Saturday 24 November 2018

24-11-2018 Saturday - Bewick's Swans

Misty, moisty, murky day, cold and drizzly - horrible!  Temp 8℃.  Not many birders out, and who can blame them?

Bewick's Swans, Long-tailed Duck, Yellow-legged Gulls, Water Pipits at Chew
Short-eared Owl, Merlin

Femail Pintail at Herriotts pool, Chew (Bob Brewer)

BRISTOL

Stockwood Open Spaces:
100 Fieldfare heading over houses towards Stockwood Open Space.

St George:

Greenfinch St George 24-11-2018 (Lee Gardiner)


SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
1 Little Grebe (Oldbury Pill), 1 Short-eared Owl, 1 juv/fem Merlin attacking the Dunlin flock, 2 Chiffchaff.

Thornbury:
1 Little Egret, 1 Carrion Crow with white wings.

NORTH SOMERSET

Brent Goose (db) 24-11-2018 Clevedon (PB Chapman)
Clevedon - Hand Stadium area:
4 Brent Goose - ad + 3 1st yrs (db)

BELOW M4 & BANES


Moorhen Bath 24-11-2018 (Glen Maddison)
Bath - Walcot :
Front Room Birding - 1 Moorhen + Goldfinch - under and on the feeders'

Bath Spa University (entrance):
4 Fieldfare, 200 Redwing, 3 Goldfinch.


Another shot of that femail Pintail at Herriotts pool, Chew (Bob Brewer)
RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake:
Bewick's Swan (from Picnic One),  2 Egyptian Geese, 2 Shelduck, 30 Pintail, 1 Long-tailed Duck (Dam), 30 Goldeneye, 3 1m Goosander (Stratford), 6 Grey Heron, 5 Great White Egret, 3 Little Egret, 66 Lapwing, 5 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Yellow-legged Gull (Denny and Herriotts), 2 Jay, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Goldcrest (Woodford), 3 Meadow Pipit (S), 2 Water Pipit (S), 2 Bullfinch (W).


Dear friends in Bristol, Bath and the Chew Valley, please come to our talks by Mike Dilger, from BBC's The One Show, The Trials and Tribulations of a Wildlife Presenter and Mya-Rose Craig AKA Birdgirl's, Born to Bird, on Friday 30th Nov 2018 at Chew Valley School. Both talks will be hilarious and suitable for those 8 years and over. Mike will also be speaking at 6.30 pm for anyone interested in getting into TV, especially those in school or university, followed by the main event starting at 7 pm. There will be cheese ploughman's and bar and all proceeds will to to Black2Nature, Mya-Rose's charity which takes minority ethnic teenagers out to the countryside on nature camps. Tickets are £12 or £7 for those 18 or under, available from Eventbrite https://bit.ly/2PHdxiG

Reports: Paul Brian Chapman, Lee Gardiner, Robert Hargreaves, Glen Maddison, John Martin, Matt Scott,  Brian Thompson, blagdonlakebirdsCVRSnslbirdingopsbirdingsevernsidebirdsTBOSG