26-04-25 Saturday - Short-eared Owl

Temp 10°C to 19°C - overcast but bright, with the odd bit of sun later, a light breeze from the SE to start, moving around to the W later on.

Short-eared Owl

Arctic Skua

Good hirundine passage

Cuckoo

BRISTOL

Blaise Estate:

1 Cuckoo

Eastville Park:
2 Common Sandpiper

Hawkfield Meadows:

1 Lesser Whitethroat

Henbury:

1 Hobby

Stoke Park inc Duchess Pond:
1 Swift, 3 Common Sandpiper, 1 Reed Warbler, 1 Sedge Warbler, 4 Whitethroat, 1 Whinchat, 2 Reed Bunting

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Aust STW:

4 Whimbrel, 3 Wheatear

26-04-25 Short-eared Owl, Aust (Karle Burford)

Aust Warth:
1 Short-eared Owl

Severn Beach/Pilning Wetlands (largely vismig):
31 Swift, 1 Grey Plover, 8 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Ringed Plover, 13 Whimbrel, 2 Bar-tailed Godwit, 40 Dunlin, 115 Sand Martin 361 Swallow, 79 House Martin, 2 Willow Warbler, 2 Garden Warbler, 10 Sedge Warbler, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 6 Whitethroat, 4 Stonechat, 6 Wheatear, 2 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Tree Pipit, 5 Meadow Pipit

26-04-25 Wheatear, Pilning (Craig Lewis)

Severn Beach:
1 Arctic Skua, Pipes: 5 Wheatear

Chipping Sodbury Common:
Stock Dove, Sparrowhawk, Buzzard, Green Woodpecker, Kestrel, Raven, Skylark, 7 Swallow, ++ Chiffchaff, ++ Blackcap. 1 Sedge Warbler, 5 Lesser Whitethroat, 8+ Whitethroat, Bullfinch, Reed Bunting

NORTH SOMERSET

26-04-25 Mandarin, Abbots Pool (Jamie Buchan)

Abbots Pool:

1 Mandarin

Weston Big Wood:

1 Cuckoo

Clevedon:
BBS: 4 Canada Goose, 6 Mallard, 28 Woodpigeon, 11 Collared Dove, 4 Moorhen, 7 Herring Gull, 4 LBB Gull, 1 Raven, 6 House Martin, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff, 4 Blackcap, 1 Whitethroat, 39 Starling, 1 Wheatear, 1 Chaffinch, 1 Bullfinch, 3 Greenfinch, 1 Linnet, 4 Goldfinch

Sand Point/Middle Hope:
20 Swift, 1 Cuckoo, 8 Ringed Plover, 15 Whimbrel, 54 Sand Martin, 691 Swallow, 350 House Martin, 25 Chiffchaff, 15 Blackcap, 5 Lesser Whitethroat, 28 Whitethroat, 1 Yellow Wagtail, 11 Tree Pipit

BELOW M4 & BANES

26-04-25 Stonechat, Marshfield (Caron TT)

Marshfield:
1 Stonechat, 1 Wheatear

Bath, Charlcombe Rise:

1 Siskin (f) - garden feeder 

26-04-25 Sparrowhawk, Dryham (Caron TT)

Dryham:

1 Sparrowhawk - garden

Hanham/Willsbridge:

1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker, 1 Skylark, 2 Swallow, 15+ Chiffchaff, 1 Sedge Warbler, 10+ Blackcap, 8 Whitethroat, 1 Wheatear

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake
7 Common Sandpiper

Dam:
30+ Swift

26-05-24 Whimbrel, CVL (Nick Page)

Villice/Nunnery:
1 Pochard, 3 Whimbrel, 7 Garden Warbler, 3 Lesser Whitethroat

Heron's Green:

1 Pochard, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Sandpiper

Moreton:

1 Greylag Goose, 2 Egyptian Goose

Stratford:
1 Hobby, 1 Kingfisher

Herriotts inc. Pool:
1 Little Ringed Plover, 3 Common Sandpiper

Out of area:

Broad-billed Sandpiper at Goldcliff

Reported by: Paul Bowerman, Dru Brooke-Taylor, Jamie Buchan, Karle Burford, Mark Coller, Matt Coward, Jane Cumming, Paul Davison, William Earp, Malcolm Gibbs, Matt Hobbs, Matt Hull, Marc Hunt, Sue & Nigel Kempson, Brian Lancastle, Craig Lewis, Nick Page, Mark Smith, Larry Sweetland, Howard Taffs, Caron Thornton-Trippit, blagdonlakebirds, opsbirding, severnsidebirds