01-02-19 Friday - Snow

Several inches of snow overnight continuing through the morning. Partial melt, at least in Bristol, in the afternoon. Bitterly cold northerly wind. 0 - 2°C

White-fronted Geese
Jack Snipe
Mediterranean Gull, Yellow-legged Gull
Short-eared Owl
Merlin
Black Redstart
Siskin 

A round-up of images from snowy gardens and parks

01-02-19 Fieldfare, Severn Beach  (Rod Holbrook) Song Thrush and Redwing, Keynsham (Ian Stapp)

01-02-19 House Sparrow, Robin, Long-tailed Tit ,  Bishop Sutton (Bob Brewer)

01-02-19 Blackbird, Keynsham (TalkingtoBears), f Blackcap ,Yate (ChrisTeague)

01-02-19 Feral Pigeon and Moorhen Riverside Park, Bristol (Jon Mortin)

BRISTOL

Central Bristol:
3 Fieldfare over Jamaica Street, Stokes Croft

Riverside Park: 

20 Mallard, 6 Moorhen, 25+ Feral Pigeon 

St Andrews Park:
2 Mistle Thrush, 20+ Goldfinch

Bishopston:
Garden - 1 Fieldfare being chased off apple by our Blackbird

Eastville Park:
2 Canada Goose, 2 Mute Swan, 59 Mallard (mostly on the lake),  1 Grey Heron, 1 Coot, 2 Moorhen, c110 BH Gull, 2 LBB Gull, 1 Tawny Owl, 1 Goldcrest

Fishponds:
40 Lapwing, 20 Fieldfare over

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
4 Grey Plover, 1st yr m Black Redstart in sewage treatment area, 3 Stonechat

Thornbury: 
Garden - 1 m Blackcap, 3 Redwing

Aust Warth:
20+ Lapwing, 1 Short-eared Owl, 1 f Kestrel, 30+ Fieldfare/ Redwing,  5 Linnet

01-02-19 Black-tailed Godwit, Northwick Warth (Ian Loats)

New Passage/Northwick:
100+ Canada Geese, 5 White-fronted Geese, 50+ Shelduck, 1 f Sparrowhawk, 30+ Lapwing, Peregrine caught a Starling from a decent flock on the salt marsh, 1 Merlin hunting shoreline trying to take down Shelduck, 30 + Starling

Plenty of displaced arrivals including an influx of Skylark and Fieldfare. Black-tailed Godwit and Curlew probing into 4 inches of snow

Severn Beach:
Garden 1 Fieldfare

01-02-19 Mediterranean Gull, Kingsgate Park, Yate (Mark Coller)

Yate:

Kingsgate Park: 1 Mediterranean Gull (patch tick for observer)

Garden -1 f Blackcap, 3 Redwing

NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon-Yeo:
10 Shoveler, 1 m Pintail, 5 Grey Plover,  1 ad Yellow-legged Gull from Yeo seawall

01-02-19 Snipe and Herring Gull, Kenn Moor (Higgy)

Kenn Moor:
2 Mute Swan (extremely low for this time of year, snow must have moved them?), 5 Teal (R Kenn – Manmoor), 2 Grey Heron, 1 Buzzard, 30 + Snipe (struggling with the frozen rhynes), 8 Jack Snipe,
1 Great Spotted woodpecker,  50 + Redwing, 100 + Fieldfare, 2 Starling, 3 Stonechat, 2 Pied Wagtail, 40 + Chaffinch (flock)
Also: 3 Roe Deer


BELOW M4 & BANES

Keynsham
ST6567 Garden - 1 Woodpigeon, 2 Collared Dove, 1 Magpie, 4 Jackdaw, 3 Blue Tit, 1 m Blackcap,  6 Starling, 2 Blackbird, 1 Song Thrush, 1 Robin, 3 House Sparrow, 3 Chaffinch, 160 Goldfinch (large visiting flock)

Community Woodland - 1 Buzzard, 20+ B-H Gull, 22 Wood Pigeon, 2 Collared Dove, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Raven, 50+ Rook, 5 Carrion Crow, 7 Magpie, 2 Jay, 26 Jackdaw,  25+ LTT, 11 Blue Tit, 16 Great Tit, 5 Blackcap (2m 3 f ), 6 Robin, 1 Treecreeper, 1 Goldcrest,4 Wren,  100+ Starling, 120+ Redwing, 40+ Fieldfare, 8 Blackbird, 2 Mistle Thrush, 3 Song Thrush, 35+ House Sparrow, 2 Pied Wagtail, 40+ Goldfinch, 4 Greenfinch, 2 Chaffinch, 7 Bullfinch, 7 Siskin (3 m 4 f),  4 Reed Bunting (all f)

Other flyovers :1 Grey Heron,  2 Mute Swan

RESERVOIRS

No reports

01-02-19 Mute Swan, Kenn Moor (Higgy)

Reports: Phil Baber, Paul Bowerman, Bob Brewer,  Higgy,  Ian Loats, John Martin, Jon Mortin, Matt Plenty, Gareth Roberts, Richard Scantlebury, Ian Stapp, Larry Sweetland,  Howard Taffs, TalkingtoBears, Chris Teague