29-04-23 Saturday - Common Tern

Temp 10° to 16° C.  Calm, foggy and damp.  The fog burned off very slowly throughout the afternoon to produce a sunny but still hazy evening.

Glossy Ibis
Common Sandpiper

Common Tern
Garden Warblers

Portrait of a Great Crested Grebe at Chew (NSL-Birding)

BRISTOL

Downend:

6 Swift

Treecreeper at WildSpace (Pete Harrison)

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
Whitethroats singing

Mangotsfield:

1 Swift

Robin at WildSpace (Pete Harrison)

Almondsbury - WildSpace:

Woodpigeon, Herring Gull, LBB Gull, 1 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, Magpie, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Chiffchaff, 1 Treecreeper, Wren, Song Thrush, Blackbird,  Robin. Chaffinch.

Chipping Sodbury Common:
1 Cuckoo, 2 Raven, 4 Swallow, Sedge Warbler, 6 Whitethroat, 4 Lesser Whitethroat, 5 Blackcap, Willow Warbler, 10+ Chiffchaff, 1 f. Ring Ouzel, 1 m. Redstart.  

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead:
(BBS, boating lake and Battery Point) 

18 Canada Goose, 15 Mute Swan (only 1 ad.). 8 Mallard (but no sign of yesterday's 3 Tufted Duck), 6 Moorhen, 2 Stock Dove, 34 Woodpigeon, 3 Collared Dove, 1 Oystercatcher, 1 Common Sandpiper, 17 Herring Gull (3 ad., 14 imm.), 2 LBB Gull, 3 Magpie, 39 Carrion Crow, 4 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, 3 Swallow, 1 LT Tit, 1 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 5 Wren, 1 Nuthatch, 17 Starling, 7 Blackbird, 6 Robin, 10 House Sparrow, 3 Dunnock, 2 Pied Wagtail, 1 Chaffinch, 2 Linnet, 3 Goldfinch.

Backwell Lake:
Canada Geese, Mute Swans and a very dark Buzzard.

BELOW M4 & BANES
no reports

Three of the Glossy Ibises at Moreton (NSL-Birding)

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

Heron's Green:

1 m. Pochard, singing Sedge Warblers

Moreton:

4 Glossy Ibis, 16 Swift.

Garden Warbler at Chew (NSL-Birding)

Stratford:

1 f. Scaup, 1 Common Tern, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Blackcap, 3+ Garden Warbler, Goldcrest, 1 Treecreeper, 3 Reed Bunting.

OUT OF AREA

Ham Wall RSPB
singing Great Reed Warbler

Reported by: Jane Cumming, Pete Harrison, Jonathan Margetts, NSL-birding, Ann Rossiter blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG, contributors to local WhatsApp birding groups