Saturday, 31 October 2020

31-10-20 Saturday - Lesser Scaup

 Windy, wet and not as mild as yesterday

Lesser Scaup
Lesser Yellowlegs
Yellow-legged Gull
Cattle Egret, Great White Egret
Marsh Harrier
Barn Owl
Bearded Tit
Swallow

BRISTOL

Bristol City Centre: 
Finzels Reach - 1 pr Peregrine

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:

31-10--20 Cattle Egret with Little Egrets, Littleton-on-Severn (Matt Plenty)
          
Littleton Warth:
15 Grey Plover, 1 Cattle Egret, 17 Little Egret 

New Passage/Pilning Wetlands:
c 40 Canada Goose, c 20 Shoveler, 12 Gadwall, c 30 Wigeon, 12 Teal, 2 Moorhen, 5 Coot, 1 Little Grebe, 5 Lapwing, c 55 Curlew, c 130 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Redshank (with Godwits), 1 Grey Heron, flock c50 Starling

Chipping Sodbury Common:
Sparrowhawk, Green Woodpecker, 2 Fieldfare, 6 Linnet

Emerson's Green:

30-10-20 Starling murmuration, Bristol Science Park (Anthony Goodwin)
[Estimated number 3-4,000]
Warmley:
Warmley Brook - 1 Dipper

NORTH SOMERSET

Barrow Court - Flax Bourton:
Woodpigeon, Herring Gull, Buzzard , Jackdaw, Rook, Carrion Crow, Raven, Coal Tit, Great Tit, Stonechat                         

BELOW M4 & BANES

Bath:
Carrs Woodland - 1 Stock Dove, 1 Buzzard, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Treecreeper

Burnett:
Large Corvid flock of 1000+ Jackdaw, Rook and  Carrion Crow over ploughed field

Marksbury:
100+ Starling

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

Estimated Egret  totals from several sites - 39 Cattle Egret, 12 Great White Egret,  20 Little Egret

31-10-20 Cattle and Little Egret, Chew Valley Lake (Ian Stapp)

Villice:
100 Shoveler, 1 Little Grebe, 400+ Coot, 1 Lapwing, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Lesser Yellowlegs, 4 Common Gull, 6 Great White Egret, 1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Cetti’s Warbler


Heron's Green:
7 Goosander (1m, 6f) , 6 Little Grebe1 Common Sandpiper, 3 Snipe, 2 ad Yellow-legged Gull, 3 GBB Gull,  4 Great White Egret, 39Cattle Egret (field south of HGB), 16  Little Egret, 2 Grey Heron, 2 Raven, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Stonechat  


31-10-20 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Moreton, CVL (Ian Stapp)
      
Moreton:
1 Pintail, Lesser Scaup still, 20 Goldeneye (1m),7 Stock Dove, 3 G BB Gull, 2 Buzzard, 1 Marsh Harrier, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Jay, 5 Magpie,  4 Raven,  2 Cetti's Warbler, 20+ L TT with Blue & Great, 2 Robin, 2 Stonechat (F & M), 20+ Meadow Pipit 

Fields between Moreton and Stratford:
Cattle Egrets (presumed part of large Heron's Green group), 1 Buzzard, 3 Jay, 2 Swallow

Stratford:
4 Snipe, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Marsh Harrier, 1 Peregrine, 2 Bearded Tit, 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 Reed Bunting

Herriott's Bridge:
3 Shelduck,  20 Goldeneye, 1 Goosander, 108 Shoveler,  1 Water Rail, 1 Lapwing, 2 Black-tailed Godwit,3 G BB Gull, 3 Cattle Egret,  Great White Egret, 4 Little  Egret, 7 Grey Heron, 2 Marsh Harrier ( presumed same as Moreton and Stratford birds), 1 Barn Owl, 2 Kingfisher, 5 Jackdaw, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 50 Starling, 1 Grey Wagtail 

                    
31-10-20, Stonechat,Moreton, CVL (Ian Stapp)

Reports: Jonathan Angell, Dru Brooke-Taylor,  Pete Bryant, Chris Craig, Andy Davis, Patrick Hancock, Geoff Hardman, Robert Hargreaves, Robert Kelsh, Matt Plenty, Lois Pryce, Rich Scantlebury, Ian Stapp