Tuesday 28 November 2017

28th November '17 Tuesday - Hawfinch

Cold and sunny with high clouds and a brisk NW wind.  An afternoon shower.

Great White Egret (as usual).
Long-tailed Duck
Hawfinch 
Firecrest yesterday (late report).

A Greenfinch in the sunshine at Langford (David Goodliffe)
BRISTOL

Clifton:
Marsh Tit on feeder.

Green Woodpecker in Stoke Park (Martin Tayler)
Stoke Park, Duchess Pond:combined report
1 Grey Heron, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Green Woodpecker, 6 Long-tailed Tit, 4 Meadow Pipit, 5 Bullfinch, and a Greenfinch


SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Huntingford - Little River Avon:
1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Grey Wagtail, 2 Siskin

Blackcap 28th Nov 2017 Olveston Alan Gilbert
Olveston:
In the garden today.
Green Woodpecker and Blackcap

Oldbury Power Station:
Black Redstart.
2 Hawfinch (feeding on maple keys on estuary side of lagoon 3).

Aust:
Services:
1 Peregrine ♀, showing well, 2 Raven, and a Chiffchaff.
STW:
2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, 3 Chiffchaff, a ♂Blackcap, a singing Song Thrush and 30 Pied Wagtail.

Severn Beach:
Black Redstart.

Female Blackcap - still arriving in our gardens for the winter
(William Hewitt)

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead:
A (newly arrived) pair of Blackcap and 6 Greenfinch in my garden.

Yatton:
Black Redstart.

Tickenham - Jacklands Lakes
1 Kingfisher

Worle:
2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Chiffchaff, 3 Goldcrest, 2 Jay.
(Yesterday) Firecrest in a Worle garden (Dean Reeves).

Uphill:
2 Little Grebe, 1 Kestrel, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Song Thrush.

Bleadon:
2 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Fieldfare, 2 Blackcap, 1 Jay.

Stonechat at Marshfield (Peter Coslett)
BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield:
2 Buzzard, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Kestrel, 10 Common Gull. 4 Stonechat, 1 Jay, 4 Raven, 7 Yellowhammer.

Willsbridge:
4 Goldcrest, 2 Long-tailed Tit flocks, 2 Treecreeper, 2 Jay.

Keynsham (ST6567):
6 Herring Gull, 2 Woodpigeon, 2 Collared Dove, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 5 Magpie, 4 Jackdaw, 64 Starling, 3 Goldfinch.
Mandarin.


RESERVOIRS:

Chew Valley Lake

Lapwing and Dunlin with Black-tailed Godwits at Herons Green (Ian Stapp)
Dam:
1 Egyptian Goose, 1 Long-tailed Duck (diving far out), 6 Goldeneye, 4 Goosander, 2 Little Grebe.

Woodford:
6 Goldeneye, 1 Song Thrush, 1 Mistle Thrush, 20+ Fieldfare, 15 Redwing, 1 Treecreeper, 2 Jay, 6 Chaffinch, 12 Goldfinch, 3 Bullfinch.

Heron's Green:
16 Goosander (4 m.), 8 Great White Egret, 5 Little Egret, 2 Little Grebe, 17 Lapwing, 1 Dunlin, 28 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Green Sandpiper, 2 G BB Gull, 7 Meadow Pipit, 1 Grey Wagtail.

Reed Bunting at Moreton (Ian Stapp)
Moreton:
1 Shelduck, 7 Goldeneye, 1 Buzzard, 1 Peregrine, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 30+ mixed Fieldfare and Redwing, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 4 Goldcrest, 18+ Long-tailed Tit, 2 Jay, 2 Raven, 2 Reed Bunting.

Herriotts:
8 Shelduck, 2 Pintail, 3 Goosander, 4 Great White Egret, 4 Little Egret, 3 Little Grebe, 11 Lapwing, 2 GBB Gull.


Reports: Teresa Chard, Peter Coslett, David Esam, Alan Gilbert, Patrick Hardyman Richards, William Hewitt, Adrian Hockey, Nick Page, Shane Pannell, Viv Polley, David Poulton, Adam Rawson, Ian Stapp, Martin Tayler, 'talkingtobears', Hilary West
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