25-04-25 Friday Cuckoo and Swifts!

Temp 06°C to 15°C - Bright start to the morning soon turned to overcast conditions kept cool by the easterly breeze.

Scaup

Lesser Scaup

Cuckoo

Little Ringed Plover

BRISTOL

Redland Hill Roundabout:

6 House Martin - back at breeding site

Stoke Park inc Duchess Pond:

1 Swift

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
37 Shelduck, 1 Cuckoo, 1 Common Sandpiper, 90 Rook, 14 Chiffchaff, 3 Wheatear

Littleton Brick Pits (ringing):

1 Cuckoo(m), 5 Cormorant, 6 Jay, many Cetti's Warbler - all singing, Chiffchaff, 3 Reed Warbler, 2 Sedge Warbler, Blackcap - singing, Greenfinch - singing

25/4/25 Greenshank. Severn Beach (Brian Lancastle)

Severn Beach/Chittening Wharf:

40 Whimbrel, 1 Greenshank

NORTH SOMERSET

Portbury Wharf:
2 Oystercatcher, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Whimbrel (on tidal mud), 2 Redshank, 1 Little Egret, 1 Grey Heron, 2 Buzzard, 3 Sedge Warbler, 4 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Song Thrush, 1 Reed Bunting

25-04-25 Red Kite Clevedon (Howard Taffs)

Clevedon:
1 Swift, 1 Red Kite

BELOW M4 & BANES

25/4/25 Lesser Whitethroat, Chewton Dando (Ian Stapp)

Bath - Bloomfield:

1 Red Kite

Chewton Dando and environs:

1 Cuckoo, 1 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 2 Raven, 1 Kingfisher, 20+ Chaffinch, 12 Linnet

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

Dam:
2 Common Sandpiper

Woodford:
1 Garden Warbler, 1 Lesser Whitethroat

Villice:

1 Cuckoo, 1 Garden Warbler

Herons Green:
1 Common Sandpiper

25/4/25 Hobby, Stratford (Merv Carlyon)

Stratford:
1 Scaup (f), 1 Hobby, 1 Garden Warbler

Herriotts inc Pool:
34 Gadwall, 20+Teal, 2 Lesser Scaup (m,f), 48 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Common Sandpiper, many Buzzard, 1 Hobby

Reported by: Merv Carlyon, Derek Clarke, John Croxton, Andy Gibb, Paul House, Brian Lancastle, Brian Martin, Andy Mears, Andy Middleton, Mike Moxon, Clive Richards, Tony Scott, Ian Stapp, Larry Sweetland, Howard Taffs, Wayne Tucker
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