16-3-18 Friday - Chiffchaffs

Temp 3 to 12℃.  Sunny morning with showers in the afternoon.

Avocets
Little Ringed Plover 
Scaup
Sandwich Tern
Sand Martin
Swallow
Chiffchaff
Brambling
Wheatear

16-3-18 Brambling in Kenn Moor garden (Higgy)

BRISTOL

13-3-18 Raven in Easton garden (Sue Taylor)

Netham Weir:

1 male Firecrest on the south bank of the river just east of the bridge and a Chiffchaff also on the south bank of the river in reeds to the west of the weir.

Stockwood Open Spaces:
2 Chiffchaff (chiffchaffing) 4 Song Thrush, 4 GS Woodpecker (v noisy) m Chaffinch, 5 LTT, 3 Jay, 

6 Goldfinch, 1 Buzzard, 5 Blackbird, 6 Robin, 1 Coal Tit

Stockwood Pomfrett Gardens:
2 soaring Buzzard, 1 m Chaffinch, 6 Goldfinch, 1 Red Admiral

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
1 Sandwich Tern

16-3-18 Short-eared Owl at Aust Warth (Martin Tayler)

Aust Warth:

3 Short-eared Owl, 1 Barn Owl, 1 Kestrel, 1 Wren

16-3-18 Goldcrest at the water outlet with Chiffchaffs (Lisa Presland)

16-3-18 6 Avocet at New Passage (Robert Hargreaves)

New Passage: 
200+ Wigeon, 18 Tufted Duck, 6 Avocet, 51 Turnstone, Curlew, Dunlin, 70+ Redshank, 

10 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Chiffchaff, 8 Pied Wagtail, 2 Meadow Pipit.

Pilning Wetlands:
6 Avocet on back pool

16-3-18 Wheatear at Severn Beach (Robert Hargreaves)

Severn Beach:

Green Woodpecker heard, 1 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Stonechat, 1 Wheatear, 2 Greenfinch

Orchards Pool:

1 Grey Heron, 1 Buzzard, 2 Coot, 3 Bullfinch, 4 Greenfinch

Lyde Green
3 Mute Swan and a first time Little Grebe.

NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon - Yeo:
2 Mute Swan, 12 Canada Goose, at least 80 Shelduck, 220 Wigeon (still good numbers around),  

20+ Teal, Mallard present, 7 Pintail (up Yeo), 6 Shoveler (on KP), 4 Tufted Duck (on KP), 

2 Pochard (pair on KP), 10+ Goosander (I saw 6 - 1 male, 5 females - off Blackstone at LT yesterday. Dawn HT today 6 - 5 males, 1 female - roosting on Estuary with Black-headed Gulls away from Blackstone; I have not seen this before.) 1 Cormorant (KP), 3 Little Egret, 12 Oystercatcher,

9 Grey Plover, 1 Little Ringed Plover  (with Ringed Plover), 3 Ringed Plover, 90 Curlew, 

1 Bar-tailed Godwit, 23 Turnstone, 220 Dunlin, 1 Spotted Redshank  (heard only), 210 Redshank

(80 on Dowlais, 40 at Kenn and 90+ up Yeo), 20 Black-headed Gull,  2 LBB Gull, 80 Herring Gull (Most up Yeo), 1 Raven, ~8 Skylark, 1 Stonechat, 0 Wheatear, a few Meadow Pipit, 30 Linnet.

Dowlais:

11 Lapwing on the scrape, 19 Redshank, 1 Wheatear on posts above the scrape.

Bleadon:

3 Buzzard, 3 Green Woodpecker, 1 Song Thrush, 1 Kestrel, 1 Blackcap (f), several singing skylarks 

16-3-18 Wheatear at Uphill (Bill Hewitt)

Uphill:

2 Grey Heron at nest, 1 Black Redstart, 1 Wheatear, 1 Song Thrush, 1 Buzzard.

Uphill & STW: 1 Raven, 2 Chiffchaff, 3 Bullfinch, 4 Goldcrest

16-3-18 Bar-headed Goose at Kenn Moor (Higgy)

Kenn Moor:

(Garden) 1 Bar-headed Goose, 1 Jay, 7 Reed Bunting, 2 Coal Tit, 15 Mixed Green/Gold/Chaffinch, 

2 Brambling

Butcombe, The Batch:

2 Wood Pigeon, 1 Blue Tit, 1 Blackbird, 1 Song Thrush, 2 Robin, 2 Greenfinch ( 1M, 1F)

BELOW M4 & BANES

16-3-18 Wheatear at Marshfield (Peter Coslett)

Marshfield:
First Wheatear at Marshfield this morning on Down Road,also a few singing Sky Lark,
Corn Bunting,Yellowhammer, c100 Linnet,3 Buzzard and 8 Stock Dove.

16-3-18 Jay on the Dramway Trail (Talkingtobears)

Keynsham:

Dramway Trail ST6775: 8 Feral Pigeon, 4 Woodpigeon, 2 Jay, 3 Magpie, 2 Carrion Crow, 3 Blue Tit, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Blackbird, 1 Robin, 1 Bullfinch

Keynsham Garden: 2 Woodpigeon, 1 Collard Dove, 3 Jackdaw, 2 Blue Tit, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 

2 Starling, 1 Blackbird, 1 Robin ( no Goldfinch )

Bath, Twerton:
1 Jay + 1 male Blackcap back in back garden, with 2 female chaffinch LT, Coal, Blue and Great Tits

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake:

A Swallow over Chew this morning

Dam:
10 Goldeneye

16-3-18 Mistle Thrush at Woodford (Ian Stapp)

Woodford:

1 Bullfinch, 2 Song Thrush, 2 Mistle Thrush, 1 Green Wood (calling), 2 Buzzard, 2 G BB Gull,
7 Goldeneye

Herons Green:
7 Buzzard (over hills), 2 G BB Gull, 1 Meadow Pipit, 1 Common Sand, 3 Pochard, 1 Cetti's

16-3-18 Pochard at Moreton (Ian Stapp)

Moreton:
2 Chiffchaff,  1 Green Wood, 1 G-S Wood (drumming), 3 Jay, 1 Sparrowhawk, 3 Reed Bunting,
2 Cetti's, 2 Stonechat, 1 Water Rail, 2 Mistle Thrush, 10+ L TT, 1 Goldcrest,  6 Teal,
2 Pochard (not so many around now), 16 Goldeneye, 4 Buzzard (over hills other side lake),
 4 G BB Gull, 1 Tawny Owl (calling)

Stratford:
9 L Egret (fields Stratford lane), 1 Black-necked Grebe (in summer plumage way out middle of lake), 4 Scaup (2M/2F),  5 Sand Martin

Herriotts:
28 Shoveler (pond), 16 Pintail (pond), 3 Shelduck (pond), 1 G BB Gull (pond), 12 Teal (pond),
1 Cetti's, 4 Buzzard, 1 Grey Wagtail, 7 Sand Martin,  6 Goldeneye (lake side)

Out of UK

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