Tuesday, 21 April 2020

21-04-20 Tuesday - Cuckoo

Glorious - and set to continue

Cuckoo
Greenshank
Marsh Tit
Red Kite
Yellow Wagtail
Grasshopper Warbler
Whinchat

BRISTOL

Clifton - Zoo area:
2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Marsh Tit - back on the feeders

21-04-2020 Grey Wagtail EP (Allan Chard)
Eastville Park:
1 Grey Wagtail

St Andrews - inc park:
2 Swift - over tonight, 2 Coal Tit

21-04-2020 Great Spotted Woodpecker Avon Valley (Lee Gardiner)
St George, Avon Valley:
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker

Stoke Park Estate:
2 Green Woodpecker, 7 Wren, 1 Blackbird, 2 Robin, 1 Bullfinch, 1 Greenfinch

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

21-04-2020 Whitethroat Yate Common (Mark Coller)
Yate Common:
1 Sedge Warbler, 4 Lesser Whitethroat, 7 Whitethroat

Yate: 
Willow Warbler, Garden Warbler, Goldcrest, Wren

21-04-2020 Whinchat CSC (Peter Bryant)
Chipping Sodbury Common:
1 Swift, 1 Whinchat

Coalpit Heath:
evening stroll - 2 Little Owl, 2+ Swallow, 4 Yellowhammer,


21-04-2020 Greenfinch Three Brooks NR (Véra Carpenter)
Bradley Stoke - Three Brooks NR and a garden:
2 Swift, 1 Grey Heron - over, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Red Kite, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Jay, 2 Swallow, Willow Warbler, lots of Chiffchaff, 1 Sedge Warbler, 2 Blackcap, 2 Whitethroat, 2 Starling - nest close by, 1 Song Thrush, House Sparrow, 6 Greenfinch, 4 Goldfinch

21-04-2020 Red Kite Bradley Stoke (Craig Lewis)

NORTH SOMERSET

Pill:
1 Marsh Tit - singing

Clevedon - gardens:
6 Swift - 2 high - 4 feeding over the house tonight,  6 Swallow, 3 House Martin - low, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Goldcrest, 1 Grey Wagtail, 4 Pied/White Wagtails,

Clevedon  - Pier to Blind Yeo:
Steady trickle of Swallows along the coast with a few Sand Martins near the golf course. 1 Reed Warbler singing at The Pill. Strangely, there wasn’t a single gull from the pier to the Salthouse.

Clevedon-Yeo:
2 Oystercatcher, 28 Whimbrel, 1 Curlew, 1 Black-tailed Godwit -sum plum, c.55 Dunlin, 1 Greenshank, 7 Sand Martin, 110 Swallow - some on wires, 2 House Martin, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Willow Warbler, 6 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap, 2-3 Lesser Whitethroat, 7 Whitethroat, 1 Yellow Wagtail, 2 White Wagtail

Lower Claverham:
1 Red Kite, 2 Buzzard

21-04-2020 Lesser Whitethroat Uphill-Bleadon Levels (Karen Ash)

Sand Point/Bay:
migrant Red-legged Partridge, 7 Ringed Plover, 80 Whimbrel, 70 Dunlin, 3 Lesser Whitethroat,  1 Wheatear, 2 Yellow Wagtail

Weston-Super-Mare - STW:
1 Cuckoo, 1 Garden Warbler, 2 Whinchat, 1 Wheatear

Weston-Super-Mare - Mercedes Dealeship:
1 Peregrine - feeding on a pigeon in a lockdown emptied car park


Worle- gardens:
1 Sparrowhawk (f) with prey, 1 Red Kite - over the house, 2 Peregrine, 2 Jay, 2 Raven

Uphill - Bleadon Levels:
1 Kestrel, 1 Sedge Warbler, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Whitethroat, 1 Wheatear

21-04-2020 Kestrel Uphill - Bleadon Levels (Karen Ash)
Congresbury - fishing ponds and Golf Course:
2 Canada Goose, 2 Mute Swan - nest, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 4 Sedge Warbler, 2 Reed Bunting - pr, 7 Linnet

Banwell:
3 Canada Goose, 1 Mute Swan, Mallard with 11 ducklings, 1 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel - nest box client, 3 Swallow, 1 Grey Wagtail (m), 2 Pied Wagtail,

Puxton:
4 Cormorant - pylons, 2 Grey Heron, 1 Kestrel, 4 Skylark - displaying, 2/3 Cetti's Warbler, 5+ Sedge Warbler, Blackcap - inc alarm calling (m), 4 Meadow Pipit - displaying, 5 Reed Bunting,

BELOW M4 & BANES

Willsbridge:
1 Tawney Owl - calling tonight


21-04-2020 Peregrine St John's Bath (BUPP)
Bath - St John's Church:
Peregrine - 1st and 2nd chick hatched today + 1st Swift in Bath area

Corston Field
many Skylark, Blackcap & Whitethroat, 1 Wheatear,

21-04-2020 Nuthatch NSL (Robert Hargreaves)
Newton St Loe:
6 Mute Swan, 3 Moorhen, 1 Sparrowhawk, 3 Buzzard, 2 Green Woodpecker, 2 Jay, 4 Skylark, 11 Swallow, 10 Chiffchaff, 14 Blackcap, 3 Goldcrest, 5 Nuthatch, 1 Mistle Thrush, 5 Chaffinch (m), 2 Bullfinch, 16 Goldfinch

Compton Martin:
1 Cuckoo - calling this evening

Chew Magna:
1 Grasshopper Warbler (m) singing, 2 Whitethroat (m) singing too.

Chew Stoke:
1 Pied Flycatcher (f) - alas it didn't hang around

RESERVOIRS

CLOSED

CVL - drive by:
c70 Swift, 2 Common Sandpiper, 19 Little Gull

CVL - Herriott's - cycle by:
1 Great White Egret, 2 Little Egret, 3 Common Sandpiper,

Reports: Karen Ash, Des Bowring, Peter Bryant, Karle Burford, BUPP, Rob Capel, Véra Carpenter, Raoul Chandrasakera, Allan Chard, Mark Coller, Chris Craig, Steve Curtis, Andy Davis, Barry Dursley, David Esam, Tim Ford, Lee Gardiner, Paul Gregory, Ken Hall, Robert Hargreaves, Adrian Hockey, Mike Jackson, Craig Lewis, Miss Mead, Giles Morris, Mike Moxon,  Jean Oliver, Mark Ponsford, Dean Reeves, Carol Rushton, Adrian Sharp, Paul Williams, 

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