21-04-25 Monday - Unexpected Sea watch Day!

Temp 11°C to 16°C -  Persistent rain in morning, clearing to give sunny afternoon. WSW wind picked up once rain cleared, gusting to 23mph.

A good scattering of summer migrants grounded by the morning rain, with an unexpectedly large movement of seabirds following the rain up the estuary as it cleared. 

Swift

Cuckoo

Kittiwake

Arctic Tern

Great Skua, Arctic Skua

Osprey

Whinchat

21-04-25 Dipper, Bye-Mills - Stanton Drew (Raoul Chandrasakera)

BRISTOL

Blaise Castle - Golf Course:

1 Cuckoo - calling

Eastville - Bridge Farm:

2 Willow Warbler, 1 Garden Warbler, 2 Whitethroat

Henbury:

1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Raven, 1 Chiffchaff

Stoke Park:

 (''3 patch year ticks'') : 1 Tufted Duck, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Kestrel, 1 Sedge Warbler, 1 Reed Warbler, 2 Garden Warbler, 3 Whitethroat, 1 Stonechat, 2 Wheatear, 2 Reed Bunting

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
4 Canada Goose, 2 Mute Swan, 5 Shelduck, 3 Gadwall, 6 Mallard (1 pair with 9 ducklings), 3 Moorhen, 1 Coot, 2 Little Grebe, 1 Oystercatcher, 2 Green Woodpecker, 70 Rook, 1 Skylark, 1 Cetti’s Warbler, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 3 Chiffchaff, 1 Reed Warbler, 4 Blackcap, 1 Song Thrush, 3 Linnet

Severn Beach:
5 Greenshank, 60 Kittiwake, 13 Black-headed Gull, 6 Common Gull, 75 Commic Tern, 1 Great Skua, 3 Arctic Skua, 1 Osprey, 18 Swallow, 2 Yellow Wagtail

Yate/Westerleigh Common:
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, ++ Chiffchaff, 1 Sedge Warbler, 1 Reed Warbler, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 6 Whitethroat, ++ Blackcap

NORTH SOMERSET

Portbury Wharf:
2 Wheatear

Abbot's Pool:

1 f Mandarin

Nailsea Moor:
1 Little Owl, 5 Cetti's Warbler, 7 Sedge Warbler, 12 Reed Warbler, 1 Grasshopper Warbler, 1 Whinchat

Sand Point/Middle Hope:
Vismig:

1 Whimbrel, 77 Arctic Tern, 212 Commic Tern, 86 Herring Gull, 291 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 1 Arctic Skua, 2 Cormorant, 1 Great White Egret, 90 Swallow, 39 House Martin, 10 Yellow Wagtail, 3 Chaffinch, 6 Greenfinch, 12 Linnet, 6 Goldfinch

Present:

6 Whimbrel, 1 Raven, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Willow Warbler, 24 Chiffchaff, 1 Sedge Warbler, 1 Reed Warbler, 1 Grasshopper Warbler, 13 Blackcap, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 28 Whitethroat, 3 Stonechat, 2 Wheatear, 19 Meadow Pipit, 7 Greenfinch

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield:
1 Redstart

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

Sutton Wick:
2 (m/f) Lesser Scaup

Herons Green:

30 Cattle Egret, 2 Great White Egret, 2 Little Egret, 2 Reed Warbler

Stratford:
1 Scaup, 1 Hobby

21-04-25 Lesser Scaup, Herriott's, CVL (Lee Gardiner)

Herriotts inc Pool:
Gadwall, Teal, Mallard, Tufted Duck, 2 Lesser Scaup (presumably same reported from Sutton Wick), 1 Swift, 2 Little Ringed Plover,  5 Great White Egret, Swallow, House Martin, 3 Reed Warbler, 5 Pied Wagtail, 

21-04-25 Ring Ouzel Blackdown (Milo Peters)

Out of area:

Ring Ouzel still at Black Down/Beacon Batch

Reported by: John Barnett, Paul Bowerman, Raoul Chandrasakera, Mark Coller, Ben Crabb, Stephen Curtis, Julian Eastoe, Ollie Fournier, Matt Hall, Matt Hull, Andy Mears, Tom O'Shea, Milo & Rowan Peters, Lois Pryce, Sova, Larry Sweetland, Rod Taylor, Gary Thoburn.
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