Friday 16 April 2021

16-04-21 Friday - Hen Harrier

 Dry but still cool with ENE breeze with early sunshine and light cloud later.  Temp 4 to 11°C.

Garganey
Long-tailed Duck
Red Breasted Merganser
Cuckoo
Little Ringed Plover
Bar-tailed Godwit
Whimbrel
Cattle Egret
Hen Harrier
Little Owl
Garden Warbler
Redstart
Tree Pipit
Yellow and White Wagtail
Redpoll and Siskin
Crossbill

16-04-21 Long-tailed Duck, Barrow Tanks ( Ian Stapp)
BRISTOL


16-04-21 Starling, Purdown ( Serena Sweeting)
Purdown:
1 Starling

Redland garden:
1 Woodpigeon, 10 Herring Gull, 2 Magpie, 2 Carrion Crow, 2 Coal Tit, 2 Blue Tit, 1 Great Tit, 2 Blackbird, 1 Robin, 12 Dunnock

Stoke Park:
1 Whitethroat, 1 Redstart-m

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
11 Bar-Tailed Godwit, 12 Curlew, 1 Arctic/Pomarine Skua, 4 Sedge Warbler, 4 Reed Warbler, 44 Whitethroat, 2 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Redpoll

Shortwood Golf Course:
1 Redstart

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead- Boating Lake:
10 Canada Goose, 2 Greylag Goose, 11 Mute Swan, 65 Mallard, 23 Tufted Duck, 2 Moorhen, 23 Herring  Gull, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull

Clevedon - Yeo:
14 Canada Goose, 2 Egyptian Goose, 185 Shelduck, 3 Shoveler, 8 Wigeon, 55 Teal, 2 Pochard, 3 Tufted Duck, 1 Red Breasted Merganser (Yeo), 6 Little Grebe, 4 Little Egret, 11 Cormorant, 1 Marsh Harrier,  1 Buzzard, 3 Coot, 7 Oystercatcher, 4 Avocet, 6 Lapwing, 1 Grey Plover, 6 Whimbrel, 125 Curlew, 3 Common Snipe, 65 Redshank, 10 Skylark, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 5 Swallow, 2 House Martin, 5 Cetti’s Warbler, 4 Willow Warbler, 20 Chiffchaff, 3 Reed Warbler (Blake’s Pools), 9 Blackcap, 2 Whitethroat, 2 White Wagtail, 15 Meadow Pipit, 15 Greenfinch, 10 Linnet, 1 Crossbill (Yeo).

Nailsea Moor:
1 Hen Harrier- female/immature, 1 Redstart, 2 Stonechat, 5 Wheatear

Sand Point/Bay:
1 Cuckoo, 10 Whimbrel, 13 Curlew, 1 Buzzard, 3 Swallow, 2 Willow Warbler, 16 Chiffchaff,  11 Blackcap, 4 Whitethroat, 1 Redstart-f, 3 Wheatear, 2 Yellow Wagtail, 3 Tree Pipit, 5 Linnet,1 Redpoll, 3 Siskin 

Weston-super-Mare-old airfield:
4 Reed Warbler 

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield:
1 Wheatear, 1 Tree Pipit

Keynsham-Brassmill Lane:
1 Willow Warbler, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap, 1 Garden Warbler- all in good song

Compton Dando:
1 Little Owl

Pensford Bridge:
4 Mallard-f, 11 Jackdaw, 2 Dipper, 2 Wren, 2 Grey Wagtail, 2 Goldfinch

RESERVOIRS

16-04-21 Garganey, Barrow Tanks (Bri Thompson)
Barrow Tanks:
1 Garganey-m, 1 Long-Tailed Duck-m, Sand Martin

Chew Valley Lake
 
Dam:
30 mix  of Swallow, House and Sand Martin, 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap

16-04-21 Reed Warbler, CVL ( George Stacey)
Picnic Site No.2:
1 Reed Warbler

Bittern Trail:
4 Blackcap

16-04-21 camouflaged  Sedge Warbler, CVL( G. Stacey)
Heron's Green:
4 Little Grebe, 13 Cattle Egret, 1 Little  Egret, 1Grey Heron,
1 Kestrel-f, 2 Raven,1 Mistle Thrush (singing) 1 Cetti's Warbler, 3 Sedge Warbler 1 Reed Warbler,        1 Whitethroat, 1 Mistle Thrush, 4 Reed Bunting

16-04-21 Cattle Egret, CVL ( Ian Stapp)
Moreton:

2 Stock Dove, 20 Woodpigeon,  2 Grey Heron, 1 Cattle Egret - separate to the 13, 1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Green Woodpecker, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker,  2 Jay, 4 Raven, 4 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Nuthatch, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 5 Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap, 1 Garden Warbler 

Herriott's inc Pool:
1 Egyptian Goose, 12 Shelduck, 4 Garganey-3m,1f, 40 Shoveler  18 Gadwall, 20 Teal, 1 Little Ringed Plover, 1 Common Sandpiper,3 Cormorant,1 Buzzard, 1 Peregrine - (m) imm, 1 Green Woodpecker, 100 Sand Martin, 2 Cetti's Warbler,1 Reed Warbler, 1 Sedge Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff , 1 Song Thrush     

Reports: John Barnett, Nancy Barrett, Ben Crabb, Andy Davis, Paul Gregory, Rob Hargreaves, Nick Hudson, Peter Hazelwood, Matt Hull, Dean Reeves, Steve Sanins, Marcus Smith, George Stacey,  Ian Stapp, Serena Sweeting, Larry Sweetland, Bri Thompson