Yellow-legged or Caspian Gull - People's vote required
1 Swallow and Sand Martins over Chew
Wheatear at Oldbury Power Station
Siskin
Marsh Tit
BRISTOL
Badock's Wood:
Early singing birds: Chiffchaff, Blackcap, 2 Redwing (from flock of 20)
Coombe Dingle:
Mistle Thrush (singing)
Garden: 2 Bullfinch, 1 Chaffinch, 2 Goldfinch, 2 Blackcap (singing m and f), 2 Dunnock, 2 Blue Tit, 2 LT Tit, 1 Robin, (bird numbers on feeders fallen dramatically since the spell of mild weather)
Old Sneed Park, Local Nature Reserve:1 Chiffchaff - singing
Stockwood Open Spaces:
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, usual Blue and Great Tit, 1 Nuthatch, 2 Song Thrush
SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Oldbury Power Station:
1 Wheatear (m)
Chipping Sodbury - Waitrose:
1 Chiffchaff - singing
New Passage/Northwick:
105+ Teal, 50+ Wigeon, 90 Shelduck, 160 Black-tailed Godwit, 70+ Turnstone, 1 Little Egret,
3 Buzzard, 4 Siskin, 2 Chiffchaff
NORTH SOMERSET
Portbury Wharf:
1 Yellow-legged Gull (probable YL, hoping for Caspian), 2 Chiffchaff (singing)
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| 1-3-19 Yellow-legged Gull - or Caspian? (Howard Taffs) |
Any opinions on the gull? YL has yellow eye, Caspian flatter forehead.
Uphill:
2 Little Egret, 140 Shelduck, 80 Redshank, 40 Oystercatcher, 40 Dunlin (-1; watched a superb adult male Sparrowhawk take a Dunlin on the wing), 1 Short-eared Owl (came out to hunt at 15.35), 1 Raven
BELOW M4 & BANES
Bath:
4 Redwing (through a Twerton garden)
Lansdown:
4 Buzzard, 20 Fieldfare
Shire Hill.
1 Kestrel, 2 Buzzard (one carrying a twig), Fieldfare (heard)
Warleigh to Monkton Combe:
Cormorant 2, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Peregrine, 1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Common Buzzard
2 Stock Dove, 2 Green Woodpecker, 5 GS Woodpecker 5 (4 drumming)
2 Kingfisher, 2 Grey Wagtail, 8 Marsh Tit, 2 Siskin
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| 01-03-2019 Dipper Willsbridge (Donna Harvey) |
Willsbridge:
1 Dipper
RESERVOIRS:
Blagdon Lake:
1 Great White Egret, plenty of Buzzard - territory claimants, 1 Chiffchaff singing
Chew Valley Lake
1 Goldeneye, 1 Cormorant, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Fieldfare (Dam),
2 Teal, 4 Pochard, 1 Little Grebe, 1 Buzzard, 1 Cormorant (Heron's Green),
1 Scaup (f), 12 Goldeneye, 1 Marsh Harrier, 1000 Starling (near Blue Bowl),
4 Med Gull, 1 GW Egret, 1 Little Egret, 12 Pintail, 10 Shelduck, Mallard (fighting), 1 Bar-headed Goose (probable feral escape), 1 Swallow, 40 Sand Martin, 1 Grey Wagtail (Herriott's Pool)
1-3-19 Four Photos from Bob Brewer at Herriots
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| Med Gull and Grey Wagtail |
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| Pintail and serene Mallard plus Mallard fisticuffs |
