Wednesday, 15 April 2020

15-04-20 Wednesday - Cuckoo

Lovely day again - still a bit chilly out of the sun.

Red Kite
Cuckoo
Brent Goose
Yellow Wagtail
White Wagtail,
Jack Snipe

BRISTOL

City Centre - Finzels Reach:
2 Peregrine still around

Easton - Greenbank:
1 Red Kite

Eastville & Park:
3 Buzzard, 2 Sparrowhawk, 3 Stock Dove, 2 Rook - tick for the patch,  2 Raven, 1 Sand Martin - over the house

Narroways - Boiling Wells:
2 Grey Wagtail

15-04-2020 Common Sandpiper R Avon St George (Lee Gardiner)
St George:
1 Common Sandpiper - flying along the R Avon

Stoke Park - Purdown & Duchess Pond:
1 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Long-tailed Tit, 5 Willow Warblers, 3 Chiffchaff, 4 Blackcap, 2 Whitethroat (1 by the telecoms tower), 3 Song Thrush, 2 Greenfinch, 1 Linnet

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

15-04-2020 Linnet NP (Lisa Presland)
New Passage/Northwick - Pilning Wetlands:
3 Greylag Goose - new in, 50 Shelduck, 8 Shoveler, 26 Oystercatcher, Lapwing, 2 Curlew, lots of Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Cormorant, Reed Warbler, many Pied Wagtail, lots of lovely Linnet, 1 Reed Bunting

15-04-2020 Chiffchaff Yate (Barry Dursley)
Yate - inc the Common:
1 Red Kite - headed SE, 2 Green Woodpecker, 1 Jay, 3 Willow Warbler, 6 Chiffchaff, 5 Blackcap, 1 Song Thrush, 1 Mistle Thrush,

Westerleigh:
2 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Blue Tit, 4 Great Tit, 1 Skylark, 2 Willow Warbler, 8 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 2 Wren, 3 Blackbird, 2 Yellowhammer

Filton - Golf Course: (14-04-20)
1 Green Woodpecker, 10 Rook feeding on Fairway 1 with 16 Jackdaw & Crow, 1 Raven (some fancy flying), 5 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap, 2 Chaffinch, 5 Greenfinch.

Hambrook:
1 Peregrine, 2 Dipper

NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon-Yeo:
3 Brent Goose - pb, 2 Canada Goose, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Jack Snipe, 6 Snipe, 10 Redshank, 2 Mediterranean Gull - sum plum, 1 Cormorant, 1 Little Egret, 1 Red Kite - circling over town, 1 Kestrel, 1 Raven, 23 Swallow, 1 Willow Warbler, 4 Chiffchaff, 1 Whitethroat - singing, 3 Yellow Wagtail, 2 White Wagtail, 3 Pied Wagtail, 10 Meadow Pipit, 1 Reed Bunting,

Nailsea Moor - North Drove:
1 Sedge Warbler - heard and saw flashes of movement, early run.

Wraxall Moor:
1 Willow Warbler - 1st for a few years

Congresbury:
1 Cuckoo - calling along the Strawberry Line

Yatton:
1 Peregrine - circling

15-04-2020 House Sparrow (family to feed) Worlebury (George Rabin)

Weston-Super-Mare:
3 Swallow - over the garden

Worle:
1 Peregrine - 'watched it stoop - wow', Robin family have fledged and moved out, 2 Linnet over.

15-04-2020 Sedge Warbler Uphill (Penny Wills)
Uphill:
a few Sedge Warbler - setting up territories

BELOW M4 & BANES

15-04-2020 Song Thrush Wickwar (Alan Piper)
Wickwar:
1 Song Thrush

Hanham Hills + 2 gardens:
1 Moorhen, 5 Swallow, 3 Willow Warbler, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Common Whitethroat
2 Otter in the R Avon at the Chequers Pub - 6:45

15-04-2020 Stock Dove and Grey Heron Hanham (Lee Gardiner)
Hanham - Eastwood farm:
2 Stock Dove, Grey Heron at the heronry

Shortwood - Landfill site:
1 or 2 Red Kite

15-04-2020 Canada Goose Saltford (Robert Hargreaves)
Saltford:
2 Canada Geese, 18 Mallard + 6 ducklings, 1 Moorhen, 12 Lesser B-b Gull, 3 Grey Heron, 2 Buzzard, 1 Great and 2 Green Woodpecker, 10 Magpie, 1 Swallow, 2 House Martin, 10+ Chiffchaff, 12 + Blackcap, 3 Song Thrush, 1 Mistle Thrush

15-04-2020 Whitethroat NSL (NSLBirding)
Newton St Loe:
Whitethroat - up on Severn Acre

Wellow:
1 Whitethroat, 2 Wheatear


15-04-2020 GS Woodpecker Chew Stoke (Lucy Masters)
Chew Stoke:
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker - back in the garden

RESERVOIRS

CLOSED

Reports: Peter Bryant, David Campbell, Paul Chapman, Dave Child, Mark Coller, Steve Curtis, Abi Deas, Barry Dursley, Lee Gardiner, David Gibbs, Robert Hargreaves, Pete Harrison, Bob Laughton, Rob Laughton, Lucy Masters, Jim Payne, Alan Piper, Lisa Presland, Lois Pryce, George Rabin, Dean Reeves, Trevor Riddle, Carol Rushton, Stuart Sammonds, Paul Sawyer, Richard Scantlebury, Larry Sweetland, Howard Taffs, Dan White, Martin Wightman, Paul Williams, Penny Wills, nslbirdingsevernsidebirdsTBOSG