Tuesday 23 April 2019

23-04-19 Tuesday - Hobby - Cuckoo

Dry - a glimpse of sun but overcast and heavy.

Cuckoo
Great, Pomarine and Arctic Skua
Little, Arctic and Black Tern
Gannet
Osprey
Hobby
Ring-necked Duck
Black-necked Grebe
23-04-2019 Great Skua, Severn Beach (Aravind Ramesh)
BRISTOL

Redland - BBS - highlights:
1 Blackcap, 1 Song Thrush

Duchess Pool:
1 Buzzard,1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, 2 Collard Dove, 1 Raven, 1 Coal Tit, 3 Chiffchaff, 5m 2f Blackcap, 2 Whitethroat, 1 Goldcrest, 7 Starling, 2 Greenfinch, 7 Goldfinch.

23-04-2019 a post bath time Green Woodpecker Duchess Pool (Pat Richards)

Stockwood Open Spaces:
Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Lesser Whitethroat, Whitethroat

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
2 Ringed Plover, 5 Whimbrel, c58 Bar-tailed Godwit upriver, 1 Peregrine - following! Loads of warblers singing inc 7 Sedge Warbler, 6 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Mistle Thrush

Aust Warth:
23-04-2019 Whitethroat, Aust Warth (Rod Holbrook)
Pilning Wetland:
1 Osprey, 1 Marsh Harrier, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 1 Common Sandpiper

Severn Beach:
1 Gannet, 4 Ringed Plover, 14 Whimbrel, 350+ Bar-tailed Godwit, 6 Dunlin, 1 Little Tern, 20 Common/Arctic Tern, 1 Black Tern, 1 Great Skua, 2 Pomarine Skua, 1 Skua sp, 10+ Swallow, 4 Yellow Wagtail

Badminton -BOC Walk:
1 Pheasant, 2 Buzzard, 2 Coot, 2 Stock Dove, Woodpigeon, 6 Collared Dove, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Magpie, Jackdaw, 12 Carrion Crow, 1 Raven, 1 Coal Tit, 16 Blue Tit, 5 Great Tit, 12 Skylark, 3 Swallow, 2 House Martin, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 3 Chiffchaff, 12 Blackcap, 2 Whitethroat, 2 Goldcrest, 9 Wren, 2 Nuthatch, 7 Starling, 8 Blackbird, 1 Song Thrush, 1 Mistle Thrush, 9 Robin, 16 House Sparrow, 4 Dunnock, 2 Pied Wagtail (yarrellii), 9 Chaffinch, 2 Bullfinch, 4 Linnet, 6 Goldfinch, 4 Corn Bunting, 8 Yellowhammer.

23-04-2019 Yellowhammer Badminton (Suk kam Trippier)

NORTH SOMERSET

Backwell Lake:
2 Reed Warbler singing this morning

Clevedon:
1 Osprey - heading over Tickenham Ridge.

Clevedon - Colehouse Lane BBS
9 Mallard, 4 Moorhen, a Peregrine on the radio mast off Strode Road, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Chiffchaff, 6 Blackcap, 1 singing Lesser Whitethroat, 169 Starlings, some apparently food-carrying, 14 House Sparrows, 2 Bullfinch, 1 Linnet

Clevedon-Yeo:
6 Canada Goose, 10 Mute Swan, 50+ Shelduck, 4 Teal, 6 Tufted Duck, 2 Little Egret, 55 Oystercatcher, Lapwing - present two sites, 14 Whimbrel, 4 Curlew, 45 Dunlin, 1 Redshank + few at Dowlais, 2 Spotted Redshank - Dowlais and tide line near Yeo, 1 Greenshank - Dowlais, 1 Garden Warbler - singing at Blake's Pools, 10 Reed Warbler - in song, 1 Wheatear.

Wain's Hill:
1 Great Skua, 4 Swallow, 3 Yellow Wagtail, 3 Tree Pipit, 7 Meadow Pipit, 3 Redpoll, 2 Siskin - so still a trickle going through

Dowlais:
2 Lapwing chicks and 2 adults

Golf Course:
3 Mandarin Duck (f&2m)

Wraxall:
1 Cuckoo

23-04-2019 Stonechat & Rock Pipit, Sand Point (Steve Jones)
Sand Point/Bay:
7 Arctic Tern, 2 Great Skua, 1 Pomarine Skua - (dark phase with spoons), 1 Arctic Skua, 2 Raven, A few Swallow, 1 Grasshopper Warbler, 1 Stonechat, 1 Yellow Wagtail, 1 Rock Pipit some Redpoll - moving, 1 Siskin.  First Blackbird chicks seen today

BELOW M4 & BANES

Bath - Walcote Gate - garden:
Great Tit, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Wren Blackbird, 1 Grey Wagtail - singing,  Greenfinch, Goldfinch

Bishop Sutton:
12 House Sparrow

RESERVOIRS

Barrow Tanks:
3 Whimbrel, 6 Com Sandpiper - the Long-tailed Duck has gone - ahhh.

23-04-2019 Black-tailed Godwit, Herriott's pool (Ian Stapp)

Chew Valley Lake
46+ Canada Goose, 1 Barnacle Goose, 1 Greylag Goose, 36+ Mute Swan, 12 Shelduck, 6 Goldeneye, 14 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Grey Heron, 2 Marsh Harrier, 9 Buzzard, 2 Common Sandpiper, 10 Great Black-backed Gull, 4 Black Tern, 7 Collared Dove, 4 Jay, 2 Raven, 20+ Jackdaw, lots of Blue and Great Tit, 10 Sand Martin, 20+ Swallow, some House Martin, 7 Cetti's Warbler, lots of Chiffchaff, 20+ Blackcap, 2 Sedge Warbler, lots and lots of Reed Warbler, 9 Wren,  9 Blackbird, 6 Robin, 10 House Sparrow, 3 Pied Wagtail, 20+ Chaffinch, 2 Reed Bunting

Woodford:
2 Song Thrush, 2 Bullfinch, 6 Goldfinch

23-04-2019 Ring-necked Duck, CVL (Keith Williams)

Heron's Green:
2 Little Grebe, 2 Dunlin - sum plum, 1 Sedge Warbler, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Whitethroat

Moreton:
5 Stock Dove, 20 Woodpigeon, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 50 Carrion Crow, 2 Goldcrest - feeding chicks, 2 Dunnock

Stratford:
Gadwall, Pochard, Tufted Duck, 1 Scaup (f), 1 Ring-necked Duck - (m), 1 Goldeneye, 2 Black-necked Grebe - (m&f), 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Treecreeper

23-04-2019 Black-necked Grebe, Stratford (Ian Stapp)

Herriott's inc Pool:
1 Greylag Goose, 14 Shoveler, 8 Gadwall, 12 Teal, 1 Little Egret, 2 Red Kite, 10 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Hobby

Reports: Rich Andrews, Derek Angell, Paul Bowerman, Chris Craig, Judy Copeland, Jane Cumming, Sean Davies, Andy Davis, Paul Francis, Richard and Laurie Garner, Paul Gregory, Nick Hawkridge, Pete Hazelwood, Pete Holbrook, Dave Horlick, MJ, Steve Jones, Glen Maddison, Dave Nevitt, Aravind Ramesh, Pat Richards, Harvey Rose, Ian Stapp, Howard Taffs, Mike Thomas, Suk kam Trippier, Keith Vinicombe, Keith Williams, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG