Monday 18 March 2019

18-03-19 Monday - Lots of Fieldfares

Temp 6 to 9 ℃. Sunshine first thing, then light rain showers, with that damp cold feel to everything.

Scaup, Lesser Scaup
Black-necked Grebe
Great White Egret
Little Ringed Plover
Red Kite
Siberian Chiffchaff

18-3-19 Scaup, Moreton (Ian Stapp)
BRISTOL

Bishop Rd to Horfield Common:
1 Grey Heron, 2 Herring Gull, 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 23 Woodpigeon, 4 Collared Dove, 5 Jay, 14 Magpie, 7 Carrion Crow, 2 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, 2 Wren, 10 Starling, 3 Blackbird, 4 Fieldfare, 5 Robin, 36 House Sparrow, 2 Dunnock, 2 Greenfinch, 8 Goldfinch

18-3-19 Siberian Chiffchaff, Stoke Park (Martin Tayler)
Stoke Park:
4 Buzzard, 1 Siberian Chiffchaff

Stockwood Open Space:1 f Sparrowhawk, 2 Buzzard, 2 Raven, 2 Coal Tit, various Blue, Great, Long-tailed Tits, 1 Chiffchaff, 2 Greenfinch, 5 Goldfinch.

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Thornbury:
Red Kite

NewPassage/Northwick Warth:
15 Shoveler, 85 Wigeon, 3 Little Egret, 3 Lapwing, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 20 Black-tailed Godwit, 25 Turnstone, 10 Dunlin, 92 Redshank, 2 Common Gull, 2 Green Woodpecker,  4 Chiffchaff, 3 Fieldfare, 2 Redwing

Almondsbury to Awkley:
10 Mallard, 1 Pheasant, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Sparrowhawk, 4 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Green Woodpecker, 2 Raven (pair on pylon), 1 Skylark, 8 Long-tailed Tit, 5 Chiffchaff, 2 Fieldfare, 4 Chaffinch, 1 Greenfinch

NORTH SOMERSET

18-03-2019 Barn Owl PW (BriThompson)

Portbury Wharf:
2 m/f Wigeon, 2 Oystercatcher, 50+ LBB Gull, 1 Barn Owl, 2 Skylark, 2 Chiffchaff

Clevedon-Yeo:
33 Teal, 2 Lapwing, 17 Curlew, 85 Redshank, 1 imm Peregrine,

Kingston Seymour:
1 Buzzard, 6 Lapwing, 2 Stock Dove, 1 Tawny Owl (heard), 1 Graet Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Chiffchaff, 3 Fieldfare

Sand Point:
3 Chiffchaff

BELOW M4 & BANES

River Avon, Conham Park to Riverside Cottages, Hanham Mills:
2 Canada Goose, 16 Grey Heron, 2 Buzzard, 2 Moorhen, 4 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Peregrine on a pylon, 1 Raven, 2 Chiffchaff,  1 Nuthatch, 2 Tree-creeper

18-3-19 Goldfinch in Bath (NSL Birding)
with 2 Coal Tit and a Blackcap 
Bishop Sutton:
4 Collared Dove, 12 Jackdaw,  15 House Sparrow

RESERVOIRS

Barrow Gurney:
1 m Long-tailed Duck

Blagdon Lake:
1 m Lesser Scaup, 1 Common Sandpipier

18-3-19 Goldeneye at CVL (George Stacey)
Chew Valley Lake
38 Canada Goose, 40 Mute Swan, 9 Shelduck, 22 Shoveler (Herriott's pool), 10 Pintail, 1 Scaup (F Moreton), 20 Goldeneye, 4 Little Grebe

18-3-19 Great Crested Grebe, Moreton (Ian Stapp)
12 Great Crested Grebe, 1 Black-necked Grebe (Stratford), 2 Grey Heron, 1 Great White Egret (Herriott's pool), 2 Little Egret, 3 Buzzard, 5 Snipe, 1 Common Sandpiper (Dam), 9 GBB Gull, 3 Stock Dove, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Jay (Moreton), 8 Jackdaw, 20+ Rooks (West Harptree), 4 Raven, 20+ Sand Martin, 12 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Goldcrest,  30+ Starling, 7 Blackbird, 1 Song Thrush, 1 Grey Wagtail, 3 Pied Wagtail, 20+ Chaffinch, 3 Bullfinch,  12 Goldfinch, 3 Reed Bunting

18-3-19 Bullfinch, Moreton (Ian Stapp)
Out Of Avon
Male Wheater at Ubley Warren, Mendips
Red Kite at Burrington, Mendips



SpeciesEarliestLatestAverage2017 or 19 in red
Sand Martin23/02/0821/03/0608-Mar24-Feb
Wheatear28/02/9825/03/0610-Mar28-Feb
Swallow06/02/1928/03/9819-Mar06-Feb
White Wagtail01/03/0709/04/9723-Mar17-Mar
House Martin04/03/9707/04/0724-Mar13-Mar
Willow Warbler13/03/1101/04/0724-Mar27-Mar
Ring Ouzel09/02/0828/04/9927-Mar10-Apr
Little Ringed Plover12/03/1530/04/9428-Mar17-Mar
Tree Pipit16/03/9227/04/9103-Apr04-Apr
Garganey13/03/9305/05/0004-Apr08-Apr
Redstart17/03/1121/04/9004-Apr30-Mar
Yellow Wagtail21/03/9220/04/9007-Apr02-Apr
Osprey20/03/1419/05/9409-Apr27-Mar
Sedge Warbler30/03/0718/04/9809-Apr08-Apr
Whimbrel29/03/0218/04/9810-Apr07-Apr
Common Tern30/03/0621/04/9810-Apr30-Mar
Reed Warbler01/04/1528/04/9111-Apr01-Apr
Whitethroat02/04/1224/04/9012-Apr04-Apr
Cuckoo06/04/0520/04/9712-Apr10-Apr
Grasshopper Warbler28/03/9724/04/9613-Apr06-Apr
Pied Flycatcher30/03/0219/05/0712-Apr18-Apr
Sandwich Tern18/02/1229/05/9513-Apr18-Mar
Arctic Tern29/03/1526/04/9515-Apr22-Apr
Garden Warbler29/03/9028/04/9116-Apr15-Apr
Swift08/04/0127/04/9017-Apr16-Apr
Hobby30/03/9028/04/9117-Apr17-Apr
Lesser Whitethroat10/04/1027/04/9118-Apr09-Apr
Whinchat14/04/0928/04/9020-Apr18-Apr
Wood Warbler08/04/9802/05/0821-Apr21-Apr
Nightingale08/04/0207/05/0822-Apr01-May
Black Tern14/04/1314/05/0924-Apr26-Apr
Little Tern16/04/1530/05/1727-Apr30-May
Spotted Flycatcher21/04/0317/05/0901-May06-May
Turtle Dove05/04/7011-May
Quail08/05/9629/06/9101-Jun27-May

Reports: John Budd, BUPP, Phyl Dykes, Paul Francis, Adrian Hockey, Rod Holbrook, Hayden James, John Martin, Nigel Milbourne, Giles Morris, NSL-Birding, Lois Pryce, Aravind Ramesh, Trevor Riddle, Tony Scott, George Stacey, Ian Stapp, Howard Taffs, Martin Tayler, Brian Thompson, Wayne Tucker