Thursday, 17 April 2025

17-04-25 Thursday Purple Sandpiper

Temp 06°C to 15°C -  cloudy with the sun breaking through and a little rain. A light breeze with very little gusting, mainly from the south but swinging east and west during the day.

Purple Sandpiper
Osprey
Dartford Warbler
Hobby

BRISTOL

Frenchey:
1 Wheatear (f)

Stoke Park inc Duchess Pond:
1 Swallow, 1 Willow Warbler, 1 Reed Warbler, 1 Whitethroat, 1 Reed Bunting

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Aust Cliff/Services
2 Willow Warbler, 11 Chiffchaff,  8 Blackcap, 2 Whitethroat, 2 Tree Pipit

New Passage/Northwick:
2 Oystercatcher, 9 Ringed Plover, 6 Dunlin, 4 Common Sandpiper, 1 Wheatear
17-04-25 Linnet PIL (Mike Owen)
Pilning Wetlands:
6 Avocet, Lapwing, Ringed Plover, 4 Little Ringed Plover, 6 Black=tailed Godwit, Cattle Egret, 1 Whitethroat, Linnet

Yate - Westerleigh Common:
1 Little Egret, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Willow Warbler, 24+ Chiffchaff, 21+ Blackcap

Chipping Sodbury Common:
1 Red Kite, 4 Buzzard, 2 Peregrine, 2 Raven, 3 Swallow, 1 Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, 1 Garden Warbler, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Whitethroat, 

Emerson's Green Science Park Lake:
5 Mute Swan, Sedge, Chiffchaff, Reed & Garden Warbler, Blackcap

NORTH SOMERSET

Wraxall:
1 Red Kite

Portishead - Battery Point:
4 Purple Sandpiper

Clevedon - Cannonsgate garden:
1 Osprey, 2 Buzzard, 1 Redstart (f)

Clevedon - Wain's Hill:
1 Common Sandpiper, 2 Sand Martin, 4 Swallow, 1 Nuthatch - calling

Yatton - Strawberry Line :
1 Cormorant, 4 Moorhen, 1 Heron, 2 Buzzard, 2 Swallow, 8 Cetti’s Warbler, 1 Willow Warbler,
20 Chiffchaff, 5 Sedge Warbler, 5 Reed Warbler, 10 Blackcap, 1 Whitethroat, 24 Wren, 3 Song Thrush, 11 Robin, 12 Greenfinch, 14 Goldfinch, 1 Reed Bunting
17-04-25 Dartford Warbler SP (Penny Wills)
Sand Point - Middle Hope:
3 Whimbrel, 1 Sparrowhawk,  Swallow, 2 Grasshopper Warbler - reeling, many Whitethroat, 1 Dartford Warbler

Weston Super Mare - West Wick:
1 Sparrowhawk

Uphill:
1 Green Woodpecker, 7 Swallow, 2 Blackcap, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Whitethroat, 20+ Greenfinch, 50+ Linnett, 

Banwell:
2 Great Spotted Woodpecker (f&m), 1 Whitethroat, 1 Wren - collecting nest material, 1 Nuthatch,     

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield - West Littleton:
2 Swallow, 7 Whitethroat, 1 Lesser Whitethroat

Dundry:
6 Swallow, 1 Greenfinch

Downend - garden:
1 Sparrowhawk

Midsomer Norton:
12+ Buzzard - sharing a thermal

RESERVOIRS
17-04-25 Little Grebe Widcombe Common Pond (Merv Carlyon)
Widcombe Common Pond:
1 Little Grebe:

Chew Valley Lake:

Herons Green:
1 Red Kite
17-04-25 Hobby CVL (Dave Hughes)
Stratford:

1 Scaup (f), 2 Lesser Scaup (f&m),1 Little Gull - 1st wint, 1 Hobby

Herriotts inc Pool:
1 Egyptian, 2 Lesser Scaup (f&m), 1 Little Ringed Plover, 1 Whimbrel, 1 Red Kite, 1 Hobby, 1 Willow Warbler, 1 Sedge Warbler - - both singing

Reported by: Jon Angell, John Barnett, Paul Bowerman, Tony Bridges, Jamie Buchan, Dave Chislett, Mark Coller, Steve Curtis, Andy Davis, Neil Delaney, Rupert Higgins, Matt Hobbs, David Howes, Ross Nairn, Mike Owen, Gill Phillips, Aravind Ramesh, Trevor Riddle, Carol Rushton, Katy Samuels, Simon Stuart, Larry Sweetland, Howard Taffs, John Thorogood, Nick Trippett, Paul Williams, Penny Wills, Gordon Youdale