27-10-18 Saturday

Sunshine in the morning, rain from mid-day, increasingly cold (between 4 and 6 deg C) and gloomy ahead of the clocks going back

Great White Egret, Cattle Egret
Red Kite
Yellow-legged Gull
Redpoll, Siskin

BRISTOL

27-10-18 Grey Wagtail, River Avon, Bristol ( Lee@ Wildwood_photos)

Henbury Golf Course:
1 Little Egret flying north (unusual here)

27-10-18 Kingfisher, Eastville Park (left: Martin Tayler; right Ian Loats)

Eastville Park:
5-6 Cormorant, 2 Grey Heron, 1  Kingfisher

St George Park
6  Canada Goose, 1 surprisingly late Mallard chick, sadly being chased around by a Herring Gull

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Littleton Warth:
1 Golden Plover, 1Grey Plover, 8 Fieldfare

Aust Warth:
1 Short-eared Owl

New Passage/Northwick:

27-10-18 Grey Plover, Pilning Wetland (Brian Lancastle)

Pilning Wetland/ Northwick Warth:
 2 Sparrowhawk,1 Grey Plover, 115+ Knot, 260+ Black-tailed Godwit, c70 Turnstone, c85 Oystercatcher, c700 Dunlin,  80+ Woodpigeon, a few Chaffinch. 1 Siskin

Severn Beach:
1 Red Kite low over sea bank at 13-40 heading towards Seven Beach

27-10-18 Goldfinches, Almondsbury (Vera Carpenter)

Almondsbury:
Garden - 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Nuthatch, 13 goldfinch (photo enclosed).

NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon-Yeo:
Wain's Hill vismig - Starling, Redwing, Chaffinch, Redpoll


BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield:
Buzzard , 11 Lapwing, 4 Stock Dove, 2 Raven, 2 Kestrel,  Sky Lark,,3 Stonechat, Corn Bunting, Yellowhammer

Paulton:
1 Common Gull, 60 mixed gull - mainly Herring Gull with Lesser Black-backed Gull and Black-headed Gull, 40 Woodpigeon, 25 Yellowhammer


RESERVOIRS:

27-10-18  Wigeon sp Heron's Green Bay, CVL (John Martin)
[The photographer comments: 'Tricky to judge whether the axillaries are white enough'. Probably not]

Chew Valley Lake
Putative fem American Wigeon at Heron's Green (consorting with m Wigeon)
also 4 Great White Egret, 4 Cattle Egret, 1 ad Yellow-legged Gull

Chew Valley Ringing Station:
2 Chiffchaff, 3 Goldcrest, 5 Wren -new birds. Also 'residents', incl  3 Cetti's Warbler, 5 Wren,3 Robin, 1 Blackbird - various histories including young birds, breeders & winter regulars

Out of Area:
Goldcliff Pools, Newport Wetlands - Baird's Sandpiper still. also Woodlark
Cotswold Water Park -  5 Red-Crested Pochard on Lake 74

Reports: David Campbell, Vera Carpenter,  Peter Coslett,  Patrick Hancock, Nick Hudson, Brian Lancastle, Lee@ Wildwood_photos, Ian Loats, John Martin, Matt Plenty,  Dick Reader, Howard Taffs, Martin Tayler, Vic Savery, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG