Tuesday 6th November

7:15 – 8:45 5˚c Wind: 7 – 14mph WSW 1022hPa

Mainly clear with some low cloud developing. Woodpigeon passage nearly all in first 30 mins. Not as many as last year on the same day (655). Starlings, fieldfares and redwings mainly in groups of 10+ throughout watch. First bramblings (c5) to land, grounded by juv. sparrowhawk. Very late solitary house martin!

VisMig Counts (all SW apart from thrushes which mainly NW)

Woodpigeon – 265

Fieldfare – 63

Redwing – 56

Starling – 90

Chaffinch – 18

Brambling – 12

House martin – 1

Juvenile sparrowhawk and magpies chasing each other around the park..

Peregrines (pair on taller spire) on CCC didn’t seem too bothered by the woodpigeons!..

Woodies flying overhead..

Thursday 4th October 2012

6:45 – 10:15 am Temp : 7°c Wind: SW 3mph / gusts 7mph 1005.8hPa

Our first decent count of meadow pipits this Autumn along with the first signs of finches on passage and alba wagtails moving S or SW rather than W. Peregrine pair seen together on the Clifton perches, another seen stooping over Bedminster and a passing early morning great black-backed gull.

Migration Watch

Alba wagtail – 42 (mostly white, largest group 8)

Meadow pipit – 363 (largest group 20)

Swallow – 9

Chaffinch – 96 (mostly between 7:30 – 8:00, largest group 9)

Siskin – 7

Linnet – 1

All birds moving S / SW

Thanks Sam, Alex, Liz, Maddie