Temp 3° to 10° C - the light wind cooled the day somewhat - as anything with a northerly aspect does. Sunny until 9am, with heavy rain spells thereafter.
Ring Ouzel, Redstart
Swift
Swift
Ruff
Ring-necked Duck
BRISTOL
High Kingsdown - garden:
High Kingsdown - garden:
1st Blackbird fledged
SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Oldbury Power Station:
2 Tufted Duck, 35 Whimbrel, 1 Grasshopper Warbler - reeling by the lake, 2 Wheatear, 1 Yellow Wagtail - over, 1 White Wagtail,
Pilning Wetlands:
1 Ruff
Chipping Sodbury Common:
1 Chiffchaff, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Whitethroat, 1 Ring Ouzel, 1 Redstart, 2 Bullfinch, 1 Reed Bunting
Tormarton:
1 Redstart, 1 Wheatear, 1 Yellow Wagtail
NORTH SOMERSET
Portishead boating lake:
Portishead boating lake:
12 Canada Goose, 17 Mute Swan, 2 Shelduck, c.10 Mallard, 5 Tufted Duck, 1 Moorhen, only one Herring Gull, lots of Swallow and House Martin, 30 Carrion Crow, 6 Starling, 1 Pied Wagtail.
Portishead - garden
1st Blackbird fledged
Clevedon - garden
1st Blackbird fledged
1st Blackbird fledged
Clevedon - garden
1st Blackbird fledged
BELOW M4 & BANES
Hanham Hill:
2 Grey Heron, 1 Sparrowhawk, Skylark, 5 Willow Warbler, 2 Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Song Thrush, Greenfinch, 2 Linnet
Oldland Common - Jarretts:
2 Red Kite
RESERVOIRS
Barrow Tanks:
LTD ? - a no show, 4 Common Sandpiper, 8 Little Egret
Blagdon Lake:
8 Canada Geese, 21 Mute Swan, 8 Gadwall, 38 Mallard+9 ducklings, 2 Teal, 1 Ring-necked Duck, 137 Tufted Duck, 5 Moorhen ,135 Coot, 2 Little Grebe, 22 Great Crested Grebe, 3 Snipe, 5 Common Sandpiper, 1 Common Tern, 11 Cormorant, 4 Great White Egret, 1 Little Egret, 1 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 1 Raven, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Willow Warbler, 2 Treecreeper, 2 Grey Wagtail
Chew Valley Lake
15 Swift, 2 Arctic Tern, Sedge Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Whitethroat, Garden Warbler.
Dam:
3 Common Sandpiper, 1 Common Tern
East Shore:
3 Red Kite - together
Heron's Green:
4 Common Sandpiper
Stratford:
2 Scaup (f), 1 Swift, 1 Common Tern, 1 Cattle Egret - went over high, southward, 1 Willow Warbler, 1 Garden Warbler - both singing on the lane
Out of Area:
Heron's Green:
4 Common Sandpiper
Stratford:
2 Scaup (f), 1 Swift, 1 Common Tern, 1 Cattle Egret - went over high, southward, 1 Willow Warbler, 1 Garden Warbler - both singing on the lane
Out of Area:
Cheddar Res:
1 Slavonian Grebe - sum plum, 1 Little Gull
Reported by: Paul Bowerman, Chris Craig, Jane Cumming, Stephen Curtis, Alan Daniells, Andy Davis, Anthony Goodwin, Robert Hargreaves, Pete Hazelwood, Nige Milbourne, Robbie Morse, Vic Polley, Carol Rushton, Bri Thompson, Lauren & Wayne Tucker, Chris Vines, Keith Williams