Saturday 27 March 2021

27-03-21 Saturday - Slavonian Grebe

Around 12°C, with some showers.  

Long-tailed Duck, Slavonian Grebe
Grey Plover, Bar-tailed Godwit
Spotted Redshank 
Great White Egret
Merlin 
Ring-necked Parakeet 
Marsh Tit 
Sand Martin
Red Kite

BRISTOL

27-3-21 Grey Wagtail, Eastville Park (Martin Tayler)

Eastville Park:
Sparrowhawk, Nuthatch, Grey Wagtail

Stoke Bishop (garden):
2f & 1m Blackcap

Coombe Dingle (River Trym):
2 Grey Wagtail

Redland Park:
Green Woodpecker, 4 Great Tit, 2 Nuthatch, 4 Great Tit

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

New Passage/Northwick:
Mute Swan, 1 f Merlin

27-3-21 Merlin, New Passage (Lisa Presland)

Severn Beach:
Report of Ring-Necked Parakeet

Yate (Brimsham Park Lake):
2 Moorhen, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Wren

27-3-21 Woodpigeons, Downend (Barry Dursley)

27-3-21 Little Owls, Horton (Christopher Teague)

NORTH SOMERSET

Prior's Wood & Portbury:
Pheasant, Stock Dove, Woodpigeon, Collared Dove, Herring Gull, LBB Gull, Buzzard, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, Coal Tit, 2 Marsh Tit, Blue Tit, Great Tit, 5 Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap, Goldcrest, Wren, Nuthatch, Wren, Starling, Blackbird, Mistle Thrush, Robin, House Sparrow, Chaffinch. Also: 1 Bee-Fly and one or two Bluebells already flowering in Prior's Wood.

Clevedon - Yeo:
15 Canada Goose, 140 Shelduck, 50 Wigeon (So quite a few have left now), Mallard present, 60 Teal, 16 Tufted Duck, 4 Coot, 12 Oystercatcher, 9 Lapwing, 110 Curlew, 2 Bar-tailed Godwit, 11 Turnstone, 1 Dunlin, 150 Redshank, 1 Spotted Redshank, 6 BH Gull, 10 Herring Gull, 7 Cormorant, 1 Little Egret, 1 Sand Martin

Clevedon-Dowlais:
150 Shelduck, 10 Wigeon, 44 Teal, 1 Grey Plover, 56 Redshank,  Cormorant, 1 Little Egret, 1 probable female Merlin (seen on ground briefly then lost to view), 1 Sand Martin, 1 Skylark (singing)

Kingston Seymour:
Egyptian Goose, 40 Wigeon, 20 Teal, 7 Tufted Duck, 1 f Goosander, 20 Oystercatcher, 30 Curlew, 16 Turnstone, Snipe, 2 Little Egret, 3 Sand Martin, Cetti's Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff, 30 Meadow Pipit

27-03-21 Chaffinch, Sand Point (Kevin Duell)

Kenn Moor:
14 Snipe

BELOW M4 & BANES

27-3-21 Sparrowhawk, Stanton Drew (Raoul Chandrasakera)

Bath:
Two eggs now at Peregrine nest

Bath (Twerton, garden):
4 Jay, 3 Magpie, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Chaffinch singing

27-3-21 Buzzard, Chew Stoke (Lucy Masters)

Wellow:
1 Red Kite, 4 Buzzard, 1 Dipper

RESERVOIRS

Barrow Tanks:
1 Long-tailed Duck, 25 Sand Martin

Chew Valley Lake:
1 Egyptian Goose, 2 Pintail, 12 Goldeneye, 1 Water Rail, 2 Slavonian Grebe, 22 Common Gull, 4 Grey Heron, 1 Great White Egret, 2 m Marsh Harrier, 2 Cetti’s Warbler, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap, 4 Grey Wagtail

Breeding Waders of Wet Meadows in Avon
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Reports: Bath Peregrines, Peter Bryant, Raoul Chandrasakera, Paul Chapman, Allan Chard, Dave Child, Judy Copeland, Stephen Curtis, Kevin Duell, Barry Dursley, Rob Hargreaves, Lucy Masters, Mike Owen, Lisa Presland, Trevor Riddle, Harvey Rose, Carol Rushton, Rosemary Setter, Martin Tayler, Christopher Teague, Roger White, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG