15-11-20 Sunday - Long-tailed Duck

Started like a continuation of yesterday, then brightened into a reasonable day with sunny patches, though more rain never far away. Bristol temperatures between 13 and 8°C

Long-tailed Duck 

Mediterranean Gull

Great Northern Diver

Merlin

Snow Bunting

Marsh Tit, Bearded Tit 

Firecrest
 

15-11-20 Long-tailed Duck, Barrow Tanks (Gill@tiger8lotus)

15-11-20 Great Northern Diver, Barrow Tanks (Mike Trew)

BRISTOL

Ashton Court:

2 Stock Dove, flyover Cormorant, 2 displaying Raven, 68 Jackdaw, 14 Rook, 5 Redwing, 18 Pied Wagtail feeding on insects among the Deer herd.

Ashton Vale:

On the Marsh -  20+ Starling, 1+ Stonechat, 1+ Goldfinch 

Coombe Dingle:

Garden - 4 m Blackcap 

Downs opposite Zoo entrance:

1 Marsh Tit,  1 f Firecrest

Redland:

Garden - 3 Feral Pigeon, 2 Collared Dove, 2 Carrion Crow, 1 Magpie, 1 Jay, 1 Blackbird, 1 Robin, 1 Blue Tit, 8+ House Sparrow

Withywood:

Garden - 1 pr Raven

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
Canada Goose, Lapwing, Dunlin, 'lots' of winter thrushes, 1 pr Stonechat

15-11-20 Close-up of the female Snow Bunting at New Passage (Barry Dursley)

             
New Passag/:
1  Snow Bunting (only the longer-staying female reported today)

NORTH SOMERSET

15-11-20 Garden flyover - Mediterranean Gull, Clevedon (Paul Chapman)

Clevedon:

Garden - 1 ad Mediterranean Gull over - a nice garden tick
Land Yeo behind Cinema - 1 Kingfisher

Wraxall Woods:

1 Buzzard, 2 Raven, 6 Long-tailed Tit

BELOW M4 & BANES

15-11-20 Stonechat, Marshfield (Pete Coslett)

         

Marshfield:

Down Road - 4 Stock Dove, 1 Merlin, 150 Corvid flock,4 Raven. 400 Starling, 200Fieldfare, 5 Blackbird,Stonechat, 6+ Chaffinch

RESERVOIRS

Barrow Tanks:

1 ad Long-tailed Duck, 1 Great Northern Diver

Chew Valley Lake

Herriott's:

Bearded Tit calling

15-11-20 Great Northern Diver and Long-tailed Duck, Barrow Tanks (Mike Trew)
[Hard to resist more shots of this splendid pair]

Reports: Nancy Barrett,  Paul Chapman, Peter Coslett, Neil Delaney, Barry Dursley, William Earp, Heather England, Alastair Fraser, Richard Giles and Fiona Neate, Gill@tiger8lotus, Simon Isgar, Iris Langson, John Lewis, Caroline Rigg, Brian Thompson, Mike Trew