Monday 9 March 2020

09-03-20 Monday - Sand Martin

A bit nicer - although rain spoilt it this afternoon

Marsh Harrier
Mediterranean Gull
Scaup
Sand Martin
Red Kite
Whooper Swan
Great Northern Diver, Long-tailed Duck

BRISTOL

Brandon Hill:
1 Treecreeper  bit of video.

Stockwood Open Spaces:
1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Buzzard, 1 Moorhen, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Coal Tit, plenty of Blue and Great Tit, 3 Robin, 2 Stonechat (pr), 2 Dunnock, 2 Greenfinch, 10 Goldfinch.

Stoke Park, Duchess Pond:
2 Chiffchaff, 1 Redwing, 1 Reed Bunting

Coombe Dingle - garden:
1 Sparrowhawk - through at speed, 3 Raven - over, 1 Blackcap (f)

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
2 Little Grebe - trilling call, 4 Chiffchaff - 1 singing

09-03-2020 Red Kite NP/NW (Aravind Ramesh)
New Passage/Northwick:
1 Red Kite - over

09-03-2020 Bullfinch Severn Beach (Rod Holbrook)
Severn Beach:
Bullfinch (m)

09-03-2020 Little Egret Yate (Mark Coller)
Yate - Stanshaws Lake:
1 Little Egret

Chipping Sodbury Quarry:
1 Peregrine - on mast

09-03-2020 Chiffchaff CSC (Mark Coller)
Chipping Sodbury Common:
1 Green Woodpecker, 3 Chiffchaff, 3 Stonechat

NORTH SOMERSET

Pill - garden:
1 Blackcap (f) and a deer just walked past the fence!

07-03-2020 Little Owl Nailsea (Gwen Thomas)
Nailsea:
1 Little Owl - from Sat pm, 2 Blackcap (f&m)

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield:
16 Pheasant, 2 Buzzard, 80 mixed Jackdaw and Rook, 9 Skylark, 4 Long-tailed Tit, c.700 Starling -flock, c.80 Fieldfare (on muck-spread field), c.110 Redwing - adjacent but quite separate flying flock

Bath - St John's Church:
2 Peregrine - unfazed by building work on the spire (allowed by WACA 1981 rules)

Corston:
50 Fieldfare, 10 Pied Wagtail, 20 Meadow Pipit, 6 Greenfinch

Newton St Loe:
1 Whooper Swan, only 4 Mute Swan(2 Cygnets have finally departed), 2 Male Tufted Duck have join the Female, 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 Greenfinch

RESERVOIRS

09-03-2020 Great Northern Diver BG tank 3 (Bri Thompson)
Barrow Tanks:
1 Long-tailed Duck, 1 Great Northern Diver

Blagdon Lake - inc WeBS:
68 Canada Geese, 6 Mute Swan, 2 Shoveler, 2 Gadwall, 50 Mallard, 13 Teal, 39 Pochard, 318 Tufted Duck, 15 Goldeneye, 5 Grey Heron, 2 Great White Egret, 24 Cormorant, 6 Buzzard, 1 Common Sandpiper, 37 Common Gull, 4 Sand Martin - went through (Robert Hargreaves), 2 Pied Wagtail, 1 Reed Bunting

Chew Valley Lake
5 Great White Egret, 1 Marsh Harrier - juv

Heron's Green:
2 Great White Egret, 2 Little Egret, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Stonechat
09-03-2020 Wren CVL Moreton (Ian Stapp)
Moreton:
1 Marsh Harrier, 11 Scaup, 2 Great White Egret, 1 Water Rail - calling, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Jay, 4 Sand Martin, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Reed Bunting

Herriott's - inc Pool:
2 Great White Egret, 2 Mediterranean Gull - sum plum, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Cetti's Warbler

09-03-2020 Map CVL (Ringing Centre)
Ringing Centre:
1 Barn Owl record - 2014 male nestling, now in Devon

OUT OF AREA

Steart Island:
1 Kentish Plover

Reports: Mark Coller, Chris Craig, Andy Davis, Paul Francis, Alastair Fraser, Robert Hargreaves, Pete Hazelwood, Rod Holbrook, Paul Milsom, Lois Pryce, Aravind Ramesh, Andy Slade, Ian Stapp, Larry Sweetland, Chris Teague, Gwen Thomas, Bri Thompson, Wayne Tucker, Weird Bristol,

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