Monday, 7 April 2025

07-04-25 Monday - Black Tern

Temp 03°C to 17°C - sun all day, a gentle breeze from the east north east still keeping it spring like,  with gusts only to 18 mph 

Black Tern
Brambling
Arctic Tern
Osprey
Mediterranean Gull
Little Gull
Ruff
Redstart

BRISTOL

Avon Gorge:
3 Buzzard, 2 Peregrine, 2 Raven, Chiffchaff - singing

Dundry:
1 Treecreeper

Knowle:
Blackbird - on eggs

Sea Mills - Station 
2 Shelduck, 1 Oystercatcher, 1 Common Sandpiper, 28+ Redshank, 5 Buzzard

Shirehampton - Lamplighter Marsh:
1 Common Sandpiper, 2 Sparrowhawk, 1 Buzzard

Whitchurch - garden:
1 House Martin, 1 Meadow Pipit 

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
1 Mediterranean Gull - 2nd sum, 2 Great Black-backed Gull - mating, 11 Willow Warbler, 20 + Chiffchaff, 10 Blackcap

New Passage/Northwick:
2 Goosander - flew off NE, Reed Warbler

Severn Beach:
3 Grey Plover, 80+ Bar-tailed Godwit, 14 Arctic Tern - north east, Sedge Warbler, Whitethroat

Chittening Warth:
1 Bar-tailed Godwit, 4 Little Gull - up channel, 2 Redstart (f&m)
07-04-25 Little Owl Wickwar (Paul Sadley)
Wickwar:
1 Little Owl

Chipping Sodbury Common:
2 Canada Goose, 1 Mandarin (m) - over, 4 Swallow, 8 Chiffchaff, 4 Song Thrush

NORTH SOMERSET

Portbury Wharf:
1 Common Sandpiper, 2 Great Black-backed Gulls courting, 1 Redstart

Clevedon - Poets Walk:
1 Greylag Goose, 2 Little Gull, 2 Mediterranean Gull - up river, Willow Warbler

Backwell Hill:
2 Redstart

Sand Point:
Whitethroat, Fieldfare, Redstart, Redpoll

Weston-Super-Mare - Grove Park:
9 Willow Warbler - singing

Weston STW:
Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, Redstart

BELOW M4 & BANES

Stanton Drew:
2 Red Kite, 1 Little Owl, 1 Tawny Owl, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 4 Swallow, 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Goldcrest, 2 Song Thrush, 10 Meadow Pipit,1 Yellowhammer

RESERVOIRS
07-04-25 Brambling CVL (Stephanie Chadwick)
Chew Valley Lake


Dam:
1 Common Sandpiper

Woodford:
1 Osprey - flying north, 4 Willow Warbler - singing

Nunnery:
20+ Little Gull, 1 Black Tern, Willow Warbler, 1 Sedge Warbler, 1 White Wagtail

Herons Green:
10 Canada Goose, 2 Little Grebe, 2 G BB Gull, 2 Grey Heron, 5 or 6 Little Egret,  2 G BB Gull, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff,  2 Pied Wagtail, 1 Reed Bunting
07-04-25 Black Tern CVL (Ian Stapp)
Moreton:

22 Little Gull - inc 1 1st wint, 4 Great Black-backed Gull, 1 Black Tern - sum plum, 2 Grey Heron, 1 Little Egret, 1 Red Kite, 2 Buzzard, 1 Jay 1 Raven, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap, 1 Song Thrush - singing
07-04-25 Brambling CVL (Dave Hughes)
Stratford:

5 Little Gull, 3 Great White Egret, 2 Little Egret, 1 Osprey - high up, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Jay, 1 Coal Tit, 4 Swallow, 1 Willow Warbler, 4 Chiffchaff, 1 Reed Warbler, 3 Blackcap, 
1 Brambling (m)

Herriotts inc Pool:
5 Shelduck, 12 Shoveler, 24 Gadwall, 20+ Teal, 2 Goldeneye, 65 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Lapwing, 2 Ruff, 20 Little Gull - out on the lake, 6 GBB Gull, 6 Grey Heron, 7 GW Egret, 4 Buzzard, 6 Jackdaw, 6 Swallow and Martin, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Song Thrush

Reported by: Rich Andrews, Paul Bowerman, Merv Carlyon, Stephanie Chadwick, Chris Craig,   Andy Davis, Neil Delaney, Alastair Fraser, Andy Gibb, David Gibbs, Rupert Higgins, Dave Hughes, Rich Keel, Brian Lancastle, Robin Lambert, John Lewis, David Minshall, Blake Norton, Tom O'Shea, James Payne, Daren Pearce, Mark Ponsford, Aravind Ramesh, Paul Sadley, Ian Stapp, Andy Stockhausen, Howard Taffs, Bri Thompson