Friday 27 April 2018

27-04-18 Friday - Channel Wagtail

Rain for most of the day

Osprey
Wood Sandpiper
Turtle Dove
male Channel Wagtail 
Yellow Wagtail


BRISTOL

Brislington:
Tawny Owl calling at Tesco garage area Brislington at 1.00 am this morning.

27-4-18 Song Thrush Duchess Pond, Stoke Park (Martin Tayler)
Stoke Park, Duchess Pond:
2 Canada Goose, 3 Moorhen, 1 Great Spotted-Woodpecker, 2 Swallow, 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Song Thrush,
4 Robin

Stockwood Open Spaces:
3 Greenfinch and 2 male and 2 female Bullfinch


SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
300+ Swallow, 3 Swift, 3 House Martin, c15 Sand Martin & 9 Yellow Wagtail to NE. But estuary as quiet as any day in last 12 months!

27-04-18 Possibly a Channel Wagtail at Pilning Wetland (Brian Lancastle)
New Passage/Northwick:
Wood Sandpiper on the back pool being very elusive, also 14 Black-tailed Godwit, c40 Dunlin,
RP, 2 Great Crested Grebe on the river drifted down, 5+ Wheatear, male Channel Wagtail with 30+ Yellow Wagtail, male Whinchat, 7 Swift

NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon-Yeo:
am: 34 Mute Swan, 18 Canada Goose, ~50 Shelduck, 2 Teal, 2 Tufted Duck, 3 Cormorant , 3 Coot (at KP my first here), 22 Oystercatcher, Lapwing present, 16 Ringed Plover, 26 Whimbrel (best count so far but well down on what it should be), 4 Curlew, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Turnstone, 1 Knot,
20 Dunlin, 8 Common Sandpiper, 10 Redshank, 15 LBB Gull, 20+ Herring Gull, 1 Swift, 1 Raven, 25 Sand Martin (single group appeared out of the gloom), 30+ Swallow, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Whitethroat, 1 Reed Warbler, 1 Wheatear
pm: 1 Swift over Dowlais and a Wheatear on the rocks

27-4-18 Male Bullfinch at Uphill (Paul Cousins)
Uphill:
Male Bullfinch

BELOW M4 & BANES

no reports

RESERVOIRS:

Barrow Tanks:
1 Long-tailed Duck, 17 Common Sandpiper, 5 Swift, 300 Sand Martin, 350 Swallow, 20 House Martin, 1 Wheatear, 3 Yellow Wagtail,

Chew Valley Lake


27-04-18 Barn Swallow at Chew (Lee Gardiner)


27-4-18 Black Swan at Herriotts (Lee Gardiner)


1 Black Swan, 1 Barnacle Goose, 2 Brent Goose, 1 fem Scaup, 1 drake Goldeneye, 9 Common Sandpiper, 2 Turtle Dove, 1 Osprey ( c. 12.45 briefly fished Herriott’s then on to main lake, eventually leaving NW), 2 Hobby, hundreds of hirundines (plenty of all three, though predominantly Swallows) and Swifts, 3 Yellow Wagtails (on the main dam)


Reports: Sean Davies, Paul Francis, Lee Gardiner, Mike Jenkins, Brian Lancastle, John Martin, Harvey Rose,  Howard Taffs, Martin Tayler, blagdonlakebirdsCVRSnslbirdingopsbirdingsevernsidebirdsTBOSG