08-04-24 Monday - Little Gull

Temp 6°C to 15°C - overcast all day with a light rain in the pm. A light South South East wind gusting to 25 mph direction later in the day.

Little Gull

Grasshopper Warbler

Sandwich Tern

Redstart, Tree Pipit

Pied Flycatcher

Ring-necked Parakeet

BRISTOL

Eastville Park:

1 Little Egret, 2 Willow Warbler, 2 Blackcap, 1 Mistle Thrush

Sea Mills Harbour:

1 Willow Warbler, 2 Grey Wagtail - pr

Stoke Park inc Duchess Pond:

1 Little Grebe, 1 RN Parakeet, 5 Willow Warbler, 5 Blackcap

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:

4 Canada Goose, 27 Shelduck, 28 Mallard, 5 Teal, 4 Tufted Duck, 19 Oystercatcher, 170 Curlew, 4 Bar tailed Godwit, 3 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Dunlin, 1 Snipe, 5 Common Sandpiper, 32 Redshank, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Sand Martin, 5 Willow Warbler, 24 Chiffchaff, 3 Reed Warbler, 2 Grasshopper Warbler, 3 Blackcap, 2 Whitethroat, 1 Wheatear

Littleton Brick Pits - ringing arena:

Decent spring migration ringing this morning, c50 processed - including,  2 Cetti's Warbler, 6 Willow Warbler, 5 Chiffchaff, 1 Sedge Warbler, 4 Blackcap, 1 Redstart (m)

08-04-24 Pied Flycatcher Aust Services (James Richard)

Aust Services:
1 Green Woodpecker, 35 Willow Warbler, lots of Chiffchaff, & Blackcap, 1 Pied Flycatcher, 2 Redstart, 1 Tree Pipit

NorthwickWarth/Pilning Wetlands:
1 Pink-footed Goose, 2 Gadwall, 17 Avocet, 34 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Great Crested Grebe,1 Sedge Warbler, 1 Reed Warbler, 1 Whitethroat, 2 Wheatear, 1 Tree Pipit

New Passage:

1 Common Sandpiper, c50 Willow Warbler in the area

08-04-24 Jay Wapley Bushes (Chris Teague)

Wapley Bushes:
2 LBB Gulls.1 Buzzard, 2 Green Woodpecker, 2 Jay, 3 Willow Warbler, 5 Chiffchaff, 7 Blackcap, 1 Redstart (f), 2 Bullfinch

Yate Kingsgate Park:

6 Tufted Duck, 1 Goosander (f), 2 Little Grebe

Chipping Sodbury Common:
2 Goosander (f&m), 4 Willow Warbler, lots of Chiffchaffs, 9 Blackcap, 1 Grasshopper Warbler, 1 Whitethroat, 4 Redstart (m), 3 Wheatear

Severnside Business Park:

1 Yellow Wagtail - over

NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon - Highdale House:

10 Magpie, 2 Robin

Sand Point/Middle Hope/St Thomas's Head:
1 Whimbrel, 2 Buzzard - circling, 5 Grasshopper Warbler - reeling, 2 Whitethroat, 3 Redstart, 2 Yellow Wagtail,  9 Tree Pipit, 4 Siskin

Weston STW:

1 Jack Snipe, 3 Common Sandpiper, 1 Short-eared Owl, 17 Willow Warbler, 2 Grasshopper Warbler, 2 Sedge Warbler, 1 Reed Warbler, 1 Whitethroat, 2 Stonechat, 4 Wheatear

BELOW M4 & BANES

Willsbridge:
2 Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap, 2 Goldcrest, 1 Nuthatch, 1 Dipper

Oldland Common - garden:

2 Jackdaw - nest in chimney, 2 Starling - trying to nest in next chimney

Hanham Abbots, Bickley Wood:

2 Willow Warbler - singing 

Keynsham - Broadmead:

2 Shelduck, 1 Little Gull (1st winter), 3 BH Gull

Dundry Hill:

9 Wheatear

RESERVOIRS

8-4-24 Little & GBB Gull, BL (Robert Hargreaves)

Blagdon Lake:

4 Shoveler, 6 Gadwall, 180 Tufted Duck, 100 Coot, 9 Snipe, 4 Common Sandpiper, 1 Little Gull - 1st winter, 5 Great Black-backed Gull, 1 Great White Egret, 4 Grey Heron, 1 GS Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, Sand Martin, 1 Swallow, 1 Mistle Thrush, 4 Song Thrush, 1 Bullfinch, 2 Reed Bunting

Chew Valley Lake

Main Dam:

3 Common Sandpiper, 1 Black-headed Gull, 1 Kingfisher

Herons Green:
1 Common Sandpiper

Moreton:
2 Egyptian Goose - field behind, 4 Stock Dove, 1 Great White Egret, 7 Little Egret, 1 Sedge Warbler, 1 Redstart (m)

Ringing station:

1 Sedge Warbler, 6 Reed Warbler

Herriotts inc. Pool:

3 Shoveler, 2 Gadwall, 8 Teal, 2 GBB Gull, 2 Sandwich Tern, 4 House Martin

Reported by: George Ashwell,  Chris Craig, Jamie Dunning, Ollie Fournier, Paul Frances, Robert Hargreaves, Rupert Higgins, Paul House, Matt Hull, Nigel Kempson, Paul Marshall, Andy Middleton, Nige Milbourne, Mike Moxon, Nick Page, Matt Plenty, Mark Ponsford, Nigel Povey, Aravind Ramesh, Dean Reeves, James Richard, Rosemary Setter, Andy Stockhausen, Chris Teague, Gordon Youdale

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