Monday, 2 May 2022

02-05-22 May Bank Holiday Monday - Purple Sandpiper

Light wind, overcast at times max temp 15°C

Purple Sandpiper
Barnacle Goose, Artic Tern, Hobby
Little Tern
Pectoral Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper, Spoonbill, Whinchat

BRISTOL

Stoke Park:
- Duchess Pond: 1 Little Egret, 1 Garden Warbler, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Reed Bunting - pr
- Sims Hill: 3 Swallow - collecting nesting mtl, 1 Garden Warbler, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Whitethroat, 6 Linnet

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE
02-05-22 Whitethroat OPS (Di Bunniss)
Oldbury Power Station:

5 Shelduck, 3 Moorhen, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Jay, 4 Carrion Crow, 2 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, 500+ Swallow heading north along the estuary, 3 Long-tailed Tit, 7 Chiffchaff, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, 3 Blackcap, 6 Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Common Whitethroat, Wren, 4 Blackbird, 5 Song Thrush, 3 Robin, 2 Greenfinch, 2 Linnet

Aust Cliff and Services:
12 Shelduck, 1 Kestrel, 1 Rook, flock c.30 Carrion Crow, c.90 Swallow, 4 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 2 Pied Wagtail, 5 Greenfinch.

Pilning Wetlands:
1 Pectoral Sandpiper - a little video, 2 Wood Sandpiper, 4 Greenshank, 1 Spoonbill, hundreds of Sand Martin, Swallow and House Martin going through, 1 Whinchat

Severn Beach:
10 Whimbrel, 80+ Bar-tailed Godwit, 6 Common Sandpiper, 1 Little Tern - flew east inland, many Sand Martin, Swallow and House Martin - moving up the estuary

Wickwar - West End:
1 Chiffchaff, Goldfinch
02-05-22 Reed Warbler Tubbs Bottom (Julian Selman)
Frampton Cotterell - Tubbs Bottom:

1 Reed Warbler

Nibley:
2 Whitethroat

Tormarton - BBS:
2 Pheasant, 10 Stock Dove, 20 Woodpigeon, 4 Lesser Black-backed gull, 3 Magpie, 54 Jackdaw, 23 Crow, 2 Blue Tit, 3 Great Tit, 8 Skylark, 13 Swallow, 1 Grasshopper Warbler, 3 Blackcap, 4 Wren, 1 Song Thrush, 6 Blackbird, 2 Robin, 3 House Sparrow, 4 Dunnock, 2 Goldfinch.

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead - Woodland, Sea Front and Battery Point:
2 Oystercatcher, 2 Whimbrel, 1 Purple Sandpiper, 1 Kestrel, 2 Sand Martin, c460 Swallow - heading c20 House Martin - inc nest sites, 1 Willow Warbler - singing, 2 Chiffchaff, flocks of Linnet and Goldfinch. 

Clevedon:
-  Channel View: Arctic Tern, Black Tern, Little Tern, 1 Red Kite
- Colehouse Lane - BBS: 1 Canada Goose, 21 Mallard (nearly all males, suggesting females are on eggs elsewhere), 61 Woodpigeon, 7 Collared Dove, 4 Moorhen, 2 ad. H Gull (plus lots of imms,), 3 LBB Gull, 1 Peregrine, 21 Magpie, 23 Jackdaw, 7 C, Crow, 7 Blue Tit, 5 Great Tit, 1 Sand Martin with 42+ Swallow, 1 singing Cetti's Warbler, 2 LT Tit, 7 singing Chiffchaff, 5 Blackcap, 2 singing Garden Warbler, 1+ Lesser Whitethroat and another just outside the BBS square, 13 Wren, 115 Starling, 2 Song Thrush, 1 singing Mistle Thrush, 16 Blackbird,,14 Robin, 11 House Sparrow, 6 Dunnock, 1 Chaffinch, 1 Bullfinch, 7 Greenfinch, 15 Goldfinch

Kenn Moor:
1 Whinchat (m)

BELOW M4 & BANES

Hanham Hills:
1 Sparrowhawk (m), 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel (f), 10 Swallow, 1 House Martin, 4 Blackcap, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 3 Whitethroat, 12 Greenfinch

Dyrham Park - A38:
1 Red Kite
02-05-22 Tawny Owl Willsbridge (Chris Hall)
Willsbridge - garden:

2 Tawny Owl young ringed today, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker - nest change over
02-05-22 Mallard Keynsham (Andrew Harrison)
Keynsham, Memorial Park:

23+ Mallard, 21+ Feral Pigeon, 1 Woodpigeon, 1 Herring Gull, 2 Magpie, 1 Jackdaw, 1 Carrion Crow, 1 Blue Tit, 2 Wren, 1 Blackbird
02-05-22 Peregrine Bath (BUPP)
Bath - St John's :

Pergrine family doing well

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake
02-05-22 Bullfinch CVL (Ian Stapp)
Dam:

3 broods of Canada Goose - 1/3/& 5 goslings, 1 Barnacle Goose, 2 Common Sandpiper, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Raven, 100 of Martin & Swallow, 1 Cetti's  Warbler, 1 Willow Warbler, 1 Garden Warbler, 1 Song Thrush, 2 Dunnock, 6 Chaffinch, 2 Bullfinch 

Woodford:
1 Common Sandpiper, 1 GBB Gull, 1 Artic Tern, 1 Raven, 30 Swallow and Martin, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Chiffchaff

Nunnery:
2 Hobby - hawking over the lake, 1 Raven, 2 Chiffchaff, 4 Reed Warbler, 1 Garden Warbler

Heron's Green:
2 Gadwall - pool, 2 Pheasant, 2 Little Grebe - pool, 2 G-C Grebe, 3 Common Sandpiper,    
1 Buzzard, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Sedge Warbler, 4 Reed Warbler, 2 Whitethroat, 2 Reed Bunting

Moreton:
Mallard + 7 ducklings, 2 Pheasant, 2 G BB Gull, 1 Grey Heron, 2 Raven, 30+ House Martin and Swallow, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 3+ Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 1 Garden Warbler, 1 Willow Warbler, 3 Wren, 6+ Chaffinch, 3 Reed Bunting
02-05-22 Garden Warbler CVL (Ian Stapp)
Herriott's inc Pool:
Canada Goose + 6 goslings, 1 Egyptian Goose - pool, 8 Shelduck - pool, 30+ Gadwall, 
2 G-C Grebe, 1 Common Sandpiper, 3 G BB Gull, 1 Grey Heron, 6 Jackdaw, 1 Raven, 40+ Swallow Sand & House Martin, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Sedge Warbler, 4+ Reed Warbler, 2 Reed Bunting

Reports: Paul Bowerman, Peter Bryant, Di Bunniss, John Croxton, Jane Cumming, Barry Dursley, Chris Hall, Andrew Harrison, David Howes, Nigel Jones, Rob Laughton, Colin Morris, Bob Proctor, Lois Pryce, Paul Sadley, Paul Sawyer, Julian Selman, Ian Stapp, Larry Sweetland, Howard Taffs