Friday 21 February 2020

21-02-20 Friday - Cattle Egret

Overcast and blustery, with a couple of showers and strong gusts of wind.

Cattle Egret, Yellow-legged Gull
Whooper Swan
Bearded Tit
Kittiwake
Long-tailed Duck, Black-throated Diver, Great Northern Diver, Red Kite
Golden Plover, Yellowhammer

BRISTOL

Clifton, Queens Sq:
1 Ring-necked Parakeet

21-02-2020 Goldfinch (m) St George (Lee Gardiner)

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Severn Beach:
1 Shelduck, 2 Kittiwake - ad, Lesser Black-b Gull, Herring Gull - during a half hour sea watch

NORTH SOMERSET

Dundry Hill:
1 Kestrel - hanging in the wind

Clevedon Moor:
1 Teal, 10 Goosander, 1 Little Grebe, 1 Little Egret, 2 Buzzard, 30 Lapwing, 225 B-h Gull, 6 Stock Dove, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Jay, 1 Skylark - singing, 600 Starling, 2 Song Thrush, 1 Mistle Thrush - singing, 2 Stonechat and 30 Linnet.

Yatton to Congressbury - Strawberry Line:
Canada Goose, 5 Mute Swan, 4 Mallard, Grey Heron, Little Egret, Buzzard, 2 Coal Tit, 4 Blue Tit, 5 Great Tit, 2 Cetti’s Warbler heard at different sites, 2 Long-tailed Tit, Wren, Flock of 10 Fieldfare and 5 Redwing in field and separate flock of around 50 that were in flight and were mainly Redwing, 2 Song Thrush, 4 Robin, 2 Chaffinch, 2 Greenfinch, 10 Goldfinch

BELOW M4 & BANES

Oldland Common - garden:
4 Greenfinch

Marshfield - 20th:
21 Golden Plover,  c.140 Stock Dove, 2 Kestrel, c.120 Skylark, 25 Meadow Pipit, c.70 Yellowhammer

Bath - St John's:
2 Peregrine (pr)

21-02-2020 Whooper Swan NSL (Merv Carlyon)
Newton St Loe:
1 Whooper Swan - still there

Temple Cloud:
1 Kestrel

RESERVOIRS

Barrow Tanks:
1 Long-tailed Duck, 1 Black-throated Diver, 1 Great Northern Diver, 1 Red Kite

21-02-2020 Black-headed Gull CVL - head in brown
Be off soon (John Hansford)
Chew Valley Lake
~ 6 Great White Egret

Main Dam:
1 Egyptian Goose

21-02-2020 Cetti's Warbler CVL (George Stacey)
Bittern Trail:
1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Goldcrest, 1 Treecreeper, 30 + Redwing, 1 Song Thrush,  2 Bullfinch (pr),

Heron's Green:
2 Goldeneye, 1 Goosander, 2 Grey Heron, 3 Great White Egret, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Yellow-legged Gull - ad

21-02-2020 Common Gull CVL (Mike Trew)
Moreton:
17 Scaup, 8 Goldeneye, 1 Great White Egret, 1 Marsh Harrier, 1 - possible - Kittiwake 25 Fieldfare, c.60 Linnet

Stratford - Summerlea Farm:
1 Cattle Egret, 11 Little Egret, 2 Marsh Harrier, 1 Water Rail, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 4 Bearded Tit (2pr), 1 Raven, 20 Redwing, 1 Stonechat

Herriott's - inc pool:
4 Pintail, 4 Great White Egret, 1 Yellow-legged Gull

21-02-2020 Bullfinch and Song Thrush CVL (George Stacey)

Reports: Jon Angell, Julia Baker, BUPP, Merv Carlyon, Martin Cottis, Chris Craig, Adam Cross, Andy Davis, Paul Francis, Lee Gardiner, John Hansford, Simon Isgar, Rob Martin, Trevor Riddle, George Stacey, Mike Trew. 

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