Friday, 14 April 2023

14-04-23 Friday - Swift

 Temp 5° to 14° C  A prolonged wet start with a moderate breeze from the Southeast. The day brightened as the wind lessened and veered anti-clockwise through Easterly, then Northwesterly bringing the rain back.

Yellow Wagtail
Little Gull
Long-Tail Duck
Pink-footed Goose
Sedge Warbler
Whitethroat
Swift

BRISTOL

Ashton (garden):
1 Chiffchaff (on herb pots)

Redland:
2 Jay, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Wren, 1 Song Thrush, Dunnock, Greenfinch, Goldfinch

Stoke Park, Duchess Pond:
2 Swallow, 8 House Martin, 4 Willow Warbler, 1 Stonechat (f), 2 Meadow Pipit, 2 Reed Bunting

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station (Yacht Club Saltmarsh):
13 Wheatear

New Passage/Pilning Wetlands:
1 Little Ringed Plover, 1 Whimbrel, 29 Bar-tailed Godwit, 1 Willow Warbler, 3 Wheatear, 3 Yellow Wagtail, 1 Pied/White Wagtail

Swallow/Yellow Wagtail, Severnside (Paul Bowerman)

Severn Beach:
60+ Swallow, 3 Willow Warbler, 4 Wheatear, 4 Yellow Wagtail

Yate (Rocks):
1 Sparrowhawk (m)

Chipping Sodbury:
1 Common Swift

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead (boating lake):
1 Pink-footed Goose6 Swallow, 4 House Martin,   Willow Warbler (singing)

Redstart, Yatton (Mark Savage)

Yatton (garden):
2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Common Redstart

Sand Point/Middle Hope:
10 Swallow, 5 Willow Warbler, 10 Chiffchaff, 1 Whitethroat, 3 Redstart, 1 Yellow Wagtail, 51 Meadow Pipit, 3 Tree Pipit, 12 Linnet, c10 Goldfinch

BELOW M4 & BANES

Kingswood (Cock Road):
1 Great White Egret (flyover)

Bradley Stoke (West Country Waterpark):
I Great Crested Grebe

Hanham Hills:
3 Willow Warbler, 1 Common Redstart

RESERVOIRS

Barrow Tanks:
1 Long-tailed Duck (No.1 Tank ex-RBA)

Blagdon Lake:
1 Ring-necked Duck (Flower Corner), 1 Little Gull (1st Winter - Fishing Lodge)

Chew Valley Lake

Dam:
1 Tern (Commic sp.)

Heron's Green:

1 Sedge Warbler

Stratford:
1 Little Gull (1st winter - Blagdon bird?)

Reported by: PeterB, Paul Bowerman, Chris Craig, Richard Harding, Matt Hall, Katie Horrocks, Matt Hull. Mike Jackson, Rob Laughton, John Lewis, Paul Marshall, Nigel Milbourne, Linda Moysey, Joe Sargent, Mark Savage, Larry Sweeting, Bri Thompson, Robert Webber