Thursday, 26 March 2020

26-03-20 Thursday - Osprey

Temp 1 to 17°C. Deep frost overnight but brilliant sunny day again, windy in afternoon

Whooper Swan
Osprey
Red Kite
Sand Martin
Willow Warbler
Redwing
White Wagtail

26-3-20 Goldcrest, St George (Lee Gardiner)
BRISTOL

Bishopston garden:
1 Buzzard over

Blaise Woods:
1 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker (1 drumming), 1 Raven, 2 Blackcap (singing), 1 Nuthatch, 2 Grey Wagtail

Coombe Dingle garden:
1 Blackcap (f), 2 Dunnock, 1 Chaffinch, 1 Bullfinch, 6 Goldfinch

St George - Crews Hole:
Sand Martin over high


26-3-20 Red Kite, Kingsweston Down (I Like Birds)
Kingsweston Down, 15:15:
Red Kite

Redland garden:
1 Grey Heron (flying twds SW), 2 Herring Gull, 1 Woodpigeon, 2 Collared Dove, 5 Feral Pigeon, 2 Magpie, 1 Carrion Crow, 1 Coal Tit,  2 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, 2 Long-tailed Tit

St George Riviera:
1 Goldcrest

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

26-3-20 Little Ringed Plover, New Passage (Lisegirl)
New Passage:
Shelduck, Water Rail, Oystercatcher, Little Ringed Plover, Redshank, Green Woodpecker, Chiffchaff, Meadow Pipits

Yate - garden:
1 Tawney Owl - calling this evening, 1 Coal Tit, 2 Blackcap (f).

NORTH SOMERSET

7 Buzzard circling over M5 between junction 21 and 17

Clevedon inland, 13:15:
Red Kite
26-3-20 Gadwall, Dowlais (Howard Taffs)
Clevedon Dowlais:
2 Gadwall, 5 Lapwing, Redshank, 3 Skylark

Worlebury vismig:
1 Pied Wagtail, 7 Meadow Pipit, 1 Chaffinch, 1 Bullfinch, 2 Greenfinch, 1 Linnet

Worle:
3 Sparrowhawk, 1 Buzzard

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield, Shire Valley:
Red Kite, 1 White Wagtail

Hanham:
Grey Herons at the Heronry on river Avon, 2 Buzzard, 1 Redwing in Hencliff Woods

Willsbridge:
Sparrowhawk, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Jay, Treecreeper nest building, Grey Wagtail

Chew Magna garden:
2 Buzzard, 1 singing Green Woodpecker, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Nuthatch calling

Compton Martin garden:
3 Greylag Geese, 1 Willow Warbler

Bath Lansdown, 11:20:
Red Kite

Bath, Walcott St:
1 Osprey through

Bath, Twerton:
5 Buzzard, 3 Stock Dove, 1 Collared Dove, 3 Great Spotted & 3 Green Woodpecker, 1 Jay, 1 Raven, 6 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap singing, 5 Nuthatch, 3 Treecreeper, 2 Greenfinch, 3 Goldfinch

Newton St Loe:
2 Canada Geese, 1 Whooper Swan, 2 Stock Dove, 1 Moorhen, 4 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted & 2 Green Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Chaffinch, 1 m Bullfinch

RESERVOIRS

All Closed

Blagdon Lake fisheries staff reported Osprey briefly

Out of Avon
Crossbill at Stockhill on work drive past

26-3-20 Great Spotted Woodpecker (Robert Proctor)
One of three gallivanting about today
Reports: Phil Baber, Phil Barlow, John Barnett, Nancy Barrett, John Budd, Paul Chapman, Peter Coslett, Chris Craig, Helen Daniels, Andy Davis, Lee Gardiner, Paul Gregory, Robert Hargreaves, Peter Hazelwood, Adrian Hockey, Rob Laughton, Glen Maddison, Darren Pearce, Robert Proctor, Phil Quinn, Dean Reeves, Howard Taffs, Bri Thompson, Martin Wightman, blagdonlakebirds, BUPP, CVRS, nsl-birding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds , TBOSG