19 Feb '17 Sunday - Chiffchaff

Not a bad day today, dull at times, lots of hopeful birders looking for Gulls

Waxwing at Bradley Stoke
Bar-tailed Godwitat Chittening Warth
Black Redstart at Clevedon
Cattle Egretat Toghill
Chiffchaff at Paulton and Chew
Long-tailed Duck at Barrow Tanks
Scaup, Common Scoter, Jack Snipe, Mediterranean Gull at Chew

BRISTOL
Kingswood garden:
2 Goldcrest (new here)

Fishponds Road, on lawn of C of E Academy:

1 Redwing

Stockwood Open Spaces:

3 Collared Dove, 4 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Goldcrest, 4 Song Thrush, 25+ Goldfinch, 1 Reed Bunting

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Bradley Stoke, Three Brooks, Tesco Petrol:
Waxwings

Oldbury Power Station yesterday: 

1 Gadwall, 1 Lesser Redpoll over, calling, 2 Grey Wagtail. (60 species, equal best this year, 2 other dates same)

Aust Warth:
5 Stonechat

New Passage/Northwick Warth:
1 Sparrowhawk, 450+ Knot, 145 Black-tailed Godwit, 30 Fieldfare, 110 Redwing, 1 Mistle Thrush, 40 Goldfinch

Chittening Warth:
2 Shelduck, 0 Wigeon, 20 Gadwall, 5 Teal, 16 Mallard, 45 Oystercatcher, 2 Dunlin, 1 Bar-tailed Godwit, 2 Curlew, 0 Turnstone, 35 BH Gull, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 4 Stonechat, 1 Rock Pipit,  3 Reed Bunting

19-2-17 Coal Tit at Old Sodbury (Chris Teague)

Old Sodbury:
1 Coal Tit, flock Goldfinch, 4 Siskin

NORTH SOMERSET

19-2-17 Black Redstart at Church (Roger Staples)

Clevedon, St Andrews Churchyard:
1 Black Redstart

BELOW M4 & BANES

Warmley Forest Park:
2 Moorhens, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 15 Magpies, 3 Goldcrests, 2 Coal Tits, 50 Starlings, 20 Blackbirds, mixed flock of over 200 Fieldfare and Redwing, 1 Song Thrush, 10 Chaffinch, 8 Goldfinch, 9 Greenfinch, 2 Bullfinch

Wick, Toghill Farm:
2 Cattle Egret

Newton St Loe:

27 Teal, 11 Grey Heron, 1 Little Grebe, 1 Sparrowhawk, 5 Skylark, 30+ Linnet, 5 Bullfinch,
15+ Yellowhammer

Paulton:
1 Kestrel, 5 Skylark, 1 Chiffchaff, 120 Fieldfare, 25 Redwing, 6 Meadow Pipit, 7 Yellowhammer

Stanton Drew, The Druids Arms fields:
6 Little Egrets


RESERVOIRS:

19-2-17 Long-tailed Duck (Sean Davies)

Barrow Tank 3:
1 Long-tailed Duck

Blagdon Lake yesterday:
Mute Swans, 2 Egyptian Geese, 2♂ Scaup, Buzzards

19-2-17 ringed Mediterranean Gull at Chew (Lee Gardiner)

Chew Valley Lake:
Dam/Picnic Site 1:
1 Common Scoter, 8 Goldeneye, 2 Little Grebe, 1 Buzzard, 1 Mediterranean Gull (Ring No (9?).606), 2 ringed BH Gulls, the Hooligan's Gull, 1 Cetti's Warbler
Herons Green:
1 f Goosander, 2 Little Grebe, 4 Snipe, 5 House Sparrow

19-2-17 Green Sandpiper,  Moreton (Ian Stapp)

Moreton:
6 Goldeneye, 2 Buzzard, 1 Water Rail, 1 Green Sandpiper, 2 GBB Gull, 1 Green Woodpecker,  2 Coal Tit, 10 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Chiffchaff, 25+ Redwing, 20+ Chaffinch, 5 Goldfinch, 2 Bullfinch, 

Stratford Hide:

12 Scaup, 1 Water Rail, 2 Jack Snipe, 30 Snipe, 1 Green Sandpiper

Herriotts End:
2 Greylag Goose, 8 Shelduck, 10 Pintail, 4 Scaup, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 25+ Starling, 1 Reed Bunting, 1 Mink in channel

19-2-17  Hybrid Duck at  Herriotts (Ian Stapp)

Reports: Rich Andrews, Teresa Chard, Sean Davies, Wendy Dickson, Lee Gardiner, Patrick Hancock, Peter Hazelwood, John Martin, Nigel Milbourne, Chris Perry, Adam Rawson, Gill Sapsed, Tony Scott, Roger Staples, Ian Stapp, Christopher Teague, Mrs Trellis, Wayne Tucker, blagdonlakebirds,  CVRS,  nslbirding, opsbirding, @RareBirdAlertUK, severnsidebirds, TBOSG