Friday 2 November 2018

02-11-18 Friday - Yellow-browed Warbler

Bright and sunny today after frosty start. Temp 1-11 deg C

Bewick's Swan
Great White Egret
Woodcock, Jack Snipe
Yellow-browed Warbler 

BRISTOL

No reports

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Pilning Wetland:
c16 Shoveler, 2  Tufted Duck,  1 Little Grebe, 1 Water Rail, 15 Lapwing, 50 Curlew, c70 Dunlin,  Snipe , 2 Black- tailed Godwit, 1500 Starling

02-11-18 Merlin, Northwick Warth (Aravind Ramesh)
New Passage/Northwick:

"Lovely afternoon watching male and female Merlin down at New Passage till some clown with a drone right out on the saltmarsh flushed them off"

c 300 Wigeon,1 f Sparrowhawk

Lower Woods, Wickwar
2 Woodcock1 Barn Owl, a nocturnal Skylark flyover

Winterbourne:
Monk's Pool and Bradley Brook LNR - 1 female Sparrowhawk, 2 Buzzard, 2 Stock Dove, 2 Jay, 14 Jackdaw, 2 Great Tit, 9 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Song Thrush, 3 Mistle Thrush, 7 Meadow Pipit, 1 Chaffinch, 12 Goldfinch.


NORTH SOMERSET

Yatton:
Wemberham Lane - 4 Teal, 2 Grey Heron, 1 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 1 Peregrine, 2 Raven, 5 Redwing .


BELOW M4 & BANES

Bath:
Prior Park - 1 Yellow-browed Warbler (calling from trees on left side of path up from lower-gate, mobile with Long-tailed Tit flock)



02-11-18 Dipper, Publow (Rob Hargreaves)
Publow:
Church - 1 Kingfisher, 1 Dipper, 1 Grey Wagtail

Chelwood:
1 Buzzard

Chew Magna:
village- 1 Kingfisher, 1 Grey Wagtail
1 mile north of village - 80 Goldfinch in a single flock

RESERVOIRS:
02-11-18 Bewick's Swan, off Denny Island, CVL (George Stacey )
Blagdon: 
2 Bewick's Swans (Bell's Bush, possibly same birds as at CVL; one bird with metal ring), 2 f Goosander,2 Great White Egret, 2 Little Egret, 1 Water Rail, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Cetti's Warbler

Chew Valley Lake
2 Bewicks Swan (Denny Island) , 2 Egyptian Goose, 4 Goldeneye, 1 Goosander, 2 Grey Heron, 8 Great White Egret (5 Heron's Green, 2 Herriotts), 5 Little Egret, 1 Water Rail, 36 Lapwing, 2 Black-Tailed Godwit, 1 Dunlin,  1 Jack Snipe (Heron's Green), 8 Snipe,  1 Common Sandpiper, 6 Green Sandpiper, 1 Kingfisher, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Reed Bunting
02-11-18 Jack Snipe, Heron's Green, CVL ( George Stacey)


Of interest:
a)  1 ringed Redshank seen at Barrow in July 2017, originally ringed Sept 3rd 2016 on the Solent at Chichester Harbour as a juvenile.

b) 1 Cormorant seen at CVL on 22 October 2018, with a large darkish-green ring on its right leg,
with white letters 'SNB', was ringed as pullus at nest on Denny Island, Bristol Channel on 7 June 2015. Subsequently seen at Blagdon Lake on 20 Dec 2016 and then at Chew Valley Lake on 11 Aug 2017.
02-11-18 Pied Wagtail, CVL (TalkingtoBears)
Reports: Pete Brain, Anne Crowe, Stephen Curtis, Ken Hall, Robert Hargreaves, Mike Jackson, Glenn Maddison, Aravind Ramesh, Trevor Riddle, Carol Rushton, George Stacey, Chris Stone, TalkingtoBears, blagdonlakebirds,