20-04-21 Tuesday - Short-eared Owl

A lovely sunny day quickly warming up after a cool start.  Dry with a light easterly wind and very hazy.  Temp. 15°C

Hen Harrier, Red Kite
Cattle Egret

Short-eared Owl
Wood Warbler
Grasshopper Warblers
Whinchat

Whimbrel flock at Clevedon-Yeo (Howard Taffs)

BRISTOL

Abbots Leigh:

1 Wheatear, 1 Marsh Tit

Wood Warbler in S.Glos.

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:

1 Common Sandpiper, 7 Cetti's Warbler, 11 Sedge Warbler, 10 Reed Warbler, 8 Whitethroat.

At a private site in S.Glos:

1 singing Wood Warbler

NORTH SOMERSET

Portbury Wharf:
Reed Warbler

Gordano:

Red Kite

Belmont/Long Ashton:

Moorhen with 3 half-grown young, 1 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1-2 Swallow, pr. Raven, 2 LT Tit, singing Chiffchaffs and Blackcaps, 1 singing Garden Warbler, Robin with juv., 1 m. Siskin.

Clevedon, Wains Hill:

6 House Martin, reeling Grasshopper Warbler, 1 Yellow Wagtail, Crossbill (over).

Whinchat at Clevedon-Yeo (Howard Taffs)

Clevedon - Yeo:
2 Oystercatcher, 60+ Whimbrel, 33 Bar-tailed Godwit, 2 Redshank, 1 Red Kite, 3 Swallow, 8 Sand Martin, Reed Warbler, 1 Willow Warbler, 1 Whitethroat, 1 Whinchat, 3 Wheatear, 1 Yellow Wagtail.

Nailsea Moor:
4 Canada Goose, 23 Mute Swan, 1 Lapwing, 1 Curlew, 1 Hen Harrier (ringtail), 6 Buzzard, 4 Raven, 3 Skylark, 2 Cetti’s Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Willow Warbler, 2 Sedge Warbler, 4 Reed Warbler, 1 Whitethroat, 5 Blackcap, 2 pairs Stonechat, 5 Wheatear, 5 Meadow Pipit, 6 Linnet, 4 Reed Bunting (and a Roe Deer).

Sand Point/Middle Hope:

11 Whimbrel, 1 Short-eared Owl, 2 Skylark, 5 Sand Martin, 16 Swallow (east), 4 Willow Warbler, 3 Grasshopper Warbler, 11 Whitethroat, 1 m. Stonechat (four more at St Thomas's Head), 1 Redstart, 10 Wheatear, 4 Tree Pipit, 4 Meadow Pipit, Yellow Wagtail, 12 Linnet, 4 Redpoll, 2 Siskin.

BELOW M4 & BANES

Pensford:

8 Mallard, 1 Dipper, 2 Grey Wagtail.

Reed Warbler singing at Chew (Ian Stapp)

RESERVOIRS

Barrow Tanks:

2 Canada Geese, pr. Gadwall, 5 Teal, 1 m. Garganey, 2 Common Sandpiper, 4 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Little Egret, c.130 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 1 singing Whitethroat.

Chew Valley Lake

Dam:

15 Common Sandpiper

Heron's Green:
4 Little Grebe, 2 Grey Heron, 2 Common Sandpiper, 16 Cattle Egret, 3 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 2 Raven, 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Reed Warbler, 3 Sedge Warbler, 1 Whitethroat, 1 singing Mistle Thrush, 4 Reed Bunting.

Moreton:
2 Grey Heron, 1 Stock Dove, 1 GS Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker, 2 Jay, 2 Raven, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 4 LT Tit, 4 Chiffchaff, 1 Willow Warbler, 2 Blackcap, 1 Sedge Warbler, 4 Reed Warbler, 2 Blackcap, 1 Garden Warbler, 2 Reed Bunting.

Herriott's Bridge:
9 Shelduck, pr. Garganey, 28 Shoveler, 17 Gadwall, 1 Mallard (with 7 ducklings), 1 m. Pintail, 20+ Teal, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 5 Common Sandpiper, 4 GBB Gull, 4 Grey Heron, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Willow Warbler, 4+ Reed Warbler, 1 Reed Bunting.

The unmistakable bill of a Raven at Chew (Ian Stapp)

Reports:   John Croxton, Jane Cumming, Stephen Curtis, Mark Dadds, Alastair Fraser, Timothy Marks, Paul Marshall, Phil Quinn, Dean Reeves, Trevor Riddle, Tony Scott, Ian Stapp, Howard Taffs, Keith Vinicombe, Thomas Weston, opsbirding