24-10-20 Saturday - Lesser Yellowlegs

Mild with a fresh westerly wind ushering in lots of rain, especially in the afternoon when some of it was torrential.  Unsurprisingly, very few people went birding today.

Cattle Egrets

Lesser Yellowlegs, Little Stints, Spotted Redshank

Water Pipit, White Wagtail

Even this photo is cheating - it was taken yesterday at Pilning Wetlands (Lisa Presland)

BRISTOL

Coombe Dingle:

m. Sparrowhawk took a Goldfinch.

Stoke Park, Duchess Pond:
1 Chiffchaff.

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Pilning Wetlands:

Very quiet - one Swallow.

Winterbourne - Whiteshill Common

35 Black-h Gull, 11 Common Gull, 1 Lesser Black-b Gull, 1 Buzzard, 1 Mistle Thrush, 

Little Stoke - garden:

flock of Redwing

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead boating lake:

35 Canada Goose, 1 Greylag Goose, 2 Mute Swan, 60+ Mallard, 8 Tufted Duck (1 m.), 2 Moorhen.

Weston-super-Mare:

27 Dunlin - on the seafront at high tide

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield

13 Stock Dove, 1 Black-h |Gull, 22 Common Gull, 200 mixed corvid, Skylark, 600 Starling, 200 Fieldfare, 60 Linnet, Corn Bunting, 

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:

4 Great White Egret, 100's Wigeon and Teal, 5 Pintail, 1 Common Sandpiper, juv. Marsh Harrier.

Chew Valley Lake

1 Scaup, 11 Goldeneye, 6 Goosander, 2 Cattle Egret. 10 Great White Egret, 

24-10-20 Little Stint and Dunlin (arctica) CVL (Bri Thompson)

Stratford Hide:
(08:30 - 15:20 hrs)
1 Water Rail, 2 Dunlin, 4 Little Stint, 6 Snipe, 1 Lesser Yellowlegs, 1 Spotted Redshank, 1 Marsh Harrier, 1 Peregrine, 1 f. Stonechat, 1 White Wagtail,  6 Meadow Pipit, 1 Water Pipit.

Reports:  Pete Coslett, Adam Cross, Jane Cumming, Andy Davis, Barry Dursley, Alastair Fraser, David Hughes, Rob Purveur, Adam Rawson, Dean Reeves, Larry Sweetland, Bri Thompson,  blagdonlakebirds,opsbirding,