Monday 30 March 2020

30-03-20 Monday - a new Whooper Swan

Mainly overcast with a chilly NE wind, but dry and pleasant.

Whooper Swan
Red Kite
Golden Plovers
Siskins

BRISTOL

Avon Gorge:
4 Peregrine (3 adults and a juvenile), 1 imm Sparrowhawk, 2 Buzzard, 6+ Stock Dove.

Redland (2 gardens):
2 Lesser Black Backed Gulls, 2 Herring Gulls, 2 Woodpigeon, 2 Magpie, 2 Carrion Crow, 2 Coal Tit, 1 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, 1 Blackbird, 1 Robin, 11+ House Sparrow, 2 Dunnock, 2 Goldfinch.

30-03-2020 Collared Dove Bishopston (Nick Hawkridge)
Bishopston (2 gardens):
1 Woodpigeon, 2 Collared Dove, 2 Magpie, 1 Blue Tit, 5 Starling, 1 Blackbird, 1 Dunnock, 1 Blackcap (f), 7 House Sparrow, 1 Goldfinch.

St George:
2 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Greenfinch
30-03-2020 Long-tailed Tit - Greenfinch St George (Lee Gardiner)

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Yate Common:
1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker (one drumming male), 2 Song Thrush, 2 Blackcap, 5 Chiffchaff, 6 Goldfinch, 1 Bullfinch.

Yate -garden:
1 Tawney Owl - calling 21:30 to 22:00, 2 Blackcap (f)

NORTH SOMERSET


Nuthatch at nest site (Robin Lambert) 

Abbots Leigh - garden

1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Blue Tit, Wren, Robin, Chaffinch, Greenfinch, Goldfinch

Clevedon (garden):
Sparrowhawk, Peregrine.

Kenn Moor:
(by cycle)  1 Whooper Swan (with a group of Mute Swan), 1 Peregrine, 2 Skylark, 1 Cetti’s Warbler, 8 Chiffchaff.

Congresbury (ST4463):
Red Kite (over house).

Barn Owl at Bleadon Levels (Bill Hewitt)
Bleadon Levels:
Barn Owl, drumming Great Spotted Woodpecker.

House Sparrows in a Bath garden (Rob Hargreaves)

BELOW M4 & BANES

Bath:
Lower Weston garden: 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker (daily around 6-7am), 2 Great Tit (collecting garden moss), 10 Siskin (descended on us briefly and produced a very noisy chorus for about five minutes before departing rapidly elsewhere).

Twerton: 
1 Buzzard, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Jay, 16 Magpie, 4 Coal Tit, 8 Long-tailed Tit, 3 Chiffchaff, 1 Nuthatch, 14 House Sparrow, 10 Greenfinch, 6 Goldfinch.

Paulton:
1 Buzzard, 22 Golden Plover, 40 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 4 Stock Dove, 100 corvids (Carrion Crow & Jackdaw), 7 Blackbird, 1 Yellowhammer.

Long-tailed Tit in a Bath garden (Rob Hargreaves)

RESERVOIRS
No access, and no reports.

And finally, I can't resist this dancing, Collared Dove! (Martin Tayler)

Reports: Nancy Barrett, Anne Bowler, Paul Dunham, Lee Gardiner, John Griffiths, Patrick Hancock, Rob Hargreaves, Bill Hewitt, Robin Lambert, Jean Oliver, Trevor Riddle, Tony Scott, Rod Stephens, Howard Taffs, Martin Wightman.