17-04-21 Saturday - Ruddy Shelduck

Temp 7 to 16°C. Frosty start, cold wind, then sunny, and Sunny, warmest day of the year. 

Ruddy Shelduck
Avocet
White Stork
Hen Harrier
Grasshopper Warbler

17-4-21 Avocet, The Dam (Raoul Chandrasakera)

BRISTOL

Accolade Wines Lake:

1 Mute Swan, 1 Mallard, 3 Tufted Duck, 2 Reed Warbler

Hoar Gout:

2 Coot, 2 Gadwall, 1 Little Grebe, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Reed Warbler, 1 Sedge Warbler

Purdown Gun Battery:

1 Whitethroat, 1 m Redstart, 1 Meadow Pipit, 1 Linnet

Sea Mills:

1 Common Sandpiper, 8 Redshank, 1 Buzzard

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

17-4-21 White Stork, Aust (Paul Bowerman)

White Stork GB1B:

Oldbury Power Station, Littleton Warth, and then Aust at 10:00

Oldbury Power Station:

1 Little Ringed Plover

17-4-21 Mallard, Severnside (Rob Emery)

New Passage/Severnside:
2 Gadwall
 

Filton Park garden:
2 Collared Dove, 1 Grey Heron, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Coal Tit, 2 Starling, 12 House Sparrow, 2 Greenfinch (f&m) , 5 Goldfinch

NORTH SOMERSET

17-4-21 Ruddy Shelduck, Portbury Wharf (Chris Stone)

Portbury Wharf:

1 Ruddy Shelduck 1st since 2005

Clevedon-Wain's Hill:

1 f Sparrowhawk, 4 Willow Warbler  1 Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap

Clevedon, Blind Yeo:

12 Teal, 4 Whimbrel (but no Curlews), 2 Snipe on Dowlais pool, 2 Little Egret, 1 Sand Martin, 3 Swallow, 2 Cetti's Warbler, singing Chiffchaffs, 2 Grey Wagtail

Ken Moor:

1 Hen Harrier

BBS Nailsea/Backwell:

1 Ring-necked Parakeet, 1 Yellowhammer

17-4-21 Wheatear, Sand Point (Dean Reeves)

Sand Point:
3 Ringed Plover, 1 Whimbrel, 3 Bar-tailed Godwit, 4 Dunlin, 8 Swallow, Warblers (10 Willow, 14 Chiffchaff, 1 Grasshopper Warbler, 3 Whitethroat), 3 Redstart, 4 Stonechat, 8 Wheatear, 2 Yellow Wagtail, 4 Tree Pipit, 1 Lesser Redpoll, 14 Linnet, 4 Siskin

Puxton Moor:

1 Grey Heron, 1 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Raven, 3 Skylark, 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Reed Warbler, 4 Blackcap, 1 Song Thrush, 2 Stonechat, 6 Wheatear, 2 Greenfinch, 4 Linnet, 3 Goldfinch, 6 Reed Bunting

BELOW M4 & BANES

Chew Magna:

1 Red Kite, 11 Buzzard, 2 Raven, 1 Siskin

Newton St Loe:
1 Swallow, 1 Whitethroat

RESERVOIRS

Barrow Tanks:

1 Garganey, 1 Long-tailed Duck

Chew Valley Lake:

Dam:

6 Avocet

17-4-21 Sedge Warbler singing, Herons Green (Ian Stapp)

Herons Green:
4 Little Grebe, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Buzzard, 1 Raven, 3 Sand Martin, Warblers (1 Willow, 3 Chiffchaff,  1 Reed, 3 Sedge, 2 Whitethroat), 2 Reed Bunting

17-4-21 Egyptian Goose ,Herriotts (Ian Stapp)

Herriotts:
1 Egyptian Goose, 12 Shelduck, 40 Shoveler, 20 Gadwall, 4 Grey Heron, 1 Buzzard, 6 Sand Martin, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Reed Warbler, 1 Sedge Warbler

Reports: Drew Archer, Liza & Andy Barker,  Raoul Chandrasakera, Stephen Curtis, Sean Davies, Andy Davis, Rob Emery, Paul Gregory, Martin Hayes, Peter Hazelwood, Karen Jayne, Nailsea Nature, Dean Reeves, Gareth Roberts, Tony Scott, Rosemary Setter, Ian Stapp, Chris Stone, Larry Sweetland, Thomas @garden birder1, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG