12-04-24 Friday - Whinchat

Temp 8°C to 21°C - What a jolly nice day, light cloud, warm, no rain, and a light to moderate breeze from the W/SW. Gusts up to 23mph. 

With the addition of Ruff and Whinchat, the 2024 Avon year list is now 185 species and can be seen here. Summer migrant dates are here- will the next arrival be cuckoo, hobby, swift, or something unexpected?

Whinchat

Grey and Golden Plover

Ruff, Whimbrel

Osprey

Greenland Wheatear

Lesser Whitethroat

12-04-24 Great Crested Grebe, CVL (Merv Carlyon)

BRISTOL

Bishopston Garden:

4 Woodpigeon, 2 Jay, 1 Raven - way up calling, 1 Blue Tit, 1 Great Tit, 2 Wren, 8 Blackbird - a pair flew into a Fir tree, closely followed by 6 males - in pairs from 3 directions - five minutes, they all left, heading in the direction they came from !!! 2 Robin, 5 Goldfinch

Chittening Warth:

7 Cetti's Warbler, 3 Sedge Warbler, 1 Lessser Whitethroat, 1f Redstart

Hengrove:

1m Redstart

Lawrence Weston:

1 Grasshopper Warbler

Stockwood Open Space:

Pheasant, Moorhen, Cetti's Warbler, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, 3 Song Thrush, Goldfinch

Stoke Park inc Duchess Pond:

1 Whitethroat, 1m Redstart

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:

1 Reed Warbler, 1 Grasshopper Warbler, 1 Lesser Whitethroat

Aust Wetland:

2 Grasshopper Warbler

Aust Services:
22 Shelduck, 1 Stock Dove, 1 Curlew, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, 1 Swallow, 4 Chiffchaff

New Passage:

1 Golden Plover, 1 Grey Plover, 4 Little Ringed Plover,1 Black-tailed Godwit,  1 Ruff, 1 Reed Warbler, 1 Wheatear

12-04-24 Linnet, CSC (Peter Coslett)

Chipping Sodbury Common:
2 Green Woodpecker, 1 Willow Warbler, many Chiffchaff, 4+ Blackcap, 3 Redstart, 4 Wheatear (inc 1 Greenland type), 1 Tree Pipit, 3 Bullfinch, Linnet

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead:
1 Marsh Harrier

Clevedon - Yeo:
60 Shelduck, 20 Teal, 2 Tufted Duck, 1 Water Rail, 48 Oystercatcher, 1 Whimbrel, 26 Curlew, 4 Dunlin, 85 Redshank, 2 Little Egret, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Kestrel, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff

Garden: 4 Wood Pigeon, 3 Magpie, 1 Crow, 2 Blue Tit, 2 Robin

Wain's Hill - vismig:
6 Sand Martin, 1 Tree Pipit, 4 Siskin

Weston-Super-Mare:

Sewage Works: 1 Whinchat

Airfield: 7+ Cetti's Warbler, 1 Sedge Warbler, 2+ Reed Warbler, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Whitethroat

12-04-24 Wheatear, Dundry (Denise Rudeforth)

Dundry:

3 Red Kite, 3 Buzzard, 4 Raven, 6+ Skylark, 2 Swallow, 2m Wheatear, 1 Linnet

12-04-24 Whitethroat, Watercress Farm (Rob Martin)

Watercress Farm:

3 Mallard, 2 Pheasant, 6 Stock Dove, 7 Woodpigeon, 1 Grey Heron, 5 Buzzard, 2 Kingfisher, 3 Green Woodpecker, 2 Kestrel, 2 Jay, 7 Magpie, 3 Jackdaw, 3 Carrion Crow, 7 Blue Tit, 7 Great Tit, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 3 Willow Warbler, 12 Chiffchaff, 9 Blackcap, 2 Common Whitethroat, 14 Wren, 1 Nuthatch, 1 Treecreeper, 10 Blackbird, 4 Robin, 2 Dunnock, 5 Greenfinch, 2 Linnet, 3 Goldfinch
Poplar Wood Transect:2 Shelduck 1m Wheatear

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield:
1 Grasshopper Warbler

Hanham Hills:

1 Sedge Warbler

Pomphrey Hill:

1 Whitethroat

RESERVOIRS

Barrow Tanks:
2 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Little Egret

Chew Valley Lake

Dam:
2 Gadwall, 2 Goldeneye, 1 Common Sandpiper

Picnic Site 1/2:
2 GBB Gull, 1 Willow Warbler, 8 Chiffchaff, 3 Reed Warbler, 2 Reed Bunting

12-04-24 Osprey, CVL (David Hughes)

Villice:
1 Osprey, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1m Redstart

Herons Green:
1 Whitethroat

Ringing Station:
1 Sedge Warbler

Herriotts inc. Pool:

1 Common Sandpiper, 2 Marsh Harrier, 1 Reed Watbler

Reported by: Tom,  Mark,  Louise, John Barnett, Peter Coslett, Chris Craig, Paul Davison, Barry Dursley, Oillie Fournier, Paul Francis, Lee Gardiner, Matt Hall, Andrew Harrison, Pete Harrison, Nick Hawkridge, David Hughes, Roger Jolliffe, Rob Laughton, Andrew Lipczynski, Rob Martin, Mke Moxon, Nigel Povey, Lois Pryce, Harvey Rose,  Denise Rudeforth, Andy Stockhausen, Howard Taffs, Wayne Tucker, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG