12-04-23 Wednesday - Sea Watch, Hobby

Temp 4 to 9°C. Calm sunny start, then heavy showers and SSW wind gusting at 37mph.

Pink-footed Goose

Whimbrel, Purple Sandpiper
Kittiwake
Sandwich Tern, Arctic Tern
Great Skua, Arctic Skua
Fulmar
Merlin, Hobby

12-04-23 Arctic Skua, Severn Beach (Matt Hall)

BRISTOL

Stoke Park:

2 Swallow, 1 Sand Martin, 2 Willow Warbler, 1pr Stonechat

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
1 Arctic Skua

12-04-23 Bonxie, Severn Beach (Aravind Ramesh)

Severn Beach:

35 Whimbrel, 6 Kittiwake, 1 Mediterranean Gull, 1 Sandwich Tern, 7 Arctic Tern, 1 Great Skua (Bonxie), 5 Arctic Skua, 2 Fulmar, 2 Wheatear

Avening Green:

1 Red Kite

Near A46/M4 Junction:

1 Red Kite

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead, salt marshes:

16 Purple Sandpiper

Portishead, Battery Point:

1 Pink-footed Goose on the boating Lake, 1 Shelduck, 2 Oystercatcher, 1 Purple Sandpiper, Herring Gulls, 1 Robin, 2 Rock Pipit

12-04-23 Long-tailed Tit, Dowlais (Paul Chapman)

Clevedon-Dowlais:

8 Teal, 1 Snipe, 2 WillowWarbler

Bristol Int. Airport:

3 House Martin

Sand Point:
11 Kittiwake, 54 Common Gull, 1 Sandwich Tern, 4 Arctic Tern, 4 Arctic Skua (1 pale), 6 Swallow, 15 Linnet, 235 Goldfinch, 2 Siskin

Anchor Head:

1 Bonxie (Great Skua), 1 dark Arctic Skua, 3 Fulmar

BELOW M4 & BANES

Oldland, Jarrets:

1 Red Kite

Willsbridge:

Great Spotted and Green Woodpecker, 1 Willow Warbler, 4 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, Nuthatch, Song Thrush

Midford, Tucking Mill reservoir:

2 Swallow, 9 House Martin

RESERVOIRS

12-04-23 Commic Tern, CVL (Bri Thompson)

Chew Valley Lake

Herons Green:

1 Barn Owl

Stratford:

3 f (1ad) Scaup, 3 Commic Tern, 1 Little Egret, 1 Red Kite, 1 f Kestrel, 1 f Merlin, 1 Hobby, 1 ad Peregrine, 1000 Sand Martin, 30 Swallow, 20 House Martin

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