Saturday 28 March 2020

28-03-20 Saturday - Garden Warbler

For your amusement the order of species is in the new IOC 10.1 order now used by Birdtrack

Temp 3 to 10°C. Started windy with a few clouds. Very windy midday as it clouded over, quieter now

Red Kite
Garden Warbler
Fieldfare, Redwing

28-3-20 Kestrel, Stoke Park (Patrick Richards)
BRISTOL

Durdham Down:
1 Nuthatch

Eastville Park:
Canada Geese, Mute Swans, Mallard, Woodpigeon, Moorhen, Coot, 1 Kingfisher, Magpie, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, Blackbird, 3 Redwing

St Andrews:
Red Kite - over at 06:30


28-3-20 Male Sparrowhawk,  Redland (Peter Walton)
Redland gardens:
1 m Sparrowhawk, 1 m Blackcap

28-3-20 Dunnock, St George Riviera (Lee Gardiner)
St George Riviera:
1 Blackcap (m) - briefly, 1 Dunnock

28-3-20 Moorhen, Duchess Lake (Patrick Richards)
Stoke Park and Duchess Lake:
4 Canada Goose, 25 Mallard 12m 4f 9J, 12 Feral Pigeon, 2 Stock Dove, 2 Collard Dove, 1 Water Rail (heard), 5 Moorhen, 2 Coot, 4 Herring Gull, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Buzzard, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Great Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, 8 Magpie, 14 Jackdaw, 27 Crow, 1 Coal Tit, 3 Blue Tit, 6 Great Tit, 4 Long-tailed Tit, 4 Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap 2m, 1f, 5 Wren, 1 Nuthatch, 6 Blackbird 5m, 1f, 1 Song Thrush, 1 Mistle Thrush, 4 Robin, 6 Dunnock, 1 Chaffinch, 1 Bullfinch, 5 Greenfinch, 11 Goldfinch, 2 Reed Bunting 2m.

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Little Stoke garden:
1 Mallard, 2 Collared Dove, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 2 House Sparrow, 2 Goldfinch

Yate - garden:
Garden Warbler singing at 07:15, This record beats the earliest ever in Avon by one day, a record which has stood for 30 years

NORTH SOMERSET

Pill:
Skylark,

Kenn garden pond:
A pair of Grey Wagtail early am. Sadly driven off by Pied Wagtail!

28-3-20 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Worle (Dean Reeves - boc)
Worle garden:
5 Grey Heron, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Peregrine, 2 Raven, 1 Chiffchaff

BELOW M4 & BANES

Kingswood - garden:
4 Canada Goose - best count ever over the garden

Bath, Upper Weston, 15:20:
Red Kite


28-3-20 Buzzard, Twerton (Rob Hargreaves)
Bath, Twerton:
1 Canada Goose over, 4 Stock Dove, 1 f Sparrowhawk, 2 Buzzard, 2 Jay, 4 Long-tailed Tit, 5 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 5 Nuthatch, 2 m/f Bullfinch - underlined new on patch for lockdown

28-3-20 Long-tailed Tit has joined my ‘attacking reflection’ list
Trying out all the windows around our cottage (Bob Medland)
Cameley:
Long-tailed Tit, Goldcrest collecting lichen for nest material, 25 Fieldfare

Wick:
Out on the common
Mallard,  Little Grebe, Moorhen, Pied Wagtail,

Newton-St-Loe - garden:
Goldfinch on the feeders:

Wellow:
3 Red Kite, 1 Garden Warbler came out after 20 mins singing - defo not a Blackcap

RESERVOIRS

All Closed

Chew Valley Ringing Station reported BH Gulls seen at CVL this winter came from Finland, Lithuania and Hertfordshire; all were ringed as nestlings

OUT of AVON
237 Sanderling and a Knot on Burnham-on-Sea beach

Lockdown Updates
Link for Bird order as used by Birdtrack based on IOC 10.1

Quiz - Name the 12 birds in this chart

Reports: Derek Angell, Dave Child, John Croxton, Alan Daniels, Lee Gardiner, Robert Hargreaves, Peter Harrison, Martyn Hayes, Nigel Jones, Caroline Maudsley, Bob Medland, Paul Milsom, Adam Rawson, Larry Sweetland, Dean Reeves, Patrick Richards, Tony Scott, Andy Slade, Lauren&Wayne Tucker, Peter Walton, blagdonlakebirds, BUPP, CVRS, nsl-birding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds , TBOSG