Thursday 8 October 2020

08-10-20 Thursday - Firecrest

Wet start, bright Sunshine and dry later on, windy, but a beautiful day. Bristol 14°c

Marsh Tit
Yellow-legged Gull, Cattle Egret, Marsh Harrier, Goldeneye
Shag, Firecrest

BRISTOL

08-10-20 Sparrowhawk Finzels Reach (Rich Scantlebury)
Castle Park/Finzels Reach

1 Moorhen, 3 Black-h Gull, 2 Herring Gull, 1 Peregrine, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Carrion Crow

Clifton:
1 Marsh Tit - coming every day to the feeders now.

Redland Garden:
1 Wood pigeon, 2 Magpie, 4 Carrion Crow - over, 3 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, 1 Robin, 10+ House Sparrow, 6+ Goldfinch - over

08-10-20 Mallard family Stoke Park (Martin Tayler)
Stoke Park, Duchess Pond:

11 Mallard ducklings still with mum, 1 Kestrel, 

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

08-10-20 Bar-headed Goose NP-NW (Ian Loats)
New Passage/Northwick:

70 Canada Geese, 1 Bar-headed Goose - a first here, 3 Mute Swan, 12 Shoveler, 4 Gadwall, 40 Teal, 6 Tufted Duck, 2 Little Grebe, 6 Oystercatcher, 2 Lapwing, 7 Curlew, 280+ Black-trailed Godwit, 1 Ruff, 60 Dunlin, 1 Common Sandpiper, Redshank, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Little Egret, 1 Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 100 Starling, 5 Wheatear, 50+ Meadow Pipit
08-10-20 Wheatear NP-NW (Vĕra Carpenter)

NORTH SOMERSET

Nailsea - garden:
At last; assorted Tit, Wren, Blackbird - inc incomers,  squabbling over the last of the grape vine bounty,  Robin, 

Sand Point/Bay:
1 Shag, 5 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap, 1 Firecrest, 3 Goldcrest, 

08-10-20 Sparrowhawk Banwell (John Thorogood)
Banwell:

1 Sparrowhawk - sat around for fifteen minutes, no more than 18 inches from one of our feeders this morning but had to leave still hungry. (amateur, obvs)

BELOW M4 & BANES

08-10-20 Goldfinch NSL (NSL-Birding)
Newton St Loe:

2 Teal - new in, 4 Buzzard, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, 2 Jay, 1 Raven, 3 Skylark, 2 Grey Wagtail, 6 Pied Wagtail, 6 Meadow Pipit, 

Marksbury:
50 Woodpigeon - a flock, 150 Starling - on the wires

08-10-20 Nuthatch Chew Stoke (Lucy Masters)
Chew Stoke:

1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Nuthatch, 20 Goldfinch

Paulton:
30 Woodpigeon, 2 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, 1 Raven, 25 Skylark, 1 Wheatear, 4 House Sparrow, 1 Meadow Pipit, 1 Bullfinch, 6 Greenfinch - 1 Clouded Yellow (honorary bird today)

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake
40+ Great White Egret around the lake, 50 to 100 House Martin - when the sun came out most disappeared!

Dam:
1 Common Sandpiper, 8 Common Gull, 2 Great Black-b Gull, 40 to 50 House Martin, 3 Pied Wagtail

Woodford:
5 Great Black-b Gull, 2 Raven, 50+ House Martins - over lake

08-10-20 Yellow-legged Gull CVL H Green (Ian Stapp)
Heron's Green:

6 Little Grebe -pool, 3 Black-t Godwit, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Green Sandpiper, 6 Common Gull, 3 G Black-b Gull, 1 Yellow-l Gull - eating bread, no butter, 14 Cattle Egret - field at the back of the pool with cows, 11 Grey Heron, 34 Great White Egret, 16 Little Egret,  20+ House Martin, 4 Pied Wagtail

08-10-20 Marsh Harrier CVL (Simon Isgar)
Stratford:

2 Goldeneye, 3 Grey Plover, 2 Ringed Plover, 1 Ruff, 1 Marsh Harrier - there is a Coot, just out of shot, under water!

Herriott's inc Pool:
28 Pintail - pool, 8 Little Grebe, 1 Water Rail - channel, 3 Lapwing, 3 Grey Plover, 1 Black-t Godwit,  5 Ruff, 15 Dunlin, 9 Common Gull, 5 Great Black-b Gull, 9 Grey Heron, 7 Great White Egret, 5 Little Egret, 1 Marsh Harrier - showing on and off flushing everything, 2 Buzzard, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Jackdaw, 2 Raven, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 12+ House Sparrow

08-10-20 Yellow belly slider turtle CVL Herriott's channel (Ian Stapp)
Yellow-belly Slider Turtle

in the channel, first time for a while, this one is quite large

Reports: Nancy Barrett, Vĕra Carpenter, Andy Davis, David Esam, Patrick Hancock, Simon Isgar, Ian Loats, Lucy Masters, Lisa Bresland, Dean Reeves, Ann Rositter, Richard Scantlebury, Ian Stapp, Martin Tayler, John Thorogood, 

As we continue our preparations for the 2020 bird report we have a list of claims where we need further details otherwise the record will be lost. If you saw any of the following can you please get in touch with the AOG at avonbirds@hotmail.co.uk

Species

Count

Date

Site

Balearic Shearwater

1

05/07/2020

Sand Point

Great Black-backed Gull

25

18/02/2020

Clevedon

Grey Phalarope

1

26/08/2020

Oldbury Power Station

Grey Phalarope

1

25/08/2020

Severn Beach

Hawfinch

1

02/08/2020

Hallatrow, South

Hawfinch

1

08/04/2020

Wickwar, Lower Woods, Lady's Wood

Hooded Merganser

2

19/02/2020

Clevedon

Hoopoe

1

05/05/2020

Hanham, Roman Way

Hoopoe

1

07/08/2020

Nailsea

Hoopoe

1

05/05/2020

South Stoke, Valley

House Crow

5

25/01/2020

Little Sodbury

Lesser Spotted Woodpecker

1

17/04/2020

Thornbury, Hacket / Cleve Woods

Merlin

1

09/05/2020

Bath, Oldfield Park

Montagu's Harrier

1

24/04/2020

Corston Field

Montagu's Harrier

1

24/04/2020

Hunstrete, Lords Wood

Nightingale

2

08/05/2020

Severn Beach

Redstart

present

06/02/2020

Portishead

Rock Pipit - Scandinavian

1

12/03/2020

Severn Beach

Serin

1

27/04/2020

Bristol, Lawrence Weston, Brookthorp Av

Serin

1

24/06/2020

Yate, Kestrel Close

Shag

1

14/03/2020

Chew Valley Lake

Shag

1

23/05/2020

Sand Point

Spoonbill

1

20/03/2020

New Passage / Northwick Warth

Swallow

present

14/03/2020

Chew Valley Lake

Twite

5

11/01/2020

New Passage / Northwick Warth

White-tailed Eagle

1

27/03/2020

Pill, Village

White-tailed Eagle

1

08/05/2020

Weston-super-Mare

Whooper Swan

1

11/01/2020

Longwell Green

Wood Warbler

1

03/08/2020

Chipping Sodbury Common

Yellow-legged Gull

present

18/02/2020

Bristol, Knowle