04-09-25 Thursday - still several good Sandpipers

Temp 13°C to 18°C. Sunny with showers. A moderate westerly turning southerly breeze gusting to 22mph.

Wood Sandpiper

Curlew Sandpiper

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Glossy Ibis

Osprey

Whinchat

Redstart

BRISTOL

Eastville Park:

1 Tufted Duck

Duchess Pond, Stoke Park (later):

same Tufted Duck

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

04-09-25 2 of the 11 Spotted Flycatcher at OPS (Craig Lewis)

Oldbury Power Station:
1 Whimbrel, 4 Ruff, 1 Willow Warbler (juv), 1 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap (1m, 1f), 11 Spotted Flycatcher, 1 Whinchat, 1 Stonechat, 1 Wheatear

Severn Beach:

2 Shelduck, 300 Ringed Plover, 1 Whimbrel, Turnstone, 1 Knot, Dunlin, 1 GBB Gull, 1 Little Egret, 1 Wheatear

Pilning Wetland:

16 Teal, 50 Lapwing, 11 Redshank, 1 Little Egret, 2 Grey Heron

New Passage:

160 Canada Goose, Teal, 2 Ringed Plover, 75 Curlew, 85 Redshank, 1 Turnstone, 1 Little Egret, Long-tailed Tit, 1 Goldcrest

Chittening Warth:

2 Shelduck, Oystercatcher, Curlew, 3 Little Egret, 1 Grey Heron

NORTH SOMERSET

Leigh Woods:

1 Peregrine, 1 Firecrest, 1 Nuthatch, 1 Treecreeper

Watercress Farm, Wraxall:
1 Greenshank, 1 Hobby

Banwell garden:
5 Long-tailed Tit, 2+ Coal Tit, c10 Blue Tit, 4+Great Tits, 3 Chiffchaff, very large numbers of Swallows and Martins

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield:
2 Red Kite,Sparrowhawk, 3 Common Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, Chiffchaff, Nuthatch, family of 5+ Spotted Flycatcher, 1 Redstart (f)

04-09-25 Kingfisher, Willsbridge (Donna Harvey)

Willsbridge:

2 Kingfisher

Burnett
100 Swallow (feeding low over the crop in a field)

Stanton Wick:
1 Red Kite, 2 Buzzard

Bishop Sutton:
4 Collared Dove

RESERVOIRS

04-09-25 Osprey, Blagdon Lake (George Stacey)

Blagdon Lake:
10 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Greenshank, 2+ Cattle Egret, 1 Osprey

Chew Valley Lake

Villice:
2 Greenshank, 1 Glossy Ibis

04-09-25 Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Nunnery (Ian Stapp)

Nunnery:
30 Ringed Plover, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Turnstone, 1 Ruff, 3 Curlew Sandpiper, 1 Buff-breasted Sandpiper, 6 Dunlin, 3 Little Egret, 3 Great White Egret, 4 Grey Heron, 1 Peregrine, 2 Raven, 200+ Sand & House Martin, 50+ Swallow all over the lake

04-09-25 Glossy Ibis, Herons Green Bay (George Stacey)

Herons Green:
3 Stock Dove, 8 Little Grebe, 1 Black tailed Godwit, 1 Green Sandpiper, 3 Greenshank, 1 BH Gull (leucistic), 2 GBB Gull, 3 Glossy Ibis, 4 Little Egret, 3 Great White Egret, 5 Grey Heron, 150+ Sand Martin & House Martin, 30+ Swallow, 40+ Pied Wagtail

Stratford:
1 Greylag Goose, 3 Oystercatcher, 5 Ringed Plover, 1 Whimbrel (over, to the west), 1 Ruff, 10 Dunlin (in flight), 1 Glossy Ibis, 14 Great White Egret, 1 Marsh Harrier, 1 Kestrel, 1 Hobby

Herriott's Bridge:

1 Greylag Goose, 3 Oystercatcher, 10 Lapwing, 5 Black-tailed Godwit, 14 Snipe, 2 Common Sandpiper, 5 Green Sandpiper, 2 Wood Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank, 2 GBB Gull, 1 Glossy Ibis, 2 Little Egret, 5 Great White Egret, 5 Grey Heron, 1 Kingfisher (pool), 1 Hobby, 200+ Sand & House Martin, 50+ Swallow, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 40+ Pied Wagtail

Reported by: Paul Bowerman, Raoul Chandrasekar, Pete Coslett, Chris Craig, Andy Davis, Donna Harvey, Craig Lewis, Rich Mielcarek, Blake Norton, Nick Page, George Stacey, Ian Stapp, Simon Stuart, Larry Sweetland, Howard Taffs, John Thorogood:
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