25-10-19 Friday - Lesser Scaup

Horrible day - dark and wet, feeling like mid-November already. Bristol temperatures 10 - 16.5°C

Lesser Scaup, Scaup
Cattle Egret, Great White Egret
Marsh Harrier
Bearded Tit

25-10-19 Lesser Scaup, Moreton Hide, CVL (Chris Craig)

BRISTOL

No reports

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

25-10-2019 Curlew OPS (J Sanders)

Oldbury Power Station:
2 Mute Swan -estuary, 1 Tawney Owl - vocal in the night, no seabirds.
Juv Curlew - raised and released at Slimbridge - 5 ringed birds noted -
report any sightings to - curlew@wwt.org.uk.
Scheme http://www.curlewcall.org/

Siston Common:
1 Raven

NORTH SOMERSET

Worle:
1 Kingfisher, Summer Lane Pond, Worle

BELOW M4 & BANES

No reports

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

2 Shelduck. (only), 4 Freakduck (Mallard-based),  5 Little Egret, 1 Marsh Harrier,  400+ Coot, 4 Snipe, Common Gull., 40 Stock Dove, 1 Skylark, 60 Linnet

Heron's Green - inc Pool:
Wigeon, 4 Cattle Egret, 9  Great White Egret, 2 Little Egret

Moreton:
 4 (2 adult f, 2 first-winter m +f) Scaup, 1 m Lesser Scaup, 3 Bearded Tit

Herriott's inc Pool:
Pintail

Since it's a slow news day, here's a nice photo from last weekend....

19-10-19 Yellow-browed Warbler, Sand Point (Terri Borash)

Reports: Phil Barlow, Terri Borash, Dru Brooke-Taylor, Chris Craig, Andy Davis, Trevor Riddle J Sanders
OPS birding