Temp 14°C to 18°C - Overcast with some light rain, gusty SW winds and currently some very high spring tides. Brighter and sunny after lunch but cloudy and windy again by evening.
Curlew Sandpiper
Med Gull, Yellow-legged Gulls
Osprey
Med Gull, Yellow-legged Gulls
Osprey
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BRISTOL
New Cut:
12 Mallard, 8 Woodpigeon, 3 Common Sandpiper (roosting on fallen branches opposite Bathurst lock), 17 Black-headed Gull, 9 Herring Gull, 17 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 3 Cormorant (on roost trees by Gaol Ferry bridge). 3 Carrion Crow, 1 Wren, 7 Starling, 1 White Wagtail.
SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Northwick Warth/Pilning Wetlands:
(saltmarsh flooded this morning by the very high tide)
(saltmarsh flooded this morning by the very high tide)
6 Teal, 2 Shoveler, 34 Oystercatcher, 30 Ringed Plover, 3 juv Little Ringed Plover, c.100 Curlew, 1 Whimbrel, 2 juv Black-tailed Godwit, 9 Turnstone, 2 Dunlin, 110 Redshank, 2 Little Egret.
c.150 Ringed Plover, 1 Turnstone, 1 juv Curlew Sandpiper, c.150 Dunlin, 1 juv. Med Gull, 1 juv. Yellow-legged Gull, 2 ad Common Gull over the estuary.
NORTH SOMERSET
Clevedon:
Garden: 1 Feral Pigeon, 1 Herring Gull, 3 Magpie.
East Dundry:
50+ Linnet.
2 Little Grebe
Blagdon Lake:
Chew Valley Lake
c 80 House Martin - out over the lake:
Herriotts inc. Pool:
Reported by: Andy Davis, John Lewis, Mike Moxon, Nick Page, Nigel Povey, Andrew Stockhausen, all contributors to local WhatsApp groups, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG
BELOW M4 & BANES
no reports
RESERVOIRS
Blagdon Lake:
4 Egyptian Goose, huge flock of Tufted Duck - dam end, 1 Lapwing, 3 Great White Egret, 1 Little Egret
Chew Valley Lake
c 80 House Martin - out over the lake:
Dam:
Turnstone
Turnstone
Nunnery:
1 Barn Owl
Villace:
1 Water Rail, 5 Little Grebe, 4 Great White Egret, 4 Little Egret
Moreton:
2+ Oystercatcher, 2 Greenshank, 1 ad. Yellow-legged Gull, 1 Cattle Egret, 1 Osprey (in a tree behind hide), 3 Marsh Harrier ( two 2CY and one juvenile), 1 Hobby (2CY).
Herons Green:
1 Common Sandpiper, 6 Green Sandpiper, 1 Greenshank, 2 Cattle Egret, 5 Great White Egret, 5 Little Egret
Stratford:
Osprey
Herriotts inc. Pool:
1 Black Swan (category D - escape), 8 Shoveler, 1 Pintail, 1 Lapwing, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 8 Green Sandpiper, 1 adult Yellow-legged Gull.
Reported by: Andy Davis, John Lewis, Mike Moxon, Nick Page, Nigel Povey, Andrew Stockhausen, all contributors to local WhatsApp groups, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG
