Wednesday, 23 April 2025

23-04-25 Wednesday

Temp 10°C to 16°C - overcast with early rain. A light wind from the W/NW moved round to the NNE later on.

Lesser Scaup
Scaup, Ring-necked Duck
Hobby
Grasshopper Warbler
Jack Snipe

BRISTOL

Combe Dingle:
Garden: 1 Willow Warbler

Downs:
1 Peregrine

Easton:
1 Swift

Northern Slopes LNR & Malago Greenway:
19 species inc: 1 Red Kite, 1 Chiffchaff

Stoke Park inc Duchess Pond:
1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Reed Warbler, 1 Sedge Warbler, 1 Willow Warbler, 2 Reed Bunting

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Aust Warth:
1 Grasshopper Warbler, 1 Stonechat

NorthwickWarth/Pilning Wetlands:
2 Avocet, 6 Little Ringed Plover, 5 Whimbrel, 1 Bar-tailed Godwit, 52 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Marsh Harrier, mixed Hirundines, + Reed Warbler, + Sedge Warbler, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 3 Wheatear, 1 Yellow Wagtail, 4 White Wagtail

Severn Beach:
20 Oystercatcher, 1 Greenshank, 1 Redshank

NORTH SOMERSET

Banwell:
2 Swallow, 1 Mistle Thrush

Congresbury Moor:
1 Jack Snipe, 3 Kestrel, 1 Grasshopper Warbler

Weston STW:
1 Swift

BELOW M4 & BANES

No reports.

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
1 Ring-necked Duck, 28 Cattle Egret

Chew Valley Lake
23-04-25 Hobby, CVL (Wayne Tucker)
Stratford:
pr Lesser Scaup, 1 Scaup (f), 1 Dunlin, 5 GBB Gull, 4 Great White Egret, 1 Red Kite, 1 Buzzard, 2 Hobby, 1 Raven, 2 Coal Tit, 5 Chiffchaff, 2 Reed Warbler, 1 Sedge Warbler, 3 Garden Warbler, 3 Blackcap, 1 Reed Bunting, 1 Common Waxbill (surely blown in from Portugal 😉😉😉)
23-04-25 Common Waxbill, CVL (Wayne Tucker)
Reported by: Mark, Kev Bainbridge, Chris Craig, Andy Davis, Alastair Fraser, John Lewis, Nigel Milbourne, Aravind Ramesh, Trevor Riddle, Matt Rogers, Mark Smith, Larry Sweetland, John Thorogood, Wayne Tucker, blagdonlakebirdsopsbirdingsevernsidebirds