Monday 11 February 2019

11-02-19 Monday - Richard's Pipit

Fine and sunny with high cloud, and a chilly but lighter wind.

White-fronted Geese
Long-tailed Duck
Black-necked Grebes
Golden Plover
Short-eared Owls
Richard's Pipit
Spring at last?  Rook with crocuses (Jon Mortin)
BRISTOL

Stockwood Open Spaces:
1 Jay, 1 Nuthatch, 1 Treecreeper, 5 Greenfinch, 2 Bullfinch.

Stoke Park, Duchess Pond:
5 Canada Goose, 2 Stonechat, 2 Mistle Thrush, 2 Reed Bunting.

St Andrews Park:
40+ Redwing.

Redland:
2 Jay, 2 Blackcap (m. and f.), Coal Tit.

Redland Green allotments:
1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Song Thrush.

Horfield Common area:
1 m. Blackcap. 22 Fieldfare, 2 Redwing.

Ashton Court estate:
2 Raven, 2 Marsh Tit, 60 Redwing, 8 Song Thrush.

A delightful portrait of a garden Long-tailed Tit (Bob Brewer)

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

11-2-19 Short-eared Owl at Aust (Pete Blanchard)
Aust Warth:
Short-eared Owl

New Passage/Northwick:
White-fronted Goose

Richard's Pipit - not bad for a record shot (Howard Taffs)

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead:
(Boating lake)  7 Mute Swan, 1 feral Greylag Goose, 9 Canada Goose, 96 Mallard, 2 m. Pochard, 22 Tufted Duck, 73 BH Gull, 13 H Gull.

Clevedon-Yeo:
125 Wigeon, 62 Teal, 1 Buzzard, 60 Lapwing, 1 Golden Plover, 13 Grey Plover, 4 Ringed Plover, 62 Curlew, 360 Dunlin, 1 Snipe, 30 Redshank, 1 Kestrel, and the Richard's Pipit.

Backwell garden:
1 Sparrowhawk after the Blue Tits.

Backwell Lake:
4 Cormorant, 2 Water Rail, 17+ Little Egret coming into the roost, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker drumming, 2 Grey Wagtail.

Weston-super-Mare:
1 f. Peregrine to SE at 11 a.m.

Worle:
5 Grey Heron, 2 Raven.

Nice flight shot of a Black-headed Gull at Chew (Bob Brewer)

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield:
1 Brambling.

Keynsham, Charlton Field:
1 Barn Owl 16.30

Midford:
4 Buzzard, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Raven.


One of the four Black-necked Grebes at Chew (Ian Stapp)
RESERVOIRS

Barrow Tanks:
1 m. Long-tailed Duck.

Goldeneye at Chew (Bob Brewer)
Chew Valley Lake
49+ Canada Goose, 37+ Mute Swan, 4 Shelduck, 28+ Goldeneye, 6 Goosander (2m., 4f.), 3 Little Grebe, 4 Black-necked Grebe, 4 Grey Heron, 1 Little Egret, 8 Buzzard, 1 white Coot, 1 ad Mediterranean Gull, 6 GBB Gull, 2 Raven, 30+ Long-tailed Tit, 4 Cetti's Warbler, 3 Chiffchaffs at the Chew Stoke Sewage Works, 2 Treecreeper, 26 Fieldfare, 2 Stonechat, 8 Pied Wagtail, 4 Bullfinch, 4 Reed Bunting

Common Sandpiper on the Dam (Bob Brewer)
Dam:
1 Common Sandpiper,

Woodford:
2 Raven, 10+ Redwing, 2 Fieldfare.

Heron's Green:
1 Barn Owl 17.30, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Skylark, 40 roosting Pied Wagtail, 15 Goldfinch.

Moreton:
1 Water Rail, 2 Stock Dove, 1 Kingfisher, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Jay, 1 Stonechat, 2 Mistle Thrush, 2 Goldcrest.

Two of the many Snipe at Stratford (Ian Stapp)
Stratford:
4 Scaup, up to 100 Snipe.

Herriott's:
16 Jackdaw, 30+ Starling, 1 Grey Wagtail.
Reports: Pete Blanchard, John Budd, Teresa Chard, Jane Cumming, Andy Davis, Robin Lambert, Jon Mortin, Dick Reader, Dean Reeves, Tony Scott, Kevin Smith, Ian Stapp, Larry Sweetland, Howard Taffs, Brian Thompson, Keith Vinicombe, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG