Thursday, 9 March 2023

09-03-23 Thursday - House Martin

Temp 9° to 2° C  Overcast with heavy showers, a tiny bit of sun - light east wing with snow still on the ground.

House Martin
Hume's Warbler
Purple Sandpiper
Yellow-browed Warbler
Water Pipit
Ring-necked Duck
09-03-23 Greenfinch  Almondsbury (Vĕra Carpenter)
BRISTOL


Bishopston - garden:
I Jay, 2 Magpie, 3 Carrion Crow, 2 Herring Gull, 4 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 2 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, 1 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Blackcap (f&m), 1 Wren, 1 Robin, 7 House Sparrow, 1 Dunnock, 3 Goldfinch

Knowle - Northern Slopes LNR and Malago Greenway:
3 Mallard - fighting, 2 Collared Dove, 1 Moorhen, 1 BH Gull, 8 LBB Gull, 8 Magpie, 2 Carrion Crow, 8 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, 2 Lt Tit, 4 Wren, 2 Starling, 10 Blackbird, 6 Robin, 3 Dunnock, 5 House Sparrow, 2 Grey Wagtail, 1 Greenfinch, 1 Goldfinch

Redland - garden:
Blue Tit, Long-tailed Tit, 1 Blackcap (f)

Westbury-on-Trym:
1 Yellow-browed Warbler - singing in the same spot 

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
5 Grey Plover, 160 Curlew, 50 Turnstone, 1,100 Dunlin, 13 LBB Gull  -  upriver, c45 Meadow Pipit, 2 Rock Pipit, 1 (probable) Water Pipit flew from scrapes near yacht club

New Passage/Northwick:
1 Pink-footed Goose, 45 Wigeon, 25 Teal, 4 Oystercatcher, 30 Curlew, 20 Dunlin, 1 Green Woodpecker

Pilning Wetlands:
1 Barnacle Goose, 3 Shoveler, 21 Gadwall, 45 Teal, 1 Pochard, 3 Tufted Duck, 1 Oystercatcher, 9 Lapwing, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Green Woodpecker, 4 Redwing, 5 Meadow Pipit

Severn Beach:
35 Wigeon, 10 Teal, 1 Blackcap, 2 Stonechat, 3 Chaffinch, 2 Bullfinch, 26 Reed Bunting - flock
09-03-23 Goldfinch Wickwar (Paul Sadely)
Wickwar - garden:
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Blackcap (1f &2m), 1 Goldfinch - - - Little Owl calling in the pm & a Tawny Owl later still.

Yate :
- Kingsgate Park - 9 Tufted Duck, 1 Little Grebe, 50+ Redwing, 4 Chaffinch, 14 Goldfinch
- garden - 6 Blackcap (f&5m), 

Chipping Sodbury Common - Ridge Wood:
1 Sparrowhawk (f), 2 Goldcrest, 35 Redwing

Almondsbury - garden:
9 Jackdaw, 2 Blackcap (f&m), 6 Greenfinch

NORTH SOMERSET
09-03-23 Purple Sandpiper Battery Point (Nigel Slumen)
Portishead - Battery Point:
5 Purple Sandpiper - a little video action

BELOW M4 & BANES

Compton Dando - STW
1 Hume's Warbler, 1 Goldcrest, 1 Grey Wagtail

Cameley:
c300 Redwing, a few Fieldfare - A very musical dawn chorus in the treetops, post-roost this morning

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
1 Ring-necked Duck, 7 Great White Egret, 1 Little Egret, 2 House Martin - earliest by a week!

CVL

Heron's Green
1 Smew - the redhead

Reported by: Paul Bowerman, Vĕra Carpenter, Mark Coller, Alan Daniells, Andy Davis, Annie & Nick Hawkridge, Pete Hazelwood, John Lewis, Bob Medland, Mike Moxon, Mike Owen, Paul Sadley, Nigel Sluman, Rod Taylor