Sunday 23 February 2020

23-02-20 Sunday - Common Scoter

Temp 13 down to 10°C. Max wind speed 45mph, at least it kept the rain off and then warm sun midday

Whooper Swan
Scaup, Common Scoter, Long-tailed Duck
Black-throated and Great Northern Diver
Red Kite
Avocet, Jack Snipe
Yellow-legged Gull

BRISTOL

Sea Mills:
20 Mallard, 12 Redshank, 30 BH Gull, 1 LBB Gull, 50 Feral Pigeon

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station, 22nd:
3 Ringed Plover, 50 Turnstone, 1 Barn Owl

NORTH SOMERSET

Pill - allotments:
2 Buzzard

Backwell Lake:
1 Water Rail, 1 Snipe, 1 Kingfisher, 20+ Redwing

23-2-20 Long-tailed Tit, Portbury Wharf (Jason Williams)
Portbury Wharf:
60 Wigeon, 8 Shoveler, 10 Gadwall, 8 Tufted Duck, 12 Lapwing, 3 Snipe, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 45 Rook, 1 Raven, 1 Cetti's Warbler

Clevedon Ladye Bay:
1 Common Scoter
23-2-20 Sparrowhawk, Clevedon (Jason Williams)
Clevedon garden:
1 Sparrowhawk

Clevedon-Yeo, Dowlais
1 Cetti's Warbler - singing 'it must be spring'

Woodspring Bay, Mouth of the River Banwell, 22nd:
19 Avocet

Kenn Moor, Yacwag Reserve:
Jack Snipe, 22 Snipe

Worle garden:
18 House Sparrow, 6 Chaffinch, 10 Greenfinch, 13 Goldfinch

BELOW M4 & BANES

23-2-20 Red Kite, Bath (Kevin Smith)
Bath, Englishcombe Lane and Twerton:
Red Kite
23-2-20 Whooper Swan, NSL (Lee Gardiner)
Newton St Loe:
Whooper Swan

RESERVOIRS

Barrow Tanks, BOC Walk:
6 Mute Swan, 7 Mallard, 2 Teal, 9 Pochard, 18 Tufted Duck, 1 Long-tailed Duck on 1, 1 Black-throated Diver on 3, 1 Great Northern Diver on 3, 8 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Little Grebe, 1 Grey Heron, 110 Cormorant, 2 Buzzard, 24 Coot, 2 Common Sandpiper, 250 BH Gull, 3 Common Gull, 2 GBB Gull, 4 Herring Gull, 2 LBB Gull, + 500 Gulls in field behind 2, 4 Magpie, 3 Wren, 4 House Sparrow, 3 Dunnock, 2 Grey Wagtail, 5 Pied Wagtail, 1 Meadow Pipit, 1 Chaffinch, 3 Goldfinch

Blagdon Lake:
2 Goosander, 1 Yellow-legged Gull

Chew Valley Lake:
Lots Scaup, 2 Goosander (Herriott's), 1 Great White Egret (V)

Reports: Lee Gardiner, Robert Hargreaves, Nick Hawkridge, Simon Isgar, Tom and Joan McLellan, Andy Mears, Paul Milsom, Jon Mortin, Dean Reeves, Gill Sapsed, Kevin Smith, Howard Taffs, Gwen Thomas, Jason Williams, blagdonlakebirds, nsl-birding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds