Sunday 1 December 2019

01-12-19 Sunday - Lapland Bunting

Continuing bright but cold. Bristol temperatures 1 - 6°C

Long-tailed Duck, Great Northern Diver, Black-throated Diver still at Barrow Tank no 3
Green-winged Teal still at CVL
Merlin
Black Redstart
Lapland Bunting, Corn Bunting

01-12-19 Long-tailed Tit, Chew Stoke (Lucy Masters)
BRISTOL

Redland:
Garden count - 2 Wood Pigeon, 2 Collared Dove, 1 Jay, 2 Magpie, 1 Carrion Crow, 1 Coal Tit, 3 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, 1 F. Blackcap, 1 Robin, 10 House Sparrow

Sea Mills:
2 Buzzard, 2 Dunlin, 3 Common Sandpiper, 40 + Redshank, 150 Black-headed Gull, 2 Common Gull, 2 Herring Gull, 6 Lesser Blacked Gull, 1 Grey Wagtail

Eastville Park:
1 f Goosander,  7 Cormorant, 2 Grey Heron, 1 Kingfisher 

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
3 Gadwall (lake), 3 Black Redstart still  - ad m + 1st-w m + fem (on SW side of SW-most building in afternoon sun)

Oldbury:
Pickedmoor Lane  - 1 Little Egret, 2 Green Sandpiper 

New Passage/Pilning Wetlands:
c.100 Canada Goose, 2 Mute Swan, c40 Shoveler, c 40 Gadwall, c.300 Wigeon, 3 Teal, 4 Tufted Duck, 1 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Buzzard, 3 Moorhen, 20 Coot, 5 Oystercatcher, c.200 Lapwing, 25 Curlew, 3 Turnstone, 3 Knot, c.200 Dunlin, c.100 Redshank, 1 Kestrel, Skylark, 1 Song Thrush, Fieldfare, Redwing,  3 Pied Wagtail, 1 Meadow Pipit, Linnet

Kingswood:
Garden - Blue Tit, Great Tit,2 m Blackcap, m/f Blackbird, + Robin,  2 Pied Wagtail

NORTH SOMERSET


01-12-19 Grey Plover, Turnstone and Dunlin, Clevedon-Yeo (Jason Williams)
Clevedon-Yeo:
Lapland Bunting – one briefly on seawall/salt marsh (by dog-leg). Heard call and viewed in bins for a few seconds but by the time I got my camera up it had skulked off (Jason Williams)

Also- 5 Goosander (Blind Yeo), 5 Little Grebe (Blind Yeo), 4 Little Egret, c25 Grey Plover, 12 Turnstone, 60 Dunlin, 4 Snipe, Merlin, Peregrine

Kingston Seymour:
Winter Bird Survey highlights -   Buzzard, Green Woodpecker, 3  GSW,  a Raven sitting in quite a small tree cronking, Kestrel, and lots of finches mainly around some generously-stocked feeders at a farmhouse

Kenn:
Garden - Song Thrush feeding at 7.30am


01-12-19 f Blackcap, Uphill (Bill Hewitt)
Bleadon:
2 Buzzard, 3 Blackcap (in gardens), 7 Fieldfare,  1 Reed Bunting (garden)

Uphill:
Boat hard - 1 Little Grebe, 1 Little Egret, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Kestrel, 1 Black Redstart

BELOW M4 & BANES


01-12-19 Fieldfares, Marshfield (Rob Hargreaves)
Marshfield:
Rushmead Lane - 28 Red-legged Partridge, 1 Buzzard, 2 Raven, 265 Fieldfare inc 165 in a single tree,  10 Redwing, 1 Mistle Thrush, 3 Stonechat, Corn Bunting, 7+ Yellowhammer

01-12-19 Fieldfare flock, Marshfield (Rob Hargreaves)
Bath:
Twerton garden count - 48 Lesser Black Backed Gull (flying over to roost), 2 Wood Pigeon, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Magpie, 3 Carrion Crow, 2 Jay,  7 Blue Tit, 4 Great Tit,  1 Coal Tit, 3 Long-Tailed Tit,  1 Robin, 4 Blackbird, 6 Chaffinch, 12 Goldfinch

Chew Stoke:
Garden count - 1 GSW, 15 Blue Tit, 5  Coal Tit, 10 Great Tit, 8 LTT,  1 f Blackcap, 3 Robin, 1 pr Chaffinch, 1 f Greenfinch

RESERVOIRS

Barrow Tanks:
Tank no 3 - Long-tailed DuckGreat Northern DiverBlack-throated Diver 

Chew Valley Lake

01-12-19 Common Gull, Herriott's Pool, CVL (Christopher Teague)
Green-winged Teal (Herriott's Pool), 1 Great White Egret (Moreton Lane), Common Gull, 1 Kingfisher (Herriott's Pool)

01-12-19 Great White Egret, Moreton Lane, CVL (Christopher Teague)

Reports: Jonathan Angell,  Nancy Barrett, Robert Bright, John Croxton, Jane Cumming, Gill @8tigerlotus, Rob Hargreaves, Bill Hewitt,  Lucy Masters, Matt Plenty,  Lois Pryce, Tony Scott, Christopher Teague, Wayne Tucker, Jason Williams, Birdguides,  opsbirding