Wednesday 27 February 2019

27-02-19 Wednesday - Ruff 1st this yr

Another fine day, dry, Sunny, and warm.

Ruff
Marsh Harrier, Great White Egret, Scaup
Long-tailed Duck
Common Crossbill

BRISTOL

27-02-2019 Great Spotted Woopecker Eastville Park (Ian Loats)
Bishopston:
2 Long-tailed Tit and 1 Blackcap (f) - enjoying the new tube fat feeder.

Redland:
2 Blackcap (f&m) on fatballs, but not together, 1 Starling came to bathe - uncommon.

Eastville Park and Snuff Mills:
4 Canada Goose, 1 Kingfisher, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Treecreeper.

City Docks and Finzells Reach
15 Mute Swan, 6 Moorhen, 1 Peregrine

Stoke Park, Duchess Pond:
1 Snipe, 2 Reed Bunting (f&m),

Whitehall - scan from a roof :
1 Sparrowhawk, 6 Buzzard, 1Peregrine, 2 Raven.

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
9 Canada Goose, 1 Egyptian Goose, 6 Grey Plover, 6 Chiffchaff,

27-02-2019 Ruff New Passage (Lisa Presland)
New Passage/Northwick Warth:
1 Ruff, 1 Stonechat (f), 2 Reed Bunting

Frampton End:
Skylark and Yellowhammer - both species singing this afternoon

NORTH SOMERSET

27-02-2019 Marsh Tit Yatton (Mark Savage)

Yatton - Cadbury Hill:
Woodpigeon, Jay, Magpie, Carrion Crow, Marsh Tit , Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit, 2 Goldcrest, Wren, 3 Nuthatch, 3 Treecreeper, Blackbird, Song Thrush, Robin, Dunnock, Chaffinch, Goldfinch.

Weston-super-Mare - High St, north end:
c 60 Pied Wagtail - roosting in the trees.

Sand Point/Bay:
2 Stonechat (f&m), 2 Rock Pipit

27-02-2019 Stonechat Sand Point (Martin Tayler)

BELOW M4 & BANES

Dundry- Elton Farm:
40 Fieldfare

Warmley:
1 Blackcap (m) - singing

27-02-2019 Golden Plover Lansdown (Keith Williams)

Lansdown:
c730 Golden Plover, 12 Skylark, 50 Chaffinch

27-02-2019 Treecreeper and Grey Wagtail Compton Dando (Chris Perry)
Compton Dando:
1 Grey Heron, 3 Buzzard, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Green Woodpecker, 10+ Jackdaw, 2 Raven, 6 Coal Tit, 10+ Blue and Great Tit, 10+ Long-tailed Tit, 2 Chiffchaff, 6 Goldcrest, 4 Nuthatch, 5 Treecreeper, 8 Blackbird, 2 Song Thrush, 12 Robin, 2 Grey Wagtail, 6 Chaffinch, 3 Greenfinch, 7 Goldfinch.

Bishops Sutton
4 Collared Dove, 15+ House Sparrow

RESERVOIRS:


27-02-2019 Long-tailed Duck BG (Bri Thompson)

Barrow Tanks:
1 Long-tailed Duck 

Chew Valley Lake
18 Canada Goose, 16 Mute Swan, 1 Scaup (f),16 Goldeneye, 2 Goosander - (f&m), 8 Great Crested Grebe, 3 Grey Heron, 1 Little Egret, 8 Buzzard, 5 Great Black-backed Gull, 2 Mediterranean Gull - (ad + 1st Wint), 2 Stock Dove, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker - one drumming, 1 Green Woodpecker, 15 Jackdaw, 2 Raven, 7 Cetti's Warbler, 20+ Long-tailed Tit, 5 Goldcrest, 2 Treecreeper, 1 Mistle Thrush, 3 Robin, 8 Reed Bunting

27-02-19 Common Sandpiper CVL Dam (Ian Stapp)
Dam:
1 Common Sandpiper

Heron's Green:
2 Little Grebe, 1 Green Sandpiper

Moreton:
4 Jay, 1 Bullfinch

Herriott's:
 8 Shelduck, 28 Shoveler, 10 Pintail, 1 Great White Egret, 1 Marsh Harrier, 24 Snipe - flushed by MR, 1 Grey Wagtail

OUT OF AREA
27-02-2019 Siskinf and Bullfinch East Harptree Wood (Ian Stapp)
East Harptree Wood:
2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Raven, 6+ Coal Tit, lots of Blue & Great Tit, 2 Wren, 3 Robin, 30+ Chaffinch, 3 Bullfinch, 3 Redpoll, 4 Common Crossbill - fly over, 8+ Goldfinch,  20+ Siskin.


Reports:  Derek Angell, Nancy Barrett, Paul Bowyer, Pete Brain, Pete Coslett, Ollie Fournier, Nick Hawkridge, Mike Jackson, Ian Loats, Chris Perry, Lisa Presland, Mark Savage, Ian Stapp, Larry Sweetland, Bri Thompson, Keith Vinicombe, Keith Williams, 
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