02-05-19 Sunday

Started bright and sunny as yesterday, giving way mid-morning to lengthy showers. Rest of day dull and dank, until clearing in evening. Temperature starting at 18.5, falling away to 14°C

Little Ringed Plover
Dunlin ssp arctica

BRISTOL

02-06-19 Peregrine, Finzels Reach, Bristol (Richard Scantlebury)

Finzels Reach:
5 Canada Goose, 2 Mute Swan, 1 Mallard, Herring Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, 1 Collared Dove, 3 Peregrine, Magpie, a House Sparrow colony including some fledglings

Redland:
3 Swifts tonight around 8 pm. Observer comments: ' There's really never been a year when I've seen so few.'

Is this a general feeling?

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

02-05-19 Kestrel with prey, Aust Warth (Paul Dunham)

Oldbury Power Station:

10 new Mallard ducklings on the lake with mother + Great Spotted Woodpecker nest, with 1+ very noisy young inside and female nearby

02-05-19 Barnacle Goose, Northwick Warth (Paul Bowerman)
[flew in high from the East and continued high North West over the Severn]

Northwick Warth:
18 Barnacle Geese +  3 broods of freshly hatched Lapwing chicks (2,2 &3)

02-05-19 Lapwing chick, Severnside (Paul Bowerman)

Pilning wetland:
34 Canada Goose, 1 Mute Swan, c.50 Shelduck, 6 Gadwall, 4 Tufted Duck, 1 Lapwing, 4 Little Ringed Plover,1 Swallow, c.35 House Martin, 3 Reed Warbler, c.130 Starling, 2 Pied Wagtail, 1 Greenfinch, 1 Linnet, 1 Reed Bunting.

Severn Beach:
c 15 Ringed Plover, c 40 Sanderling, c 15 Dunlin

Tortworth Lake:
15 Mallard with 2 broods - 7 young, 2 Mallard/hybrid variation with 1 brood - 3 young, 14 Coot with 2 broods - 3 young, 2 Little Grebe. 2 Moorhen with 1 brood - 1 young, 1 Cormorant,  1 Great Spotted  Woodpecker

NORTH SOMERSET

02-06-2019 Yellow-legged Gull PW (Chris Stone)

Portbury Wharf:
28 Tufted Duck, 2 Oystercatcher - to pools, Redshank, 7 Black-headed Gull, 1 Yellow-legged Gull, Skylark, 1 Sand Martin.

Clevedon-Yeo:
4 Canada Goose 4 (+ 4 juvs), 8 Mute Swan, 45 Shelduck (no juvs yet), 50 Mallard, 5 Tufted Duck, 2 Grey Heron, 1 Cormorant, 23 Oystercatcher, 0 Lapwing, 4 Ringed Plover, 5 Whimbrel (in one group), 16 Curlew, 11 Dunlin (including one of the race arctica), 4 Redshank, 15+ Herring Gull, 12 LBB Gull, 1 Swift, 180 Carrion Crow, Skylark singing, 4 Swallow, 5+Reed Warbler

02-05-19 Greenfinch, Langford (David Goodliffe)
['Bit of colour on a dull day,' as the photographer says]

Clevedon outskirts:
Cook's Lane to Kenn Pier - Buzzard, Curlew, Green Woodpecker

Langford:
Garden fledglings today -  2 Great Tit, 1 Goldfinch, 4 Greenfinch

BELOW M4 & BANES

No reports

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake Ringing Station:
Juveniles starting to make themselves known. 4 Chiffchaff, 1 Garden Warbler,  2 Blackcap,  6 Robin. One Blackcap ringed 'in-the-nest' here on 15th May, and probably fledged somewhere around 1 week ago. A nice record showing breeding success

Reports: Nancy Barrett,  Paul Bowerman, Richard Giles and Fiona Neate, David Goodliffe, Brian Lancastle, Iris Langson, Lois Pryce, Harvey Rose, Richard Scantlebury, Chris Stone, CVRS, opsbirding, TBOSG