26-04-20 Sunday - Hobby

Temp 8 to 25°C. Wall to wall sunshine again till late afternoon, almost no wind, so warm

Mandarin
Swift
Grey Plover, Whimbrel
Hobby
Wood Warbler
Redstart

26-4-20 Redstart, St George (Lee Gardiner)

BRISTOL

Swift ; 1 Bishopston + a Swallow, 3 Symington Rd, Fishponds, 14 Oldland Common, 5 W-s-M, 3 Bath

Blaise Estate:
7 Chiffchaff on my walk today

26-04-2020 Peregrine Avon Gorge (Rupert Gale)

The Downs:
1 Peregrine - last yrs juv, 2 Swallow,

26-4-20 Mandarin Duck, Eastville Park (Pete Harrison)

Eastville Park to Purdown:
1 Mandarin, Whitethroat, Chaffinch, Grey Wagtail

Redland:
6 House Martin - back on territory, 1 Blackcap - singing in the garden

St George:
1 Redstart

26-4-20 Grey Heron, Stapleton (Martin Tayler)

Stapleton:
1 Grey Heron

Westbury-on-Trym
1 Siskin - over the garden

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

26-4-20 Lesser Whitethroat, Wickwar (Alan Piper)

Wickwar:
1 Lesser Whitethroat

26-4-20 Linnet, New Passage (Lisegirl)

Severnside:
11 Mallard ducklings, lots Linnet

26-4-20 Whitethroat, Webb's Heath (Barry Dursley)

Webbs Heath:
Whitethroat

NORTH SOMERSET

26-4-20 Hobby, Pill (Paul Milo)

Pill:
1 Sparrowhawk, 4 Buzzard, 1 Hobby

Portishead - Weston Big Wood:

Ravens, Willow Warblers, Chiffchaffs, Blackcaps, Garden Warbler, Nuthatch

Colehouse Lane, Clevedon:

9 Collared Dove, 13 Mallard, 4 Moorhen, 2 Common Sandpiper, 3 Herring Gull, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 GS Woodpecker, 6 Chiffchaff, 1 Sedge Warbler, 2 Blackcap, 1 Garden Warbler, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Whitethroat, 114 Starling, 1 Redstart.

Clevedon- Blind Yeo to Dowlais:
1 Egyptian Goose, 30 Swallow, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 4 Chiffchaff, 1 Sedge Warbler, 4 Reed Warbler, 4 Blackcap, 3 Garden Warbler, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Whitethroat

Kenn Moor:
Whinchats, 1 Yellowhammer

Nailsea Moor:
1 Grey Heron, 1 Buzzard, 2 Sedge Warbler, 2 Reed Warbler, 2 Whitethroat, 

Yatton:
1 Redstart

Sand Bay/Point:
1 Canda Goose, 1 Grey Plover, 50 Whimbrel, 2 Curlew, 20 Dunlin, 1 Little Egret, 10 Swallow, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Sedge and 4 Reed Warbler, 6 Lesser Whitethroats, 9 Whitethroats

Weston Woods:
1 Wood Warbler

Uphill:
Lots Shelduck, 6 (1f) Mallard and 12 ducklings, 1 Whimbrel, 2 Little Egret, 1 Grey Heron, 2+ Swallow, 1 Cetti's Warbler, Sedge Warbler and Whitethroat heard. 1 m Stonechat

Weston-super-Mare - garden & cemetery
2+ Woodpigeon, 1 Green Woodpecker, 2+ Jackdaw, 2+ Carrion Crow, 1 Raven - high over the garden, 2+ Blue & Great Tit, 1 Goldcrest, 2 + Blackbird, 2+ Dunnock
BELOW M4 & BANES

Hanham Hills:
1 Wood Warbler

Wick:
2 Grey Wagtail

Bath:
3 Swift, 2 + 4 eyasses Peregrine

Bath Twerton to Seven Acre:
1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Jay, Chiffchaff, 8 Whitethroat, 2 Nuthatch, 2 Mistle Thrush

26-4-20 Reed & Sedge Warbler, Bath (Rob Hargreaves)

Bath West, River Avon:
2 Mute Swan, 2 Stock Dove, 3 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 8 Skylark, 3 Swallow, 1 House Martin, 3 Chiffchaff, 4 Blackcap, 3-5 singing Sedge Warbler, 2+ Reed Warbler, 3 Whitethroat, 2 Greenfinch, 6 Goldfinch, 2 GreyWagtail

Freshford Mill in BANES:
1 Little Egret, 1 Dipper

RESERVOIRS

No reports

Out of Avon
Sedge and Reed Warbler at Corsham Lake

Out of UK 
Cambodia and Vietnam by Vera Carpenter and Colorado by David Hughes

Lockdown Updates

Home Patch 7 Coombe Dingle, Bristol - a re-run of a Bird News series from 2018, apt for the present

Cryptic Puzzle 3 - 2007. Link works now! Answers later this week

2018 BOC QUIZ - large variety of questions. Now with answers at the bottom

Reports: Abi Deas, John Barnett, Paul Bowyer, John Budd, Di Bunniss, Rob Capel, Allan Chard, Bryan Cook, Tony Cook, Jane Cumming, Steve Curtis, Barry Dursley, Rich Ford, Tim Ford, Rupert Gale, Lee Gardiner, Robert Hargreaves, Pete Harrison, Rob Hawkridge, Higgy, Nigel Jones, Rob Laughton, Lisegirl, Paul Milo, Michael Moxon, Alan Piper, Phil Quinn, Aravind Ramesh, Dean Reeves, Adéle Remazeilles, Patrick Richards, Tony Scott, Andy Scrase, Martin Tayler, Jason Williams, Paul Williams, blagdonlakebirds, BUPP, CVRS, nsl-birding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG