Temp from 10 to 25°C. A sunny and warm day.
Whimbrel
Cuckoo, Red Kite
House Martin
Garden Warbler, Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler
Wheatear, Redstart, Tree Pipit
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| 11-04-20 Resourceful Robins (Philip Appleton) Nest in a garden waste bin - thankfully not collected! |
BRISTOL
1 Collared Dove, 6 Sparrowhawk, 1 Red Kite over Bishopston (10:40) and Hotwells, up to 15 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker at Hotwells, 2 Peregrine (including one being escorted by a Sparrowhawk over Stockwood), 3 Jay, 3 Rook, 8 Raven with 4 being seen at once
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| 11-04-20 Sparrowhawk, Bristol (Pawel Jejno) |
SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE
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| 11-04-20 Chiffchaff, Three Brooks NR (Vera Carpenter) |
Pilning Wetlands:
3 Wheatear, 1 Reed Bunting
Yate:
Dawn chorus: Pheasant, Herring Gull, Woodpigeon, Sparrowhawk, Green Woodpecker, Jay, Magpie, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Wren, Blackbird, Song Thrush, Robin, House Sparrow, Dunnock
1 Red Kite, Buzzard, 1 Tawny Owl (calling this evening), 2 Green Woodpecker, 1 Coal Tit, 4 Chiffchaff, 1 Sedge Warbler, 5 Blackcap
Almondsbury:
1 Jay, 6 Jackdaw, 1 Starling (first in 23 years in this garden!), 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 2 Wren, 1 Song Thrush, 1 Chaffinch, 2 Bullfinch, 2 Goldfinch
Olveston:
2 Woodpigeon, 5 House Martin, 2 Blue Tit, 1 Wren
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| 11-04-20 House Martin, Olveston (Alan Gilbert) |
1 Swallow (10.04.20)
NORTH SOMERSET
Pill:
1 Red Kite, 1 Buzzard, 1 Raven
Walton Common:
1 Cuckoo, 3 Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, Blackcap
Backwell:
1 m Bullfinch
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| 11-04-20 Bullfinch, Backwell (Robin Lambert) |
Nailsea:
3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Chiffchaff, 3 f Blackcap, Nuthatch
Tickenham:
1 Red Kite, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler
Kenn:
1 House Martin, 1 Grey Wagtail
Yatton:
House Martin returning
Between Banwell and Winscombe:
Kestrel, Sedge Warbler, Blackcap
Sand Point:
4 Whimbrel, 30+ Curlew, 1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Raven, 7 Chiffchaff, 9 Willow Warbler, 11 Blackcap, 2 Whitethroat, 2 m Redstart, 5 Meadow Pipit, 1 Tree Pipit, 15 Linnet
Weston-super-Mare and Worle:
1 Sparrowhawk, 4 Buzzard, 1 Peregrine
Uphill:
Sedge Warbler, Whitethroat
Video of returning House Martins, Yatton (Higgy)
BELOW M4 & BANES
Bath:
3 Mallard, 4 Buzzard, 4 Magpie, 3 Coal Tit, 5 Blue Tit, 3 Swallow at Lansdown, Chiffchaff, 1 Willow Warbler, Blackcaps, 1 Garden Warbler at Lower Weston, Whitethroat, 2 Wren, 1 Nuthatch, 10+ Blackbird, 10+ Robin, 5 Wheatear at Lansdown, 5+ Dunnock, 1 (usual) Bullfinch at Bath Mill, 4+ Goldfinch, 1 Yellowhammer
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| 11-04-20 Yellowhammer, Bath Mill (Robert Hargreaves) |
Warmley:
8 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Blackcap
NO RESERVOIR REPORTS
Protection of rare breeding birds, Schedule 1, is now in force
List here and in side bar
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| 11-04-20 mating House Sparrow, Stanton Drew (Raoul Chandraskera) |
NO RESERVOIR REPORTS
Protection of rare breeding birds, Schedule 1, is now in force
List here and in side bar
Lockdown Updates
Article on the Thermal Imaging Camera used by Crew Valley Ringing Station
Home Patch 4 Stoke Bishop - a rerun of a Bird News series from 2018, apt for the present
Bristol Swifts have started a blog on Bristol back gardens, now in the sidebar at the top
