Tuesday 5 May 2020

05-05-20 Tuesday - Spotted Flycatcher

Cloudy to start but fined away after 11 o'clock. The wind was cold, as it is when from the east.

Red Kite
Wood Warbler, Spotted Flycatcher
Whimbrel
Whinchat
Yellow Wagtail
Cuckoo
Bar-tailed Godwit

BRISTOL

Bishopston - garden:
2 Swift

Blackberry Hill:
05-05-20 Green Woodpecker
Durdham Down (Ian Loats)
6 Swift

Durdham Down:
1 Green Woodpecker (m), usual corvid flocks, 8 Goldfinch

Eastville Park:
12 Canada Goose + 5 goslings

Sea Mills:
1 Shelduck, 15 Mallard + 22 ducklings, 1 Collared Dove, 2 Herring Gull, 5 Lesser Black-backed gull, 1 Cormorant, 3 Grey Heron, 2 Buzzard, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Green Woodpecker, 6 Magpie, 1 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Reed Warbler, 4 Wren, 9 Starling, 4 Blackbird, 1 Song Thrush, 1 Robin, 7 House Sparrow, 1 Greenfinch

St Anne's Wood:
4 Swift, 1 Buzzard, 1 Raven

St George's Park
6 Canada Goose + goslings, 2 Little Grebe

Stockwood - garden:
Swift over, 1 Red Kite, 1 Kestrel, 1 Carrion Crow, 2 Sand Martin, Swallow - going over

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

05-05-2020 Swallow CSC (Mark Coller)
05-05-20 Greenfinch 3 Brooks LNR (Véra Carpenter)

Severn Beach:
2 Whimbrel - up river this morning

Rockhampton - Hill:
1 Cuckoo

Yate:
1 Swift over the garden

Bradley Stoke - Three Brooks LNR
2 Moorhen, lots of Mallard, 1 Collared Dove, 3 Jay, 1 Carrion Crow, 1 Swallow, 1 Long-tailed Tit, lots of Chiffchaff heard, 3 Whitethroat, 2 Starling, 1 Bullfinch, 2 Greenfinch, 5 Goldfinch.

Filton:
5 Swift - 1st this year

NORTH SOMERSET

05-05-20 Oystercatcher and Black-tailed Godwit Cl-Y (Howard Taffs)
Clevedon-Yeo:
A few Swift - over, 2 Oystercatcher, 40c Whimbrel, 1 Bar-tailed Godwit, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 15 Dunlin, a steady passage of hirundines, 1 Wheatear, some Yellow Wagtail over, 2 Tree Pipit,

Clevedon - gardens:
11 Swift, 1 Stock Dove, 1 Rook, 30 Swallow, 10 House Martin

Nailsea Moor:
2 Whinchat, 1 Stonechat (m), several, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, and Lesser Whitethroat

05-05-20 Starling and House Sparrow Worle (Adrian Hockey)
Worle - gardens:
1 Swift, Starling and House Sparrow

Sand Point/St Thomas's Head/Woodspring Priory:
1 Swift, 5 Whimbrel - being hunted by a Peregrine, 100+ Swallow, 40 House Martin, 1 Wood Warbler - very vocal, 1 Garden Warbler, 1 Lesser Whitethroat,  3 Spotted Flycatcher

05-05-20 Spotted Flycatcher Banwell (John Thorogood)
Banwell - Winthill:
2 Stock Dove, 1 Red Kite,1 Buzzard, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker,  c30 House Martin, Chiffchaff and Blackcap - singing, 1 Spotted Flycatcher, 4 Bullfinch

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield:
1 Lesser Whitethroat,  20 Whitethroat, 2 Yellow Wagtail,

Oldland Common:
5 Swift - over

05-05-20 House Sparrow Warmely (Pete Coslett)
Warmley
2 Mallard, 5 Swift, 7 Lesser Black-backed, 1 Red Kite, 2 Buzzard, Magpie, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, 2 Swallow, 2 House Martin, 4 House Sparrow, 5 Goldfinch.

Staple Hill:
2 Swift

Bath- St Johns:
6 Peregrine - inc 4 chicks. 12 to 15 days old - a little video clip

05-05-20 Red Kite CSC (Mark Coller)

RESERVOIRS

CLOSED

Reports: Jon Angell, John Barnett, BUPP, Véra Carpenter, Mark Coller, Pete Coslett, Ben Crabb, Steve Curtis, Tim Ford, Laurence Garner, Paul Gregory, Adrian Hockey, Nick Hudson, Ian Loats, Jean Oliver, Lois Pryce, Dean Reeves, Carol Rushton, Rich Scantlebury, Rosemary Setter, Nigel Strickland, Howard Taffs, Gill Sapsed, Matt Scott, Bri Thompson, John Thorogood, Paul Williams, Gordon Youdale

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