02-11-20 Monday- Great Northern Diver

Blustery, especially on the coast; rain squalls alternating with spells of sunshine everywhere

Scaup

Jack Snipe, Lesser Yellowlegs

Kittiwake, Little Gull, Yellow-legged Gull, Great Skua, Arctic Skua

Great Northern Diver

Great White Egret, Cattle Egret

Merlin

Bearded Tit

Water Pipit

Siskin 

+ large flocks of Woodpigeon reported from several places this morning

02-11-20 windblown Cattle Egrets, Heron's Green, CVL (Ian Stapp)

BRISTOL

Bedminster:

02-11-20 Sparrowhawk Bedminster garden (Jennifer Smith-Lyte)

Eastville, under the M32, R Frome:

1 Kingfisher - flashed upstream

Westbury-on-Trym:

c.950 Woodpigeon flew over going south in two huge flocks
Garden - 11 BH Gull, 2 Herring Gull, 2 Magpie, 3 Jackdaw, 2 Carrion Crow, 2 Blue Tit, 2 Coal Tit, 3 Starling, 1 Robin, 16 Goldfinch (highest number this year)

Stapleton:

02-11-20 Peregrine, Stapleton Church (Allan Chard)

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
A 1st-w Little Gull upriver at 7:35am (over my head). A fem/juv Merlin flying high-ish. A movement of some huge Woodpigeon flocks up to 700, SW along far side of estuary (over 1 mile away) and only visible in sun (c1,600 total).11 Skylark

Severn Beach:
1 Great Northern Diver  (flying downriver, before 9.00 am), 120 Kittiwake,  Great Skua, Arctic Skua

NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon-Yeo:
Ladye Bay - 3 Kittiwake
mouth of River Kenn - 1 Wheatear

Nailsea:

c650 Woodpigeon over at 9.30 am.

.Kenn Moor (Yacwag reserve):

1 Jack Snipe

Sand Point/Bay:
4 Egyptian Goose again

Worlebury:

Garden - 1m Blackcap

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield:
Rushmead Lane - 40 Skylark, Fieldfare, 2 Stonechat, 2 Pied Wagtail, Meadow Pipit, Chaffinch, Linnet, Goldfinch, 7 Corn Bunting

Marksbury:
100+ Starling

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
1 Common Sandpiper, 1 pr Stonechat

Chew Valley Lake

Villice:

Lesser Yellowlegs still

02-11-20 Goosander, Heron's Green, CVL (Ian Stapp)

Heron's Green:

7 Goosander (all redhead), 8 Little Grebe, 1 Common Sandpiper,  3 GBB Gull 1 Yellow-legged Gull, 15 Cattle Egret (heads down in the strong breeze), 9 Great White Egret,  8 Little Egret, 4 Grey Heron, 2 Raven, 2 Skylark, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Stonechat  

Field opposite road to Blagdon - 24 Cattle Egret, 4 Little Egret 

Stratford:

8 Bearded Tit, 1 Water Pipit 

Moreton:
2 Scaup, 20+ Goldeneye, 3 Goosander (redhead),4 Stock Dove, 20+ Wood Pigeon, 3 GBB Gull, 1 Buzzard, 1 Peregrine,4 Jay ,7 Magpie, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 1 pr Stonechat, 3 Meadow Pipit, 20+ Chaffinch,  6+ Siskin (car park) 

Herriott's Bridge:
3 Shelduck, 1 Water Rail (calling), 3 G BB Gull, 7 Great White Egret, 4 Little Egret, 7 Grey Heron, 2 Kingfisher, 5 Jackdaw, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Grey Wagtail, 6 Meadow Pipit,1 Reed Bunting

One of our regular source sites, The Birds Of South Gloucestershire (TBOSG) has been going for 15 years this month. Best wishes and many thanks from Avon Birds.

Reports: Paul Bowerman, Allan Chard, Derek Clarke, Chris Craig, Andy Davis,  Trevor Ford, Paul Gregory, Robert Hargreaves, Richard Hawkridge, Simon Isgar, Robert Proctor, Phil Quinn, Trevor Riddell, Aravind Ramesh, Harvey Rose, Jennifer Smith-Lyall, George Stacey, Ian Stapp, Howard Taffs, blagdonlakebirds, nslbirding, opsbirding, TBOSG