Thursday 4 October 2018

04-10-18 Thursday - Jack Snipe

Slow - gloomy - foggy start but sunny and bright after 11.

Cattle Egret, Garganey, Swallow, Great White Egret, Jack Snipe, White Wagtail
Whinchat

Cattle Egret 4th Oct 2018 North Widcombe Farm (Ian Stapp)

BRISTOL

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
c45 Collared Dove (high count), 6 Stonechat, 7 Meadow Pipit -1/2hr vismig from sunrise, 1 Reed Bunting flew from upriver at Shepperdine.

Aust Warth:
5 Stonechat

New Passage/Northwick/Pilning wetland:
c.100 Canada Goose, 1 ‘Hybrid Goose (Barnacle x White Front) named Barnie’, 3 Mute Swan, 5 Shelduck, 26 Gadwall, 12 Shoveler, c.80 Wigeon, c.120 Teal, 7 Tufted, 3 Little Grebe, 1 Grey Heron, 3 Little Egret, 4 Moorhen, c.25 Coot, 220 Black-tailed Godwit, 45 Knot,c.40 Dunlin, 3 Snipe, c.40 Redshank, 2 Kingfisher, 1 Kestrel, 6 Rook on saltmarsh (not seen rooks there before), 1 Coal Tit, 1 Skylark, 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Grey Wagtail, 3 Meadow Pipit, flock 18 Linnet.

Severn Beach:
1 Chiffchaff, 1 Wheatear, 1 Rock Pipit.

Chipping Sodbury Common:
1 Blackcap, 2 Mistle Thrush, 2 Whinchat, 6 Stonechat, 1 Wheatear.

NORTH SOMERSET

Congresbury - Strawbury Line:
Buzzard, 4 Jay, Green Woodpecker, 1 hunting Hobby, 4 Swallows, 4 Cettis, 1 Chiffchaff, 3 Bullfinch, 80+ Goldfinch.

BELOW M4 & BANES

Bath:
1 Kestrel hunting, put 1 Magpie into a decline.

Long Tailed Tit 4th Oct 2018 NSL (Wayne Tucker)
Newton St Loe:
4 Cormorant, 1 Sparrowhawk, 3 Buzzard, 3 Moorhen, 3 Black-headed Gull, 3 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 10 Feral Pigeon, 25 Woodpigeon, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 4 Jay, 8 Magpie, 45 Jackdaw, 25 Rook, 35 Carrion Crow, 2 Raven, 2 Coal Tit, 5 Blue Tit, 6 Great Tit, 1 Skylark, 15 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Chiffchaff, 4 Goldcrest, 7 Wren, 2 Nuthatch, 1 Blackbird, 5 Mistle Thrush, 8 Robin, 10 House Sparrow, 1 Dunnock, 1 Grey Wagtail, 4 Pied Wagtail, 15 Meadow Pipit, 2 Goldfinch.

RESERVOIRS

Two Jack Snipe 4th Oct 2018 CVL (Robert Hargreaves)
Chew Valley Lake
100+ Canada Goose, 115 Mute Swan, 1 Shelduck, Lots Gadwall, 150+ Wigeon, 9 Pintail, 130+ Pochard, 1000+ Tufted Duck, 1 Goldeneye (1st w ♂), 41 Great Crested Grebe, 6 Grey Heron, 10+ Great White Egret, 8 Little Egret, 17 Snipe, 4 Green Sandpiper, 11 Great Black-backed Gull, 2 Yellow-legged Gull, 51 Stock Dove, 1 Kingfisher, 11 Jackdaw, 20+ mix of - Long Tailed Tit - Blue Tit, and Great Tit, 1 Treecreeper, 4 Cetti's Warbler, 1 White Wagtail, 3 Pied Wagtail, 12 Goldfinch.

Bishop Sutton:
20+ Starling

Villice:
Swallow present

Marksbury:
200+ Wood Pigeon, 50+ Starlings.

Heron's Green:
1 Garganey, 26 Shoveler, 15 Pochard, 18 Little Grebe, 9 Great Crested Grebe, 1 Great White Egret, 1 Little Egret, 1 Water Rail, 1 Common Snipe, 2 Jack Snipe, I Common Sandpiper, 1 Green Sandpiper, 2 Stonechat.
Spotted Redshank 4th Oct 2018 CVL (Ian Stapp)

Moreton:
2 Spotted Redshank, 1 Grear Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 4 Jay, 2 Raven, 2 Robins,

Stratford:
1 Sparrowhawk, 4 Buzzard, 2 White Coot, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Common Sand, 2 Greenshank,

Herriott's Bridge:
7 Swallow

Herriott's Pool
1 Shelduck, 24 Shoveler, 2 Grey Heron, 2 Great White Egret, 1 Little Egret, 6 Lapwing, 9 Snipe, 5 Common Gull,

North Widcombe Farm
5 Cattle Egret (Lots of flying around today Cows moving around while grazing).

Reports: Phil Baber, Anne Crowe, Robert Hargreaves, Nick Hawkridge, Adrian Hockey, Glen Maddison,  John Martin, Lois Pryce, Vic Savery, Nigel Sluman, Ian Stapp. Wayne Tucker, Dan White, BUPP, blagdonlakebirdsCVRSnslbirdingopsbirdingsevernsidebirdsTBOSG