Thursday 31 March 2016

Sightings 31/3/16

31/3/16 redhead Smew (Allan Chard)
the Chipping Sodbury bird today

Summary:
Fine sunny weather but few migrants. A very early Hobby seen at Severnside.

Stockwood (Bristol):
Open Space: 1 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Long-tailed Tit, 4 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap, 2 Song Thrush, 1 Mistle Thrush, 15 Goldfinch.

Bishopston (Bristol) 21/3/16:
Claremont Rd: 1 flyover Red Kite 2.30pm with 2 Buzzard (Peter Cain).

Longwell Green:
Hicks Gate end: 1 Sparrowhawk, over the ring road.

Oldbury Power Station:
20 Chiffchaff.

Littleton Warth:
21 Shelduck, 1 Oystercatcher, 5 LBB Gull, 1 Wheatear.
31/3/16 Wheatear (Mrs Trellis)
rocks by the railway wagon this afternoon
Aust STW:
1 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Raven, 8 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 1 Comma butterfly.

Aust Warth:
40 Curlew, 4 Skylark, 1 Wheatear, 5 Meadow Pipit, 1 Red Admiral butterfly.

New Passage-Northwick:
1 flyover Hobby this morning (Martyn Hayes, Nigel Tucker), exceptionally early for Avon.
Other stuff, 8 Mute Swan, 12 Canada Goose, 12 Tufted Duck, 1 Little Egret, 3 Little Grebe, 5 Buzzard, 1 Little Ringed Plover, 10 Ringed Plover, 10 Dunlin, 1 Snipe, 8 Black-tailed Godwit, 105 Redshank, 3 Sand Martin, 2 Swallow, 20 Chiffchaff, 2 Willow Warbler, 1 Water Pipit, 1 Brambling, 5 Siskin, 1 Redpoll.

Severn Beach:
Orchard Pools: 1 Grey Heron, 1 Little Grebe, 3 Coot, 1 Kingfisher, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff, 1 Song Thrush, 1 Brimstone butterfly.

Pill:
Crosslanes: 1 singing Willow Warbler, 2 Siskin.

Nailsea:
31/3/16 Little Owl (Richard Bedwell)
Youngwood Lane
It's been reported to the Little Owl project
Felton:
Common: Chiffchaff 'plentiful', 2 Song Thrush, 4 Bullfinch.

East Dundry:
4 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 1 Little Owl, 1 Green Woodpecker, 5 Skylark, 3 Swallow, 1 Chaffinch, 1 Bullfinch.

Worle 28/3/16:
Headland: 1 fly-through Hobby reported (twitter@headlandbirder). Potential earliest ever Avon record (currently 30/3/90) but it is unlikely we'll tease a description out of the observer so it won't make it into the Report. Pity.

Sand Pt:
1 Peregrine, 2 Raven, 7 Sand Martin, 20 Chiffchaff, 1 Willow Warbler, 2 Blackcap, 3 Stonechat, 1 Wheatear.

Keynsham:
Old Fry's building: 2 Peregrine.

Saltford:
6 Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 1 Kingfisher (over arable fields, away from the river), 3 Green Woodpecker, 2 Jay, 14 Magpie, 1 Raven, 5 Long-tailed Tit, 5 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 17 Wren, 4 Greenfinch.

Compton Martin:
1 Jay, 2 Marsh Tit, 3 Greenfinch, garden.

Blagdon Lake:
2 Egyptian Goose, 1 Black-necked Grebe (Top End, last seen here 21 March).

Planet Chew:
1 Greylag Goose, 36 Canada Goose, 2 Barnacle Goose, 2 Egyptian Goose, 12 Shelduck, 5 Scaup still, 20 Goldeneye, 1 Sparrowhawk, 12 Buzzard, 2 Snipe, 1 Common Sandpiper, 6 GBB Gull, 2 Green Woodpecker, 2 Jay, 4 Raven, 2 Goldcrest, 3 Sand Martin, 2 Swallow, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 9 Chiffchaff, 1 Willow Warbler, 2 Bullfinch.
No reports of the Slavonian Grebe today. Very few hirundines over the lake, the weather was probably too nice.

Reports: Richard Bedwell, Paul Bowerman, Peter Cain, Teresa Chard, Chris Craig, Paul Gregory, Robert Hargreaves, Martyn Hayes, Adrian Hockey, Chris Johnson, Giles Morris, Nick Page, Stuart Sammonds, Ian Stapp, Mrs Trellis, Nigel Tucker, BL birds, opsbirding, severnsidebirds.