22-02-20 Saturday - Great White Egret

Still blustery.  Some fine spells this morning with murky horizons, deteriorating into another horrible wet and windy afternoon.

Great White Egret

Three species of gull to look for here (Higgy)

BRISTOL

Tidal Avon at Sea Mills:
7 Common Sandpiper

Another wet day - most stayed at home watching Blackcaps in the garden
(Wildwood)

St George:
3 Blackcap

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

22-02-2020 Jack Snipe CSC (Mark Coller)

Chipping Sodbury Common:
5 Buzzard, 2 Jack Snipe, 1 Little Owl, 2 Peregrine, 4 Raven

22-02-2020 Kestrel OPS (Pete Hazelwood)

Oldbury Power Station:
"Very windswept and birdless" but 3 Ringed Plover, c.50 Turnstone.

Barn Owl (hunting near junction of Foss Lane and Pickedmoor Lane en route to Thornbury), 1 Kestrel.

NORTH SOMERSET

Swans and Goosanders at Kingston Seymour (Howard Taffs)

Clevedon, Blind Yeo:
17 Mallard, 2 Goosander, 2 Little Grebe, 6 Moorhen.

Kingston Seymour:
Mute Swans, 7 Goosander, 100+ BH Gull, 150 Fieldfare, 400 Starling.

Kenn Moor:

23 Canada Goose, 61 Mute Swan, 3 Little Grebe, 1 Grey Heron, 500+ Black-headed Gull, 12+ Magpie, small flock of 15-20 tits, 300+ Starling, 1 Redwing.

BELOW M4 & BANES

Webbs Heath:
Sparrowhawk, c. 20 Fieldfare.

Portrait of Canada Geese (Higgy)

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
40 Goldeneye, 13 Goosander, 1 Great White Egret, 1 Common Sandpiper

Chew Valley Lake

22-02-2020 Scaup CVL (Tony Bridges)

Stratford:
Several Scaup

CVL Ringing Station:
Recovery report of a Teal.

22-02-2020 Teal CVL -  ringing recovery report (CVL Ringing)

There are some sparsely populated places in the world, try Pryazhinsky district, Karelia in the Russian Federation for example. So here's something for you. A Teal ringed in Oct 2016 at CVRS has been found there.

Reports:  Phil Barlow, Tony Bridges, Mark Coller, Jane Cumming, CVL ringing, Sean Davies, Lee Gardiner, Pete Hazelwood,  Higgy, Mark Hynam, Nige Milbourne, Matt Plenty, Howard Taffs,
blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG