Garganey
Cranes - but can you count them??
Red Kite
Whimbrels
Arctic Tern, Sandwich Terns
Pied Flycatcher
BRISTOL
Stockwood Open Spaces:
2 pr Buzzard, 6 Blackcap, 8 Chiffchaff, 1st Willow Warbler of the year.
Fishpool Hill, Brentry:
m. Redstart in garden.
SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Oldbury Power Station:
1 Little Egret, 1 Buzzard, 37 Stock Dove, 1 Kestrel, 1 Peregrine, 4 Swallow, 3 House Martin, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 8 Blackcap, 21 Chiffchaff, 1 Willow Warbler.
NORTH SOMERSET
Gordano:
Weston Moor:
Kings Wood and Wavering Down (BOC walk):
Buzzard, Stock Dove, Green Woodpecker, 2 Swallow, 2 Tree Pipits (one lucky wanderer), Wren, Robin, 7 Blackcap, 7+ Chiffchaff, 1 Willow Warbler singing, 2+ Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Jay, Raven, Jackdaws. A nice surprise were 3 flyover Cranes but they were too high for the observers to determine whether or not they were wearing the WWT colours.
BELOW M4 & BANES
Marshfield:
(Shire Valley - yesterday, Monday 16th)
3 Mallard, Stock Dove, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Grey Wagtail, 1 Wheatear, 5+ Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Coal Tit, Treecreeper, 3 Nuthatch.
Midford:
Tucking Mill Reservoir:
RESERVOIRS:
Barrow Tanks:
1 ad. m. Long-tailed Duck (tank no 1, coming into summer plumage), 3 Common Sandpiper, c. 70
hirundines in mixed flock.
Stratford:
1 Arctic Tern, 2 Sandwich Tern.
Reports: Derek Angell, Teresa Chard, Mark Dadds, Paul Francis, Simon Harris, Andy Middleton, Giles Morris, Lyndon Roberts, Chris Stone, Howard Taffs, Tim Warren, BOC, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG
SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Oldbury Power Station:
1 Little Egret, 1 Buzzard, 37 Stock Dove, 1 Kestrel, 1 Peregrine, 4 Swallow, 3 House Martin, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 8 Blackcap, 21 Chiffchaff, 1 Willow Warbler.
NORTH SOMERSET
Gordano:
Weston Moor:
Red Kite (12:15), m. Wheatear, Swallows.
Clevedon-Yeo (Dowlais pools):
pr. Garganey, 1 Dunlin.
Woodspring Bay (Yeo to Banwell WeBS count):
(yesterday, Monday 16th)
pr. Garganey, 1 Dunlin.
Woodspring Bay (Yeo to Banwell WeBS count):
(yesterday, Monday 16th)
7 Canada Goose, 8 Shelduck, 7 Mallard, 1 Cormorant, 26 Oystercatcher, 6 Snipe, 1 Common Sandpiper, 56 Redshank, 1 Curlew (and more visible N of the Yeo), 8 Whimbrel, 50 LBB Gull, 17 H Gull, 8 Wheatear, no visible hirundine passage.
Nailsea:
Nowhere Wood:
Nowhere Wood:
Male Pied Flycatcher.
Kings Wood and Wavering Down (BOC walk):
Buzzard, Stock Dove, Green Woodpecker, 2 Swallow, 2 Tree Pipits (one lucky wanderer), Wren, Robin, 7 Blackcap, 7+ Chiffchaff, 1 Willow Warbler singing, 2+ Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Jay, Raven, Jackdaws. A nice surprise were 3 flyover Cranes but they were too high for the observers to determine whether or not they were wearing the WWT colours.
BELOW M4 & BANES
Marshfield:
(Shire Valley - yesterday, Monday 16th)
3 Mallard, Stock Dove, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Grey Wagtail, 1 Wheatear, 5+ Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Coal Tit, Treecreeper, 3 Nuthatch.
Willsbridge:
1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 Mistle Thrush, 3 Coal Tit, 4 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Nuthatch, 1 Goldfinch.
Midford:
Tucking Mill Reservoir:
1 Willow Warbler, 1 Marsh Tit.
RESERVOIRS:
Barrow Tanks:
1 ad. m. Long-tailed Duck (tank no 1, coming into summer plumage), 3 Common Sandpiper, c. 70
hirundines in mixed flock.
Blagdon Lake:
5 Common Sandpiper, 2+ Willow Warbler.
Chew Valley Lake
1 Arctic Tern, 2 Sandwich Tern.
Reports: Derek Angell, Teresa Chard, Mark Dadds, Paul Francis, Simon Harris, Andy Middleton, Giles Morris, Lyndon Roberts, Chris Stone, Howard Taffs, Tim Warren, BOC, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG