Wednesday 29 April 2020

29-04-20 Wednesday - Fulmar

Overcast and showers - a bit brighter in the afternoon

Whinchat
Gannet
Fulmar

BRISTOL

Ashton Court - back to Hotwells:
6 Rook nests, 2+ Greenfinch
29-04-20 Peregrine Finzels Reach (Ian Loats)

Bishopston- garden:
2 Coal Tit, 2 Blue Tit, 1 Great Tit - feeding family in the roof space, 2 Blackcap - singing just up the road.

Eastville Park:
Still good numbers of Chiffchaff singing

Finzels Reach:
1 Peregrine - a bit damp

Redland - roundabout and garden:
6 House Martin on site, 1 Blackcap singing in the garden

Sea Mills - Harbour, River Avon
4 Canada Goose - heading east, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Whitethroat (m), 1 Wheatear (m)

St George - Crews Hole:
1 Great Tit

Stoke Park, Purdown, Duchess Pond:
1 Canada Goose, 23 Mallard 7m 3f 13j, 8 Feral Pigeon, 9 Woodpigeon, 6 Moorhen, 7 Coot 2a 5j, 2 Herring Gull, 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 1 Grey Heron, 2 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 6 Magpie, 16 Jackdaw, 39 Carrion Crow, 3 Blue Tit, 3 Great Tit, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 3 Willow Warbler, 4 Chiffchaff, 4 Blackcap, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, 9 Whitethroat, 1 Goldcrest, Wren, 3 Starling, 3 Blackbird 3m, 5 Song Thrush, 2 Robin, 22 House Sparrow, 2 Dunnock, 1 Chaffinch, 6 Greenfinch, 13 Goldfinch, 2 Reed Bunting 1m 1f.
29-04-20 Song Thrush Stoke Park (Pat Richards)
SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

29-04-2020 Wheatear NP=NW (Lisa Ptesland)
New Passage/Northwick:
Tufted Duck, First Swift, usual waders, 1 Little Egret, lots of House Martin & Swallow, 3 Wheatear

29-04-20 Green Woodpecker Yate (Chris Teague)
Yate - garden:
1 Green Woodpecker

Chipping Sodbury Common:
2 Swallow, 2 Blackcap, 1 Lesser Whitethroat

Nibley:
2 Whearear

Little Stoke:
1 Willow Warbler - singing and new for the lockdown list

Bradley Stoke - 3 Brooks Nature Reserve:
8 Mallard, 10+ Woodpigeon, 2 Collared Dove, 1 Moorhen, 6 Magpie, 7 Jackdaw, 5 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, 12 House Martin - north, 5 Long-Tailed Tit, 5 Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 6 Whitethroat, 2 Wren, 4 Blackbird, 4 Song Thrush, 1 Mistle Thrush, 6 Robin, 2 Dunnock, 2 Greenfinch, 8 Goldfinch

Lyde Green:
4 Reed Warbler singing, 1 Garden Warbler still

NORTH SOMERSET

29-04-20 Whimbrel Cl-Y (Howard Taffs)
Clevedon-Yeo - Dowlais:
1 Greylag Goose - fly through, 1 Whimbrel, several Carrion Crow - patrolling the scrape field, a trickle of hirundines, 2 Yellow Wagtail,

Dundry:
1 Kestrel - hover hunting

Sand Point/Bay:
1 Fulmar,  13 Gannet - down river, 3+ Whimbrel. few Swallow moving NE, 2 Garden Warbler

Weston-Super-Mare - ex airfield & Esso :
3 Swift, 2 Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 120+ Hirundine; a few Sand Martin, Swallow, with House Martin the most numerous, headed NW, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 3 Sedge Warbler, 1 Reed Warbler, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 3 Whitethroat, 1 Whinchat

BELOW M4 & BANES

29-04-20 Mute Swan Bath (Glen Maddison)
Bath - K&A canal:
2 Swan with 8 new cygnet

29-04-20 Blackbird Chew Stoke (Lucy Masters)
Chew Stoke:
first juv Blackbird in the garden.

29-04-20 House Sparrow Stanton Drew (Tim Kilbride)
Stanton Drew:
Unusual House Sparrow - value an opinion anyone? Very White cheeks

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