Wednesday 13 May 2020

13-05-20 Wednesday - Little Stint

Some sun but still that cold edge to the light breeze Max 12°

Little Stint
Ring-necked Parakeet
Cuckoo
Hobby
Red Kite

BRISTOL

Avon Gorge:
3 Raven
13-05-20 Peregrine Finzels Reach (Ian Loats)
Finzels Reach:
2 Peregrine (f&m)

Hotwells to Ashton Court:
Mallard, Swift, Woodpigeon, Herring Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Buzzard, 2 Jay, Magpie, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, 3 Raven - inc1 over my house, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Skylark, Swallow, 1 Long-tailed Tit, Chiffchaff, Nuthatch, Blackbird, Song Thrush, Robin, House Sparrow, Greenfinch, Goldfinch

13-05-20 Fox Stoke Park - lockdown is over my friend (Pete Harrison)
Stoke Park, Purdown & Duchess Pond:
1 Canada Goose, 3 Mallard, 6 Woodpigeon, 2 Coot, 2 Herring Gull, 3 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 1 Cormorant, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Buzzard, 10 Magpie, c. 30 Jackdaw, 4 Crow, 1 Blue Tit, 1 Swallow, 1 Chiffchaff (heard only), 1 Blackcap, 3 Whitethroat, 2 Blackbird, 1 Dunnock, 3 House Sparrow and 4 Goldfinch

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Shepperdine:
1 Red Kite - 13:00, flew along the shore

Oldbury Power Station:
1 Marsh Harrier (f type) - flushed from Lagoon 3.

Littleton Warth:
2 Hobby, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 3 Whitethroat

Aust Warth:
2 Cormorants on pylon nearby, 1 Peregrine on old Seven bridge, 2 Raven on Cliff, 1 Reed Bunting

Pilning Wetlands:
1 Little Stint - 2nd bird of the yr

Horton:
1 Red Kite, 14 Buzzard,

Bradley Stoke - Three Brooks LNR:
5 Mallard, 8 Woodpigeon, 3 Moorhen, 5 Herring Gull, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Ring-necked Parakeet, 5 Magpie, 5 Jackdaw, 1 Carrion Crow, 7 Blue Tit, 5 Great Tit , 1 Long-Tailed Tit, 4 Chiffchaff, 8 Blackcap, 3 Whitethroat, 4 Wren, 6 Blackbird, 3 Song Thrush, 5 Robin, 1 Bullfinch, 2 Greenfinch, 6 Goldfinch

NORTH SOMERSET

Long Ashton - garden:
1st Blue Tit fledged this morning

Portishead:
1 Cormorant - in the marina, 1 Red Kite 12:45

13-05-20 Grass Snake Clevedon, Bling Yeo (Howard Taffs)
Clevedon - Dowlais:
1 Cuckoo
13-05-20 Stonechat Sand Point (Karen Ash)
Sand Point/Bay:
6 Shelduck, 3 Whimbrel, 6 Whitethroat, 1 Stonechat, 1 Rock Pipit,

Worle - garden:
2 Peregrine (m & f), 2 Raven, Blue Tit, Swallow, Long-tailed Tit, 1 Chiffchaff, 4 Starling, Blackbird, Robin, Dunnock, 3 Greenfinch, 2 Goldfinch

BELOW M4 & BANES

Hanham and Willsbridge Mills
1 Kingfisher, 1 Garden Warbler, 2 Mistle Thrush, 2 Greenfinch

13-05-2020 Yellowhammer Marshfield (Martyn Hayes)
Marshfield:
1 Little Owl, Long-tailed Tit, Yellowhammer

Cold Ashton:
1 Sparrowhawk - harassing on of 3 Buzzard, 1 Raven, 4 Skylark 1 Yellowhammer

BBS Charlcombe: 
2 Stock Dove, 1 Buzzard, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 10 Skylark, 4 Chiffchaff, 6 Blackcap, 5 Whitethroat, 1 Nuthatch, 2 Chaffinch, 5 Greenfinch, 7 Yellowhammer

Lower Claverham:
2 Stock Dove, 2 Grey Heron, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Red Kite flew N/E mid morning, 2 Buzzard, 2, Jackdaw, 2 Raven, Great Tit, Swallow, 2 Whitethroat - singing, 2 Pied Wagtail - pr
RESERVOIRS

CLOSED

Chew Valley Lake :
1 Cuckoo, 1 Great White Egret, 1 Red Kite. Hundreds of House Martin,

Reports: Karen Ash, Geoffrey Blowfield, Dru Brooke-Taylor, John Clark, Chris Craig, Anne Crowe, Michelle Doust, Barry Dursley, Tim Ford, Paul Francis, Alan Goldsmith, Robert Hargreaves, Pete Harrison, Martyn Hayes, Pete Hazelwood, Henry Kirkwood, Brian Lancastle, Ian Loats, Jim Payne, Lisa Presland, Dean Reeves, Lyndon Roberts, Tony Scott, Adrian Sharp, Howard Taffs, Keith Vinicombe, Jason Williams, nslbirding, TBOSG blagdonlakebirds