Arctic Skua, "Commic" Tern
Whimbrel, Bar-tailed Godwit
Cuckoo, Spotted Flycatcher, Swift
Wood Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat,
Lesser Redpoll, Siskin, Yellow Wagtail, Tree Pipit
BRISTOL
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| 25-04-20 Grey Heron, Eastville Park (Jon Mortin) |
Eastville Park:
6 Mute Swan, 3 Moorhen, 3 Coot (& 7 chicks), 1 Herring Gull, 6 LBB Gull, 1 Grey Heron, Kingfisher
St Andrews Park:
1 Jay
Crews Hole:
Peregrine, chased by two gulls
Cycling in Bristol:
Some Garden Warblers and Whitethroats heard
Stapleton:
1 Cuckoo - a great garden record!
Blaise Estate:
1 Spotted Flycatcher
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| 25-04-20 Coot family, Eastville Park (Jon Mortin) |
An interesting conundrum sent in...
My wife's parents live at Henbury. If you walk down to the shops there, you come across quite reasonable numbers of Rooks, walking around on the grass and on the pavements. I live at Westbury-on-Trym but all I ever see are Carrion Crows, particularly common in Badocks's Wood, where I counted 47 on both my last two visits. But there are no Rooks either there or anywhere else in and around Henleaze. Today though, three Rooks flew low over our garden - a long awaited garden tick! It seems odd that the two species are so well and truly separated.
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| 25-04-20 Long-tailed Tit nest, Chipping Sodbury (Peter Bryant) |
OPS:
1 imm. Arctic Skua (upriver)
Severn Beach:
3 Shelduck, 2 Gadwall, 5 Mallard, 11 BH Gull, 10 "Commic" Tern, 2 Arctic Skua (one pale phase & one dark phase - upriver), 2 Curlew, 1 Swallow, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Sedge Warbler, 2 Whitethroat
Siston, Webbs Heath:
Chiffchaff, Blackcap, 6+ Whitethroat, 1 Greenfinch
Tubbs Bottom Bridge:
3 Buzzard, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, 2 Raven, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Whitethroat, 2 Grey Wagtail
Hortham:
1 Buzzard, c. 30 Starling, 1 Song Thrush, 1 Swallow, lots of Chifchaff, 1 Whitethroat
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| 25-04-20 Chiffchaff, Hortham (Vera Carpenter) |
Portishead:
10 Raven, 2 Siskin (ringed)
Clevedon (Garden):
1 m Mallard, 6 Swift, 5 Sparrowhawk sightings (possibly same bird), 3 Buzzard, 2 Raven
Clevedon (Dowlais):
1 Egyptian Goose, 30 Whimbrel, 1 Bar-tailed Godwit, 30 Dunlin, 2 Common Sandpiper, 1 Sparrowhawk (an influence on the diminished number of waders...)
Easton-in-Gordano:
Green Woodpecker, 2 Rook, 3 Skylark, Long-tailed Tit, Blackcap - on feeder in the garden yesterday, 1 Whitethroat, 1 Yellowhammer
Sand Bay/Point:
74 Whimbrel, 7 Curlew, 8 Bar-tailed Godwit, 6 Knot, 100+ Dunlin, Redshank, 10 Swallow, Sedge Warbler, 2 Reed Warbler, Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Yellow Wagtail, Tree Pipit, Lesser Redpoll, Siskin
Woodspring Priory:
1 Wood Warbler
Weston-super-Mare:
2 Swift, many Buzzard, many Swallow, 7 sp. of warbler heard, 1 Grey Wagtail
Bleadon (Hellenge, Bleadon and Purn Hills):
1 Buzzard, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Whitethroat (all three warblers in song), many Dunnock, Linnet
BELOW M4 & BANES
Bath, Lansdown:
8 Skylark, 9 Swallow, 3 Willow Warbler, 10 Chiffchaff, 12 Blackcap, 3 Garden Warbler, 8 Whitethroat, 6 Starling, 5 Mistle Thrush, 4 Wheatear, 2 Meadow Pipit, 1 Bullfinch, 2 Linnet
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| 25-04-20 Buzzard, Lansdown (Robert Hargreaves) |
Newton St Loe:
No Whooper Swan, 2 Canada Goose, 5 Buzzard, 1 Raven, 5 Starling, 16 Swallow, 2 Sedge Warbler, 1 Reed Warbler, 5 Whitethroat, 1 Bullfinch, 3 Greenfinch, 1 Yellowhammer
Hanham Lock:
Not a bird but...1 Common Seal (eating a Chub this morning)
Publow & Pensford:
1 Swift, 1 Dipper
Highfield Lodge Farm:
Highfield Lodge Farm:
1 Green Woodpecker, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Dipper (Wick Weir)
Dundry:
Chiffchaffs, Blackcaps, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 8 Whitethroat
Paulton:
1 Swift (and more over the houses), 2 Stock Dove, 1 Buzzard, 8 Skylark, 2 Swallow, 2 House Martin (and more over the houses), 2 Whitethroat, 3 Chaffinch, 2 Linnet, 3 Yellowhammer
Whitchurch:
1 Peregrine - hunting unsuccessfully
RESERVOIRS
Closed
Lockdown Updates1 Swift (and more over the houses), 2 Stock Dove, 1 Buzzard, 8 Skylark, 2 Swallow, 2 House Martin (and more over the houses), 2 Whitethroat, 3 Chaffinch, 2 Linnet, 3 Yellowhammer
Whitchurch:
1 Peregrine - hunting unsuccessfully
RESERVOIRS
Closed
Home Patch 6 Caledonia Place, Clifton - a re-run of a Bird News series from 2018, apt for the present
Cryptic Puzzle 3
2018 BOC QUIZ - large variety of questions. Now with answers at the bottom
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