Sunday 17 November 2019

17-11-19 Sunday - Black-throated Diver

Temp 4 - 9°C. Damp dull day but no rain after early shower

Whooper Swan
Green-winged Teal, Long-tailed Duck
Red-throated & Black-throated Diver
Cattle Egret
Avocet, Little Stint
Short-eared Owl
Merlin

17-11-19 Short-eared Owl, Channel View (Jason Williams)
BRISTOL

Castle Park/Finzels Reach:

6 Mute Swans (5 ad, 1 1st winter), 1 Cormorant, 1 Moorhen, 22 BH Gull. 2 Herring Gull, 1 LBB Gull, 2 Peregrine, 2 Raven, 1 Pied Wagtail

Eastville Park:
6 Mute Swan, c40 Mallard, 1 m Goosander (3 weeks earlier than in 2018), 6 Cormorant, 1 Grey Heron, 8 Moorhen,  c50 BH Gull, 2 Tawny Owl, 1 Kingfisher, 1 noisy Green Woodpecker, 2 Grey Wagtail, 2 Pied Wagtail

High Kingsdown:
2 m Blackcap, 2 Wren (only 2nd time seen two here)

Stockwood Open Space:
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 13 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Goldcrest, 1 Nuthatch, 4 Linnet, 6 Goldfinch

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

New Passage/Pilning Wetlands:
30 Canada Goose, 2 Mute Swan, 3 Shoveler, 8 Gadwall, 100 Wigeon, 4 Tufted Duck, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Little Egret, 3 Moorhen, 30 Coot, 120 Lapwing, 1 Curlew, 200 Dunlin, 1 Little Stint, 2 Snipe, 3 Common Gull, 12 LT Tit, 1 Redwing, 1 Song Thrush, 1 Grey Wagtail, 4 Pied Wagtail, 8 Meadow Pipit, 7 Linnet

Almondsbury:
1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Blackbird, 15 Redwing all ringed
Also seen - 1 Chiffchaff, 6 Fieldfare, 30 Redwing, 180 Pied Wagtail


17-11-19 Wigeon, Winterbourne (first here for Dan White)
Winterbourne:
Pair Wigeon

NORTH SOMERSET

Portbury Wharf:
24 Shoveler, 120 Wigeon, 1 Avocet, 7 Lapwing, c20 Snipe inc melanistic bird

Clevedon-Yeo:
170 Wigeon, 1 Little Grebe, 5 Little Egret, 7 Cormorant, 2 Oystercatcher, 340 Lapwing, 19 Grey Plover, 90 Curlew, 40 Turnstone, 275 Dunlin, 8 Snipe, 420 Redshank, 180 BH Gull, 15 Herring Gull, 1 possibly 2 Short-eared Owl, 1 f Merlin, 2 Raven, 1 Chiffchaff, 2 Stonechat, 50+ Meadow Pipit, 40 Linnet

Banwell, Winthill:
1 Buzzard, 2 Stock Dove, 2 m/f Great Spotted Woodpecker,  1 Marsh Tit, 2 Nuthatch,  1 Treecreeper, 100+ mixed flock of Redwing and Fieldfare

BELOW M4 & BANES

17-11-19 Chaffinch, Northfield Lane (Peter Coslett)
Marshfield, Northfield Lane:
2 Mute Swan, 2 Buzzard, 60 Common Gull, 100 Corvid, 300 Starling, 33 Fieldfare, 3 Stonechat, 10 Chaffinch, 40 Yellowhammer

Keynsham Memorial Park:
77 Mallard, 1 Moorhen
Keynsham Marina area:
2 Mute Swan, 5 Mallard, 4 Cormorants, 1 Moorhen, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Raven, 40 Goldfinch
Avon Valley Park:
17 Canada Geese, 5 Mute Swan, 3 Mallard, 1 Pheasant, 2 Cormorant, 2 Moorhen

Newton St Loe:
Whooper Swan

Stanton Wick:
1000 Starling on power lines

Burnett:
500 Woodpigeon and 800 Corvid in stubble field

RESERVOIRS

Barrow Tank No.3:
1 ad m Long-tailed Duck, 1 Black-throated Diver - last here was in 1964

16-11-19 Green-winged Teal, Herriott's (Robin Martin)
Chew Valley Lake:
Red-throated Diver from Woodford

Herriott's:
10 Shelduck, 13 Shoveler, 8 Pintail, 48 Teal, 1 m Green-winged Teal, 2 Little Grebe, 3 Grey Heron, 1 Great White Egret, 5 Cattle Egret and 2 Little Egret into roost, 1 Buzzard, 2 GBB Gull, lots Common Gull, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Cetti's Warbler calling, 3 Pied Wagtail, 2 Reed Bunting

17-11-19 Cattle & Little Egret roost, Herriott's (Ian Stapp) 
CVRS:
1 Chiffchaff ringed here in November 2018 unusually trapped a second time

Out of UK
Mark Dadds has been in San Francisco - 49 photos

Reports: Rich Andrews, Jon Angell, Teresa Chard, Peter Coslett, Adam Cross, Sean Davies, Richard Giles and Fiona Neate, Robin Martin, Matt Plenty, Lois Pryce, Harvey Rose, Rich Scantlebury, Ian Stapp, Nigel Stickland, Howard Taffs, John Thorogood, Dan White, Jason Williams,blagdonlakebirds, nsl-birding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds