Friday, 27 December 2019

27-12-19 Friday

Temp 8 to 10°C. Heavy cloud, misty rain, poor visibility but hardly any breeze

Long-tailed Duck
Black-throated and Great Northern Diver
Black-necked Grebe
Bearded Tit

BRISTOL

Eastville Park:
4 Mute Swan, 2 Grey Heron, c.120 BH Gull, 1 drumming Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Nuthatch, 2 Treecreeper

Feeder Road:
pair Peregrines at 09:00

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Littleton Brick Pits:
14 Mallard, 1 Water Rail, 3 Snipe, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, 2 Skylark,  2 Cetti's Warbler singing, 1 Goldcrest, 1 Treecreeper, 100+ Starling, 8 Redwing, 1 Grey Wagtail, 6 Chaffinch, 1 Bullfinch, 7+ Greenfinch

Filton, BWBS:
2 Collared Dove, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 35 Carrion Crow - on the BAWA fields, 1 Rook, 4 Long-tailed Tit, 1 f Blackcap, 1 Goldcrest, 31 Starling, 1 Fieldfare - defending apple tree fruit, 2 Redwing, 2 Song Thrush - full song, 9 Pied Wagtail - the BAWA cricket square, 3 Chaffinch

27-12-19 BH Gull, Kingsgate Park (Mark Coller)
Yate, Kingsgate Park:
1 Norwegian colour-ringed BH Gull still

NORTH SOMERSET

Nothing in yet

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield:
15 Red-legged Partridge, 20 Pheasant, 5 Corn Bunting

RESERVOIRS

27-12-19 Great Northern Diver, Barrow Tanks (pistols@dawn)
Barrow Tanks:
Long-tailed Duck on 2, 1 Black-throated Diver, 1 Great Northern Diver, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Grey Wagtail

Blagdon Lake, 26th:
7 Mute Swan, 1 ad♂ Ferruginous x Pochard hybrid in Wood Bay, 2 Water Rail, 66 Lapwing, 1 Snipe, 1 Common Sandpiper, 2 Chiffchaff

27-12-19 Black-necked Grebe, Moreton (Rob Hargreaves)
Chew Valley Lake:
1 Shelduck & 5 Pintail (Herriott's), 3 Goldeneye & 1 Black-necked Grebe (Moreton), 5 Great White Egret, 2 Little Egret, 1 juv Marsh Harrier, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker (Stratford), 8 Fieldfare, 2 Treecreeper, pair Bearded Tit, 2 Bullfinch (Woodford)

Reports: Jonathan Angell, Peter Bryant, Mark Coller, Robert Hargreaves, Nick Hawkridge, Nigel Kempson, Sian P, pistols@dawn, Rich Scantlebury, Howard Taffs, Thomas Weston, blagdonlakebirds, nsl-birding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds