Sunday 29 March 2020

29-03-20 Sunday - Osprey

Sunshine with chill breeze to greet the start of British Summer Time during the Lockdown.
Bristol Temperatures 3 - 9 °C

Osprey
Little Ringed Plover
Fieldfare, Redwing

29-03- 20 Cormorant, Eastville Park (Pete Harrison)
BRISTOL

Eastville Park:
Canada Goose, Mute Swan, Mallard, Woodpigeon, Moorhen, Coot, Herring Gull, LBB Gull, Cormorant, Magpie, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, Robin, Blackbird

Stoke Park:
1 Redwing, 2 Meadow Pipit

Clifton Downs:
4 Peregrine Falcons in the air at once. 2 Chiffchaff

Bishopston:
Garden - 1 m  Blackcap,  female Robin on nest, male quietly calling her out to feed

St George:
Garden feeders - 2 Greenfinch

Filton Golf Club:
1 GSWoodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Chaffinch, 2 Greenfinch. (No Chiffchaffs today)

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

29-03-20 Black-tailed Godwit, New Passage (Lisegirl)
New Passage:
1 Water Rail, 60+ Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Little Ringed Plover

NORTH SOMERSET

29-03-2020 Jay Pill (Paul Milsom)
Pill - inc garden:
1 Osprey over at 9.40am, 1 Jay


29-03-20 Cormorant, Portishead Marina (John Clark)
Portishead:
Marina (viewable from flat) - 2 Cormorant

Worle:
Garden - male Sparrowhawk, 1 Peregrine, 2 Raven, 2 Long-Tailed Tit, 2 Blue Tit,  Robin,  4 Goldfinch, 3 Greenfinch

Yatton:
Field adjacent to garden - 20 Fieldfare, 10 Pied Wagtail, 75 Goldfinch

BELOW M4 & BANES

Siston Common:
1 Kestrel, 1 Pied Wagtail,

Oldland Common - garden:
Collared Dove, Jackdaw, Coal Tit, Blue Tit, Great Tit, 17 Starling, Robin, 12 House Sparrow, Dunnock, 2 Greenfinch, 10 Goldfinch.

Wick - garden:
Coal Tit, Blue Tit, Great Tit, House Sparrow, Goldfinch

Bath:
Twerton - 2 Stock Dove, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Jay, 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 4 Nuthatch

29-03-20 nice shot of Blue Tit in spring, Bath (NSL Birding)
Cameley:
'At the end of Feb I was amazed to watch a pair of Blackbirds nest building in my garden in that bad weather. Sure enough, they started feeding recently and I ringed the brood of three nestlings on Weds (25th). I can see the nest site from my study window and have been very unscientific in chasing away potential predators (Carrion Crow, Magpie). The male has developed unusual tactics in trying not to give away the nest location. Instead of making the normal series of approach flights before entering the cover he would hop along the lawn, pretending to feed, then would scuttle in under the bush and out of sight. This morning I was woken up at 06:45 (BST) by the parents' alarm calls and rushed out in my dressing gown to chase away a domestic cat. I must be getting soft. Keeping fingers crossed that they’ll fledge ok next week. Is that the earliest report for breeding songbirds in the Avon area?'


RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

Dam End:
1 Oystercatcher
29-03-20 Greenfinch, Worle(Dean Reeves)
Reports:  John Clark, Ken Carruthers, Richard Croucher, Paul Francis, Rob Hargreaves, Pete Harrison, Nigel Jones,  Lisegirl, Lucy Masters, Bob Medland, Paul Milo, Lois Pryce,  Dean Reeves, Trevor Riddle, Larry Sweetland, Keith Williams