Tuesday, 12 May 2020

12-05-20 Tuesday - Ruff

Wall to wall sun - but the temp didn't get much over 15°

Red Kite
Cuckoo
Common Crane
Spotted Flycatcher
Ruff
Willow Warbler
Kittiwake
Rock Pipit

BRISTOL

Avon Gorge + Downs:
1 Peregrine (f) on nest, 1 Song Thrush - singing

12-05-2020 Crane Ashton Court (Russell Barnett)
Ashton Court:
2 Crane - over at 19:30

Bishopston- garden:
10 Goldfinch - bit of a feast, but he missed.

Coombe Dingle:
1 Swift - 1st over the house

12-05-20 Carrion Crow Cumberladn Basin (Ian Loats)
Cumberland Basin - inc garden:
Mallard, 1 Kestrel, Jackdaw - nest guarded by parents, Carrion Crow, 2 Raven - circling, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Robin

Downend:
2 Collard Dove - building again after being predated last time.

Eastville Park:
1 Mute Swan, 1 Mandarin

Finzel's Reach:
1 Peregrine - nest hogging, couldn't find the tiercel on the other buildings

Moorgrove Wood:
Common Crane flying towards Chittening Warth

Redland - balcony bird list - now at 11:
1 Collared Dove, 1 Blue Tit, 1 Great Tit

Redland Garden:
2 Herring Gull, 1 Wood Pigeon, 2 Collared Dove, 6 Feral Pigeon, 6 Swift, 3 Magpie(three's a crowd!), 1 Carrion Crow, 1 Coal Tit, 1 Great Tit

Rownham Hill -woods
Blue Tits, 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Wren, 1 Robin - recently fledged

Stockwood - garden:
1 Red Kite

Stoke Park, Duchess Pond:
7 Swift

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Ingst - M48:
1 Red Kite

12-05-20 Skylark & Meadow Pipit NP (Véra Carpenter)
New Passage/Northwick:
1 Canada Goose, 1 Mute Swan, c 50 Shelduck, 2 Shoveler, 2 Collared Dove, 1 Moorhen, Several Coot with chicks, 2 Oystercatcher, 4 Lapwing, 1 Ruff, 12 Black-headed Gulls, 1 Grey Heron, 2 Little Egret, 1 Buzzard, 2 Skylark, 3 Swallow, Chiffchaff heard, 1 Sedge Warbler, c 6 Reed Warbler, Blackcap, Whitethroat heard, 4 Starling - newly fledged from the garden, Pied Wagtail, 2 Meadow Pipit, Linnet,1 Goldfinch, 3 Reed Bunting

Pilning Village:
1 Kestrel

Severn Beach:
1 Buzzard - a little video 

Yate:
1 Red Kite

Coalpit Heath
1 Hobby - over high up

12-05-20 Mallard duckling R Frome Moorend (Barry Dursley)
Bromley Heath to Moorend:
Mallard - juv, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, Wren, Robin, 1 Grey Wagtail, Chaffinch, Bullfinch, Greenfinch,

Bradley Stoke to Winterbourne:
5 Raven - inc 3 recently fledged juv

NORTH SOMERSET

12-05-2020 Blue Tit Nest There was an egg which managed to fall out! So obviously a bigger nest is needed!
( John Croxton)

Clevedon - gardens:
1 Swift, 2 Stock Dove, 1 Buzzard, 1 Hobby, 1 Peregrine, 1 Jay, 4 Swallow, Greenfinch - singing

12-05-20 Rock Pipit Cl-Y Dowlais (pots @Cpb1233)
Clevedon - Dowlais:
3 Kestrel, 1 Rock Pipit

Yatton - Strawberry Line:
1 Cuckoo, 3 Cetti’s warbler, 13 Chiffchaff, 2 Sedge Warbler, 15 Reed Warbler, 9 Blackcap, 8 Whitethroat, 23 Wren - singing, 4 Chaffinch, 2 Bullfinch, 4 Greenfinch and 5 Reed Bunting

Worle - garden:
4 Swift, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Buzzard, 3 Raven, 2 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit,  1 Blackcap, 5 Blackbird, 2 Robin, 2 Greenfinch, 2 Goldfinch,

Sand Point:
1 Whimbrel, 50 Kittiwake

BELOW M4 & BANES

12-05-20 Blue Tit nest Paulton (Patrich Hancock)
Paulton - garden:
Blue Tit nest

Saltford:
1 Red Kite, 5 Raven

Lansdown:
1 Red Kite  1 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, Raven, Skylark, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Whitethroat, Mistle Thrush,

Bath - St John's Church:
Today would have been Peregrine chick ringing day

Bath - Twerton:
2 Stock Dove, 10 Swift, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 14 Magpie, 2 House Martin, 1 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 3 Whitethroat, 8 Greenfinch, 5 Goldfinch

Newton St Loe - area:
7 Swift, 1 Tawny Owl - calling from woods, 3 Raven, 20+ Swallow, 8 House Martin, 4 Sedge Warbler, 1 Reed Warbler, 9 Whitethroat, 1 Spotted Flycatcher

12-05-20 Goldfinch Compton Dando (Ian Stapp)
Burnett:
2 Collared Dove, 1 Buzzard, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 3 Kestrel - inc 2 juv, 2 Jay, 4 Jackdaw, 2 Blue Tit, 5 Swallow, 2 House Martin, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Chiffchaff, 4 Whitethroat, 4 Wren, 7 Starling, 2 Blackbird, 4 Yellowhammer

12-05-20 Yellowhammer Dando (Ian Stapp)
Compton Dando - around the lanes:
2 Pheasant, 12 Woodpigeon, 2 Collared Dove, 1 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker - calling, 1 Jay, 2 Magpie, 12+ Jackdaw, 20+ Rook, 20+ Carrion Crow, 1 Raven, 2 Blue Tit, 5+ Great Tit, 8+ Swallow,
12+ House Martin, 2 Chiffchaff, 8+ Whitethroat, 12+ Wren, 12+ Blackbird, 1 Mistle Thrush, 20+ House Sparrow, 6+ Dunnock, 5 Chaffinch, 1 Bullfinch, 16+ Goldfinch 6+ Yellowhammer

Compton Dando - STW:
2 Mallard, 2 Grey Heron, 2 Great Tit, 20+ Swallow & House Martin, 2 Long-tailed Tit - nesting, 3 Wren, 2 Blackbird, 2 Dunnock

Compton Dando - garden:
Spotted Flycatcher

Chew Magna:
Red Kite drifted NE at 3.30 pm - Second cal.year

12-05-20 Wren & Greenfinch Chew Stoke (Lucy Masters)
Chew Stoke:
1 Wren, 2 Greenfinch

12-05-20 Red Kite Compton Martin (Chris Craig)
Compton Martin:
9 + Red Kite - but probably 15+ with birds moving through

RESERVOIRS

CLOSED

Reports: Phil Barlow, Russell Barnett, Nancy Barrett, Dru Brooke-Taylor, BUPP, Véra Carpenter, Toby Champneys, Allan Chard, Mark Coller, Chris Craig, Stephen Curtis, Anne Crowe, Andy Davis, Barry Dursley, Alstair, Fraser, Phillip Gentle, Paul Gregory, Patrick Hancock, Robert Hargreaves, Nick Hawkridge, Rod Holbrook, Brain Lancastle, Ian Loats, Glen Maddison, Lucy Masters, pots @Cpb1233, Lisa Presland, Trevor Riddle, Dean Reeves, Carol Rushton, Vic Savery, Rich Scantlebury, Ian Stapp, Nigel Strickland, Howard Taffs, Bri Thompson, Chris Vines, nslbirdingTBOSG  blagdonlakebirds