12-02-20 Wednesday - Spotted Redshank - Short-eared Owl

Nice day - bit chilly

Short-eared Owl
Bearded Tit
Spotted Redshank
Jack Snipe
Ruff
Grey Partridge
Merlin

*****  The BOC coach trip to the Exe Estuary this Sunday has been CANCELLED owing to the probability of heavy winds and rain. *****

12-02-2020 Great Crested Grebe CVL  - a touch of spring in the air - early version of the weed dance (Allan Chard)

BRISTOL

Stockwood Open Space:
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker - drumming, Blue and Great Tit, 1 Song Thrush, 20 Linnet,

Hotwells:
1 Grey Wagtail

12-02-2020 Grey Heron Eastville Park (Ian Loats)

High Kingsdown:
2 Blackcap (f & m)

Stoke Park:
2 Canada Goose, 1 Common Gull (rare here), 1 Kestrel, 1 Goldcrest, 1 Nuthatch, 1 Treecreeper, 2 Stonechat, 20 Redwing, 6 Chaffinch, 10 Greenfinch, 1 Reed Bunting.

Eastville Park:
2 Canada Goose, 5 Mute Swan, 36 Mallard, 1 Grey Heron, 2 Cormorant, 1 Buzzard, 6 Moorhen, 3 Coot, c120 BH Gull, 1 LBB Gull, Feral Pigeon, 2 Stock Dove, Woodpigeon, 1 Tawny Owl, 1 Kingfisher (f), 1 Jay, Magpie, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, Blue Tit, Great Tit, 4 L T Tit, 1 Goldcrest, Wren, 1 Nuthatch (heard), 5 Starling, Robin, Grey Wagtail.

Eastville - garden:

1 Blackcap (m)

Snuff Mills:
1 Raven - flyover

Montpelier Park:

1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Woodpigeon, 3 Blue Tit, 1 Wren - scolding, 1 Robin - singing, 2 Dunnock - 1 singing, 2 Goldfinch,

12-02-2020 Peregrine Avon Gorge (Keith Williams)

Avon Gorge:

3 Cormorant, 2 Buzzard, 2 Peregrine, Jackdaw, Blue Tit, 1 Song Thrush.

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

12-02-2020 Turnstone NP-NW (Aravind Ramesh)

New Passage/Northwick:
good numbers of Shelduck and Wigeon, 2 Gadwall, some Teal, and Shoveler, a few Tufted Duck, 4 Grey Heron, 1 Little Egret, and  3 Black-tailed Godwit, 276 Curlew, 49 Turnstone, 25 Knot, Dunlin, 5 Snipe, Redshank, 1 Peregrine, 1 Raven, quite a few Pied Wagtail, Meadow Pipit

12-02-2020 Blackcap Warmley (Pete Coslett)

Warmley - garden:
1 Blackcap (f)

NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon-Yeo:
250 Shelduck, 235 Wigeon, 145 Teal,  4 Tufted Duck - at KP, 2 Goosander, 2 Grey Partridge (Blake’s Pools), 3 Little Egret, 22 Coot. 38 Oystercatcher, 1 Grey Plover, 10 Ringed Plover, 35 Lapwing, 350 Curlew, 28 Turnstone, 1 Ruff (Yeo), 350 to 400 Dunlin, 2 Jack Snipe, 14 Common Snipe, 340 Redshank - 180 at Kenn + 160 maybe more up Yeo, 2 Spotted Redshank (Yeo),  100+ B-h Gull, 12 Herring Gull, 1 Kestrel, 1 Merlin, 19 Skylark, 2 Cetti’s Warbler, 450 Starling, 2 Song Thrush, 4 Stonechat, 9 Pied Wagtail, 65 Meadow Pipit, 2 Stonechat, 3 Rock Pipit, Meadow Pipit, 40+ Linnet. 3 Reed Bunting. 

Clevedon Moor:
8 Goosander, 6 Little Egret

Yatton Strawberry Line:
Canada Goose, 6 Mute Swan, 4 Mallard, Grey Heron, 2 Little Egret, Moorhen, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, 4 Long-tailed Tit, Goldcrest, Mini murmuration of around 30 Starling, 40 Redwing, Greenfinch, 20 Goldfinch

12-02-2020 Short-eared Owl Bleadon Levels (Bill Hewitt)

Bleadon/Uphill:
Teal, 1 Buzzard, 2 Little Grebe, 2 Little Egret, 4 Curlew, 10 Dunlin, Redshank, 1 Short-eared Owl, 1 Barn Owl, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 6 Stonechat, 8 Reed Bunting

Uphill - WeBS count :
50 Mute Swan, 140 Shelduck, 180 Wigeon, 50 Mallard, 53 Teal, 3 Little Grebe, 2 Little Egret, 1 Moorhen, 50 Oystercatcher, 18 Lapwing, 23 Curlew, 255 Redshank, 450 Black-headed Gull, 10 Herring Gull, 5 Lesser Black-b Gull + 1 Sparrowhawk.

BELOW M4 & BANES

Frenchay, Moor:

1 Sparrowhawk,  4 Woodpigeon, 2 Jackdaw, 5 Magpie, 2 Carrion Crow, 1 Long-tailed Tit,  4 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, 1 Wren, 4 Blackbird, 4 Redwing, 6 Robin, 5 Dunnock, 1 Pied Wagtail, 5 Goldfinch, 

Bath - Oldfield Park garden:
1 Blackcap (f) and the strange coloured Blackbird again

RESERVOIRS

12-02-2020 Black-throated Diver - Great Northern Diver BG (Bri Thompson)

Barrow Tanks:
1 Black-throated Diver, 1 Great Northern Diver, 1 Great Crested Grebe

CHEW VALLEY LAKE
5 Pintail, 14 Scaup, 4 Goosander, 5 Great White Egret, 2 Little Egret, 2 juv Marsh Harrier, 2 Stonechat (f & m), 3 Water Rail - calling, 30 Redwings, 10 Fieldfares,  1 Meadow Pipit.

Moreton:
4 Shelduck - field behind the hide, 2 Bearded Tit

12-02-2020 Goosander CVL (Allan Chard)

Stratford:
13 Scaup (f & m), 2 Goosander - flypast, 4 Great Crested Grebe - 2pr displaying, 1 Bearded Tit

Reports: Des Bowring, Dru Brooke-Tayler, Allan Chard, Tony Cook, Pete Coslett, Jane Cumming, Ollie Fournier, Paul Francis, Bill Hewitt, Simon Isgar, Ian Loats, Robin Martin, Aravind Ramesh, Harvey Rose, Steve Sanins, Larry Sweetland, Bri Thompson, Keith Vinivombe, Keith Williams, 
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