Wednesday 16 January 2019

16-01-19 Wednesday - Lesser Scaup

Sunny start today ( up to 10 degrees); wet, dull and colder later on.

Lesser Scaup, Scaup
Black-necked Grebe
Great White Egret 
Yellow-legged Gull 
Short-eared Owl


16-01-19 Lesser Scaup, Nunnery Point, CVL (Anthony Cook)

16-01-19 Shoveler, Dam, CVL (Bob Brewer)
BRISTOL

Finzels Reach:
Both Peregrines present, 1 Grey Wagtail

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
1 Short-eared Owl at Yacht Club - with c12 Yellowhammer on the saltmarsh.

Aust Warth:
16-01-19 Short-eared Owl, Aust Warth (Adam Rawson)
[Bird in left-hand photo has damaged eye]

Close-up
Short-eared Owl

NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon-Yeo:
c 600 Dunlin , 50 Redshank , 71 Lapwing ,1 Raven,  31 Skylark , 5 Linnet

Backwell Lake:
34 Little Egret into roost this evening.

Cadbury Hill:
1 Peregrine

Congresbury Moor:
3 Little Egret, 1 Merlin, 1 Raven, 15 Redwing

Congresbury Yeo:
2 Goosander

Kenn Moor:
8 Little Grebe

Yatton (Strawberry Line):
2 Cetti’s Warbler

16.01.19 Collared Dove, Keynsham (TalkingtoBears)
Keynsham:
Garden -1 Woodpiegon, 3 Collared Dove, 4 Jackdaw, 2 Blue Tit, 3 Starling, 3 Blackbird, 2 Redwing, 3 Chaffinch, 6 Goldfinch


BELOW M4 & BANES

Bath:
15-01-19 Peregrine + view, Bath (BUPP)
Tiercel AA takes in the view from the Bath Peregrines' nest box yesterday morning.

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
6 Mute Swan, 2 Great White Egret, 2 Little Egret, 1 Water Rail, 1 Common Sandpiper, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker.

Chew Valley Lake

16-01-19 Shelduck and Pintail, Herriotts Pool, CVL (Ian Stapp)
37+ Canada Goose,    44 Mute Swan,  14 Shelduck  (Herriotts), 20+ Goldeneye ((Dam, Moreton and Woodford), 8 Pintail  (Herriotts), 1 Shoveller (Dam), 216 Pochard (Moreton), 18 Teal (Moreton), 14 Wigeon (Moreton), 1 Lesser Scaup (off Nunnery stones), 2 Scaup (F off Nunnery), 4 Goosander (Nunnery and Dam), (NO SHOW on Long-tailed Duck today), 3 Little Grebe, 5 Black-necked Grebe 

16-01-19 white Coot, Moreton, CVL (Ian Stapp)
(Stratford), 1 white Coot (Moreton), 1 Great White Egret  (Moreton),  Little Egret  (Moreton and Stratford), 3 Buzzard (HG and Moreton), 1 Water Rail  (Moreton), Kingfisher (Moreton and Stratford), 1 Green Sandpiper (HG),  1 Common Sandpiper (Dam), c20 Snipe (Stratford), 5 GBB Gull (Lake) , 1 Yellow-legged Gull (Dam), 10+ Wood Pigeon, 2 Collared Dove (Bishop Sutton), 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker (Woodford), 2 Raven  (Moreton), 17 Jackdaw,  40+ Carrion Crow (Dam), 2 Goldcrest, 12 LTTit,  2 Great Tit, 4 Dunnock,  2 Bullfinch  (Moreton Cottage), 1 Cetti's Warbler (Moreton), 70+ Starlings (HG), 4 Song Thrush, 2 Mistle Thrush ,80 Redwing, 30+ Fieldfare (Moreton) ,1 m Stonechat (Moreton), 20 House Sparrow, 1 Grey Wagtail (Woodford), 20+ Chaffinch (Moreton), 4 Bullfinch (Woodford), 1 Reed Bunting (Herriotts)


\16-01-19 Great White Egret, Moreton, CVL (Bob Brewer)
Reports: Bob Brewer, Anthony Cook, Stephen Curtis and Carol Rushton, ,  Peter Hazelwood, Adam Rawson, Steven Sanins, Ian Stapp, TalkingtoBears, Mike Thomas, Jason Williams, BUPP. blagdonlakebirds,