Saturday, 11 April 2026

11-04-26 Saturday

Temp 06°C to 10°C - Rain Showers and Sunny intervals on a fresh breeze from the Southwest.

Arctic Skua
Sandwich Tern
Common Tern
Ring Ouzel
Lesser Whitethroat

BRISTOL

Blaise Estate:
2 Stock Dove, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Coal Tit, 3 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 1 Firecrest, 2 Grey Wagtail

Eastville Park:
2 Swallow, 1 Willow Warbler

Stoke Park inc Duchess Pond:
1 Kestrel, 5 Swallow, 3 House Martin, 1 Reed Warbler, 3 Whitethroat, 1 Reed Bunting 

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Greenshank, New Passage (Vera Carpenter)
New Passage/Northwick:
2 Mute Swan, 12 Canada Goose, 80-100 Shelduck, 2 Shoveler, 6 Gadwall, 2 Little Grebe, 6 Ringed Plover, 3 Lapwing, 1 Redshank, 1 Greenshank, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Skylark, 3 Sand Martin, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Song Thrush, 3 Pied Wagtail, 12 Linnet

Severn Beach:
1 Common Tern, 16 Kittiwake

NORTH SOMERSET
Oystercatcher/Lapwing, Portbury Wharf (Beth W.)
Portbury Wharf:
Oystercatcher, Lapwing, Snipe, 1 Whitethroat, Reed Bunting
Little Grebe, Backwell Lake (Lee Patch)
Backwell Lake:
1 Little Grebe

Sand Point/St Thomas's Head:
2 Arctic Skua, 7 Sandwich Tern, 1 Merlin, 2 Grasshopper Warbler, 60 Swallow, 20 House Martin, 4 Willow Warbler, 15 Whitethroat, 2 Ring Ouzel, 1 Redstart
Whitethroat, Sand Point (Robin Martin)

Ring Ouzel, Sand Point (Robin Martin)
Sand Point/ Middlehope (BOC walk):
6 Shelduck, 1 Pheasant, 12 Woodpigeon, 2 Oystercatcher, 1 Arctic Skua (+1 Skua sp.), 8 Sandwich Tern, 20 Herring Gull, 2 Great Black-backed Gull, 14 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 1 Shag, 2 Cormorant, 1 Merlin, 1 Peregrine, 3 Magpie, 4 Carrion Crow, 1 Raven, 2 Blue Tit, 1 Great Tit, 12 Skylark, 2 Grasshopper Warbler (heard calling for short periods), 156 Swallow, 24 House Martin, 4 Willow Warbler, 11 Chiffchaff, 2 Cetti’s Warbler, 1 Long-tailed Tit, 10 Blackcap, 6 Whitethroat, 5 Wren, 1 Song Thrush, 6 Blackbird, 3 Ring Ouzel ( male seen on the point early on and Male and likely female seen at Middlehope together), 1 Robin, 1 Redstart, 3 Stonechat, 1 Wheatear, 6 Dunnock, 4 Meadow Pipit, 2 Rock Pipit, 4 Chaffinch, 4 Greenfinch, 12 Linnet, 14 Goldfinch.

BELOW M4 & BANES
Yellowhammer, Marshfield (Caron Thornton-Trippit)
Marshfield:
14 Yellowhammer

Hanham Hills:
1 Willow Warbler, 2 Whitethroat, 1 Robin (full grown juv.), 1 Tree Pipit

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake
Red Kite, Villice (Bri Thompson)
Villice:

1 Red Kite
Swallow, Nunnery (Bri Thompson)
Nunnery:

1 Osprey (over), Swallow (a few grounded)

Herons Green:
1 Common Whitethroat (in the hedgeline behind the pool)
Great White Egret, Moreton (Bri Thompson)
Moreton:

1 Great White Egret

Reported by: Pete Allen, Rich Andrews, Paul Bowerman, VÄ•ra Carpenter, Chris Craig, Matt Hull, Michael Hutchinson, Rob Laughton, Robin Martin, Lee Patch, Larry Sweetland, Bri Thompson, Ruben Veal, Beth W.

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