07-04-23 Good Friday - Redstart

Temp 5° to 15° C  Really lovely day, the NE wind however, did knock a couple of deg off how warm it felt.

Long-tailed Duck

Sedge Warbler

Little Gull

Reed Warbler

Redstart

Purple Sandpiper

BRISTOL

Brislington - garden:

Green Woodpecker - yaffling, 3 Jay, 1 Magpie, 1 Coal Tit, 1 Blue Tit, 1 Robin,  1 Goldfinch

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
33 Shelduck, 1 Gadwall, 17 Teal, 2 Little Grebe, 4 Grey Plover, 2 Curlew, 1 Sand Martin, 1 Swallow, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 41 Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap

Pilning Wetlands:
1 Goosander - over

Damery:

1 Nuthatch, 1 Treecreeper

Wickwar - West End:

1 Swallow, 2 Long-tailed Tit - nest building, 1 Chiffchaff    

Yate inc Kingsgate Park:
1 Little Grebe, 1 Red Kite, 1 Buzzard, 1 Jay, 15 Rook, 2 Coal tit, 1 Swallow, 12+ Willow Warbler, 7 Chiffchaff, 4 Blackcap, 4 Goldcrest, 1 Greenfinch, 1 Goldfinch

Yate - Brinsham Park:

 3 Jay, 7 Willow Warbler, 4 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap

07-04-23 Wheatear CSC (Peter Coslett)

Chipping Sodbury Common:
1 Red Kite, 6+ Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, 1 Peregrine, 3 Raven, Skylark, 2 Swallow, 11+ Chiffchaff, 1 Redstart, 1 Wheatear, 20+ Meadow Pipit, Linnet, 3 Reed Bunting

Frampton Cotterell - Black Rocks:

1 Cattle Egret

06-04-23 Mistle Thrush Almondsbury (Vĕra Carpenter)

Almondsbury- garden:

1 Chiffchaff - but last night 1 Mistle Thrush - what a serenade!

NORTH SOMERSET

07-04-23 Purple Sandpiper Battery Point (Jason Williams)

Portishead - Battery Point:
3 Purple Sandpiper

Clevedon - garden:

1 Red Kite - over v high, several Buzzard, Carrion Crow

Clevedon - Yeo:
28 Canada Goose, 2 Egyptian Goose + 5 ducklings, 12 Mute Swan, 90 Shelduck, 20 Teal, Mallard, 1 Tufted Duck, 1 Little Grebe, 54 Oystercatcher, 6 Lapwing, 16 Grey Plover, 1 Golden Plover, 80 Curlew, 1 Knot, 6 Dunlin, 1 Snipe, 110 Redshank, 8 LBB Gull, 1 Grey Heron, 6 Little Egret, 3 Chiffchaff, 1 Wheatear

Nailsea Moor:

1 Stock Dove, 6 Grey Heron, 2 Raven, 11 Skylark, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 4 Willow Warbler, 8 Chiffchaff, 1 Sedge Warbler, 7 Greenfinch, 8 Reed Bunting

Worle - garden:

1 Sparrowhawk, 4 Buzzard - on high, 1 Willow Warbler

Worlebury:
1 Peregrine - high over the garden

Congresbury to Wrington:

1 Cormorant, 1 Grey Heron, 4 Buzzard, 3 Kingfisher - squabbling, 1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Kestrel, many Chiffchaff - singing

BELOW M4 & BANES

Willsbridge Siston Brook:
1 Dipper

07-04-23 Redstart Hanham (Rob Laughton)

Hanham Hills:

1 Willow Warbler, plenty of Chiffchaff & Blackcap, 1 Redstart

Keynsham, Manor Rd:
1 Raven - over, 1 Willow Warbler, 1 Chiffchaff, 7 Goldfinch 

Keynsham - Willsbridge:
3 Cormorant, 2 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Wren, 1 Treecreeper

Hunstrete to Compton Dando - around the lanes:

20+ Wood Pigeon, 1 Red Kite, 1 Buzzard, 1 G-S Woodpecker, 30+ Jackdaw, 2 Raven, 7 Skylark, 1 Willow Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff, 9+ Linnet, 2 Yellowhammer

07-04-23 Chaffinch Compton Dando (Ian Stapp)

Compton Dando:

7 Mallard, 1 Kingfisher, 4 Magpie, 6 House Martin - wires, 2 Mistle Thrush, 30+ House Sparrow, 2 Grey Wagtail, Chaffinch

RESERVOIRS

Barrow Gurney circular - inc Tank - 1:
5 pr Tufted Duck, 1 Long-tailed Duck, 3 Little Egret, 5 Buzzard, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker, 1 Raven, 4 Skylark, 17 Chiffchaff, 23 Linnet - flock

Chew Valley Lake

Dam:
1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 3+ Chiffchaff, 2 Pied Wagtail

07-04-23 Reed Bunting CVL (George Stacey)

Picnic Site 2:
1 Reed Bunting

Woodford:
1 Little Gull,  2 GBB Gull, 2 L TT, 1 Willow Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Song Thrush, 2 Robin, 12+ Chaffinch

07-04-23 Garganey CVL (Tony Bridges)

Heron's Green:
1 Garganey (m),  4 Gadwall,  2 Little Grebe, 1 Buzzard, 3 Magpie, 2 Raven, 2 Cetti's Warbler,  4+ Chiffchaff

07-04-23 Chiffchaff CVL (Ian Stapp)

Moreton:
6 Shelduck, 2 Goldeneye, 7 Stock Dove, 1 Grey Heron, 2 Buzzard, 1 GS Woodpecker,  2 Raven, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 2 L TT, 2 Willow Warbler, 4 Chiffchaff, 12+ Chaffinch, 2 Reed Bunting

07-04-23 Scaup CVL (Mike Trew)

Stratford:

1 Greylag Goose, 4 Teal, 20 Goldeneye, 2 Scaup (f 2nd cyr), 1 Kittiwake -1st wint, 1 Little Gull - 1st wint, 3 Sparrowhawk, 2 Marsh Harrier, 2 Red Kite, 40 Sand Martin, 40 Swallow, 4 House Martin

CVRS - area:

2 Reed Warbler - singing

Herriott's inc Pool:
1 Shelduck, 2 GBB Gull, 1 GS Woodpecker, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Willow Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Song Thrush, 2 Reed Bunting

Reported by: David Allward, Paul Bowdler, Tony Bridges, Vĕra Carpenter, Mark Coller, Peter Coslett, Ben Crabb, Chris Craig, Heather England, Matt Hall, Dave Hanks, Donna Harvey, Annie & Nick Hawkridge, Steve Hurley, MJ, Rob Laughton, Fen Marshall, Andy Middleton, George Rabin, Dean Reeves, Harvey Rose, Paul Sadley, George Stacey, Ian Stapp, Howard Taffs, Paul Tompkins, Mike Trew, Chris Vines, Jason Williams

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