Saturday 13 April 2019

13-04-19 Saturday - SIskins and Serin

Clear and fine morning with a chilly East wind, clouding over in the afternoon.

Great White Egret
Ruff, Bar-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper
Ring Ouzel, Pied Flycatcher
Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, Tree Pipit
Grasshopper Warbler, Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat
WheatearRedstarts, Whinchat
CrossbillSerin

BRISTOL

Bitton:
Whinchat.


SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
Lesser Whitethroat, 8 Willow Warbler.

Thornbury:
1 Little Egret, 1 f. Sparrowhawk (over Morton Way).

New Passage/Northwick:
500+ Black-tailed Godwit (possibly a record-breaking count).

Pilning wetland:
1 Buzzard, 5 Little Ringed Plover, 1 Ruff (pottering about far edge of back pool), 1 Green Woodpecker, c.20 Swallow, 5 House Martin, 2 Willow Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Sedge Warbler, 2 Blackcap, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 6 Wheatear, 4 Yellow Wagtail, c. 6 White Wagtail, 15 Meadow Pipit, 2 Linnet.

Severn Beach:
19 Bar-tailed Godwit.
2 Jay, Cetti’s Warbler, 1-2 Lesser Whitethroat, Blackcaps, Chiffchaffs, 3 Bullfinch.



NORTH SOMERSET

Portbury Wharf:
2 Teal, 2 Oystercatcher, 1 Lapwing, 10+ Sand Martin, 2 Chiffchaff.

Portishead:
3 Willow Warbler, 3 m. Blackcap (ringed in a garden near Battery Point)

Gordano (Walton Common reserve):
4 Buzzard, 2 LBB Gull, 3 Raven, 4 Blue Tit, 8 Great Tit, 4 Swallow, 2 House Martin, 6 Willow Warbler, 4 Chiffchaff, 11 Blackcap, 1 Garden Warbler, 4 Wren, 3 Nuthatch, 2 Treecreeper, 1 Mistle Thrush, 16 House Sparrow, 2 Meadow Pipit.

Clevedon, Wains Hill:
m. and f. Sparrowhawk, Jay. 1 Grasshopper Warbler reeling, 2 Redstart, 25+ Blackcap.
Overhead:  Ring-necked Parakeet, 5 Sand Martin, 3 Swallow, 8 House Martin, 13 Meadow Pipit, 1 Tree Pipit, 3 Redpoll, 4 Siskin.

Clevedon-Yeo:
Dowlais Farm lane and pool:
18 Shelduck, 3 Mallard, 6 Lapwing, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Redshank, f. Kestrel, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1-2 Chiffchaff, 1 Lesser Whitethroat.

Dowlais beach:
32 Shelduck, 5 Mallard, 7 Teal, 2 Oystercatcher, 4 Curlew, 10 Redshank, 2 Skylark, 5 Swallow, House and Sand Martins, 2 Willow Warbler.


Sand Point/Middle Hope:
Green Woodpecker, m. Ring Ouzel, 1 Pied Flycatcher, 2 male Redstart, 1 Wheatear, 5 Tree Pipit, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, 1 Crossbill. Serin calling.

Siskins in a Langford garden (David Goodliffe)
Langford, in a garden:
1 pair Collared Dove, 2 Blue Tit, 1 pair Great Tit nesting, 1 m. Blackcap, 1 m. Blackbird food-carrying, 10 House Sparrow. 3 Dunnock, 2 Goldfinch, 2 pairs Siskin.

Felton Common:
(yesterday, 12th)  1 Green Woodpecker, 4 Willow Warbler, 1 Chiffchaff,  2 Blackcap, 1 Skylark, 6 Linnet, 3 Yellowhammer.


BELOW M4 & BANES

Longwell Green:
Willow Warbler.

Willsbridge:
Jay, Blackcap.

Saltford:
(Bath Natural History Society, walking from Saltford via Avon Farm & Swineford Lock back to The Shallows at Saltford along the Avon Valley):
1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Kingfisher, 3 Sand Martin, 2 Swallow, 2 House Martin, 6 Chiffchaff, 4 Blackcap, 2 Goldcrest, 1 Treecreeper, 2 Song Thrush, 1 Mistle Thrush, 2 Bullfinch.


RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake
CVRS:
Reed Warbler, Blackcap.

Moreton:
1 male Redstart on the Moreton to Stratford lane.

Herriott's Bridge:
1 Great White Egret, probable Little Ringed Plover.


Reports:  Paul Bowerman, Adam Cross, Jane Cumming, Stephen Curtis & Carol Rushton, Tim Ford, Lee Gardiner, David Goodliffe, Paul Gregory, Nick Hawkridge, Adrian Hockey, David Howes, David Hughes, Hayden James, Brian Lancastle, Melanie Patch, Lois Pryce, Adam Rawson, Howard Taffs, Christopher Vines,   blagdonlakebirdsCVRSnslbirdingopsbirdingsevernsidebirdsTBOSG