Cattle Egret
Whinchat
Red Kite
Merlin
Goldeneye
Scaup
Black-necked Grebe
Yellow-legged Gull
Red Kite
Curlew Sandpiper
Little Stint
Ruff
BRISTOL
Coombe Dingle - garden:
1 Sparrowhawk - being chased by a Carrion Crow.
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| 02-10-2019 Little Grebe Eastville Park (Rich Scantlebury) |
3 Mute Swan, c40 Mallard, Little Grebe (only the 3rd visit in 20 years) 3 Grey Heron, 23 Cormorant, 6 Moorhen, c 40 Black Headed Gull, 1 Herring Gull - 1st wint, 4 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 1 Tawny Owl (f), 2 Kingfisher, 1 Nuthatch, 1 Dipper (flying downstream), 1 Grey Wagtail
Purdown:
2 Swallow - over
Stoke Park, Duchess Pond:
3 Mallard, 3 Coot, Herring Gull, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, 2 Jays, more than usual number of Magpie, 5 Raven, large tit flock - Blue, Great & Long-tail Tit, an abundance of Chiffchaff, Blackcap, c50 Starlings - on electric wires, Dunnock, Meadow Pipit, Chaffinch, Greenfinch & Goldfinch.
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| 02-10-2019 Sparrowhawk Lockleaze (Patrick Richards) |
1 Gray Heron, 1 Sparrowhawk, 20 Feral Pigeon, 2 Raven, 1 Coal Tit, 2 Blue Tit, 11 Starling, 1 Robin, 1 Dunnock, 3 Goldfinch.
SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Pilning Wetlands
78 Canada Goose, 10 Mute Swan, 27+ Shelduck, 38 Gadwall, 40 Wigeon, 67 Mallard, 17 Teal (lots more on the sea), 2 Tufted Duck, 6+ Little Grebe, 1 Little Egret, 1 Cormorant, 4 Coot, 8 Moorhen, 55 Oystercatcher, 25 Lapwing, 1 Golden Plover, 1 Grey Plover, 30 Ringed Plover, 65 Curlew, 3 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Ruff, 105 Knot, 2 Curlew Sandpiper, 150 Dunlin, 1 Little Stint, 65 Redshank, 1 Greenshank, 1 Whinchat, 2 Stonechat, 6 Wheatear, 1 Meadow Pipit
Redwick:
1 Sparrowhawk,
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| 02-10-2019 Merlin Severn Beach ( Matt Ames) |
5 Little Egret, 1 Snipe, 1 Merlin, 1 Wheatear,
Yate:
3 Raven - early morning
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| 02-10-2019 Skylark CSC (Peter Coslett) |
2 Grey Heron, 1 Buzzard, 1 Snipe, 3 Green.Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, 5 Skylark, 15 Swallow, 2 Chiffchaff, 4 Blackcap, 1 Whinchat, 4 Stonechat, 2 Pied Wagtail, 20 Meadow Pipit,
NORTH SOMERSET
Portishead - garden:
1 Sparrowhawk
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| 02-10-2019 Ringed Plover Cl-Y (Howard Taffs) |
2 Grey Plover - juv, few Ringed Plover, few Dunlin, 1 Wheatear - Greenland type - Wains Hill - Nuthatch, Treecreeper,
BELOW M4 & BANES
Norton Malreward:
1 Red Kite, 1 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, 1 Raven, 2 Skylark, 1 Swallow, 1 Mistle Thrush, 4 Yellowhammer.
Stanton Drew:
1 Buzzard
Widcombe Common:
9 Buzzard, 1 Cattle Egret,
RESERVOIRS
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| 02-10-2019 Egyptian Goose CVL (Lucy Masters) |
Dam:
1 Common Sandpiper
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| 02-10-2019 Cattle Egret CVL Villice (George Stacey) |
1 Scaup (f), Great Crested Grebe, 1 Black-necked Grebe, 2 Cattle Egret,1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Kingfisher,
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| 02-10-19 Great White Egret CVL (TtB) |
14 Gadwall, 3 Teal, 2 Grey Heron, 3 Cattle Egret, 5 Great White Egret, 6 Little Egret, 30 Cormorant, 1 Whinchat, 2 Pied Wagtail,
Stratford:
2 Goldeneye - (m&f eclipse), 8 Great White Egret, 4 Little Egret, 3 Marsh Harrier - 2 juv and a smaller specimen, 1 Red Kite - juv, 2 Water Rail, 1 Lapwing, 1 Curlew, 2 Snipe, 2 Green Sandpiper, some Common Gull, 1 Yellow-legged Gull - 3rd wint, 1 Tawney Owl - day calling, 1 Peregrine -juv,
Herriott's -inc Pool:
1 Shelduck, 2 Shoveler, 3 Pintail, 1 Tufted Duck, 2 Little Grebe, 3 Great White Egret, 1 Little Egret, 12 Cormorant
RARITY NOTES NEEDED
All the following claims of locally rare species have been noted by the BOC during 2019 but they all lack the confirmatory details needed so the Recorder's Committee can assess them. If you saw any of the birds on the list can you please supply some identification notes, or an identifiable image, to avonbirds@hotmail.co.uk
Great Northern Diver 1 10/01/2019 Barrow Gurney Res.
Tree Sparrow 25/01/2019 Bristol, Clifton, Richmond Hill
Hen Harrier 1 ring tail 17/03/2019 Chew Valley Lake (CVL), Heron's Green
Tree Sparrow 3 24/03/2019 Clevedon-Yeo (Cl-Y), Wain's Hill
Goshawk 1 29/03/2019 Clevedon, Kennaway Rd
Cattle Egret 1 08/04/2019 Uphill, The Grange Heronry
Hen Harrier 1 17/04/2019 Clevedon-Yeo (Cl-Y), Dowlais
Turtle Dove 2 22/04/2019 Old Sodbury
Nordic Jackdaw 23/04/2019 Portbury Wharf
Channel Wagtail 1 ♂ 26/04/2019 New Passage / Northwick Warth, PWL
Channel Wagtail 1 27/04/2019 New Passage / Northwick Warth, PWL
Spoonbill 1 sub ad 05/05/2019 Portbury Wharf
Cattle Egret 2 05/05/2019 Chew Valley Lake (CVL)
Goshawk 1 30/06/2019 Hunstrete Plantation
Goshawk 1 23/07/2019 Little Sodbury
Sabine's Gull 1 10/08/2019 Severn Beach
Wryneck 1 29/08/2019 Channel View Farm
Reports: Matt Ames, Derek Angell, TtB, Pete Brain, Pete Coslett, Jane Cumming, Alan Daniells, Rob Emery, Alastair Fraser, Lucy Masters, Patrick Richards, Rich Scantlebury, George Stacey, Howard Taffs, Keith Vinicombe
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