Monday 13 April 2020

13-04-20 Easter Monday - Whitethroats

Looks really sunny and beautiful but outside is a fresh, chilly easterly wind and it's only 14°C.

Ring Ouzel
Whitethroats
Yellow Wagtail 

(and two days ago on 11th, 1-2 Night Herons recorded passing over Weston-super-Mare at night, now confirmed via a voice recording)


Yellow Wagtail at Dowlais, Clevedon (Paul Williams)
BRISTOL

Purdown:
1 m. Ring Ouzel, 1 Willow Warbler, 1 Whitethroat.

Hotwells and Cumberland Basin:
2 Mallard, 3 Collared Dove, 1 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 1 Jay, 1 Raven being mobbed by one of 8 Carrion Crows, 3+ Blue Tit, 1 Great Tit, 1 Long-tailed Tit, singing Chiffchaff, singing Song Thrush, 3 Blackbird, 1 Pied Wagtail, singing Chaffinch.

Sparrowhawk - a garden visitor in Stockwood (Paul K)
SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Warmley:
Stock Dove, Blackcaps, Willow Warbler.


NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon-Yeo:
1 m. Yellow Wagtail (flavissima), Linnets.
(and a Hare on Dowlais Scrape)

Worle:
Peregrine, 3 Ravens (one probably a fledgling).


BELOW M4 & BANES

Siston:
Tawny Owl, Song Thrush.

Nuthatch near Bath (Rob Hargreaves)
Bath:
Twerton: singing Blackcaps.

Seven Acre: Skylarks and first Whitethroat.

Langridge:  4 Swallow, 1 Wheatear, 1 Willow Warbler.

Whitethroat at Newton St Loe (NSL-Birding)
Newton St Loe:
2 Grey Heron, 1 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 1 GS Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Jay, 6 Skylark, 1 Nuthatch, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Willow Warbler, 2 Whitethroat, 1 Grey Wagtail.

A Great Spotted Woodpecker at Chew Stoke (Lucy Masters)

RESERVOIRS

CLOSED

Reports:  Dru Brooke-Taylor, Neil Delaney, Rob Hargreaves, Nick Hudson, Glen Maddison, Dean Reeves, Larry Sweetland, Paul Williams, nslbirdingsevernsidebirdsTBOSG