Spoonbill, 1 Swallow.

Reports: Rich Andrews, Mark Coller, Tim Ford, Simon Galloway, John Griffiths, Patrick Hancock, David Hughes, Brian Lancastle, Nigel Milbourne, Jim Payne, Chris Perry, Harvey Rose, Gill Sapsed, Tony Scott, Ed Stevens, Martin Tayler, Christopher Teague, Gwen Thomas, Wayne Tucker, Jason Williams, Gordon Youdale,  blagdonlakebirds,  CVRS, nslbirding,  opsbirding,  severnsidebirds,  TBOSG