Friday, 28 February 2020

28-02-20 Friday - Firecrest

Temp 3 down to 12°C. Another damp windy day

Pintail
Great Northern Diver
Yellow-legged Gull
Marsh Tit
Firecrest

28-2-20 Pintail at Aztec West (Rob Emery)
BRISTOL

Aztec West:
1 f Pintail

Bishopston garden:
1 f Blackcap

Clifton Garden:
1 Coal Tit, 1 Marsh Tit

Redland garden:
1 m Blackcap

Stoke Bishop garden:
3 Woodpigeon, 4 Magpie, 2 Coal Tit, 5 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, 1 Long-tailed Tit, 2  m/f Blackcap, 1 Wren,  3 Blackbird, 1 robin, 2 Dunnock, 4 Chaffinch, 1 Greenfinch, 9 Goldfinch

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

28-2-20 Blackcap, Hanham (PeterCoslett)
Hanham garden:
1 f Blackcap, 1 Goldcrest

NORTH SOMERSET

28-2-20 Cormorant, Portishead Marina (John Clark)
Portishead Marina:
2 Cormorant
28-2-20 Firecrest, Sand Point Car Park (Paul Cousins)
Sand Point/Bay:
Firecrest

Worle garden:
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Blue Tit, 2 Blackcap, 1 Goldcrest, 6 House Sparrow, 8 Chaffinch, 7 Greenfinch, 10 Goldfinch

BELOW M4 & BANES

Hanham garden:
1 f Blackcap, 1 Goldcrest

Bath, Twerton garden:
2 Magpie, 4 Coal Tit, 6 Long-tailed Tit, 12 Redwing, 2 Chaffinch

Midford:
5 species of tit on the feeders at Tucking Mill, including 1 Marsh Tit. Also Nuthatch and Treecreeper nearby. A Weasel ran across the cycle path and I also saw a Roe Deer and 2 Rabbits, making it my 1st triple mammal walk of the year!

28-2-20 Great Northern Diver, No3 Barrow (TtB)
RESERVOIRS

Barrow Gurney Tanks:
28-2-20 Yellow-legged Gull, CVL (Bri Thompson)
Great Northern Diver

Chew Valley Lake:
1 ad Yellow-legged Gull  at Heron's Green

Reports: John Clark, Peter Coslett, Paul Cousins, Anne Crowe, Rob Emery, David Esam, Simon Harris, Nick Hawkridge, Phil Queen, Dean Reeves, Talking to Bears, Bri Thompson, blagdonlakebirds, nsl-birding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds

Two Surveys you may like to participate in:

Breeding Waders of Wet Meadows Survey

AND
BTO AVON REGION
BREEDING BIRD SURVEY
UNALLOCATED NATIONAL SQUARES
@ 23 February 2020

B&NES
ST5958 - White Cross, S of Bishop Sutton *
ST6159 - Farmland W of Clutton
ST6356 - Hallatrow
ST6954 - Radstock *
ST7057 - Peasedown St John*
ST7160 - Farmland N of Dunkerton *
ST7257 - Wellow Road, E of Peasedown St John*
ST7559 - Twinhoe, NE of Wellow*
ST7659 - Midford Brook Valley
ST7868 - St Catherine's Brook

City of Bristol
ST6069 - Hengrove

North Somerset
ST3960 - Moorland Farm, N of Banwell *
ST3962 - Rolstone *
ST4158 - N of Winscombe*
ST4257 - Sidcot *
ST4659 - Upper Langford*

South Gloucestershire
ST5580 - Hallen*
ST5786 - Olveston Drainage Rhyne
ST6088 - Elberton
ST6389 - SW Thornbury

Somerset (but in Avon BTO region)
ST3150 - N of Burnham-on-Sea*
ST3850 - Levels W of Chapel Allerton*
ST4353 - Cheddar Reservoir
ST4456 - S of Shipham *
ST4651 - Cheddar Moor Drove*
ST4953 - Cheddar Head*
ST5050 - Westbury Beacon, Mendip*
ST5153 - Yoxter Farm, Mendip
ST5256 - Green Plantation, S. of Ubley
ST5454 - Lamb Bottom
ST5650 - Tower Hill (E of Priddy (Mendip)) *
ST5851 - Mendip, W of Green Ore*
ST6050 - SW of Emborough (W of Old Down)*
ST6054 - Farmland E of Litton
ST6154 - NW of Ston Easton *
ST6250 - N of Gurney Slade
ST6251 - Old Down (Mendip)
ST6750 - N of Holcombe (E of Stratton on the Fosse)*
ST6850 - Lipyeate
ST7050 - Wincanton Racecourse *
ST7452 - Hardington & surrounding farmland
ST7652 - E of Hardington
ST7853 - W of Woolverton (nr Rode but W of A36)*.                                    * Not previously surveyed


Contact : Dave Stoddard
dave.stoddard@tiscali.co.uk