Tuesday, 14 January 2020

14-01-20 Tuesday - Woodcock

Dull, Windy and Wet

Bearded Tit
Black-necked Grebe
Marsh Harrier
Mandarin Duck
Woodcock
Goldeneye

BRISTOL

Bishopston:
1 Blackcap (f) - still fending off all comers.

Totterdown - Bridge:
1 Mandarin Duck (m) - on the Avon - "brightened up my cycle to work".

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
1 Grey Plover, 5 Ringed Plover - high tide roost - Pillhead Gout, 1 Coot - lake,

14-01-2020 Blue and Coal Tit New Passage (Rod Holbrook)
New Passage
'Blue and Coal Tit from my hide'.

Northwick / Pilning Wetlands:
57 Shelduck, 9 Shoveler, 680 Wigeon, Mallard, 180 Teal, 6 Tufted Duck, 3 Grey Heron, 1 Buzzard, 1 Water Rail, 1 Moorhen, 12 Coot, 130 Oystercatcher, 4 Lapwing, 60 Curlew, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 30 Redshank, Black-headed Gull, 8 Common Gull, Herring Gull, 1 Kestrel, 1 Carrion Crow, Wren, Blackbird, 2 Song Thrush, Robin, 29 Pied Wagtail,

NORTH SOMERSET

Portbury Wharf:
70 Gadwall, 150 Wigeon, 2 Goldeneye (f), 21 Lapwing.

Worle - garden:
1 Blackcap (m) - early,

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield - south of the village - (13th)
1 Woodcock, c.70 Redwing, 3 Mistle Thrush, 7 Bullfinch

14-01-2020 Blackbird ? ? Bath - Oldfield Park (Anthony Cook)
Bath - Oldfield Park garden:
Woodpigeon, 2 Coal Tit, 3 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, 1 Blackcap (f), 4 Blackbird ( including the strange coloured bird), 1 Redwing, 1 Robin, 2 House Sparrow, 1 Dunnock

RESERVOIRS

Barrow Tanks:
Water too rough to be sure but no sign of the 2 divers on Tank 3, Rain straight in the face on Tank 2 so didn't check for the Long-tailed Duck.

Chew Valley Lake

14-01-2020 Bearded Tit CVL Stratford (NSLbirding)
Stratford:
1 Marsh Harrier, 1 Black-necked Grebe, 2 Bearded Tit.


Not good news - Roger Palmer died today - sorry, no details.


Reports: John Barnett, Anthony Cook, Robert Hargreaves, Nick Hawkridge, Rod Holbrook, Simon Isgar, NSLbirding, Dean Reeves, Alex Rhodes, Chris Stone, Henry Stuart, TBOSG