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:
1 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

Summer Migrant Arrival Dates 1996 - 2017

2019 dates will be updated when known and be shown in red
The list is sorted under average arrival date
The table is also available in the first section of the sidebar

Species	Earliest	Latest	Average	2017 or 19 in red
Sand Martin	23/02/08	21/03/06	08-Mar	24-Feb
Wheatear	28/02/98	25/03/06	10-Mar	28-Feb
Swallow	06/02/19	28/03/98	19-Mar	06-Feb
White Wagtail	01/03/07	09/04/97	23-Mar	17-Mar
House Martin	04/03/97	07/04/07	24-Mar	13-Mar
Willow Warbler	13/03/11	01/04/07	24-Mar	27-Mar
Ring Ouzel	09/02/08	28/04/99	27-Mar	10-Apr
Little Ringed Plover	12/03/15	30/04/94	28-Mar	17-Mar
Tree Pipit	16/03/92	27/04/91	03-Apr	04-Apr
Garganey	13/03/93	05/05/00	04-Apr	08-Apr
Redstart	17/03/11	21/04/90	04-Apr	30-Mar
Yellow Wagtail	21/03/92	20/04/90	07-Apr	02-Apr
Osprey	20/03/14	19/05/94	09-Apr	27-Mar
Sedge Warbler	30/03/07	18/04/98	09-Apr	08-Apr
Whimbrel	29/03/02	18/04/98	10-Apr	07-Apr
Common Tern	30/03/06	21/04/98	10-Apr	30-Mar
Reed Warbler	01/04/15	28/04/91	11-Apr	01-Apr
Whitethroat	02/04/12	24/04/90	12-Apr	04-Apr
Cuckoo	06/04/05	20/04/97	12-Apr	10-Apr
Grasshopper Warbler	28/03/97	24/04/96	13-Apr	06-Apr
Pied Flycatcher	30/03/02	19/05/07	12-Apr	18-Apr
Sandwich Tern	18/02/12	29/05/95	13-Apr	18-Mar
Arctic Tern	29/03/15	26/04/95	15-Apr	22-Apr
Garden Warbler	29/03/90	28/04/91	16-Apr	15-Apr
Swift	08/04/01	27/04/90	17-Apr	16-Apr
Hobby	30/03/90	28/04/91	17-Apr	17-Apr
Lesser Whitethroat	10/04/10	27/04/91	18-Apr	09-Apr
Whinchat	14/04/09	28/04/90	20-Apr	18-Apr
Wood Warbler	08/04/98	02/05/08	21-Apr	21-Apr
Nightingale	08/04/02	07/05/08	22-Apr	01-May
Black Tern	14/04/13	14/05/09	24-Apr	26-Apr
Little Tern	16/04/15	30/05/17	27-Apr	30-May
Spotted Flycatcher	21/04/03	17/05/09	01-May	06-May
Turtle Dove	05/04/70			11-May
Quail	08/05/96	29/06/91	01-Jun	27-May

Taken from the Avon Bird Report 2017 which has details of arrival and departure dates for both summer and winter visitors

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