Thursday 9 April 2020

09-04-20 Thursday - Swift and summer migrants + Birds of Prey from gardens

Warming up: lovely blue skies again today. Bristol temperatures 11- 25°C

Swift
Avocet, Whimbrel
Red Kite
Goshawk
Fieldfare
House Martin
Lesser Whitethroat, Whitethroat
Redstart
Siskin


09-04-20 nest-building Wren, Yatton (Higgy)

BRISTOL

Badock's Wood:
2 Canada Goose, Stock Dove, 4 Willow Warbler, 1m Greenfinch

Purdown:
1 Willow Warbler, 2 Linnet

River Avon at Sea Mills:
3 Oystercatcher, 4 Redshank

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE



09-04-20 Turnstone, New Passage (Lisegirl)
New Passage/Northwick:
3 Egyptian Goose, Whimbrel, 1 Siskin

09-04-20 Egyptian Goose, Northwick (Lisegirl)
Pilning Wetlands:
2 Avocet, Lapwing, 1m Blackcap, 2 Linnet, Reed Bunting


09-04-20 Red Kite over Yate (Mark Coller)
Severn Beach:
DHL site - 2 Canada Goose, 1 Raven. 2 Cetti's Warbler, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff,  2 Pied Wagtail 

Yate:
Gardens - 2 Red Kite over, 2 Peregrine

Chipping Sodbury:
River Frome - 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Kingfisher.

Oldland Common:
Garden - 1 f Sparrowhawk

NORTH SOMERSET


09-04-20 Red Kite over Clevedon garden (Paul Williams)
Clevedon-Yeo:
Garden - 2 Red Kite over in am, later 3 Red Kite early pm
Dowlais - 80+ Redshank, 3 Snipe, 4 - 10 Swallow, 1 m Redstart, 2 Wheatear

Nailsea:
1 pr Raven displaying


09-04-20 Kestrel with prey, Kenn Moor (Somerset Wildlife Photography)
Kenn Moor:
1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 1 Swallow (over)

Yatton:
7 Swift -  'Never seen them go through a garden like that before. Almost Sprawk-like the way they came up over the fence and sunk down into the garden at speed and rising up over the fence and gone! I was stood in the kitchen window making a cup of tea and our house is slightly elevated so they were right across my eyeline, made me gasp!'

Weston-Super-Mare:
Garden - 1 Goshawk over, drifting east at mid-day

09-04-20 Osprey over  Uphill (Penny Wills)
Uphill:
1 Osprey drifting high, Swallow, a few more Sedge Warbler, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 3 Whitethroat

BELOW M4 & BANES

09-04-20 Blackcap, Carrs, Bath (Rob Hargreaves)
Bath:
Twerton - 1 Mallard, 5 Stock Dove, 2 Buzzard, 2 Jay, 2 Willow Warbler, 10+ Chiffchaff, 8+ Blackcap, 3 Goldcrest, 4 Nuthatch, 1 Treecreeper, 4 Song Thrush, 6 Bullfinch

Walcot and Bath Racecourse - 5 Swallow,1 House Martin plenty Chiffchaff and Blackcap, 39 Fieldfare, 9 Greenfinch 

Bishop Sutton:
2 House Martin back on site

Cameley:
Update from recent days - 1 f Sparrowhawk soaring – daily routine, 2 pr  Buzzard,  pr Mistle Thrush , 1 pr  Linnet, 4 Goldfinch

Also Stoat running (and hopping, skipping and standing up) across an open field next to us. [First I’ve seen here though we have many Weasels, to the detriment of my nestbox occupants]

RESERVOIRS

CLOSED

09-04-20 Song Thrush, Carrs, Bath (Rob Hargreaves)


Reports:John Allen, Mark Coller, Geoff Daniells, Trevor Ford, Rob Hargreaves, Colin Higgins, Matt Hobbs, Adrian Hockey,  Lisegirl, Glen Maddison,  Bob Medland, James Payne, Dean Reeves, Andrew Sardeman, Rosemary Setter, Larry Sweetland, Howard Taffs, Christopher Teague,  Paul Williams, Penny Wills, nslbirdingsevernsidebirdsTBOSG