Monday, 31 March 2025

31-03-25 Monday - Lesser Scaup, White-tailed Eagle

Temp 02°C to 19°C - a very nice and sunny day. No wind til noon, then a light S/SE/E breeze.

Lesser Scaup
White-tailed Eagle
Little Ringed Plover
Purple Sandpiper
Woodcock
Glossy Ibis 
31-3-25 Long-tailed Tit, Bath (Mike Williams)
BRISTOL

Avonmouth STW:
7 Gadwall, 1 Teal, 1 Woodcock, 3 Snipe, 1 Grey Heron, 6 Chiffchaff, 2 Reed Bunting

Greenbank Cemetery:
4+ Willow Warbler

Hallen Marsh:
2 Shoveler, 2 Gadwall, 26 Stock Dove, 4 Lapwing, 4 Snipe, 1 Glossy Ibis, 5 Little Egret, 1 White-tailed Eagle- over towards Portishead, 4 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 84 Crow, 2 Raven, 1 Willow Warbler, 15 Chiffchaff,  2 Meadow Pipit, 1 Linnet

Stoke Park inc Duchess Pond:
2 Canada Goose, 3 Sparrowhawk, 6 Buzzard, 1 Red Kite, 1 Kestrel, 1 Rook, 3 Raven, 1 Willow Warbler, 2 Reed Bunting

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury/Power Station:
1 Great Crested Grebe, 1 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Mediterranean Gull, + Skylark, 45 Chiffchaff singing, 1 Wheatear, + Meadow Pipit

Northwick:
1 White-tailed Eagle (same as Hallen Marsh)

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead:
5 Purple Sandpiper, 1 Rock Pipit

Nailsea Moor:
2 Little Owl, 1 Swallow

Around Kingston Seymour lanes:
28 Chiffchaff

BELOW M4 & BANES
31-3-25 Little Egret, Willsbridge (Donna Harvey)
Willsbridge/St Anne's Church:
1 Little Egret, 1 Treecreeper

Queen Charlton:
2 Meadow Pipit

Chelwood:
1 Red Kite

Keynsham:
Garden: 4 Jackdaw, 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Willow Warbler, 1 Greenfinch, 6 Goldfinch

Bath:
1 Willow Warbler

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

Dam:
1 Pintail, 1 Little Ringed Plover, 12 Little Egret, 3 Great White Egret
31-3-25 Reed Bunting, CVL (George Stacey)
Picnic Site 2/Bittern Trail/Bernard King Hide:
Gadwall, + Chiffchaff, 1 Reed Bunting

Woodford:
5 Goldeneye, 2 Little Egret, 12 Great White Egret, 7 Chiffchaff, 2 Willow Warbler, 2 Blackcap

Herons Green:
2 Egyptian Geese, 2 Goldeneye, 2 Little Grebe, 1 Green Sandpiper, 7 GBB Gull
31-3-25 Lesser Scaup, CVL (Oli Mockridge)
Stratford:
1 Egyptian Goose, 2 Shoveler, 2 Pochard, 1 Lesser Scaup, 6 Scaup, 1 Goldeneye, 1 Red Kite, 2 Coal Tit, 2 Willow Warbler

Herriotts inc. Pool:
3 Shelduck, 24 Shoveler, 2 Pintail, 4 Common Gull, 4 GBB Gull, 3 Little Egret, 9 Great White Egret, 1 Red Kite, 1 Swallow

Reported by: Ollie, Darren Birdton, Ben Crabb, Andy Davis, Mike Davis, Clare Glanville, Donna Harvey, John Lewis, Andrew Middleton, Oli Mockridge, Nick Page, Stewart Poiner, Vic Savery, Ian Stapp, Steve Sanins, George Stacey, Simon Stuart, Larry Sweetland, Reuben Veal, blagdonlakebirdsopsbirdingsevernsidebirds