12-2-18 Monday - Great White Egret

Temp 0 to 7℃. Cold west wind again, nice and bright in the Sun, with a light shower or two

Long-tailed Duck
Black-necked Grebe
Cattle Egret
Great White Egret
Short-eared Owl
Merlin
Ring-necked Parakeet
Chiffchaff 
Brambling, Hawfinch, Siskin

12-2-18 Hawfinch, St Anne's (Adam Rawson)

BRISTOL

Brandon Hill:

1 m Blackcap, 30 Redwing, Blackbird and Song Thrush singing

Fishponds:

1 m Blackcap

Stockwood Open Space:
9 Magpie, 4 Crow, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 12 Blue Tit, 8 Great Tit, 20 Blackbird, 25 Fieldfare, 1 Redwing, 3 Song Thrush, 7 Robin, 2 f Chaffinch, 8 Goldfinch

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

12-2-18 Merlin, Aust (NSL Birding)

Aust, Cake Pill:

1 Merlin, 1 Short-eared Owl

12-2-18 Reed Bunting, New Passage (Rod Holbrook)

New Passage/Northwick Warth:
1 Reed Bunting

NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon:
Cannonsgate /Pedder Road: 1 Ring-necked Parakeet
Blind Yeo: 15 Goosander

Nailsea, Nowhere Wood.am:
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker drumming, 1 Green Woodpecker calling, 2 Raven, 1 Nuthatch calling, 1 Redwing, 2 Mistle Thrush

Backwell Lake - dusk watch:
11 Canada Goose, 23 Mute Swan, 17 Tufted Duck, and all into roost, 1 Great White Egret (1st here?), 16 Little Egret, 6 Cormorant

Congresbury Moor:
2 Little Egret, 3 Water Rail, 4 Snipe, 2 Kestrel, 1 Peregrine, 4 Stonechat

BELOW M4 & BANES

12-2-18 Hawfinch, Marshfield (Denise Whittle)

Marshfield, town:
1 Hawfinch

12-2-18 Ring-necked Parakeet, St Anne's (Adam Rawson)

Willsbridge, Siston Brook, St Anne's Church, Oldland:
3 Ring-necked Parakeet, 1 Nuthatch, 1 Dipper, 3 Hawfinch, 1 f Bullfinch

Saltford:

1 Grey Heron, 6 Buzzard, 300 BH + Common + LBB Gull (one field with 4 of the Buzzards), 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker, 4 Redwing, 1 Song Thrush, 1 Meadow Pipit, 2 Chaffinch, 2 Greenfinch, 20 Goldfinch

Paulton:
3 Buzzard, 1 Grey Heron, 3 Moorhen, 80 BH Gull, 2 Common Gull, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 4 Goldcrest, 2 Treecreeper, 1 Fieldfare, 20 Redwing, 3 Song Thrush, 1 Mistle Thrush, 2 Stonechat, 15 Chaffinch, 2 Bullfinch, 35 Linnet, 3 Siskin
SWT:  2 Chiffchaff, 5 Grey Wagtail, 35 Pied Wagtail, 4 Meadow Pipit

RESERVOIRS:

Barrow Tanks:
1 Long-tailed Duck, 4 Goldeneye, 1 Little Egret

Blagdon Lake:
1♂ Scaup, 2 Black-necked Grebes, 1♀Kestrel, 200 Fieldfares, 1♀Brambling

12-2-18 Buzzard, Moreton (Ian Stapp)

Chew Valley Lake:

Dam:
3 Goldeneye, 1 Goosander

Woodford:
7 Goldeneye, 1 Buzzard, 2 GBB Gull, 12 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Treecreeper, 2 Dunnock, 2 Bullfinch, 3 Goldfinch

Herons Green:
28 Canada Geese, 2 Barnacle Geese, 1 Greylag Goose, 2 Goldeneye, 2 Little Grebe, 2 GBB Gull, 1 Buzzard, 1 Raven

12-2-18 Reed Bunting, Moreton (Ian Stapp)

Moreton:
6 Goldeneye, 1 Great White Egret, 4 Buzzard, 1 Tawny Owl calling, 1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Jay, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 12 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Chiffchaff, 4 Goldcrest, 1 Treecreeper, 4 Bullfinch, 1 Reed Bunting

Stratford Lane:
1 Cattle Egret, 3 Little Egret

Herriotts:
12 Shelduck, 2 Pintail, 6 Goldeneye, 3 Buzzard, 1 Grey Wagtail

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