Sunday, 17 April 2022

17-04-22 Sunday - Whinchat

Temp 9 to 20°C. Turned out another sunny day after a cloudy start 

Mandarin, Lesser Scaup
Bar-tailed Godwit, Purple Sandpiper
Lesser Whitethroat
Whinchat

17-4-22 Easter Eggs, Jackdaw, Portishead (David Gale)
BRISTOL

Cumberland Basin:
1 Red Kite over garden centre midday

17-4-22 Long-tailed Tit, Stoke Park (Patrick Richards)
Duchess Park:
7 Canada Goose, 1 Mute Swan, 27 Mallard, (+5 ducklings), 12 Feral Pigeons, 4 Stock Dove, 22 Woodpigeon, 6 Collared Dove, 12 Moorhen, 6 Coot, 4 Little Grebe, 1 Herring Gull, 1 LBB Gull, 2 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker, 2 Jay, 12 Magpie, 19 Jackdaw, 14 Carrion Crow, 1 Raven, 9 Blue Tit, 7 Great Tit, 4 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Willow Warbler, 9 Chiffchaff, 2f/8m Blackcap, 1 Whitethroat, 2 Goldcrest, 12 Wren, 2 Nuthatch, 7 Starling, 2f/9m Blackbird, 5 Song Thrush, 6 Robin, 22 House Sparrow, 6 Dunnock, 2 m/f Bullfinch, 8 Greenfinch,5 Goldfinch, 2 m/f Reed Warbler

Sea Mills WeBS:
1 m Mandarin, 2 Shelduck, 4 Common Sandpiper, 9 Redshank, 2 LBB Gull

Withywood garden:
7 soaring Buzzard

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

17-4-22 Wheatear, OPS (Heather England)
Oldbury Power Station:

2 Common Sandpiper, 1 Rock Pipit

Frampton Cotterell:
2 mating Buzzard on ground, Raven nest at Iron Acton

Yate, Wapley Bushes NR:
2 Canada Goose, 2 Stock Dove, 5 Herring Gull, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker, 3 Jay, 5 Blue Tit, 8 Great Tit, 12 Chiffchaff, 8 Blackcap, 6 Wren, 4 Blackbird, 1 Song Thrush, 1 Dunnock, 5 Goldfinch

Petty France, Bodkin Hazel Wood:
Pheasant, Buzzard, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Wren, Blackbird, Chaffinch, Corn Bunting, 2 Yellowhammer

Westerleigh:
2 Canada Geese, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Kestrel, 2 Raven, 2 Swallow, 1 Whitethroat

NORTH SOMERSET

Portbury Wharf NR:
3 Mute Swan (Inc. a nesting pair), 1 Shoveler, 6 Gadwall, 18 Tufted Duck, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Little Egret, 3 pr Little Grebe, 2 Common Sandpiper, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Little Egret, 1 Willow Warbler,  2 Sedge Warbler, 2 Whitethroat
17-4-22 Purple Sandpiper, Portishead (Jason Williams)
Portishead, Battery Point:
Purple Sandpiper, 1 Wheatear

Clevedon-Yeo:
16 Canada Geese, 5 Greylag Geese, 9 Mute Swan, 2 Shoveler, 110 Shelduck, 2 Shoveler, 8 Mallard, 4 Teal, 8 Tufted Duck, 30 Oystercatcher, 52 Oystercatcher, 8 Lapwing, 1 Grey Plover, 20+ Whimbrel, 2 Curlew, 1 Bar-tailed Godwit, 6 Dunlin, 1 Common Sandpiper, 8 Redshank, 10 Herring Gull, 4 LBB Gull, 5 Cormorant, 2 Little Egret, 1 Sand Martin, 1 Swallow, 2+ Cetti’s Warbler, 4 Chiffchaff, 70 Starling, 1 Wheatear

Nailsea Moor:
12 Canada Geese, 27 Mute Swan, 2 Mallard broods of eight and five, 3 Moorhen, 1 Herring Gull, 4 LBB Gull, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Buzzard, 1 Kingfisher, Ravens, lots Skylark, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Chiffchaff, Reed Warblers, 1 Whitethroat, pr Stonechat, 1 m Wheatear, Chaffinch, Greenfinch, Linnet, Goldfinch, 1 m Reed Bunting

Yatton, Wemberham Lane:
1 Mallard + 13 ducklings, 1 Great Spottted Woodpecker, 1 Cetti’s Warbler, 3 Wheatear, 2 Linnet, 1 Reed Bunting.

Uphill WeBS:
2 Canada Geese, 3 Mute Swan, 45 Shelduck, 3 Mallard, 1 Grey Heron, 6 Little Egret, 7 Oystercatcher, 6 Curlew, 2 BH Gull, 48 Herring Gull, 11 LBB Gull, 1 Wheatear, singing Blackcap and Chiffchaff.

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield:
1 Sedge Warbler (Shirehill La), 1 Whinchat, 1 Wheatear (Down Road)

Hanham Hills:
Lesser Whitethroat

Willsbridge Mill:
2 m/f Sparrowhawk, 2 Swallow
17-04-22 Robin Keynsham (Andrew Harrison)
Saltford - lower fields
1 Pheasant, 21 Woodpigeon, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Magpie, 2 Jackdaw, 2 Carrion Crow, 2 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, 1 Blackcap, 3 Wren, 2 Blackbird, 2 Robin, 1 Dunnock, 5 Chaffinch

Keynsham, Manor Road Community Woodlands:
4 Woodpigeon, 1 Magpie, 7 Rook, 3 Great Tit, 6 Chiffchaff, 6 Wren, 4 Blackbird, 2 Robin, 4+ House Sparrow, 1 Dunnock

Queen Charlton BBS:
2 Mallard, 2 Pheasant, 1 Feral Pigeon, 15 Woodpigeon, 1 Collared Dove, 1 Moorhen, 2 LBB Gull, 2 Buzzard, 9 Magpie, 4 Jackdaw, 5 Carrion Crow, 2 Raven, 5 Blue Tit, 4 Great Tit, 6 Skylark, 1 Swallow, 1 Willow Warbler, 1 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 1 Whitethroat, 14 Wren, 2 Starling, 14 Blackbird, 2 Song Thrush, 3 Mistle Thrush, 9 Robin, 9 House Sparrow, 7 Dunnock, 1 Greenfinch, 8 Linnet, 12 Goldfinch, 2 Yellowhammer

Stanton Drew:
1st Swallow

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

Dam:
1 Whimbrel, 4 Common Sandpiper

Stratford:
1 Scaup, 1 m Lesser Scaup, 1 similar hybrid

Herriott's Pool
1 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Lesser Scaup - same bird, different view.

17-4-22 Red-crested Pochard, Cheddar Reservoir (Geoff Daniels)
Out of Avon
Red-crested Pochard ay Cheddar Reservoir

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