02-04-18 Monday - Ring Ouzel

Temp 3 to 13℃. Rainy start with 10mm of rain, but turning nice in a windy afternoon

2-4-18 Great Golden Plover, Northwick Warth (Paul Bowerman)

Osprey
Marsh Harrier
Red Kite
Avocet
Purple Sandpiper
Merlin
Woodlark
Swallow
Willow Warbler
Ring Ouzel 
Water Pipit
Great White Egret
Tree Pipit
Brambling

BRISTOL

2-4-18 Dunnock sunbathing, St Anne's (Gill Sapsed)

St Anne's Park:
1 m Blackcap, Dunnock

2-4-18 Kingfisher, Eastville (Allan Chard)

Eastville Park:
1 Kingfisher, Chiffchaffs, 1 Willow Warbler

Stockwood Open Space:
Confirmed nesting of Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, Carrion Crow, Chiffchaff, 6 Song Thrush

2-4-18 f Blackcap with unusual chest (Gill Sapsed)

GARDEN BIRDS IN AVON
Herring Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, 6 Jays, Jackdaw, Coal Tit, Blue Tit, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Blackcap, 1 Wren, 1 Brambling, 1 Greenfinch, 2 Lesser Redpoll, 1 Siskin.

2-4-18 Greenfinch in Almondsbury (Vera Carpenter)

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Shepperdine:
3 Avocet

Oldbury Power Station:
2 Shelduck, 30 Wigeon, 4 Tufted Duck, 4 Cormorant, 1 Buzzard, 1 Moorhen, 1 Coot, 2 Oystercatcher, 2 Green Woodpecker, 7 Chiffchaff + click to hear odd sounding Chiffchaff , 3 Meadow Pipit

2-4-18 Great Crested Grebe, rare at Northwick Warth (Paul Bowerman)

Severnside:
1 Great Crested Grebe, 4 Golden Plover, 5 Black-tailed Godwit, 1m Merlin, 10 Sand Martin, 4 Swallow, 4 Chiffchaff, 3 Wheatear, 2 Water Pipit

Yate, Kingsgate Park:
5 Gadwall, 1 Cormorant, 1 Kingfisher, 4 Chiffchaff, 1 Willow Warbler, 2 Blackcap

NORTH SOMERSET

Backwell Lake:
2 Great White Egret, and 17 Little Egret into the roost by 20:03.

Portbury Wharf: (combined report)
1 Snipe, 2 Great Black-backed Gull, 8 Sand Martin, 1 Willow Warbler (singing), c15 Chiffchaff, 2 Ring Ouzel, 3 Wheatear, and a Bullfinch also singing.

2-4-18 Purple Sandpiper, Dowlais coast, (Howard Taffs)

Clevedon-Yeo, Dowlais:

1 Goosander, 1 Purple Sandpiper (possibly same as 17th Feb), 40 Meadow Pipit

2-4-18 Ring Ouzel at Sand Point, (Dean Reeves)

Sand Bay, Middle Hope:(combined report)
1 Marsh Harrier, 1 Chiffchaff singing, 2 Ring Ouzel 12+ Wheatear, 1 Tree Pipit

Crook Peake:
2 Osprey, 1 Woodlark, 2 m Ring Ouzel (Compton Hill)

BELOW M4 & BANES

Saltford Hill, 07:45:
1 Red Kite

2-4-18 Barn Owls in Paulton (Simon Carder)

Paulton:
2 Barn Owl

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Buzzard, 20 Sand Martin, 2 Swallow

2-4-18 Shelduck, Herriotts CVL (Bob Brewer)

Chew Valley Lake:

No reports

Out of Avon
Common Scoter, Slavonian Grebe, Swallow at Cheddar Reservoir

2-4-18 Slavonian Grebe, Cheddar (Terri Borash)

Reports: Derek Angell, Terri Borash, Paul Bowerman, Simon Carder, Vera Carpenter, Allan Chard, Chris@avglochris, Mark Coller, Peter Coslett, Paul Francis, Lee Gardiner, Paul Gregory, Peter Hazelwood, Adrian Hockey, David Hughes, Paul Milsom, Dave Nevitt, Lois Pryce, Chris Stone, Aravind Ramesh, Dean Reeves, Howard Taffs, Mike Thomas, Jenny Toller, blagdonlakebirds, BUPP, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, Talking to Bears, TBOSG