03-01-20 Friday - Bearded Tit

Temp 10 to 7 to 9 to 7°C.  A pleasant day with a decent amount of sun

Whooper Swan
Scaup, Common Scoter, Long-tailed Duck
Black-throated and Great Northern Diver
Black-necked Grebe
Golden Plover
Mediterranean Gull
Merlin, Ring-necked Parakeet
Bearded Tit
Black Redstart
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3-1-19 Bearded Tit, Stratford CVL (George Stacey)

BRISTOL

Brandon Hill Park:
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Goldcrests

3-1-19 Mediterranean Gull,  Eastville Park (Allan Chard)

Eastville Park:
1 ad Mediterranean Gull, 2 Ring-necked Parakeet

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
1 m Tufted Duck

3-1-19 Snipe, Pilning Wetland (Vera Carpenter)

Pilning Wetland/Northwick Warth:
80 Canada Geese, 20 Shelduck, 6 Shoveler, 4 Gadwall, 200-300 Wigeon, 50-60 Teal, 20 Tufted Duck, 1 Little Egret, 1 Cormorant, 1 Buzzard, 15 Oystercatcher first report this year! 400 Lapwing, 50 Golden Plover, 60 Curlew, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Turnstone, c.60 Knot, 1500 Dunlin, 2 Snipe, 200 Redshank, 1 Kestrel, 1 f/imm Merlin, 17 Pied Wagtail

Frampton Cotterell Village Pond, ST668809:
15 Mallard, 1 Moorhen, 9 BH Gull, 10 Woodpigeon, 2 Collared Dove, 1 Magpie, 2 Jackdaw, 2 Carrion Crow, 5 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, 8 Long-tailed Tit, 3 Blackbird, 5 Robin, 2 Greenfinch

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead:
1Buzzard, 1 Curlew, 2 Jackdaw, 55 Crows on the beach, 1 Raven, 1 Coal Tit, 6 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Blackcap, 2 Goldcrest, 7 Greenfinch

Clevedon:
1 Blackcap in Cannonsgate garden, 1 Black Redstart by the Pier

Clevedon, Blind Yeo:
Kenn Road bridge:-
5 Little Grebe, 1 Grey Heron, 9 Mallard, 2 f Goosander, 8 Moorhen, Kingfisher
Strode Road bridge:-
1 Little Egret, 21 Mallard, 3 f. Goosander (inc. the two above, moving downriver on the tide?), 2 Moorhen, 1 Peregrine

BELOW M4 & BANES

Newton St Loe:
6 Mute Swan, 1 Whooper Swan, 30 Mallard, 26 Teal, 1 f Tufted Duck, 1 Little Grebe, 7 Grey Heron, 2 Cormorant, 1 Sparrowhawk, 4 Moorhen, 2 Coot, 30 BH Gull, 1 Common Gull, 1 LBB Gull, 4 Collared Dove, 1 Jay, 22 Magpie, 2 Raven, 3 Mistle Thrush

Paulton:
1 Buzzard, 40 Skylark, 40 Starling, 2 Fieldfare, 4 Meadow Pipit

RESERVOIRS

3-1-19 Long-tailed Duck, Barrow Tank 2 (Duncan Dine)

Barrow Tanks:
1 Long-tailed Duck on 2, 1 Black-throated Diver, 1 Great Northern Diver, 1 Common Sandpiper

Blagdon Lake, 2nd:
10 Goldeneye, 5 Goosander, some Snipe

3-1-19 Black-necked Grebe, CVL (Brian Thompson)

Chew Valley Lake:
14 (11f)  Scaup, 1 drake Common Scoter, 3 Goldeneye, 2m/2f Goosander (Herons Green), 1 Black-necked Grebe (Stratford), 8 Great White Egret, 5 Little Egret (HG), 1 f Marsh Harrier, 1 Raven (Herriott's)

3-1-19 Bearded Tit, Stratford (Raoul Chandrasakera)

2 Bearded Tit (S),  2 Cetti's Warbler (S), Brilliant Starling murmuration (H), 5 Reed Bunting (H)

3-1-19 Great White Egret, CVL (George Stacey)

Out of Avon:
1 m Smew in Usk, 1 f Smew at Chard Reservoir, c.50 Common Crossbill at Stock Hill (2nd)

2019 Bird Records

If anyone has any bird records they haven't already sent to the blog team, or BOC, or entered into Birdtrack or eBird, can they please send them to avonbirds@hotmail.co.uk before the end of January so they may be included in the 2019 Avon Bird Report. Ideally records should be on a spreadsheet,  and show at least the species, the number of individuals, the date seen (dd/mm/yyyy) and the site.

Reports: David Campbell, Vera Carpenter, Raoul Chandrasakera, Allan Chard, Chris Craig, Jane Cumming, Stephen Curtis, Duncan Dine, Geoff Dring, Billy Elliot, Rob Emery, Patrick Hancock. Martin Hayes, Robert Hargreaves, Peter Hazelwood, Mike Jackson, Niall Machin, Rich Mielcarek, Carol Rushton, George Stacey, Larry Sweetland, Brian Thompson, Mike Williams, blagdonlakebirds, nsl-birding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds