Wednesday, 28 November 2018

28-11-18 Wednesday - Kittiwake

Temp 8 to 14℃. Mainly drizzly, 2.5 mm of rain, very drab day. "Too wet to go out!"

Bewick's Swans
Red-crested Pochard, Scaup, Common Scoter
Black-necked Grebe
Grey Plover, Jack Snipe, Little Stint
Kittiwake
Water Pipit

28-11-18 Sparrowhawk in Kingsgate Park, Yate (Mark Coller)
BRISTOL

Duchess Lake:
1 Grey Heron, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Buzzard, 4 Moorhen, 1 BH Gull, 4 Woodpigeon, 1 Jay, 9 Magpie, 19 Jackdaw, 1 Raven, 14 Carrion Crow, 4 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, 15 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Goldcrest, 1 Wren, 1 Nuthatch, 8 Starling, 5m 3f Blackbird, 1 Continental Blackbird, 1 Robin, 3 Meadow Pipit, 20 Goldfinch

Finzel's Reach, 15.00:
2 Peregrine

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
Grey Plover, 1 ad Kittiwake, 1 probable Water Pipit on the seawall by the waterworks

Severn Beach: 
1 f Common Scoter, 2 ad Kittiwake

NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon-Yeo;
8 Mute Swan, 60 Shelduck, 150 Wigeon, 50 Teal, 6 2m Goosanders (Blind Yeo at 16.00), 15 Oystercatcher, 150 Lapwing, 21 Grey Plover, 100+ Curlew, 16 Turnstone, 600 Dunlin, 200+ Redshank, 75 Fieldfare

BELOW M4 & BANES

Saltford, Avon before Jolly Sailor:
2 Mallard, 2 Little Grebe, 1 Moorhen, 300 BH Gull, 8 Common Gull, 3 LBB Gull, 2 Magpie, 50 Corvids

28-11-18 Great Spotted Woodpecker in Bath (NSL-birding)
Bath, garden:
1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Collared Dove, 1 f Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Coal Tit, 5 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, 5 Chaffinch, 10+ Goldfinch

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
Flock Canada Geese, 1 Egyptian Goose, flock Teal off Lodge, 1♀Goosander, 1♂Sparrowhawk, 500 Lapwings, 1 Common Sandpiper

Chew Valley Lake, Stratford:
11 2juv Bewick's Swan (S fly to Denny), 4 (2 pair) Red-crested Pochard (S to Mid Lake), 4 ad f  Scaup, 5 Goldeneye, 11 4m Goosander, 3 Black-necked Grebe, 6 Great White Egret, 1 Little Egret, 12 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Curlew, 1 Jack Snipe, 8 Snipe, 4 Dunlin, 1 j Little Stint, 2 Treecreeper, 3 Fieldfare, 31 Redwing, 4 Water Pipit

Out of UK
Bob Brewer in Nepal

Reports: Paul Bowerman, Mark Coller, Jane Cumming, Rob Hargreaves, Peter Hazelwood, Patrick Richards, Trevor Riddle, Harvey Rose, Wayne Tucker