17th April '17 - Bank Holiday Monday

A bit milder and the wind has gone easterly with a few spots of rain.

Dotterel - just outside our region but a lot of our regular reporters went skiving off there today.
Hobby and Merlin.
A couple of Grasshopper Warblers.

Dotterel at Black Down (Rich Andrews)

BRISTOL

Sea Mills:
2 Shelduck, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Redshank.

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Meadow Pipit at Severnside (Vic Savery)

New Passage/Northwick Warth/Pilning Wetland:
1 f. Wigeon, 2 Ringed Plover, 2 Dunlin, 4 Snipe, 7 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Common Sandpiper, 8 Black-headed Gull, 1 Little Owl, 10+ Swallow, 2 Tree Pipit, Yellow Wagtail, Reed Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Willow Warbler, plenty of Linnet, 2 Siskin.

Severn Beach:
Tree Pipit (flyover), 2 Whitethroat.

Chipping Sodbury Common:
1 Grey Heron. 2 Kestrel, 1 Snipe, 1 Little Owl, 8 Swallow, 1 House Martin, 2 Wheatear, 1 Whitethroat, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Blackcap, 1 Willow Warbler, 2 Reed Bunting, 

Warmley Forest Park:

1 Peregrine, 2 Moorhen, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 5 Blackcap, 1 Willow Warbler, 2 Chiffchaff, 5 Greenfinch, 2 Goldfinch.

NORTH SOMERSET:

Gordano:
1 Snipe, 1 Tawny Owl (deceased - road casualty), 6 Swallow, 2 Reed Warbler, 4 Blackcap, 2 Willow Warbler, 6 Chiffchaff.

Wheatear at Marshfield (Pete Coslett)

Clevedon-Yeo:
150 Shelduck, 4 Wigeon (Kenn), 75 Teal, 4 Tufted Duck, 8 Little Egret, 1 Merlin (Yeo Estuary), 1 Hobby (Blake’s Pool), 8 Oystercatcher, 1 Little Ringed Plover (Dowlais), 4 Ringed Plover, 2 Grey Plover, 12 Lapwing, 15 Dunlin, 21 Whimbrel, 125 Curlew, 55 Redshank, 18 Skylark, 3 Cetti’s Warbler, 17 Chiffchaff, 6 Willow Warbler, 7 Blackcap, 1 Lesser Whitethroat (Kenn), 3 Whitethroat, 3 Sedge Warbler, 5 Reed Warbler, 14 Wheatear, 7 White Wagtail, 50 Meadow Pipit, 40 Goldfinch, 20 Linnet.

Congresbury - Strawberry Line:
1 Grasshopper Warbler, 1 Sedge Warbler, 1 Whitethroat, 1 Lesser Whitethroat (all singing males).

Grasshopper Warbler skulking in typical manner (Paul Cousins)

Sand Point:
10 Whimbrel, Swallows passing through, 1 Sand Martin, 2 Tree Pipit, 1 f. Wheatear, 1 Grasshopper Warbler singing, 1 m. Blackcap, 1 Chiffchaff, 2 Siskin.


BELOW M4 & BANES

Corn Bunting at Marshfield (Christopher Teague)

Marshfield:
5 Wheatear, Yellowhammer, Corn Bunting.

Newton St Loe:
1 Little Owl, 3 Swallow, 2 Whitethroat, 1 Yellowhammer.

Even House Sparrows look smart in the spring (Lee Gardiner)

Chew Magna lanes:
25+ House Sparrow.


RESERVOIRS:

One of 10 Common Sandpipers at Chew (Lee Gardiner)

Chew Valley Lake:
10 Common Sandpiper,

Woodford:
2 Barnacle Goose, 1 Raven.

Heron's Green:
1 Reed Warbler, 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Willow Warbler, 7 House Sparrow, 2 Raven.

Moreton:
5 Shelduck, 2 Buzzard, 2 Stock Dove, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 3 Reed Warbler, 4 Blackcap, 6 LT Tit, 3 Jay, 1 Raven.

Stratford:
6 Scaup.

Herriotts End:
1 Greylag Goose, 2 Barnacle Goose, 8 Shelduck, 5 G BB Gull, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Reed Warbler, 2 Chiffchaff.

Reports: Rich Andrews, Paul Bowerman, Des Bowring, Pete Coslett, Paul Cousins, Paul Gregory, Rich Keel, John Martin, Andy Middleton, Chris Perry, David Poulton, Trevor Riddle, Steve Sanins, Vic Savery, Ian Stapp, Martin Tayler, Christopher Teague,  blagdonlakebirds,  CVRS, nslbirding,  opsbirding,  severnsidebirds,  TBOSG