Tuesday 5 March 2019

05-03-19 Tuesday - Common Scoter

Sunny but felt cold in the wind - rain as night closed in,

Common Scoter
Marsh Harrier
Long-tailed Duck

BRISTOL
05-03-2019 Stock Dove - Grey Wagtail Eastville Park (Keith Williams)

Eastville Park:
1 Sparrowhawk, 3 Stock Dove, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Treecreeper, 2 Grey Wagtail,
05-03-2019 Treecreeper Eastville Park (Rich Scantlebury)

Crow Lane Open Space:
1 Song Thrush

05-03-2019 Mistle Thrush St Andrew's Park (Jon Mortin)
St Andrew's Park:
15+ Redwing, 1 Mistle Thrush

Temple Meads:
1 stray Buzzard - being well and truly mobbed.

Stoke Park, Duchess Pond:
4 Canada Goose, 5 Mallard, 1 Coot, 6 Moorhen.

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
84 Wigeon, 4 Teal, 4 Tufted Duck, 8 Moorhen, 56 Curlew, 19 Redshank, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 - in bushes singing, 200 Starling, 52 Fieldfare, 15 Redwing, 1 Mistle Thrush - flying downriver! Tried to turn it into a Spotted Sandpiper, but couldn't!

05-03-2019 Waders New Passage (Martin Tayler)
New Passage/Northwick:
160 Shelduck, Wigeon, Teal, 1 Common Scoter, 1 Buzzard, Oystercatcher, 160 Black-tailed Godwit, 14 Turnstone, 11 Knot, Dunlin,  Redshank, some Kittiwake still lingering, Common Gull, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 4 Linnet.


05-03-2019 Grey Heron Stapleton (Martin Tayler)
Stapleton:
1 Grey Heron - on the roof looking for a pond side diner.

BELOW M4 & BANES

Widcombe:
1 Chiffchaff singing

Lansdown:
7 Buzzard - circling.

Bishop Sutton:
2 Collared Dove, 11 Jackdaw, 20+ House Sparrow,

RESERVOIRS:

Barrow Tanks:
1 Long-tailed Duck  - consorting with Tufted Duck - - - again!

Blagdon Lake:
Mute Swan, 2 Egyptian Goose, 1 Great White Egret, 200 Lesser Black-backed Gull - migrants?


05-03-2019 Great-crested Grebe CVL (Ian Loats)



Chew Valley Lake
46+ Canada Goose, 3 Greylag Goose, 42+ Mute Swan, 40+ Goldeneye, 2 Little Grebe, 1 Great-crested Grebe, 3 Grey Heron, 5 Buzzard, 1 White Coot, 5 Great Black-backed Gull, 4 Cetti's Warbler, 4 Robin, 5 Reed Bunting.

Dam:
1 Common Sandpiper,

East Shore:
1 Marsh Harrier - in the reeds

Heron's Green:
1 Raven, 1 Grey Wagtail, 3 Pied Wagtail,




05-03-19 Pochard X Tufty Hidbrid Moreton (Ian Stapp)
Moreton:
1 Scaup (f), 1 Pochard + Tufty Hybrid, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Peregrine - the brown one, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Jay, 12+ Long-tailed Tit, 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Goldcrest, 3 Wren, 4 Blackbird, 2 Dunnock, 2 Bullfinch.

Stratford:
100+ Sand Martin
05-03-2019 Peregrine CVL (Ian Stapp)
Herriott's Pool:
3 Greylag Goose, 10 Shelduck, 12 Pintail, 1 Great White Egret, 1 Little Egret, 1 Peregrine

05-03-2019 Sand Martin CVL (Bob Breawer)
Reports:Bob Brewer, Raoul Chandrasakera, Robert Hargreaves, Nick Hawkridge, Dave Hughes, Ian Loats, Andy Middleton, Jon Mortin, Aravind Ramesh, Gill Sapsed, Ian Stapp, Martin Tayler, Jeremy Towler, Sean Whyte, Keith Williams, 
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