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 Diver, Great 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:
1 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, 

 blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG