16-03-19 Saturday - Lesser Scaup

Temp 10 to 13℃. Still mild and windy this morning, rain in the afternoon

Scaup, Lesser Scaup
Black-necked Grebe
Great White Egret
Marsh Harrier
Kittiwake, Mediterranean Gull
Swallow

BRISTOL

16-3-19 Blackcap (Allan Chard)

Blackcaps
Ravens over Clifton Wood, Hotwells, Montpelier

16-3-19 Dipper showing off in Eastville Park (Paul Cousins)

Eastville Park:
4 Canada Geese, 1 m Shoveler, 1 Grey Heron, 3 f Kingfisher, 3 Jay, 1 Wren, 1 Dipper, 5 Grey Wagtail

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
1 Swallow NW earliest ever at OPS, beating 25/3/16

Severn Beach:
40 Kittiwake, 1 Mediterranean Gull -1st wint, 1 Peregrine.

NORTH SOMERSET

Ham Green - local tree feeding station:
13 Woodpigeon, 2 Collared Dove, 3 Jackdaw, 2 Carrion Crow, 2 Raven - over, 1 Coal Tit, 2 Blue Tit, 2 Nuthatch, 1 Mistle Thrush, 2 Robin, 30 Chaffinch, 3 Greenfinch, 16 Goldfinch.

Clevedon-Yeo:
50 Meadow Pipit going south

Kenn, Duck Lane:
1st Reed Bunting in the garden for a few years

BELOW M4 & BANES

16-3-19 Kingfisher, Willsbridge (Donna Harvey)

Willsbridge:
Kingfisher, Goldcrest, Dipper

River Avon, nr Keynsham, The Chequers:
27 Fieldfare

16-3-19 Peregrine eggs x 4 (BUPP)

Bath, St John's Church:
Four eggs now, 2 Peregrine

RESERVOIRS

Barrow Gurney Res Tank 1:
1 m Long-tailed Duck, 2 Little Grebe, 3 Great Crested Grebe, 4 Cormorant, Pied Wagtails

16-3-19 Lesser Scaup, Blagdon Lake (Nigel Milbourne)

Blagdon Lake:
1 m Lesser Scaup (new bird), 20 Goldeneye, 1 Great White Egret, 1 Common Sandpiper, 20 Sand Martin, 4 Chiffchaff

Chew Valley Lake
1 f Scaup (Moreton), 1 Black-necked Grebe (Stratford), 1 Great White Egret, 5 Little Egret, 1 Marsh Harrier

Reports: Rich Andrews, Dru Brooke-Taylor, BUPP, Karle Burford, Allen Chard, Paul Cousins, Chris Craig, John Croxton, Donna Harvey, Peter Hazelwood, Robert Kelsh, Susan Kempson, Brian Lancastle, John Martin, Nigel Milbourne, Paul Milsom, Dean Reeves, Howard Taffs, Blagdon Lake Birds