Wednesday 8 April 2020

08-04-20 Wednesday - Woodcock

Lovely again - sun glasses and shorts!

Grasshopper Warbler
Whooper Swan
Woodcock, Red Kite
Hobby
Reed Warbler

08-04-2020 Starling Stapleton (MartinTayler)

BRISTOL

Bishopston- gardens:
2 Swallows - roof top height, heading north, 1 Willow Warbler - singing for 1/2 hr.

08-04-2020 Willow Warbler & Wren Downend (Barry Dursey)
Downend:
1 Willow Warbler, 1 Wren

Eastville:
2 Sparrowhawk, 1 Peregrine

08-04-2020 Sparrowhawk & Crow St George (Lee Gardiner)
St George:
1 Sparrowhawk - and the unwelcome attention of a Carrion Crow, 1 Kingfisher - nice to see on the River Avon - uncommon sighting

08-04-2020 Blackcap Stoke Park (Pat Richards)
Stoke Park, Duchess Pond:
2 Canada Goose,14 Mallard 9m, 2f/ 3j, 6 Woodpigeon, 1 Collard Dove, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Cormorant, 6 Moorhen, 2 Coot (one on a nest), 2 Herring Gull, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker (drumming), 2 Green Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, 1 Peregrine, 3 Jay, 8 Magpie, 9 Jackdaw, 27 Carrion Crow, 1 Coal Tit, 8 Blue Tit, 5 Great Tit, 1 Swallow, 3 Long-tailed Tit, 5 Willow Warbler, 6 Chiffchaff, 7 Blackcap, 5 Wren, 2 Nuthatch, 9 Starling, 7 Blackbird 5m, 2f, 2 Song Thrush, 4 Robin, 10 Sparrow, 2 Dunnock,5 Greenfinch,10 Goldfinch, 2 Reed Bunting.

Westbury-on-Trym
Robin - fledged already

Troopers Hill:
Someone thinks they may have heard a Nightingale - 'in among the Blackcap'

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

08-04-2020 Golsfinch Yate (Chris Teague)
Yate

gardens:
2 Herring Gull - mobbing a Buzzard and a Greenfinch trilling in the trees, Starling, Goldfinch

Common:
1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap,

Itchington:
Magpies roosting in Hawthorne tree in garden making huge commotion tonight 21.10 .. Went to see what was going on. Don’t know who was more shocked by near head height collision. Me or Little Owl, hotly pursued by the Magpie!! I ducked !!!

Alveston:
1 Goldcrest - new for the garden list

08-04-2020 Willow Warbler Aztex Business Park (Véra Carpenter)
Aztec West Business Park:
 8 Canada Geese, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Cormorant, 1 Willow Warbler

NORTH SOMERSET

Pill:
1 Buzzard scrapping with 1 Raven

Portishead - heard on the commute to work:
1 Grasshopper Warbler

08-04-2020 Skylark Cl-Y (Howard Taffs)
Clevedon:

Dowlais loop:
4 Canada Goose, 5 Lapwing, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Redshank, Skylark - song everywhere, 1 Willow Warbler, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap.

Asda:
1 Whitethroat -  first one singing

08-04-2020 Reed Bunting Yatton - Strawberry Line (Mark Savage)
Yatton:
2 Canada Geese, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, 4 Cetti’s Warbler - 1 seen 3 calling, 1 Willow Warbler, 6 Chiffchaff, 1 Sedge Warbler, 3 Blackcap, 2 Song Thrush, 4 Chaffinch, 2  Greenfinch, 2 Reed Bunting

Worle:
Blue Tit in the nest box, Robin nest in the fir tree

08-04-2020 Whitethroat & Chaffinch Uphill (Karen Ash)
Uphill:
Whitethroat, Chaffinch

BELOW M4 & BANES

Oldland Common:
1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Buzzard, 2 Raven, 3 Coal Tit, numerous Blue & Great Tit, numerous Chiffchaff  & Blackcap, 12 Goldfinch

Hanham:
Sparrowhawk, 7 Buzzard, 1 Raven

Lyde Green:
2 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Willow Warbler, 6 Chiffchaff, 1 Reed Warbler - singing

Marshfield - from a local :
Linnet-loads around this year. Small groups and pairs both north and south of the village.
Corn Bunting- rarely out of earshot anywhere from Down Road to Rushmead Farm and Rushmead lane, spreading south of the A 420 and to Shire Valley. Good numbers also Middledown Lane.
Skylark-very healthy numbers. Singing above virtually every field in the same areas as Corn Bunting
Yellowhammer-common but tend to stick to specific areas, some are still in small groups, Northfield Lane and Down Road best. 
No Grey Partridge but a few Red-legged have remained unshot!
Raven and Buzzard very common.

and from today:
1 Hobby

08-04-2020 Blackcap NSL (NSL Birding)
Newton St Loe:
1 Whooper Swan, 5 Mute Swan, 4 Teal, 5 Stock Dove, 6 Grey Heron, 6 Buzzard, 1 Kingfisher, 2 Greater Spotted Woodpecker, 5 Green Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, 6 Jay, 1 Raven, 10 Skylark, 5 Swallow, 1 Willow Warbler, 13 Chiffchaff, 8 Blackcap, 4 Song Thrush, 10 Dunnock, 2 Grey Wagtail, 25 Chaffinch, 3 Greenfinch, 2 Linnet, 1 Yellowhammer,

Timsbury:
2 Lapwing - displaying, 1 Woodcock - flushed from a thick hedge, 1 Red Kite

RESERVOIRS

CLOSED

Reports: Karen Ash, John Barnett, Pete Bryant,  David Campbell, Véra Carpenter, Paul Chapman, Jane Cumming, Alan Daniells, Barry Dursley, Heather England, Rich Ford, Paul Francis, Lee Gardiner, Julian Head, Rob Laughton, Andy Mears, James Payne, Tim McGrath, Paul Milsom, Aravind Ramesh, Dean Reeves, Pat Richards, Mark Savage, Larry Sweetland, Howard Taffs, Martin Tayler, Chris Teague, Mike Tripi, Lauren & Wayne Tucker, Paul Williams

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