Wednesday 10 April 2019

10-04-19 Wednesday - Hobby - Osprey - Yellow Wagtail (Channel)

Temp 5 to 14 C. Started miserable and turned out beautiful

Yellow Wagtail (Channel)
Sedge Warble
Goosander
Hobby
Osprey, Redstart
Yellow Wagtail
Water Pipit

SPRING
10-04-2019 Blackcap and Chiffchaff Severn Beach (Steve Jones)

BRISTOL

Barton Hill - Days Road:
2 Raven - settled onto a roof

Montpelier Park:
4 Willow Warbler - this tiny park always a magnet for birds on passage.

Fishponds/Eastville - Huyton Rd/Thingwell Park
The sparrow of questionable parentage - - - House Sparrow x Spanish Sparrow - Italian Sparrow or whatever it is - at the junction of the above roads.

Bishop Rd to Horfield Common:
1 Herring Gull, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 8 Woodpigeon, 2 Collared Dove, 9 Magpie, 6 Carrion Crow, 2 Coal Tit, 5 Blue Tit, 3 Great Tit, 2 Willow Warbler, 1 Chiffchaff, 3 Wren, 8 Starling, 4 Blackbird, 7 Robin, 18 House Sparrow, 5 Dunnock, 1 Greenfinch, 7 Goldfinch

Eastville Park:
6 Willow Warbler

10-04-2019 Blackbird Lockleaze (Par Richards)

Lockleaze - Concorde Way:
1 Buzzard, 9 Woodpigeon, 5 Magpie, 3 Carrion Crow, 1 Raven, 1 Coal Tit, 2 Blue Tit, 3 Great Tit, 2 Swallow, 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap, 3 Wren, 2 Starling, 6 Blackbird, 4 Robin, 14 House Sparrow, 2 Dunnock, 2 Greenfinch, 3 Goldfinch.

Stoke Park, Duchess Pond:
1 Sand Martin, 4 Swallow

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
8 Golden Plover, 1 Grey Plover, 1 Mistle Thrush - singing, 1 Sedge Warbler, 1 Redstart, 2 Wheatear,

Aust Warth:

10-04-2019 Common Sandpiper - Yellwo Wagtail NP-NW (Aravind Ramesh)

New Passage/Northwick:
1 Ringed Plover, 11 Little Ringed Plover, 100 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Dunlin, 1 Common Sandpiper, 40 Redshank, 4 Yellow Wagtail, 1 Yellow Wagtail (Channel), 20+ White Wagtail, 1 Water Pipit, 2 Siskin

10-04-2019 Dunlin&Little Ringed Plover (Tony Scott)

Severn Beach:
1 Goosander - flew upriver, 5 Black-headed Gull, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff and Blackcap, 1 Redstart, 7 Wheatear, 1 Yellow Wagtail, 5 Siskin.

10-04-2019 Osprey CSC (Mark Coller)

Chipping Sodbury Common:
1 Osprey - 11:00  --> North East, 1 Redstart, 1 Wheatear

Winterbourne - Monk's Pools and Bradley Brook LNR:
1 Cormorant flyover, 3 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 4 Stock Dove, 2 Green Woodpecker, 1 Skylark, 2 Chiffchaff, 4 Blackcap, 2 Song Thrush, 2 Bullfinch, c88 Linnet. 2 Roe Deer and 1 Muntjac.

NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon-Yeo:
2 Canada Goose, 80 Shelduck, 14 Wigeon, 50 Teal, 6 Tufted Duck - KP, 9 Little Egret - all at sluice at Yeo Bank Farm, 6 Oystercatcher, Lapwing, 2 Curlew, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Turnstone, 67 Redshank - 65 at Kenn and 2 (!) up Yeo, 1 Raven, 2+ Skylark - singing, 1 Reed Warbler - at Blake's Pool, 2 Willow Warbler - Blake's Pool, 2 Wheatear (m), 30 Meadow Pipit 30 - moving NE, some finch also moving NE.

Wain's Hill:
vismig: 1 White/Pied Wagtail, 168 Meadow Pipit, 1 Tree Pipit, 76 Linnet, 84 Goldfinch, 3 Siskin.

10-04-2019 Ruff Dowlais (Howard Taffs)

Dowlais:
2 Shoveler, 1 Ruff (m)

Clevedon - Manmoor Lane:
2 Otter

Nailsea -East End:
1 Yellowhammer - in the Kenn-Hedgerow

10-04-2019 Wheatear Sand Bay-Beach (Wayne Tucker)

Sand Bay/Point/Middle Hope/St Thomas's Head:
Migrants and Locals
2 Little Egret, 1 Whimbrel, 1 Ringed Plover, 30 Curlew, 20 Dunlin, 2 Kestrel, 1 Peregrine, 2 Raven (f&m), 1 Cetti's Warbler - calling, 5 Chiffchaff (m singing), 6 Blackcap (m singing), 70 Swallow, 5 House Martin, 2 Willow Warbler, 3 Redstart (f&2m), 3 Stonechat (f&2m), 3 Wheatear, 8 alba Wagtails, 3 Meadow Pipit, 30+ Linnet, 65+ Goldfinch,

Banwell:
1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Stock Dove, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker (1f&2m), 1 Blackcap (m), 1 Nuthatch, 2 Bullfinch (1f&1m), 2 Siskin (1f&1m)

BELOW M4 & BANES

Willsbridge:
Nuthatch

10-04-2019 Nuthatch Willsbridge (Donna Harvey)

Marshfield:
1 Hobby - Shire valley, 1 Redstart - south of the village, 10 Yellow Wagtail.

Bath - Victoria Park:
1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Willow Warbler, 2 Blackcap, 2 Nuthatches.

Bath - R Avon walk - Centre to Lidl:
7 Willow Warbler (5 singing), 2 Blackcap, 1 Nuthatch - nesting

Bath - Prior Park:
4 Willow Warbler - singing, plenty of Blackcap, Blackbird & Song Thrush  - in song, Robins, Greenfinch.

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
2 Egyptian Goose, 2 Shelduck, 1 Lesser Scaup (m), 15 to 20 Linnet.

Chew Valley Lake
2 Greylag Geese, 6 Shelduck, 7 Pintail, of possible interest, a female Teal at Herriott's Pool (since 1/4) showing noticeable pale loral spots and cheek bar, 19 Goldeneye (f), 1 Little Egret, 10 Buzzard, 1 Common Sand, c. 20 Swallow, c.700+ Sand Martin, 2 Willow Warblers, 10 Blackcap, 1 Redstart, 4 White Wagtail, 35 Meadow Pipit

Reports: Rich Andrews, John Barnett, Phil Barlow, Des Bowring, John Budd, Paul Chapman, Mark Coller, Barry Dursley, John Griffiths, Robert Hargreaves, Donna Harvey, Mike Jackson, Steve Jones, Brian Lancastle, Glen Maddison, Matt Plenty, Phil Quinn, Aravind Ramesh, Dean Reeves, Pat Richards, Harvey Rose, Tony Scott, Larry Sweetland,  Howard Taffs, John Thorogood, Wayne Tucker, Keith Vinicombe, Tim Warren, 

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