Monday 23 March 2020

23-03-20 Monday - Avocets

A fine and lovely morning with high cloud and less wind.  Quite warm out of the cool breeze.

Whooper Swan, Long-tailed Duck
Black-throated DiverGreat Northern Diver
more Red Kites
Avocet, Little Ringed Plover

Nuthatch at Cadbury Hill (Mark Savage)
BRISTOL

VisMig over Purdown:
23 Meadow Pipit

Warmley Park:
Green Woodpecker, Chiffchaffs.

23-03-2020 Wren Downend (Barry Dursley)
Downend:
Wren - full song; to cheer the heart

Stockwood Open Space:
2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Raven, 2 Coal Tit, numerous Blue and GreatTit, 1 Song Thrush, 5 Robin, 4 Greenfinch

Bishopston - garden:
2 Buzzard - circling, 2 Jay - warbling as they nest build, 2 Raven - calling as they went over, 2 Coal Tit, 1 Blackcap (f) - - -  and Teal heard going over in the evening.

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

23-03-2020 Buzzard Wickwar (©Alan Piper)
Wickwar:
Nice Buzzard

Oldbury Power Station:
Some vismig: 100+ Meadow Pipit to NE (inc. flock of 74 through low at 9:10am).
1 Mute Swan (in the middle of the estuary), pr. Peregrine, 2 Stock Dove, 50+ Woodpigeon, 3 Collared Dove.

New Passage/Northwick:
6 Avocet, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 1 Knot, 48 Black-tailed Godwit, 37 Redshank.

Yate:
2 Raven

Chipping Sodbury:
Red Kite

NORTH SOMERSET

23-03-2020 Mallard family Portishead (Katie Horrocks)
Portishead:
Mallard through the garden !

Boating Lake:
2 Greylag Goose - normally only George - a lady friend?

Clevedon garden:
Willow Warbler

Clevedon-Yeo:
4 Little Egret.
On passage:  Pied/White Wagtails, Meadow Pipits, Linnets, Greenfinches.

Yatton:

Cadbury Hill:
1 Jay, 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap, 2 Goldcrest, 2 Nuthatch, 1 Song Thrush

Wemberham Lane:
2 Mallard, 2 Buzzard, 2 Herring Gull, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, 2 Raven

Puxton Moor:
2 Canada Geese, 5 Mute Swan, 8 Mallard, 1 Jay, 3 Skylark, 2 Great Tit, 3 Chiffchaff.

Bristol Airport:
70 Teal. 7 Little Egret, 2 Oystercatcher, 1 Snipe, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff, 25 Pied Wagtail.

Weston-Super-Mare:
4 calling Chiffchaff.

BELOW M4 & BANES

Bath:
Englishcombe Lane:  Red Kite.
R.Avon:  Grey Heron, 1 Sand Martin, 3 Chiffchaff.

Stock Dove (NSL-Birding)
Newton St Loe:
6 Mute Swan, 1 Whooper Swan, 11 Mallard, 16 Teal, 3 Tufted Duck, 4 Grey Heron, 1 Cormorant, 1 Red Kite, 6 Buzzard, 3 Moorhen, 1 Coot, 1 Green Sandpiper (1st for the patch), 2 Stock Dove, 3 Green Woodpecker, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, 1 Jay, 1 Raven, 3 Coal Tit, 4 Skylark, 5 Chiffchaff, 2 Nuthatch, 1 Mistle Thrush, 1 Song Thrush, 2 Grey Wagtail, 1 Bullfinch,

Greenfinch (Lucy Masters)
Chew Stoke:
1 GS Woodpecker, 3 LT Tit, 1 Greenfinch, 2 Goldfinch.

Shelduck at Chew (Ian Stapp)
RESERVOIRS

Barrow Gurney Tanks:
Long-tailed Duck, 1 Black-throated Diver, 1 Great Northern Diver.

Blagdon Lake:
NOTE that the car parks have now been closed - see Blagdon website.

Chew Valley Lake

Heron's Green:
2 Little Grebe, 3 Great White Egret, 2 Little Egret, 4 Buzzard, 1 Oystercatcher,

Marsh Harrier at Moreton (Ian Stapp)
Moreton:
20 Canada Goose, 2 Shelduck, 2 Great White Egret, 2 Grey Heron, 1 Marsh Harrier, 1 Tawny Owl (on a post), 2 Redwing, 4 Chiffchaff, 2 LT Tit (nest building).

Long-tailed Tit at Chew (Ian Stapp)
Stratford:
1 Cetti's Warbler.

Herriott's - inc Pool:
4 Shelduck, 2 Pintail, 2 Little Grebe, 1 Little Egret, 2 Great White Egret, possibly the same Marsh Harrier, 2 Buzzard, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, Sand Martin, 2 Jay, 2 Raven, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Grey Wagtail, 1 Reed Bunting.

Reports: Phil Barlow, Nick Beamson, Brian Boyland, Alan Chard, Bryan Cook, Barry Dursley, Paul Francis, Adrian Hockey, Katie Horrocks,  Lucy Masters, Tim McGrath, Mike Moxon, Fiona Neate & Richard Gules, Dave Newman, Alan Piper, Dee Pope, George Rabin, Mark Savage,Tony Scott, Ian Stapp, Larry Sweetland, Howard Taffs, Christopher Teague, Brian Thompson, Paul Williams, 

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