The normal order now as we have two multiple entries. Still, have a look at yesterday's again!
Scaup
Black-necked Grebe
Common Gull
Hawfinch
New Passage/Northwick Warth:
28 Common Gull
Portishead, Kilkenny Place:
1 m Blackcap
Bleadon:
1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 1 (part leucistic) Blackbird, 3 singing Song Thrush, 2 Mistle Thrush, 2 Grey Wagtail, 1 Bullfnch
Blagdon Lake:
2 Scaup, 2 Black-necked Grebe
Reports: Peter Coslett, Bill Hewitt, John Martin, Nigel Milbourne, Dee Pope, Denise Whittle, Blagdonlakebirds
Scaup
Black-necked Grebe
Common Gull
Hawfinch
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| 24-1-18 Hawfinch, St Anne's Oldland (Peter Coslett) |
28 Common Gull
Portishead, Kilkenny Place:
1 m Blackcap
Bleadon:
1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 1 (part leucistic) Blackbird, 3 singing Song Thrush, 2 Mistle Thrush, 2 Grey Wagtail, 1 Bullfnch
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| 24-1-18 Hawfinch, Marshfield (Denise Whittle) |
2 Scaup, 2 Black-necked Grebe
Reports: Peter Coslett, Bill Hewitt, John Martin, Nigel Milbourne, Dee Pope, Denise Whittle, Blagdonlakebirds
2017 Avon Bird Report
We are still missing descriptive notes or photographs for quite a few of the local rarities seen last year. In order to make the 2017 report as complete as possible, if you saw any of the birds on the list below can you please let us have some confirmatory notes as soon as possible.
Thanks
Rich Mielcarek
Thanks
Rich Mielcarek
| Species | Count | Date | Site |
| Whooper Swan | 1 | 26/10/2017 | Clevedon-Yeo (Cl-Y), Clevedon Pill |
| Whooper Swan | 1 | 05/12/2017 | Blagdon Lake (BL) |
| Lesser Scaup | 1 | 12/11/2017 | Chew Valley Lake (CVL) |
| Red-breasted Merganser | Present | 05/01/2017 | Chew Valley Lake (CVL) |
| Great Northern Diver | 1 | 11/11/2017 | Chew Valley Lake (CVL) |
| Balearic Shearwater | 1 | 11/09/2017 | Weston-super-Mare, Anchor Head |
| Leach's Petrel | 1 | 11/09/2017 | Weston-super-Mare, Anchor Head |
| Leach's Petrel | 4 | 13/09/2017 | Weston-super-Mare, Anchor Head |
| Cattle Egret | 2 | 11/02/2017 | Winterbourne, Moorend, R Frome |
| Cattle Egret | 1 | 17/02/2017 | Congresbury |
| Cattle Egret | 1 | 25/03/2017 | New Passage / Northwick Warth, PW |
| Great White Egret | 1 | 17/02/2017 | Kenn Moor, Claverham Drove |
| Great White Egret | 1 | 26/02/2017 | Chew Valley Lake (CVL) |
| Great White Egret | 1 | 21/04/2017 | New Passage / Northwick Warth, PW |
| Goshawk | 1 | 08/07/2017 | Wickwar, Lower Woods |
| Crane | 2 | 25/03/2017 | New Passage / Northwick Warth |
| Grey Phalarope | 1 | 11/09/2017 | Weston-super-Mare, Anchor Head |
| Ring-billed Gull | Present | 08/01/2017 | Chew Valley Lake (CVL) |
| Caspian Gull | Present | 02/03/2017 | Chew Valley Lake (CVL), Villice |
| Turtle Dove | 1 | 25/04/2017 | Clevedon-Yeo (Cl-Y) |
| Turtle Dove | 2 | 01/06/2017 | Bristol, Sea Mills, Sylvan Way |
| Nightjar | 1 | 15/10/2017 | Avonmouth, Trading Estate, Severn Rd to Hallen |
| Lesser Spotted Woodpecker | 1 | 03/04/2017 | Tortworth, Michael Wood, Little River Avon |
| Lesser Spotted Woodpecker | 3 | 13/04/2017 | R. Chew N of Compton Dando |
| Lesser Spotted Woodpecker | 1 | 08/05/2017 | Wickwar, Lower Woods |
| Lesser Spotted Woodpecker | 5 | 25/06/2017 | R. Chew N of Compton Dando |
| Willow Tit | 1 | 21/12/2017 | Radstock, Cycle Track |
| Woodlark | 1 | 29/10/2017 | New Passage / Northwick Warth |
| Yellow-browed Warbler | 1 | 15/10/2017 | Winterbourne |
| Waxwing | 1 | 14/01/2017 | Yate |
| Waxwing | 20 | 14/01/2017 | Bristol, Fishponds, Staple Hill, CO-OP |
| Waxwing | 1 | 17/01/2017 | Aust |
| Waxwing | 6 | 04/02/2017 | Bristol, Staple Hill, Signal Rd |
| Waxwing | 4 | 01/03/2017 | Thornbury |
| Tree Sparrow | 1 | 31/10/2017 | Dundry, Garden |
| Richard's Pipit | 1 | 24/09/2017 | Clevedon-Yeo (Cl-Y), Channel View farm sea wall |
| Hawfinch | 1 | 15/10/2017 | Aust Cliff |
| Hawfinch | 1 | 18/10/2017 | Aust Cliff |
| Hawfinch | 1 | 31/10/2017 | Dundry, Garden |
| Hawfinch | 2 | 02/11/2017 | Cribbs Causeway |
| Hawfinch | 1 | 10/11/2017 | Dundry |
| Hawfinch | 1 | 30/11/2017 | Tortworth, Court |
| Lapland Bunting | 1 | 15/10/2017 | Clevedon-Yeo (Cl-Y) Wain's Hill |
