Tuesday, 18 March 2025

18-03-25 Tuesday - Common Scoter, Swallow

Temp 00°C to 15°C - a frosty start, largely sunshine all day, but cold in the NE/E wind.

Common Scoter
Swallow
Wheatear
Glossy Ibis
Scaup
Purple Sandpiper
Green Sandpiper
18-03-25 Cattle Egret, CVL (Lucy Masters)
BRISTOL

Chocolate Path:
2 Oystercatcher

Eastville Park:
BOC walk: 25 Canada Goose, 1 Pink-footed Goose, 16 Mute Swan, 30+ Mallard, 150+ Feral Pigeon, 3 Stock Dove, 20+ Woodpigeon, 1 Collard Dove, 1 Moorhen, 10+ Coot, 14 Black-headed Gull, 10+ Herring Gull, 10+ Lesser Black-backed Gull, 4 Cormorant, 1 Little Egret, 1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Buzzard, 1 Red Kite, 2 Kingfisher, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Green Woodpecker, 4 Jay, 30+ Magpie, 30+ Jackdaw, 40+ Carrion Crow, 2 Raven, 2 Coal Tit, 20+ Blue Tit, 20+ Great Tit, 7 Long-tailed Tit, 3 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap, 4 Goldcrest, 8+ Wren, 2 Nuthatch, 2 Treecreeper, 6 Starling, 1 Blackbird, 10+ Robin, 10 House Sparrow, 2 Dunnock, 2 Chaffinch, 2 Goldfinch

Hallen Marsh:
1 Glossy Ibis

Old Sneed Park:
Garden: 1 Red Kite, 2 Greenfinch

St Andrew's Park:
2 Collared Dove, 2 Coal Tit, 1 Wren, 2 Starling, 21 Redwing

St Werburghs:
Boiling Wells Lane: 1 Stock Dove, 1 Green Woodpecker, c10 Long Tailed Tit, 1 Goldcrest, c6 Goldfinch

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
Vismig: 80 Woodpigeon, 1 Red Kite, 2 Pied Wagtail, 100 Meadow Pipit 
Present: 2 Wheatear
18-03-25 Meadow Pipit, Aust (Vic Savery)
Aust:
3 Stonechat, + Meadow Pipit

Severn Beach:
1 Pintail, 1 Water Rail, 6+ Chiffchaff, 2 Reed Bunting

Western Distribution:
1 Green Sandpiper, 20 Linnet

Coalpit Heath/Frampton End:
1 Mallard, 7 Stock Dove, 1 Grey Heron, 4 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 170 Carrion Crow (feeding flock), 12 Skylark, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Fieldfare, 3 Redwing, 30 Chaffinch, 250 Linnet, 1 Yellowhammer

Chipping Sodbury Common:
5 Stock Dove, 1 Snipe, 7 Buzzard, 2 Raven, 5 Skylark, 3 Chiffchaff, 34 Redwing, 8 Meadow Pipit, 2 Bullfinch, 1 Reed Bunting

NORTH SOMERSET
18-03-25 Purple Sandpipers, Portishead (Mike Owen)
Portishead:
6 Purple Sandpiper
18-03-25 Common Scoter, Grey Plover, Dowlais (Mark Savage)
Clevedon:
Dowlais-Channel View: 100 Shelduck, 1 Common Scoter, 4 Oystercatcher, 1 Lapwing, 2 Grey Plover, 2 Ringed Plover, 20 Curlew, 1 Turnstone, 2 Dunlin, 13 Redshank, 1 Raven,1 Chiffchaff, 1 Stonechat, 12 Meadow Pipit, 3 Greenfinch, 4 Linnet
Garden: 1 Feral Pigeon, 2 Herring Gull, 3 Magpie, 2 Jackdaw, 6 Crow, 1 Blue Tit, 1 Robin

Sand Point/Middle Hope:
821 Woodpigeon, 1 Swallow, 2 Grey Wagtail, 5 White Wagtail, 38 alba Wagtail, 574 Meadow Pipit, 11 Chaffinch, 18 Goldfinch, 2 Siskin

Weston Super Mare STW:
1 Swallow, 7 Chiffchaff

BELOW M4 & BANES

Willsbirdge:
1 Buzzard, Long-tailed Tit, 1 Nuthatch, 1 Dipper, 1 Chaffinch

Bath:
Carrs Woodland: 3 Stock Dove, 1 Buzzard, 2 Green Woodpecker, 4 Coal Tit17 Blue Tit, 15 Great Tit, 8 Chiffchaff, 3 Goldcrest, 2 Goldfinch

Hursley Hill:
1 Red Kite

RESERVOIRS

Barrow:
1 Common Sandpiper

Chew Valley Lake

Denny Island:
roost of 40 small egrets

Herons Green:
1 Green Sandpiper

Moreton:
1 Greylag Goose, 3 Goosander, 2 GBB Gull, 10 Little Egret, 7 Great White Egret, 49 Cattle Egret, 1 Marsh Harrier, 2 Raven, 17 Meadow Pipit, 10+ Pied Wagtail, 2 Chiffchaff
18-03-25 Scaup, CVL (Ian Stapp)
Stratford:
2 Shoveler, 12 Pochard, 5 Scaup, 2 Goldeneye, 1 Buzzzard, 1 Red Kite, 1 Coal Tit, 3 Chiffchaff

Herriotts inc. Pool:
5 Shelduck, 48 Shoveler, 10 Gadwall, 2 Pintail, 4 GBB Gull, 7 Great White Egret, 3 Grey Heron, 4 Marsh Harrier, 3 Buzzard, 1 Jay, 5 Greenfinch, 2 Reed Bunting

Reported by: Mark, Si Bowles, Mark Coller, Chris Craig, Andy Davis, Markas Gilmartin, Patrick Haigh, Rob Hargreaves, Donna Harvey, Matt Hull, Mike Jackson, Lucy Masters, Mike Owen, Nigel Povey, Mark Savage, Vic Savery, Rich Scantlebury, Mark Smith, Ian Stapp, Danny Sturgeon, Larry Sweetland, Karen Wilkinson