Tuesday 25 April 2017

25th April '17 Tuesday - Purple Heron

Bright and sunny but much colder with a chilly north wind.  Rain/hail showers in the afternoon.

Turtle Dove  (R Yeo), also Whimbrel, Grasshopper Warbler, Yellow Wagtail.
Black Tern still at Chew, also Hobby, Whinchat, Garden Warbler.
And more Whimbrels and Whinchats.
Late report of a Purple Heron in flight over Portbury Wharf.



Linnet at Aust (Rod Holbrook)

Starling - it doesn't have to be rare to be beautiful!
(Steve Poulsom)






















BRISTOL
no reports


SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
1 Tree Pipit (over), 2 Grasshopper Warbler (lagoon 3), 3 Sedge Warbler, 14 Whitethroat, 6 Lesser Whitethroat.

Shepperdine:
3 Whimbrel.

New Passage/Northwick Warth:
1 f. Wigeon, 4 Teal, 1 Shoveler, 1 Whimbrel, 15 Dunlin, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Common Sandpiper, 2 Ringed Plover, 13 Turnstone, 6 Redshank, 55 Sand Martin.

Chipping Sodbury Common:
2 Wheatear, 1 Whitethroat, 1 Lesser Whitethroat.


NORTH SOMERSET:

Portbury Wharf:
1 Purple Heron reported in flight.
1 Whinchat (on fence post near south pool).

Gordano (Walton Common):
1 Buzzard, 2 Green Woodpecker, 1 Jay, 2 Blackcap, 2 Mistle Thrush.

Grey Wagtail at Clevedon-Yeo today (Steve Poulsom)

Clevedon-Yeo:
(Wain's Hill to Yeo Estuary at high tide, 0600-1000)
115 Shelduck, 10 Teal, 10 Tufted Duck, 1 Peregrine, 39 Oystercatcher, 8 Ringed Plover, 2 Grey Plover, 14 Lapwing, 175 Dunlin, 7 Black-tailed Godwit, 63 Whimbrel, 10 Curlew, 5 Common Sandpiper, 4 Redshank, 1 Turnstone, 1 Turtle Dove (at Blake’s Pools, then flew over River Yeo towards Wick St Lawrence), 5 Raven, 24 Skylark, 50 Swallow, 2 Cetti’s Warbler, 14 Chiffchaff, 1 Willow Warbler, 10 Blackcap, 10 Whitethroat, 2 Grasshopper Warbler, 3 Sedge Warbler, 10 Reed Warbler, 24 Wheatear, 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 Yellow Wagtail, 1 White Wagtail, 35 Meadow Pipit, 2 Rock Pipit, 15 Linnet.

Weston Airfield:
2 Little Egret, (no waders), 2 Wheatear, a few small groups of Swallow & House Martin.


BELOW M4 & BANES

Newton St Loe:
3 Kestrel, 3 Stock Dove, 25 Swallow, 2 Grey Wagtail, 4 Blackcap, 1 Whitethroat, 4 Chiffchaff, 1 Willow Warbler.


RESERVOIRS:

Blagdon Lake:
2 Greylag Goose, 2 Egyptian Goose,  4 Common Sandpiper, 200+ mixed hirundine flock, 1 Sedge Warbler.
News from Sunday 23rd: Osprey catching a trout.

Common Sandpiper at Chew today (Ian Stapp)
Chew Valley Lake:
30 Dunlin, 250+ House and Sand Martin, 100+ Swallow.

Dam:
3 Common Sandpiper, "Hooligans Gull", 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Cetti's Warbler.

Woodford:
2 G BB Gull, 1 Black Tern (off the Sailing Club), 200+ Swift.

Heron's Green:
2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Sedge Warbler, 1 Whitethroat, 2 Chiffchaff.

Moreton:
1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Stock Dove, 1 Whinchat, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 4 Reed Warbler, 1 Garden Warbler, 3 Blackcap, 3 Chiffchaff, 4 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Raven.

Stratford:
pr Scaup, 1 Hobby pursuing a House Martin, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 3+ Reed Warbler, 1 Blackcap, 1 Chiffchaff.

Herriotts End:
10 Shelduck, 4 Shoveler, 1 f. Goldeneye, 1 Common Sandpiper, 3 G BB Gull, 1 Cetti's Warbler.

Reports: Chris Craig, Adrian Hockey, John Martin, Vic Polley, Steve Sanins, Ian Stapp, Mrs Trellis, blagdonlakebirds,  CVRSnslbirding,  opsbirding,  severnsidebirds,  TBOSG