Sunday, 4 May 2025

04-05-25 Sunday - Osprey

Temp 04°C to 17°C - Sunny at times, with more cloud later in the pm. A moderate breeze from the north east with gusts to 27mph made for a chilly feel when out of the sun.

Marsh Tit
Osprey
Cuckoo 

BRISTOL

Avonmouth - King's Weston Lane:
2 Mute Swan + 7 cygnets

Eastville Park:
1 Pink-footed Goose

Frenchay - nest site:
8 House Martin - back in residence

Henbury:
1 Swift, 1 Red Kite

Henleaze - garden:
2 Woodpigeon, 2 Collared Dove. 2 Blue Tit - feeding young, 2 Great Tit - incubation. 11 Starling

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Cromhall - Sodam Mill:
2 Pheasant, 2 Tawny Owl - f&m, calling at 1730, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker. 2 Mistle Thrush
04-05-25 Marsh Tit Lower Woods (Paul Sadley)
Wickwar - inc Lower Woods:
1 Red Kite - over grass cutting,1 Marsh Tit

Tortworth Lake:
5 Greylag Geese, 2 Mute Swan, 3 Mallard + 5 ducklings, 6 Tufted Duck (1f+5m), 3 Moorhen + 3 chicks, 12 Coot + broods of 2 and 3 chicks, 2 Little Grebe, 1 Cormorant - over, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Great Tit

Olveston - pond:
2 Moorhen + 3 chicks

Pilning Wetlands:
2 Swift, 1 Little Stint, 8 Dunlin, 1 Greenshank
04-05-25 Gadwall SB (Vic Savery)
Severn Beach - Orchard Pools - Western Distribution - Central Park:
6 Canada Goose + 5 goslings, 1 Mute Swan, 2 Gadwall, 1 Cuckoo - singing, 

Yate - garden:
2 House Martin

Stoke Gifford:
2 Blue Tit - and a box full of juv

NORTH SOMERSET

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BELOW M4 & BANES

Wick, St Barts Church & Court Farm
1 Red Kite 12 Swallow - in and out the barn, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 

Oldland Common:
2 Red Kite

Mangotsfield:
20+ Swift, 2 Raven

Keynsham, Priory Rd & Queen Charlton fields, Somerdale:
2 Coal Tit - feeding nestlings, 18 Swallow - feeding over sheep field, 2 Whitethroat, 1 Mistle Thrush

Bath - St Johns Church:
2 Peregrine - brooding 2 eggs

Burnett:
1 Red Kite

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

Dam:
3 Common Sandpiper
04-05-25 Reed Bunting CVL (Paul Tompkins)
Herons Green:

Canada Goose - inc 3 gosling, Mallard - inc ducklings, several Swift - screaming, Reed Bunting - feeding juv by the look!

Stratford:
30+ Swift, 1 Osprey - away towards Litton res after going over Herriotts - 17:30 

Herriotts inc Pool:
Canada Goose - inc c5 gosling, 2 Shoveler - pr, 35 Gadwall, several Mallard inc ducklings, 1 Pochard, 2 Swift, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 3 Common Sandpiper, 1 Common Gull, 2 Hobby

Reported by: Dru Brook-Taylor, Alan Daniells, Tim Ford, Richard Giles, Vernon Holmes, Nigel Jones, Brian Lancastle, Pam Marsden, Chris Mott, Fiona Neate, Nick Page. Paul Sadley, Vic Savery, Rich Scantlebury, Hamish Smith, Larry Sweetland, Nick Tippitt. Paul Tompkins
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