8-1-18 Monday - Common Scoter

Raw, cold, damp and overcast all day. The tips of the Avonmouth wind turbines disappearing into the murk.

Common Scoter
Spotted Redshank
Hawfinch
Corn Bunting

Nice portrait of a Long-tailed Tit, Severn Beach (Rod Holbrook)

BRISTOL

Bristol Docks:
Common Gull, Grey Wagtail + 1 Otter (swam from northern side to central moorings at 1330) 

8-01-18 Hawfinch at St Anne's Church, Oldland (Allan Chard)

Oldland, St Anne's Churchyard:
3 Hawfinch

7-01-18 Another Hawfinch shot from St Anne's (Paul Brennan) 

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

New Passage-Pilning Wetlands

40 Shelduck, 4 Shoveler, 4 Gadwall, 500 Wigeon,  30 Teal, 6 Tufted Duck, 2 Little Grebe, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Moorhen, 12 Coot,. 200 Lapwing,  15 Curlew, 50 Dunlin, 3 Redshank, 1 Kestrel, 16 Long-tailed Tit, 15 Blackbird, 5 Fieldfare, 20 Redwing, 4 Song Thrush, 8 Robin (in 150m length of hedgerow), 5 Pied Wagtail, 4 Goldfinch.

Oldbury Power Station:
1st-w/fem Black Redstart (mobile along sea-wall between jetty and Lagoon 2).

Severn Beach:
1Common Scoter (fem) on high tide line
5 Bullfinch (3m, 2f ) in a garden

Chipping Sodbury Common:
1 Snipe, 2 Stonechat, 30 Meadow Pipit.

NORTH SOMERSET
Clevedon-Yeo:
High Tide visit between 0930-1330: 1 Brent Goose (Blackstone), 180 Shelduck, 315 Wigeon, 430 Teal, 8 Shoveler, 16 Goosander (Blind Yeo), 9 Little Egret, 1 Little Grebe, 15 Oystercatcher, 8 Ringed Plover, 44 Grey Plover, 85 Lapwing, 1 Knot, 1300 Dunlin, 5 Common Snipe, 12 Black-tailed Godwit (Yeo), 280 Curlew, 1 Spotted Redshank (Yeo), 415 Redshank, 41 Turnstone, 2 Raven, 44 Skylark,  1250 Starling, 450 Fieldfare (Channel View), 50 Redwing, 7 Stonechat, 65 Meadow Pipit, 2 Bullfinch, 3 Reed Bunting.

Kenn:
80 Mute Swan, 5 Cormorant, 4 Little Egret, 6 Little Grebe, 75 Redwing.

Bleadon:
4 Goosander, 2 Little Egret, 2 Buzzard, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Redshank, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Jay, 1 Goldcrest, 2 Blackcap, 5 Song Thrush, 3 Fieldfare, 30 Redwing, 1 Greenfinch

BELOW M4 & BANES
Keynsham: 

Garden in ST6567 -  4 Woodpigeon, 2 Collared Dove, 2 Magpie, 2 Jackdaw, 1 Blue Tit, 1 Coal Tit, 3 Starling, 2 Blackbird, 1 Robin, 1 Dunnock, 3 Chaffinch, 1 Bullfinch, 5 Goldfinch

Marshfield:

1 Kestrel, 15 Collared Dove, 5 Raven, 20+ Skylark, 15 Meadow Pipit, 70+ Chaffinch, 50+ Goldfinch, 20+ Yellowhammer, 4 Reed Bunting, 14 Corn Bunting

07-01-18 male Bullfinch at Langford (David Goodliffe)

Winford:

100 Lapwing, 24 Golden Plover, 1 Grey Wagtail (arable field south west of village)

Paulton:
2 Buzzard, 7 Lapwing, 25 Common Gull, 2 Raven, 80 Skylark, 40 Redwing, 80 Fieldfare, 11 Starling

RESERVOIRS:

Chew Valley Lake:
2 Marsh Harrier, 1 Water Pipit (Stratford Hide)

Reports: Paul Brennan, Allan Chard, Paul Clack, Andy DavisDavid Goodliffe, Patrick Hancock,  Peter Hazelwood, William Hewitt, Rod Holbrook, Melanie Patch, Chris Perry, Vic Polley, Lois Pryce, Steve Sanins, talkingtobears, Nigel Tucker, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS,  nslbirding,  opsbirding,  severnsidebirds, TBOSG