29-11-18 Thursday - Great Skua

Mild, strong winds and torrential rain up to mid-morning. Sunny early afternoon, sufficient to tempt me out in time for the next set of showers

Great Skua, Little Stint, Lesser Scaup, Purple Sandpiper, Red-throated Diver, Red-breasted Merganser

29-11-18 Common Sandpiper (George Stacey)

BRISTOL

Finzells Reach:
1 Peregrine

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
Great Skua - attacking juv Herring Gull; regurgitation achieved, Shepperdine

Severn Beach:
3 Red-breasted Merganser (also seen at Oldbury Power Station), 1 Great Crested Grebe, 30+ Kittiwake (in the wind heading NE)

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead:
6 Cormorant (marina), 2 Purple Sandpiper (Battery Point)

Weston-super-Mare, Anchor Head:
2650 Dunlin - vismig, steady stream 08:30 to 10:00, and 2 Kittiwake

Sand Point/Bay:
Red-throated Diver (over the end of the point heading up river)

BELOW M4 & BANES

Newton St Loe:
20 Teal, 1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Jay, 3 Raven, 1 Fieldfare, 100+ Redwing, 2 Song Thrush, 4 Mistle Thrush, 2 Pied Wagtail, 8 Chaffinch, 20+ Goldfinch, 1 Yellowhammer,

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
1 Egyptian Goose, 1 Goosander (f), but only 15 Lapwing - all at CVL!

Chew Valley Lake
154 Canada Goose (off Woodford), 2 Egyptian Goose, 11 Bewick's Swans (7 flew off South / still family party of 4 at Moreton)

29-11-18 Bewick's Swan at Chew (Ian Stapp)

2 Shelduck, 9 Pintail (Herriott's pond), 3 Red-crested Pochard (2F 1M), 4 Scaup, 1 Lesser Scaup (way out on the lake, quite dark looking, probably still in eclipse), 6 Goosander (2M-4F), 15+ Goldeneye

29-11-18 Goldeneye (George Stacey)

4 Cattle Egret (Lane to Stratford), 5 Grey Heron, 7 Great White Egret, 3 Little Egret, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Buzzard,  2 Water Rail (Moreton & Herriotts), 600 Lapwing, 8 Black-tailed Godwit (5 HG Stratford), 1 Snipe (HG), 5 Dunlin, 1 Little Stint, 1 Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, 1 Kittiwake (adult over lake), 5 Great Black-backed Gull

29-11-18 Black-tailed Godwit at Heron's Green (Ian Stapp)

2 Stock Dove, 40+ Woodpigeon (Shoot at Moreton), 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Jay, 5 Jackdaw, 1 Raven, 2 Cetti's, 40+ Starling (Woodford), 3+ Fieldfare (Woodford), 20+ Redwing, 2 Song Thrush, 1 Mistle Thrush, 2 Stonechat (Moreton & HG), 1 Grey Wagtail (HG), 16 Meadow Pipit (Moreton), 3 Water Pipit, 2 Bullfinch (Woodford), 30+ Goldfinch (Woodford), 3 Reed Bunting (Herriotts)

Reports: Paul Bowerman, Paul Bowyer, Raoul Chandrasakera, John Clark, Andy Davis, Jeff Hazel, Pete Hazelwood, John Martin, Christopher Robinson, George Stacey, Ian Stapp,     blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG