Temp 8° to 12° C Overcast with rain until midday, when the light WSW wind veered round N and the sun came through in spells.
Smew
Bar-tailed Godwit
Marsh Tit
Crane
Cattle Egret
BRISTOL
Clifton Down - Avon Gorge:
BRISTOL
Clifton Down - Avon Gorge:
1 Peregrine
Fishponds - garden:
Fishponds - garden:
1 Sparrowhawk
01-04-23 LBB Gull Redland (Nancy Barrett) |
Lesser Black-backed Gull - back for the summer
SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Oldbury Power Station:
8 Little Egret
Littleton - Village to Whale Warth:
1 Cattle Egret
New Passage/Northwick:
1 Bar-tailed Godwit
Pilning Wetlands:
1 Barnacle Goose, 2 Swallow, 1 Willow Warbler
Yate inc The Common:
1 Peregrine - over towards Kingsgate Park, Blue and Long-tailed Tit, 5 Chiffchaff, 2 Goldcrest, Wren
Yate Rocks:
1 Sparrowhawk - bathing
Chipping Sodbury Common:
2 Greylag Goose, 1 Snipe, 5 Buzzard, 5 Chiffchaff, 3 Wheatear, 40 Meadow Pipit, 3 Bullfinch
Chipping Sodbury Common:
2 Greylag Goose, 1 Snipe, 5 Buzzard, 5 Chiffchaff, 3 Wheatear, 40 Meadow Pipit, 3 Bullfinch
Frampton Cottrell;
1 Red Kite, 2 Buzzard, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, Blackcap - - all warblers singing
NORTH SOMERSET
Backwell Lake:
14 Canada Goose, 10 Mute Swan, 3 Mallard, 1 Little Grebe, 1 Collared Dove, 7 Moorhen, 2 Little Egret, 1 Sparrowhawk - mobbed, 1 Raven, 13 Willow Warbler, 6 Chiffchaff, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Song Thrush, 2 Bullfinch, 3 Greenfinch, 10 Goldfinch. Lots of singing birds
Tickenham - Cadbury Camp:
1 Sparrowhawk, 3 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker, 2 Raven, 1 Marsh Tit - singing, 12 Chiffchaff, 3 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Nuthatch, 1 Mistle Thrush, 1 Song Thrush, 2 GreenfinchKenn - Duck Lane garden:
2 Linnet
Wrington Warren:
1 Crane - over, going south at 13:20
Sand Point - Bay/Middle Hope:
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Peregrine, 91 Sand Martin, 6 Swallow, 5 Willow Warbler, 15 Chiffchaff, 2 Song Thrush, 1 Stonechat, 1 Wheatear (f), 6 alba Wagtail, 123 Meadow Pipit, 14 Greenfinch, 17 Linnet 46 Goldfinch, 1 Yellowhammer
1 Crane - over, going south at 13:20
Sand Point - Bay/Middle Hope:
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Peregrine, 91 Sand Martin, 6 Swallow, 5 Willow Warbler, 15 Chiffchaff, 2 Song Thrush, 1 Stonechat, 1 Wheatear (f), 6 alba Wagtail, 123 Meadow Pipit, 14 Greenfinch, 17 Linnet 46 Goldfinch, 1 Yellowhammer
Banwell - garden:
2 Stock Dove, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Marsh Tit, 2 Nuthatch
BELOW M4 & BANES
Marshfield:
2 Buzzard, Skylark - singing, 2 Pied Wagtail
Keynsham to Chewton Place - along R Chew:
8 Mallard, 4 Stock Dove - over, 3 Grey Heron, 2 Buzzard, 1 Raven - also calls from nesting tree, 13 Magpie - together feeding, 3 Chiffchaff - singing, 1 Blackcap (m), 1 Song Thrush, 1 Greenfinch, 5 Goldfinch
01-04-23 Jackdaw Keynsham (Nick Page) |
Jackdaw - nesting material gathering, cardboard and hair
01-04-23 Rook Nesting Hallatrow (Patrick Hancock) |
15 active Rook nests
Paulton:
1 Willow Warbler
RESERVOIRS
Chew Valley Lake
Heron's Green:
1 Smew, 1 Snipe, 1 Common Tern, 6 Cattle Egret, 1 Greater White Egret, 24 Little Egret, 1 Sparrowhawk, 3 Buzzard, 2 Barn Owl - hunting
Stratford:
1 Common Tern, 1 Cattle Egret
01-04-23 Willow Warbler CVL (Bri Thompson) |
1 Red Kite, 1 Willow Warbler
Reported by: Jon Angell, Nancy Barrett, Mark Coller, Peter Coslett, Ben Crabb, Chris Craig, John Croxton, Barry Dursley, Patrick Hancock, David Hanks, Matt Hull, Simon Isgar, Steve Mackie, John Marks, Robbie Morse, Linda Moysey, Nick Page, Vic Savery, Chris Teague, Bri Thompson, John Thorogood, Lauren Tucker, Jack Wylson