Tuesday 9 April 2019

09-04-19 Tuesday - Ring Ouzel

Drizzle all day

Fieldfare
Little Ringed Plover
Long-tailed Duck
Little Gull,  Lesser Scaup
Osprey
Common Scoter
Grasshopper Warbler, Yellow Wagtail, WhimbrelWheatear.
Redstart
Red Kite
Wheatear
Yellow Wagtail
Ring Ouzel

BRISTOL

Fishponds/Eastville - Huyton Rd
The sparrow of questionable parentage - - - House Sparrow x Spanish Sparrow - Italian Sparrow or whatever it is - still in place today

Stockwood:
1 Sparrowhawk - fast through the garden

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
1 Common Scoter - on the tide

09-04-2019 Little Ringed Plover NP-NW (Aravind Ramesh)
New Passage/Northwick:
9 Little Ringed Plover, 90 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Greenshank, 1 Little Gull, 1 Peregrine, 90 Sand Martin, 30 Swallow, 40 House Martin, 6 Wheatear, 8 White Wagtail, 800 Meadow Pipit - over, 28 Siskin, 120 Linnet, 85 Goldfinch,

09-04-2019 Ring Ouzel Severn Beach (Aravind Ramesh)
Severn Beach- Pipes:
1 Ring Ouzel,

Thornbury:
1 Peregrine

Winterbourne:
1 Wheatear

Oldland Common:
3 Bullfinch (m) - in the garden all calling.

09-04-2019 Grey Heron Hanham (Robert Hargreaves)
Hanham:
BOC Tue walk highlights
9 occupied Grey Heron's nests, 3 Green Woodpecker calling, 1 Peregrine, 3 Jay, 6 Coal Tit - in a ferocious game of chase, 6 House Martin, 3 Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff and Blackcap - so so many singing, 1 Mistle Thrush,  2 Bullfinch.

NORTH SOMERSET

Wain's Hill 
Vismig - 90 Woodpigeon, 44 Sand Martin, 3 Swallow, 56 House Martins, 186 Meadow Pipit, 2 Tree Pipit, 89 Linnet, 43 Goldfinch, 3 Siskin.
Present - 1 Greenshank

09-04-2019 Greenshank - Black-tailed Godwit Wain's Hill - Dowlais  (Howard Taffs)
Dowlais:
Black-tailed Godwit, 100 Redshank, 1 Redstart - elusive, I Wheatear.

Kenn:
2 Redstart (m) - garden tick

Sand Point/Bay:
Vismig - 1 Stock Dove. 190 Woodpigeon, 10 swallow, 24 House Martin, 1 Ring Ouzel,  4 Fieldfare, Mistle Thrush, 2 Yellow Wagtail, 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 alba Wagtail, 140 Meadow Pipit, 60 Goldfinch, 40 Linnet, 1 Redpoll,  1 Tree Pipit,
Present - 1 Whimbrel, 3 Willow Warbler, 5 Chiffchaff, 5 Blackcap, 4 Redstart, 5 Wheatear, 1 Grasshopper Warbler

Bristol Airport:
1 Wheatear - rather damp on the departure ramp.

Worlebury:
2 Siskin

BELOW M4 & BANES

Keynsham:
1 possibly 2 Red Kite

09-04-2019 Robin Bishop Sutton (Bob Brewer)
Pensford/Publow:
1 Nuthatch, 2 Dipper, 3 Grey Wagtail, 3 Chaffinch.

Bishop Sutton:
1 bobbing Robin

RESERVOIRS

Barrow Tanks:
1 Long-tailed Duck, 5 Goldeneye, 2 Ringed Plover, 3 Common Sandpiper, 2 Wheatear, 3 White Wagtail.

Blagdon Lake:
Canada Goose, 1 Greylag Goose, Mute Swan, 1 Lesser Scaup, 2 Great White Egret, 4 Little Gull, 4 Grey Wagtail.

Chew Valley Lake

Dam:
2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Yellow Wagtail, 1 Grey Wagtail, 18 White Wagtail, 11 Pied Wagtail,

Heron's Green:
1 Osprey - north west

Moreton:
3 White Wagtail, 20 Meadow Pipits

Herriott's:
5 Shelduck, 8 Pintail, 1 Little Ringed Plover

Reports: Rich Andrews, Derek Angell, Paul Bowyer, Bob Brewer, Anne Crowe, John Croxton, Andy Davis, Sean Davies, Paul Francis, Paul Gregory, Robert Hargreaves, Nick Hawkridge, Adrian Hockey, Mike Jackson, George Rabin, Aravind Ramesh, Adam Rawson, Larry Sweetland, Howard Taffs, Bri Thompson, Wayne Tucker, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG