Tuesday 24 November 2020

24-11-20 Tuesday - Red Kites

 Mainly overcast but dry, cool.  Brisk SW wind swinging West with more cloud rolling in later.

Great Northern Diver
Great White Egrets
Red Kite
Marsh Tit
Black Redstart
Merlin

Fight or flight?  A pair of Goosanders (George Stacey)
 BRISTOL

Filton Park:
1 Sparrowhawk, 3 Jay, 12 Magpie, 23 Starlings, 3 Pied Wagtail, 14 Goldfinch.

Henleaze - garden:
3 Greenfinch

Redland garden:
1 Jay, 4 Blue Tit, 1 Great Tit, 2 Blackbird,  m. and f. Blackcap.

Green Woodpeckers (Tony Scott)
Greenbank cemetery:
2 Green Woodpecker, 2 Jay.

Narroways LNR, St Werburgh's:
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker

St Agnes - garden: 
1 Chiffchaff

Oldland Common:
Sparrowhawk caught a Magpie

Drake Goosander (George Stacey)

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
Black Redstart

New Passage/ Northwick Warth:
2 Merlin (f & m) - roosting (m), got chased off by (f)

Lower Woods:
7 Woodpigeon, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Jay, 1 Marsh Tit, 4 Blue Tit, 1 Goldcrest, 10+ Redwing, 5 Blackbird, 2 Song Thrush, 3 Robin, 2 Wren, 2 Nuthatch, 1 Treecreeper, 1 Chaffinch, pr. Bullfinch.

Latteridge:
Redwing again - gorging on berries

Yate:
4 Goosander.

Robin (Raoul Chandrasakera)

NORTH SOMERSET

Portbury Warth:
10 Canada Goose, 3 Mute Swan, 2 Shoveler, 14 Gadwall, 3 Wigeon, 8 Mallard, 10 Teal, 3 Little Grebe, 3 Lapwing, 1 Cormorant, 40 Redwing

Tyntesfield:
1 Buzzard,  1 Jay, 1 Magpie,  3 Rook, 2 Carrion  Crow,  2 Raven,  1 Nuthatch,  1 Wren, 4 Blackbird,  19 Redwing, 1 Song Thrush, 1 Robin. 

Marsh Tit at Cadbury Hill (Mark Savage)
Cadbury Hill, Yatton:

1 Jay, 2 Raven, 4 Marsh Tit, 4 Goldcrest, 2 Nuthatch, 1 Mistle Thrush.


Clevedon pier:
Black Redstart


Buzzard (Ian Stapp)

BELOW M4 & BANES

Stanton Prior:
Buzzard, Kestrel, Starling, Fieldfare, Redwing, 1 Stonechat, Chaffinch

Newton St Loe:

2 Mute Swan, c.28 Mallard, 15 Teal, 10 Pheasant, 1 Little Grebe, 4 Grey Heron, 2 Cormorant, 1 Buzzard, 2 Moorhen, c.100 BH Gull, c.12 Common Gull, Herring Gull, LBB Gull, Feral Pigeon, Woodpigeon, Collared Dove, 1 m. Kingfisher, 1 GS Woodpecker, Magpie, Jackdaw, Rook, Carrion Crow, 1 Raven, Coal Tit, Blue Tit, Great Tit, LT Tit, Goldcrest, Wren, 2 Nuthatch, c.10 Blackbird, 3 Fieldfare, 10 Redwing, 2 Mistle Thrush, Robin, 1 f. Stonechat, House Sparrow, 2 Pied Wagtail, Meadow Pipit, 2 Greenfinch, Goldfinch.


Red Kite over Herriotts Bridge (Simon Isgar)

Folly Farm:

Pheasant, 200+ Woodpigeon, Herring Gull, LBB Gull, 1 Red Kite (drifting east c 12.40 pm and mobbed by a corvid), 2+ Buzzard, Green Woodpecker, Kestrel, Jay, Magpie, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, Raven, Blue Tit, Marsh Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Wren, Starling, Blackbird, Fieldfare, Redwing, Robin, Chaffinch.

Marsh Tit (Raoul Chandrakasera)

RESERVOIRS

Barrow Tanks:
Great Northern Diver

Pochard (George Stacey)
Chew Valley Lake


Dam:
2 Goldeneye, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 6 Pied Wagtail.

Mistle Thrush (George Stacey)
Woodford orchard:
Buzzard, 10+Jackdaw, 12+ LT Tit, 50+ mixed winter thrushes, 1 Mistle Thrush, 20+ Chaffinch.

Hollow Brook:
18 Goosander (3 m.)

Heron's Green:
4 Wigeon, 14 Pochard, 6 Little Grebe, 2 Snipe, 1 Common Sandpiper, 2 G BB Gull, 6 Great White Egret, 7 Little Egret, 5 Grey Heron, 1 Buzzard, 8 Carrion Crow, (m. and f.) Stonechat, 3 Pied Wagtail. 
        
Moreton:
60+ Woodpigeon, 2 Stock Dove, Water Rail, 2 Buzzard, 1 Tawny Owl, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Jay, 20+ Crow and Jackdaw, 2 Raven, 1 Coal Tit, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 25+ LT Tit in mixed tit flock, 4 Stonechat (2m., 2f.), 2 Meadow Pipit, 2 Goldfinch.

Herriott's Bridge:
6 Shelduck, 150+Teal, Shoveler, 18 Pintail, 4 Goldeneye, 1 f. Goosander, 1 Water Rail, Common Gull, 4 GBB Gull, LBB Gull, 12 Herring Gull, 4 Great White Egret, 2 Little Egret, 6 Grey Heron, 1 Buzzard, 1 Red Kite (flew over 12.10pm), 1 Kingfisher, 5 Jackdaw, 50+ mixed winter thrushes (flyover), 2 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Grey Wagtail, 2 Pied Wagtail.

Pied Wagtail at the Dam (Ian Stapp)
Also:
The following claims have all been on Birdguides but we have no idea of the observer(s) involved. If you saw any of these birds can you please supply some confirmatory notes to
avonbirds@hotmail.co.uk - otherwise the records will be lost:

Species                                            Date                            Site
Wood Warbler                            03/08/2020             Chipping Sodbury, Common
Hoopoe                                      07/08/2020              Nailsea
Yellow-browed Warbler            01/10/2020              Wick St. Lawrence, STW
Yellow-browed Warbler            22/10/2020              Bristol, St Anne's Park

Reports:  Dru Brooke-Taylor, Raoul Chandrasakera, Chris Clarke, Mark Coller, Tony Cook, Alan Daniells, Geof Daniels, Paul Francis, Toby Fountain, Pete Harrison, Nick Hawkridge, Jean Oliver, Mark Savage, Tony Scott, George Stacey, Ian Stapp, Serena Sweeting, Chris Teague