04-10-20 Sunday - Little Stint

The rain continued until the middle of the day, but thankfully let up for the afternoon

Common Scoter

Grey Plover, Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint, Greenshank

Kittiwake, Mediterranean Gull

Manx Shearwater

Great White Egret
Short-eared Owl (on 1st Oct)

Whinchat

04-10-20 Grey Wagtail, Kingswood  garden (Martyn Hayes)

BRISTOL

Clifton Down, Ladies Mile:

1 Wheatear

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Tytherington:

1 Great White Egret over the M5

Grovesend:

1 Great Spotted Woodpecker

Tortworth Lake:

1 Mute Swan, 3 Gadwall, 30 Mallard, 10 Tufted Duck, 2 Moorhen, 21 Coot, 3 Little Grebe, 1 Grey Heron, 12 House Martin. 3 Kingfisher, 4 Carrion Crow, 1 Wren

Whitfield:

1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Buzzard, 3 Blue Tit, 1 Great Tit, + 5 Roe Deer

Cromhall:

1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Jay, 25 Jackdaw, 2 Rook

Olveston:

Village pond – 2 Mallard, 3 Mallard types, 2 Moorhen

Pilning;

3 House Martin

Pilning Wetland:

1 Little Egret,  18 Lapwing, 200+ Black-tailed Godwit, 1 juv Curlew Sandpiper, 140 Redshank, 2 Snipe, 80+ House Martin, 3 Swallow, 1  Whinchat, 1 Stonechat, 1 Grey Wagtail 

Severn Beach:

25 Shelduck,1 m Common Scoter, 2 Manx Shearwater,  1  Kittiwake, 1 2nd w Mediterranean Gull

Oldbury Power Station:

1 f Sparrowhawk, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, 2 Chiffchaff, LTT, Goldcrestold, 3 Stonechat, 1 Pied Wagtail

01-10-20 exhausted Short-eared Owl, Frampton Cotterell (Kirsty Goddard)

Frampton Cotterell:

1st October - 1 Short-eared Owl found in a field by non-birders walking their dog. It was wet and exhausted and allowed itself to be picked up. After a checkover at the vet it is now recovering at The Viaduct Animal Sanctuary at Coalpit Heath.

Wapley:

2 Swallow

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead:

1 Curlew in Woodhill Bay + 1 House Martin over Boating Lake

BELOW M4 & BANES

Paulton:
2 Mute Swan, 16 Mallard, 4 Moorhen, 2 Little Grebe, 4 Black-headed Gull, 10 Herring Gull, 1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Buzzard, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Swallow, 25 House Martin, 1 Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap, 2 Goldcrest, 20 Goldfinch

Sewage works- 4 Pied Wagtail, 4 Grey Wagtail, 4 Meadow Pipit

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake
Lake level has increased a fair bit overnight. Smaller numbers of Egrets as a result

Stratford:
3 Grey Plover, 1 Curlew Sandpiper, 2 Little Stint, 17 Dunlin  2 Greenshank 

Reports: Rich Andrews, Michael Baker, Paul Bowdler, Chris Craig, Barry Dursley, Richard Giles and Fiona Neate, Kirsty Goddard, Patrick Hancock, David Howes, Mike Jackson, severnsidebirds,