3rd Oct '16 Monday - Whinchat

Beautiful sunny day (but cold in the wind at Chew)

Mediterranean Gull at Chew today

6 Great White Egrets in Chew/Blagdon area
Bearded Tit and Whinchat at Chew, Whinchat at Blagdon 

3-10-16 Several sightings of Grey Wagtail around Avon today; this one at Eastville Park (Martin Tayler)
Others from Duck Lane (John Croxton) and Bath (Anne Crowe) 

Bristol, Eastville Park:

1 Grey Heron, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Grey Wagtail

3-10-16 Grey Heron (Martin Tayler)
 in Eastville Park 

Bristol Docks:

1 Cormorant

3-10-16 Cormorant (Gill Sapsed)
Fishing in Bristol Docks 

Bristol, Lawrence Weston Moor:

1 flushed Woodcock on Lawrence Weston Avon Wildlife Trust nature reserve

Bristol, Sea Mills:
40+ Redshank, 1 Common Sandpiper

3-10-16 Redshank (Brian Thompson)
From a 40+ flock at Sea Mills this morning 

Bristol, Stockwood open space:

1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 6 Jackdaw, 1 Goldcrest, 8 Long-tailed Tit, 2 female Stonechat, 2 Meadow Pipit, 10 Goldfinch

Bristol, Kingswood:
5 Redwing

3-10-16 Wren (Lisa Presland)
 this evening at New Passage 

New Passage/Northwick:
4 Little Egret, 1 Peregrine creating mayhem, 1 juv Little Stint, 3 juv Ruff, 3 Common Gull,
3 Swallow, 2 House Martin, 1 Wren, 3 Wheatear

3-10-16 Ruff at Northwick (Matt Scott)
Wonder if Matt should have been at work

Clevedon-Yeo:
120 Shelduck, 60 Wigeon, 10 Teal, 5 Cormorant, 5 Little Egret, 3 Grey Heron, 1 Kestrel, 

15 Oystercatcher, 6 Ringed Plover, 2 Grey Plover, 6 Lapwing, 6 Dunlin, 100 Curlew, 1 Snipe,
15 Turnstone, 1 Raven, 40 Skylark, 2 Swallow, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Stonechat,
15 Wheatear, 150 Meadow Pipit, 1 Pock Pipit, 30 Linnet.

Bath:
On/near Avon, 1 pair Grey Wagtail flirting (fighting?) under new Victoria bridge; 2 perched Peregrine usual tower; Grey Heron below

Dundry Hill & Down:
1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Kestrel, 1 Hobby, 4 Raven, 5 Swallow and 10 House Martin moving SE high,
1 singing Chiffchaff

Barrow Tanks:
28 Teal, 13 Little Grebe, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Stonechat,

Blagdon Lake:

Wigeon, Pintail, Shoveler

Dam:
1 Common Sandpiper
Lodge:
5 Ringed Plover, 1 Dunlin, 1 Common Gull
Rugmoor:
2 Whinchat
Top End:
11 Little Egret, 2 Great White Egret, 15 Grey Heron, 30+ Lapwing, 8 Snipe

3 Great White Egret, at Chew same time as 3 Great White Egret, at Blagdon. So 6 around the Chew/Blagdon area at the moment.

Chew Valley Lake:
2 Goldeneye (pair), 3 Great White Egret, 3 Common Gull [wintering birds starting to appear], 1 Green and Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Jay, 1 Skylark, 22 Swallow, 3 Grey Wagtail, 105 Pied Wagtail, 5 White Wagtail, 130 Meadow Pipit, 7 Siskin
Dam:
3 Egyptian Goose
Bittern Trail:
1 Water Rail, 20 Long-tailed Tit, 6 Cetti’s Warbler

3-10-16 Water Rail on the Bittern Trail (Robert Hargreaves)

Woodford:
3 G-W Egret (East shore in front reeds)
Heron's Green:
3 Little Grebe (pond), 1 Whinchat (pond), 1 Snipe (pond), 4 Little Egret (lake), 18 Little Grebe (Bay on the far right), 1 Cetti's, 2 G BB Gull, 6 House Sparrows (wall)
Moreton:

2 Little Egret, 2 Buzzard, 7 Lapwing, 2 Green Sandpiper, 1 Turnstone, 1 Mediterranean Gull (A Davis), 2 GBB Gull, 1 Kingfisher, 3 Jay, 2 Raven, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Cetti's Warbler

Herriot's Bridge:

1 Sparrowhawk, 3 Buzzard, 1 Kingfisher, 1 female Bearded Tit , 1 Cetti's Warbler,1 Grey Wagtail

3-10-16 Egyptian Goose at The Dam, Chew (Ian Stapp)

Reports: Pete Brain, Teresa Chard, Anne Crowe, John Croxton, Mike George, Robert Hargreaves, Lisa Presland, Trevor Riddle, Gill Sapsed, Ian Stapp, Martin Tayler, Brian Thompson, Keith Vinicombe