Tuesday 14 April 2020

14-04-20 Tuesday - White Stork

Lovely sunny day, cold feel to it, but warm as long as you stayed out the wind

White Stork
Fieldfare
Yellow Wagtail
Redstart
Red Kite
Grasshopper Warbler

BRISTOL

Ashley Down:
2 Sparrowhawk

Blaise Estate:
1 Fieldfare - late, headed off north west

14-04-2020 Peregrine Avon Gorge (Keith Williams)
Clifton - inc The Downs:
1 Peregrine (m), 4 Chiffchaff all singing, 2 Blackcap, 1 Song Thrush,

Hotwells and Rownham Hill:
1 Cormorant, 2 Herring Gull, 4 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 15 Carrion Crow, 8 Blackbird, 1 Song Thrush - singing loudly, , 1 Greenfinch,

Redland Green:
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker - heard drumming and seen too.

Southmead - Badocks Wood:
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Jay, 8 Blue Tit, 5 Wren, 3 Nuthatch, 2 Blackbird, 5 Robin

14-04-2020 Jay St George (Lee Gardiner)
St George:
1 Jay, 1 Robin - singing

Stockwood Open Space:
1 Moorhen, 1 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 7 Chiffchaff, 6 Blackcap, 3 Song Thrush, 5 Greenfinch, 5 Goldfinch

Stoke Park, Purdown:
4 Willow Warblers, many Chiffchaff and Blackcap, 3 Whitethroat, many Greenfinch.

14-04-2020 Song Thrush Stoke Park (Pat Richards)
Stoke Park, Duchess Pond:
2 Canada Goose, 29 Mallard 10m, 4f, 15j. 2 Feral Pigeon, 9 Woodpigeon, 2 Collared Dove, 7 Moorhen, 4 Coot, 1 Buzzard, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Green Woodpecker, 5 Jay, 7 Magpie, 5 Jackdaw, 27 Carrion Crow,1 Coal Tit, 9 Blue Tit, 7 Great Tit, 2 Willow Warbler, 5 Chiffchaff, 10 Blackcap, 1 Whitethroat, 4 Wren, 3 Nuthatch, 1 Treecreeper, 3 Starling, 4 Blackbird, 4 Song Thrush, 6 Robin 9 House Sparrow, 3 Dunnock, 5 Greenfinch, 7 Goldfinch, 2 Reed Bunting (f&m).

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

New Passage/Northwick:
1 Sparrowhawk, 6 Linnet

Pilning Wetlands:
1 Little Grebe, 1 Reed Warbler, 5 Whitethroat, 1 Reed Bunting

Severn Beach:
14-04-2020 Great Spotted Woodpecker
Severn Beech (Rod Holbrook)
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Whitethroat

Itchington:
1 Song Thrush - with fledgling

Yate:
1 Red Kite - over East, Chiffchaff

Chipping Sodbury - inc Common:
2 Stock Dove, 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Buzzard, 1 Rook, 25 Crow, 2 Blue Tit, 1 Great Tit, 3 Chiffchaff, 1 Wren, 2 Blackbird, 3 Robin, 2 Dunnock, 8 Goldfinch

Thornbury:
1 Sedge Warbler, 1 Whitethroat, Wren, Dunnock,

Patchway:
1 White Stork

Little Stoke:
1 Red Kite,

NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon-Yeo:
1 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull - with darvic ring,  fitted on Flatholm, 7 Swallows - on the move, 2 Reed Warbler, 1 Blackcap, 2 Whitethroat, 1 Wheatear, 1 Yellow Wagtail

Sandford - Congresbury - Strawberry Line, finishing at Banwell:
13 Mallard, (f) + 12 ducklings, a few Swallow - around the farms, 2 - 3 Cetti's Warbler - singing, possible nest site on R Banwell, Willow Warbler and Blackcap - singing, lots of Wren, 1 Grey Wagtail (m), lots of Goldfinch

Worle:
2 Peregrine - over, 2 Raven - tumbling, 5 Goldfinch - on the feeders.

14-04-2020 Grasshopper Warbler Uphill (Penny Wills)
Uphill:
2 Swallow, Reed Warbler, 1 Grasshopper Warbler, 8 Whitethroat,

Winscombe:
'I heard my 1st Blackcap singing away this year'

BELOW M4 & BANES

Hanham - Hills:
Canada Goose, 2 Redstart (f), 2 Willow Warbler, 4 Chiffchaff, 1 Lesser Whitethroat

14-04-2020 Yellowhammer Bath (Robert Hargreaves)
Bath - Seven Acre Wood:
3 Canada Goose - heading west, Woodpigeon,  Chiffchaff, Blackcap, 1 Whitethroat, 1 Yellowhammer

Newton St Loe:
2 Sparrowhawk, 3 Buzzard, 2 Raven, 3 Swallow, 5 Skylark,  6 Chiffchaff, 6 Blackcap, 1 Whitethroat, 2 Nuthatch, 2 Song Thrush, 1 Mistle Thrush, 2 Grey Wagtail, 2 Greenfinch, 4 Linnet, 1 Yellowhammer,

RESERVOIRS

CLOSED

Reports: Dru Brooke-Taylor, Pete Bryant, Mark Coller, Adam Cross, Greg Dawes, Barry Dursley, William Earp, Heather England, Paul Francis, Lee Gardiner, Oli Gilman, Dom Godfrey, Pete Harrison, Rod Holbrook, Rob Laughton, Mike Meechem, Andy Middleton, Mike Moxon, Jean Oliver, Lisa Presland, Dean Reeves, Pat Richards, Carol Rushton, Matt Scott, Larry Sweetland, Howard Taffs, Nigel Warren, Lauren & Wayne Tucker, Keith Williams, Paul Williams, Penny Wills

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