Tuesday 24 March 2020

24-03-20 Tuesday - Willow Warbler

Temp 2 to 18°C. Sunshine sunshine - Temma Harbour weather

Willow Warbler
Red Kite
Redpoll

BRISTOL

Bishopston - walking in the streets:
1 Green Woodpecker heard, Chiffchaff passing through, Blackcap singing

Blaise Estate:
2 Great Spotted Woodpecker (drumming), 1 Buzzard, 1 Raven, 1 Jay, 2 Blackcap (singing), 1  Chiffchaff (singing, first of the year for me) + plus usual tits, wrens, blackbirds, woodies, magpies

24--03-2020 House Sparrow bath day Henleaze (Geoff Daniels)
Henleaze - garden:
Woodpigeon and House Sparrow

High Kingsdown - garden:
1 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap (f&m) still

Redland Green:
Distant yaffling Green Woodpecker, calling Chiffchaff passing through, singing Blackcap

Westbury-on-Trym - garden:
Red Kite, 1 Buzzard

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Severn Beach:
Displaying Meadow Pipits, Redpoll

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead:
1 Buzzard and mobbing Gulls

24-03-2020 Lapwing Cl-Y Dowlais (Howard Taffs)
Clevedon-Yeo:
36 Canada Goose, 4 Mute Swan, 50+ Shelduck, 70 Wigeon, 40 Teal, 4 Tufted Duck, 2 Grey Heron,
5 Little Egret, 2 Cormorant, 1 Buzzard, 6+ Coot, 36 Oystercatcher, 5 Lapwing - Dowlais, display seen, 3 Grey Plover, 2 Ringed Plover, 160 Curlew, 4 Bar-tailed Godwit, 1 Knot, 4 Dunlin, 235 Redshank - 170 up Yeo, 60 at Kenn - ~5 displaying at Dowlais, 2 Great Black-backed Gull, 25 Herring Gull, 4 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 1 Cetti's Warbler - Singing at Dowlais Farm, 4 Skylark, 1 Willow Warbler - singing, 2 Chiffchaff, several Blackbird - all singing (m), 30 Meadow Pipit, 2 Reed Bunting

24-03-2020 Collared Dove Long Ashton (Lyndon Roberts)
Long Ashton:
1 Collared Dove

Tickenham Moor:
1 Sparrowhawk, 4 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Sand Martin, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap (m).

Cadbury Camp:
2 Pheasant, 8 Buzzard, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker (1 drumming, 1 calling), 3 Green Woodpecker, 1 Jay, 2 new rookeries with Rooks (will be counted in survey in a fortnight), 4 Raven, 2 Coal Tit, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 12 Chiffchaff, 7 Nuthatch, I Treecreeper, 1 Song Thrush, 11 Meadow Pipit, 9 Chaffinch, 2 Greenfinch

Clevedon, Dowlais:
First singing Willow Warbler of the year. Then a lovely finale of 2 displaying then copulating Mute Swans
Butterfly: Brimstone 4, Small  Tortoiseshell 2, Peacock 1

Kenn Pier:
1 Kingfisher, 1 Grey Wagtail

Wrington:
Singing Chiffchaffs and a single Fieldfare

BELOW M4 & BANES

Hanham - Gover Open Space:
1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Chiffchaff - singing, 2 Redwing

Warmley & Forest Park:
10 Woodpigeon, 1 Tawny Owl, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker - drumming, 1 Green Woodpecker, 6 Jackdaw, 2 Coal Tit, 10+ Blue Tit, 10+ Great Tit, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 14 Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap,  9 Wren, 4 Blackbird, 15+ Robin, 4 Chaffinch, 8 Greenfinch, 11 Goldfinch

Oldland Common - garden:
No Coal Tit in the nest box ! Evicted by Blue Tit

Bath, Dean Hill to Lansdown:
Red Kite, 6 Chiffchaff, 2 m Wheatear

Bath, Twerton:
1 Green Woodpecker, 1 pr Blue Tit building nest, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Goldcrest, 2 Nuthatch

Bath - English Combe:
2 Red Kite, 3 Buzzard

Bathampton Meadow:
Chiffchaff singing all day

Cameley:
1 Snipe flushed and a fall of Chiffchaff over the w/e, also first Blackcaps (two) singing here today

Paulton:
4 Little Grebes (2 pairs - 1 pair nest building), 2 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, 7 Jay (together), 2 Ravens, 1 m Blackcap, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Goldcrest, 2 Treecreeper

RESERVOIRS

Probably no records will be coming from the reservoirs for some time

Out of Avon
Ring Ouzel on Cleeve Common

Reports: Derek Angell, Paul Bowerman, Simon Carder, John Clark, Bryan Cook, John Croxton, Steve Curtis, Geoff Daniels, Duncan Dine, Paul Francis, Alastair Fraser, Robert Hargreaves, Nick Hudson, Rob Laughton, Tim McGrath, Val Mead, Bob Medland, Jean Oliver, Chris Perry, Lois Pryce, Phil Quinn, Rob Laughton, Lyndon Roberts, Harvey Rose, Carole Rushton, Howard Taffs, Keith Vinicombe, Keith Williams, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG