20-04-19 Saturday - Masses of good birds: take your pick!

Glorious wall-to-wall sunshine, up to 24 °C

Scaup, Ring-necked Duck, Common Scoter
Great White Egret
Osprey, Marsh Harrier, Red Kite
Avocet, Whimbrel, Greenshank, Jack Snipe
Cuckoo
Hobby
Grasshopper Warbler, Garden Warbler  
Ring Ouzel, Redwing
Spotted Flycatcher, Pied Flycatcher
Redstart, Whinchat, Wheatear 
Tree Pipit, Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail
Redpoll, Crossbill,  Siskin

BRISTOL

Redland:
1 Buzzard soaring

Coombe Dingle:
Garden - 1 soaring Buzzard, 1 Sparrowhawk, 5 Bullfinch (4m, 1f) 


SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Shepperdine:
1 Whinchat 

Oldbury Power Station:
c15 'Commic' Terns (presumed part of flock at Severn Beach, below),  Avocet high upriver

Littleton Warth:
1 Little Egret, 1 Water Rail, 1 Snipe, 1 Green Woodpecker, 6+5 Jay flying North, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Lesser Whitethroat

Following ringed or re-trap 3 Blue Tit, 4 Great Tit, 1 Reed Warbler, 5 Blackcap, 2 Wren, 3 Blackbird, 1 Chaffinch, 1 Greenfinch, 1 Goldfinch, 2 Siskin, 1 Reed Bunting

Aust STW:
3 fledged Raven, 6 Wheatear on 'stones' 

New Passage/Northwick:
more Reed Warbler than yesterday, 1 m Whinchat m, 2 Wheatear,Redpoll

Severn Beach:
2 Avocet to NE (briefly at Northwick yesterday pm),  28 'Commic' Terns high up river - see Oldbury Power Station, above

20-04-19 Ring Ouzel, Chipping Sodbury Common (Peter Cioslett)

Chipping Sodbury Common:
1m Ring Ouzel

Little Stoke:
Willow Warbler, Blackcap, Greenfinch, small flock Bullfinch

NORTH SOMERSET

Portbury Wharf:
(19th) 1m Teal, 4 Oystercatcher, 1 Lapwing, 2 Willow Warbler, 2 Chiffchaff, 3+ Blackcap, 1 Reed Warbler (heard), 1 Reed Bunting

Butterflies - 1 Brimstone, 2 Orange Tip, 1 Speckled Wood, 1 Comma

Walton Moor:
1 Cuckoo, 1 m Redstart

Pied Flycatcher and Sedge Warbler, Wains Hill, Clevedon (Howard Taffs)

Clevedon-Yeo:
Wain's Hill - 1 Common Scoter, 1 Cuckoo, 1 Peregrine,  House Martin + Sand Martin, + Swallow  (less  than 10 of each), 10 + Blackcap, 4 Willow Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff, 1 Sedge Warbler, 1 Grasshopper Warbler,  2  m Pied Flycatcher adult and first summer (pic) male,  2 (m and f) Redstart, Pied/White Wagtail, 1 Tree Pipit,  7 Redpoll, 6  Siskin

Dowlais - 2 Bar Headed Goose, 1 Osprey, displaying Redshank, 1 Hobby, 1 (possibly 2) Whinchat, 1 Whitethroat

Near Permitted Fence - 1 Greenshank

From whole stretch - 160 Shelduck, 6 Gadwall, 32 Teal, 1 Shoveler, 2 Tufted Duck, 7 Little Egret, 6 Coot, 82 Oystercatcher, 20 Ringed Plover, 10 Lapwing, 45 Dunlin, 1 Jack Snipe (Blake’s Pools), 80 Whimbrel, 20 Curlew, 3 Greenshank, 25 Redshank, 28 Skylark, 2 Cetti’s Warbler, 9 Chiffchaff, 14 Willow Warbler, 20 Blackcap, 1 Garden Warbler, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 10 Whitethroat, 2 Sedge Warbler, 7 Reed Warbler, 17 Wheatear, 4 Yellow Wagtail, 5 White Wagtail, 135 Meadow Pipit, 55 Goldfinch, 55 Linnet.

Kingston Seymour:
1 Spotted Flycatcher reported at 5.15pm

Sand Point/Sand Bay/ Middle Hope:

28 Whimbrel, 4 Ringed Plover, 3 Swallow, 5 Sand Martin, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, Sedge Warbler, 2 Reed Warbler, Blackcap,  11 Whitethroat, 1 Redwing, 1(f), Pied Flycatcher, 4 (3m 1 f) Redstart, 4 Wheatear, 2 Yellow Wagtail,  1 Tree Pipit,3 Crossbill, lots of Redpoll, 2 Siskin, 

Weston-Super-Mare:
Airfield - 5 Sedge Warbler, 2 Reed Warbler

20-04-19 Whitethroat, Bleadon Levels (Bill Hewitt)

Bleadon:
3 Little Egret, 1 Marsh Harrier (also present 2 days ago)

Also good numbers of  Mute Swan, Shelduck, Redshank, Skylark, Reed Warbler, Whitethroat

BELOW M4 & BANES

Bath:

20-04-19 Peregrine + 4 chicks, St John's Church, Bath (BUPP)

Racecourse area [Lansdown, Bath Racecourse, Langridge Farm and  slopes to Primrose Wood] -
2 Kestrel, 12 Swallow, 2 House Martin, 3 Whitethroat, 3 Willow Warbler, 4 Chiffchaff, 2 Garden Warbler, 1 Sedge Warbler, 9 Blackcap, 14 Wheatear, 1 m Whinchat

Stanton Drew: 
19th: 1 Wheatear

Folly Farm:
19th: 1 Red Kite (briefly over Dowling's Wood, seeming to come down into the trees there), 2 Raven,  Swallows back at nesting site + 1 Stoat hunting through the Badger burrows

RESERVOIRS

20-04-19 Ring-necked Duck from Herriotts, CVL (Ian Stapp) 

Chew Valley Lake
26+ Canada Goose, 22+ Mute Swan, 6 Shelduck, 8 Goldeneye, 4 Little Grebe, 14+ Great Crested Grebe, 3 Grey Heron, 4 Buzzard, 4 G-BB Gull, 6 Collared Dove (4 Bishop Sutton 2 Chew Stoke), 5 Raven, 20+ Jackdaw, ), lots Blue + Great Tit, 12+ Swallow, 8+ House Martin, 2 Goldcrest , 3 Treecreeper, 4 Cetti's Warbler (3 Moreton 1 Herriotts), lots Chiffchaff 12+ Blackcap, 8+ Reed Warbler (Moreton Dam Nunnery & Herriotts) 2 Sedge Warbler (calling reeds Nunnery & Herriotts), 1 Whitethroat, 8 Blackbird, 12+ House Sparrow (Bishop Sutton) 6 House Sparrow (Blue Bowl), 4 Pied Wagtail, 3 Dunnock, 11 Wren, 8 Robin, 6 Goldfinch, 20+ Chaffinch, 6 Reed Bunting

Dam:
2 Common Sandpiper

Woodford:
2 Willow Warbler, 1 Song Thrush

Nunnery:
1 Oystercatcher, 6+ Meadow Pipit

20-04-19 Dunlin, Heron's Green, CVL (Ian Stapp)

Heron's Green:
1 Kestrel, 1 Green Sandpiper,  1 Dunlin, 1 Common Sandpiper

Moreton:
1 Hobby (possibly same as CVRS below), 2 Stock Dove, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Jay, 20+ Carrion Crow, 4 LTT, 1 Garden Warbler, 1 Sedge Warbler, 1 m Whinchat,2 Bullfinch  

CVRS: 
1 Hobby (possibly same as Moreton above), 1st Sedge Warbler to be ringed this year

Herriott's inc Pool: 6 Shelduck, 16 Shoveler, 3 Gadwall, 10 Teal, 1 Scaup (F lake from Herriotts) 1 m Ring-necked Duck (Stratford Bay from Herriotts with the Tufted Ducks), 1 Great White Egret , 1 Little Egret

20-04-19 Oystercatcher, Nunnery, CVL (Ian Stapp)

Reports: Nancy Barrett,  Paul Bowerman, Paul Chapman, Peter Coslett,  Stephen Curtis, Andy Davis,  forthebirds@frthbrds , Alastair Fraser, Dominic Godfrey, Paul Gregory, Robert Hargreaves, Peter Hazelwood, Bill Hewitt,  Hayden James,  Brian Lancastle, Glen Maddison,  Tim McGrath, James Payne,  Adam Rawson  Dean Reeves, Lyndon Roberts, Steve Sanins, Ian Stapp, Howard Taffs, Paul Williams, BUPP, CVRS