Lesser Scaup
Purple Sandpiper
Hawfinch
BRISTOL
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| Coal Tit 27th Jan 2018 Bristol St George (Lee Gardiner) |
Coal Tit (splendid image from the Great Garden Birdwatch)
SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Oldbury Power Station:
3 (2♂) Tufted Duck on the Lake, 60 Common Gull, 1 Peregrine, 50 Fieldfare, 6 Song Thrush - all singing, 100 Redwing, and 1 Robin also singing.
Oldbury Power Station:
3 (2♂) Tufted Duck on the Lake, 60 Common Gull, 1 Peregrine, 50 Fieldfare, 6 Song Thrush - all singing, 100 Redwing, and 1 Robin also singing.
Aust: (combined report)
White-fronted Goose (flyover, pm), c.30 Wigeon, 3 Teal, 1 Buzzard, 2 Curlew, c.30 Dunlin, c.30 Redshank, 1 Short-eared Owl (appeared 5.07pm), 1 Kestrel, c.20 Redwing. 1 Stonechat.
Easter Compton:
Backwell Lake: (highlights)
24 Mute Swan, a Shoveler, 13 Tufted Duck, 2 Raven, 5 Song Thrush and 13 Greenfinch.
Portishead, Down Road:
1 m Blackcap and 3 Linnet
Clevedon: Hand Stadium (near)
1 Green Sandpiper
Paulton:2 Moorhen, 4 Goldcrest, 2 Mistle Thrush, 40 Redwing, 2 Grey Wagtail, 5 Lesser Redpoll,
10 Goldfinch.
RESERVOIRS
Chew Valley Lake:
2 Scaup.
Morton:
Lesser Scaup, Black-necked Grebe
Out of area:
Somerset Levels, Ham Wall, VP1 - Drake Ferruginous Duck. Torr Hide - Drake Ring-necked Duck
Gloucestershire, Plock Court, Penduline Tit still in play.
c 90 Jackdaw (mostly as couples.) along the main road.
NORTH SOMERSET
Backwell Lake: (highlights)
24 Mute Swan, a Shoveler, 13 Tufted Duck, 2 Raven, 5 Song Thrush and 13 Greenfinch.
Portishead: Battery Point.
4 Purple Sandpiper |
| Linnet 27th Jan 2018 Portishead (Pete Evans) |
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| Blackcap 27th Jan 2018 Portishead (Pete Evans) |
1 m Blackcap and 3 Linnet
Clevedon: Hand Stadium (near)
1 Green Sandpiper
BELOW M4 & BANES
Marshfield:
Marshfield:
Whithymead area:
Hawfinch on the feeder again - briefly.
Willsbridge Mill and St Ann's
1 Jay, 3 Magpie, 2 Goldcrest, 5 Blackbird, 3 Song Thrush (full song), 6 Robin, 6 Hawfinch, 6 Greenfinch.10 Goldfinch.
RESERVOIRS
Chew Valley Lake:
2 Scaup.
Morton:
Lesser Scaup, Black-necked Grebe
Out of area:
Somerset Levels, Ham Wall, VP1 - Drake Ferruginous Duck. Torr Hide - Drake Ring-necked Duck
Gloucestershire, Plock Court, Penduline Tit still in play.
Gloucestershire, Sharpness, Great Northern Diver.
Reports: Rich Andrews, Paul Brennan, Teresa Chard, Chris Craig, Pete Evans, Lee Gardiner, Patrick Hancock Robert Kelsh, Lois Pryce, Howard Taffs,
Reports: Rich Andrews, Paul Brennan, Teresa Chard, Chris Craig, Pete Evans, Lee Gardiner, Patrick Hancock Robert Kelsh, Lois Pryce, Howard Taffs,
Wildwoodphotos blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG
2017 Avon Bird Report
2017 Avon Bird Report
We are still missing descriptive notes or photographs for quite a few of the local rarities seen last year. In order to make the 2017 report as complete as possible, if you saw any of the birds on the list below can you please let us have some confirmatory notes as soon as possible.
Thanks
Rich Mielcarek
Thanks
Rich Mielcarek
| Species | Count | Date | Site |
| Whooper Swan | 1 | 26/10/2017 | Clevedon-Yeo (Cl-Y), Clevedon Pill |
| Whooper Swan | 1 | 05/12/2017 | Blagdon Lake (BL) |
| Lesser Scaup | 1 | 12/11/2017 | Chew Valley Lake (CVL) |
| Great Northern Diver | 1 | 11/11/2017 | Chew Valley Lake (CVL) |
| Balearic Shearwater | 1 | 11/09/2017 | Weston-super-Mare, Anchor Head |
| Leach's Petrel | 1 | 11/09/2017 | Weston-super-Mare, Anchor Head |
| Leach's Petrel | 4 | 13/09/2017 | Weston-super-Mare, Anchor Head |
| Cattle Egret | 2 | 11/02/2017 | Winterbourne, Moorend, R Frome |
| Cattle Egret | 1 | 17/02/2017 | Congresbury |
| Cattle Egret | 1 | 25/03/2017 | New Passage / Northwick Warth, PW |
| Great White Egret | 1 | 17/02/2017 | Kenn Moor, Claverham Drove |
| Great White Egret | 1 | 26/02/2017 | Chew Valley Lake (CVL) |
| Great White Egret | 1 | 21/04/2017 | New Passage / Northwick Warth, PW |
| Goshawk | 1 | 08/07/2017 | Wickwar, Lower Woods |
| Crane | 2 | 25/03/2017 | New Passage / Northwick Warth |
| Grey Phalarope | 1 | 11/09/2017 | Weston-super-Mare, Anchor Head |
| Ring-billed Gull | Present | 08/01/2017 | Chew Valley Lake (CVL) |
| Caspian Gull | Present | 02/03/2017 | Chew Valley Lake (CVL), Villice |
| Turtle Dove | 1 | 25/04/2017 | Clevedon-Yeo (Cl-Y) |
| Nightjar | 1 | 15/10/2017 | Avonmouth, Trading Estate, Severn Rd to Hallen |
| Lesser Spotted Woodpecker | 1 | 03/04/2017 | Tortworth, Michael Wood, Little River Avon |
| Lesser Spotted Woodpecker | 3 | 13/04/2017 | R. Chew N of Compton Dando |
| Lesser Spotted Woodpecker | 1 | 08/05/2017 | Wickwar, Lower Woods |
| Lesser Spotted Woodpecker | 5 | 25/06/2017 | R. Chew N of Compton Dando |
| Willow Tit | 1 | 21/12/2017 | Radstock, Cycle Track |
| Woodlark | 1 | 29/10/2017 | New Passage / Northwick Warth |
| Yellow-browed Warbler | 1 | 15/10/2017 | Winterbourne |
| Waxwing | 1 | 14/01/2017 | Yate |
| Waxwing | 20 | 14/01/2017 | Bristol, Fishponds, Staple Hill, CO-OP |
| Waxwing | 1 | 17/01/2017 | Aust |
| Waxwing | 6 | 04/02/2017 | Bristol, Staple Hill, Signal Rd |
| Waxwing | 4 | 01/03/2017 | Thornbury |
| Tree Sparrow | 1 | 31/10/2017 | Dundry, Garden |
| Richard's Pipit | 1 | 24/09/2017 | Clevedon-Yeo (Cl-Y), Channel View farm sea wall |
| Hawfinch | 1 | 15/10/2017 | Aust Cliff |
| Hawfinch | 1 | 18/10/2017 | Aust Cliff |
| Hawfinch | 1 | 31/10/2017 | Dundry, Garden |
| Hawfinch | 2 | 02/11/2017 | Cribbs Causeway |
| Hawfinch | 1 | 10/11/2017 | Dundry |
| Hawfinch | 1 | 30/11/2017 | Tortworth, Court |
| Lapland Bunting | 1 | 15/10/2017 | Clevedon-Yeo (Cl-Y) Wain's Hill |
