18-11-19 Monday - Snow Bunting

Bright sunshine today (excellent for photographers). Bristol temperatures 5 - 9 °C

Black-throated Diver, Long-tailed Duck + surprise Snow Bunting all at Barrow Tank no 3

Whooper Swan
Green-winged Teal, Common Scoter, Red-breasted Merganser, Red-throated Diver
Barn Owl, Short-eared Owl
Merlin
Black Redstart 

18-11-19 Snow Bunting, Barrow Tank  no 3 (Raoul Chandrasakera)

BRISTOL

Redland:
Garden - 1 juv Wood Pigeon feeding under feeders most of daylight hours, 1 Coal Tit, 3 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, 1 Blackbird, 1 Robin, 8 House Sparrow

18-11-19 Kingfisher, Eastville Park, Bristol (Ricky Seery)

Eastville Park:

 6 Mute Swan, 1 Goosander, 1 Little Grebe, 8 Grey Heron, 1 Cormorant, 100+ Black-headed Gull, 1 Tawny Owl, 39 Redwing (over to NW)

18-11-19 Mute Swans + Grey Heron, Eastville Park (Martin Tayler)

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
2 Black Redstart still

18-11-19 Fieldfare, New Passage (Rod Holbrook)

Iron Acton:
Barn Owl hunting verge early this morning 4-45 am

The Retreat (wood south of Wick):
1 f Kestrel hunting from perches, 1 Raven,  12 Fieldfare , 6 Redwing, 2 Bullfinch

NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon Pier:
1 Black Redstart - video

Clevedon-Yeo:
Channel View Farm to Blakes Pools - 300 Shelduck, 250 Wigeon, 100 Teal, 3 Little Egret, 1 Oystercatcher, 500 Lapwing, 5 Grey Plover, 200 Curlew, 25 Turnstone, 50 Dunlin, 10 Snipe, 100 Redshank, 2 Short-eared Owl, 2 Kestrel, 1 Merlin (fem/imm),  3 Raven, 4 Skylark, 25 Fieldfare, 25 Redwing, 3 Stonechat, 60 Meadow Pipit, 2 Linnet

Backwell Lake:
4 Shoveler  Evening roost - 1 Grey Heron, 35 Little Egret, 5 Cormorant 

18-11-19 Red-breasted Merganser, Sand Point (Paul Gregory)

Sand Point/Bay:
1 f Common Scoter, 1f Red-breasted Merganser, Merlin, 3 Chiffchaff

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield:
1 Mute Swan, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Stonechat, 1 Dipper - 1st in 6 years.

Saltford:
2 Teal, 1 Grey Heron, 6 Cormorant, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Kestrel, 2 Jay, flock Goldfinch

Wellow:
2 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, plenty of Fieldfare and Linnet, plus 2 Yellowhammer

RESERVOIRS

18-11-19 Black-throated Diver, Barrow Tank no 3 (George Stacey)

Barrow Tank no 3 :
1 1st winter Black-throated Diver 1, 1 m Long tailed Duck, 3 Common Sandpiper,  1 1st winter Snow Bunting

18-11-19 Long-tailed Duck, Barrow Tank no 3 (Nigel Jones)

18-11-19 Another shot of the Black-throated Diver (Bri Thompson)

18-11-19 And another view of the Snow Bunting (David Hughes)

Blagdon Lake:

WeBS count - 56 Canada Goose, 2 Mute Swan, 1 Shoveler, 17 Gadwall, 38 Wigeon, 46 Mallard, 4 Teal, 75 Pochard, 310 Tufted Duck, 11 Goldeneye, 13 Little Grebe, 35 Great Crested Grebe, 6 Grey Heron, 12 Cormorant, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Buzzard, 2 Water Rail, 20 Moorhen, 1026 Coot, 1 Common Sandpiper, 80 BH Gull, 150 Common Gull, 2 GBB Gull, 2 Herring Gull, 2 LBB Gull

Chew Valley Lake

Sailing Club:
Red-throated Diver

Moreton:
1 Whooper Swan (earlier at Denny Island)

18-11-19 f Goosander, Heron's Green, CVL (Robin Martin)

Heron's Green:
2 f Goosander

Herriott's:
Green-winged Teal early this morning but was again flushed by hunters firing behind the trees south of Herriots

18-11-19 Starlings, from Herriott's looking towards main lake, CVL (Raoul Chandrasakera)

Appeal from Mary Colwell @curlewcalls (author of Curlew Moon):
Calling all #Curlew photographers. I’m setting up a small charity to help Curlew projects, it will be called Curlew Action. I need loads of curlew photos. Is anyone happy to send me some high res ones and I will definitely credit you. Thank you.

Reports: Phil Arnold, Nancy Barrett, Philip Black,  Raoul Chandrasakera, Dave Child, Chris Craig, Andy Davis, Heather England, TBOSG,  Paul Gregory, Rob Hargreaves, Pete Hazelwood, Rupert Higgins, Nick Hudson, David Hughes, Robin Martin, Andy Middleton, Trevor Riddle, Richard Scantlebury, Ricky Seery, Nigel Stickland, Larry Sweetland, Martin Tayler, Bri Thompson