Monday 15 April 2019

15-04-19 Monday - Gannets

Mainly high cloud and hazy sunshine with a fresh, cold SE wind.

Whimbrel, Bar-tailed Godwit
Gannets, Sandwich Terns
Short-eared Owl
Sedge Warbler, Tree Pipits, Yellow Wagtails, White Wagtails

Chiffchaff in spring blossom (George Stacey)
BRISTOL

Snuff Mills/Eastville Park:
1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Dipper, 1 Grey Wagtail.

Stockwood Open Spaces:
3 Willow Warbler, 5 Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap, 2 Greenfinch.

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
3 Wheatear, 1 Sedge Warbler singing, 2 Reed Warbler, 2 Lesser Whitethroat singing.

lots of Blackcaps seen today (George Stacey)

Northwich Warth:
Whimbrel, 2 Bar-tailed Godwit

NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon, Wains Hill: (7:20 - 7:50 a.m.)
m. Sparrowhawk displaying, 2 House Martin, 2 Willow Warbler, 4 Blackcap, 1 Tree Pipit, 8 Linnet.

Clevedon, Dowlais:
3 Little Egret, f. Sparrowhawk, f. Kestrel, 2 Redshank (display), 4 singing Skylark, 57 Swallow (no other hirundines), 1 Willow Warbler, 2 Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap, 1 Yellow Wagtail, 12 Linnet.


Sand Point/Bay:
3 ad. Gannet, 1 Little Ringed Plover (over, north), 4 Sandwich Tern, 1 Short-eared Owl, 50 Swallow, 1 House Martin, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 3 Willow Warbler, 1 Whitethroat, 1 Yellow Wagtail, 3 Tree Pipit, 3 Siskin.


Worlebury Hill/golf course:
15 Herring Gull, 4 LBB Gull, 25 Woodpigeon, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 20 Magpie, 9 Jackdaw, 7 Carrion Crow, 2 Coal Tit, 15 Blue Tit, 11 Great Tit, 3 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Willow Warbler, 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Goldcrest, 8 Wren, 3 Starling, 14 Blackbird, 1 Song Thrush, 6 Robin, 3 House Sparrow, 1 Pied Wagtail, 13 Chaffinch, 3 Greenfinch, 21 Goldfinch.


BELOW M4 & BANES

no reports


White Wagtails at Chew (Ian Stapp)
RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake
28+ Canada Goose, 32+ Mute Swan, 4 Gadwall, 10 Teal, 8 GC Grebe, 3 Grey Heron, 1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Buzzard, 3 Common Sandpiper, 6 GBB Gull, 3 GS Woodpecker, 20+ Jackdaw, 200+ Sand Martin, 2 Willow Warbler, lots of Blackcaps and Chiffchaff, 4 Goldcrest, 20+ Chaffinch, 6 Goldfinch, 2 Reed Bunting.

Hollowbrook:
2 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Reed Warbler.

Woodford:
4 Goldeneye

Heron's Green:
2 Little Grebe

Moreton:
6 Stock Dove, 2 Jay, 2 Raven, 5 LT Tit, 1 Treecreeper.

Stratford:
1 Wheatear, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 6 White Wagtail with 4 Pied Wagtail (iu ploughed fields off Moreton-Stratford lane), 2 Bullfinch.

Herriott's inc Pool:
6 Shelduck, 4 Pintail, 16 Shoveler, 1 Little Egret.


Reports: Allan Chard, Stephen Curtis, Paul Francis, Paul Gregory, Dave Nevitt, George Rabin, George Stacey, Ian Stapp,  Paul Williams,  blagdonlakebirdsCVRSnslbirdingopsbirdingsevernsidebirdsTBOSG