26 April '17 Wednesday - Whinchat

Frost and snow on cars in morning, warm in the sun later, raw in the wind

Wood Warbler in Eastville Park
Whinchat in Stoke Park, Portbury Wharf, Weston Airfield, Moreton CVL
Red Kite at Felton Common, Sand Bay
Cuckoo, Short-eared Owl at Uphill
Black Tern, Swift at Chew Valley Lake
Purple Heron on 25th

26-4-17 Whinchat at Stoke Park (Richard Scantlebury)

BRISTOL
Eastville Park:
1 Sparrowhawk, 1 singing Wood Warbler

26-4-17 Sparrowhawk in Eastville Park (Steve Poulsom)

Stoke Park:

1 Willow Warbler, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Whitethroat, 1 m Whinchat (Duchess pond)

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
No reports

26-4-17 Whitethroat at Aust (Lisegirl)
The elusive lesser whitethroats while the whitethroats got jealous

Aust:
2 Kestrel, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 3-5 Whitethroat

New Passage/Northwick Warth:
No reports

26-4-17 Bullfinch in Almondsbury (Vera Carpenter)

Almondsbury garden:
2 Bullfinches

Chipping Sodbury Common:
1 Kestrel, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Whinchat, Linnet, Reed Bunting

NORTH SOMERSET

Portbury Wharf:

1 Purple Heron reported in flight on 25th, 1 Dabchick family, 4 Common Sandpiper, 7 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 m Whinchat

Felton Common, ploughed field:
 7 Buzzard, 1 Red Kite

26-4-17 Red Kite at Middle hope (Paul Bowyer)

Sand Point/Middle Hope:
1 Red Kite (11:30), 1 Grasshopper Warbler, 1 Reed Warbler, 10 Wheatear (Sand Bay)

Weston Airfield:

2 Little Egret, 1 Sparrowhawk, 3 Skylarks, 1 Whitethroat, 3 Sedge Warbler, 1 m Whinchat, 4 Stonechat

26-4-17 Short-eared Owl at Uphill (Bill Hewitt)

Uphill:
1 Little Egret, 1 Cuckoo, 2 Short-eared Owl

Ubley Warren:
1 m Redstart, Whitethroat

BELOW M4 & BANES

26-4-17 Peregrines in Bath (BUPP)KP gets a shock as the falcon dishes out some of his own treatment

RESERVOIRS

Barrow Tanks:
12 Common Sandpipers, Lots Hirundines, 2 Wheatear, 4 Grey Wagtail

Blagdon Lake:

2 Greylag Geese, 1 Egyptian Goose, 4 Teal, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 2nd year Common Gull, 5 Swift, 500 Hirundine, 2 Garden Warbler, 1 Whitethroat

Chew Valley Lake:
1 Hobby, 13 Common Sandpipers,

Dam:
9 Common Sandpipers, 1 'Hooligans' Gull, 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 White Wagtail

26-4-17 2 Egyptian Goose + one Gosling  & Nanny Duck (Ian Stapp)

Grebe Trail:
2 Cetti's Warbler, 6 Blackcap, 1 Garden Warbler

Woodford:
2 +1 Egyptian Geese, 1 Black Tern

Herons Green:
1 Little-Ringed Plover, 3 Common Sandpipers, 2 Swift, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Whitethroat, Sedge and Reed Warblers

Moreton:
1 Sparrowhawk, 10 Buzzard, 2 Stock Dove,  100 Swifts, 1 Green Woodpecker, 3 Jay, 200 Swallow/Martins, 1 Cetti's Warbler,  3 Blackcap, 2 Garden Warbler, 1 Whitethroat, Sedge and Reed Warblers, 1 Whinchat (Moreton Bank), 2 Bullfinch

Stratford:
3 Scaup (1m), 1 Cetti's Warbler, 3 Reed Warblers, 2 Bullfinch

Herriotts Pool:

2 Barnacle Geese, 8 Shelduck, 1 Common Sandpiper, 3 Reed Warbler, 1 Grey Wagtail

Reports: Rich Andrews, Robert Beale, Terri Borash, Paul Bowyer, Vera Carpenter, Chris Craig, Sean Davies, Bill Hewitt, Rob Laughton, Lisegirl, John Martin, Nigel Milbourne, Lionel Patch, Steve Poulsom, David Poulton, Vic Savery, Ian Stapp, Chris Stone, Larry Sweetland, Brian Thompson, Mrs Trellis, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG