28-12-20 Monday - Short-eared Owl

Miserable: cold, wet, and gloomy, with Bristol temperatures hovering between 2 and 3 °C. 

A good day to have a proper look through Birds of Chew Valley Lake, newly-published and available from tinyurl.com/ChewBirds

Cattle Egret, Great White Egret

Barn Owl, Short-eared Owl

Merlin
  
BRISTOL

28-12-20 Little Grebe, Eastville Park Lake (Allan Chard)

Eastville Park:
1 Little Grebe (unusual here), 1 Peregrine, 1 Redwing

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
57 Canada Goose, 1 pr Stonechat, 13 Bullfinch (inc. flock of 8 in hedge on Lagoon 3)

28-12-20 Merlin, Northwick Warth (Aravind Ramesh)

New Passage/Northwick:
1 Merlin

Severn Beach:

160+ Dunlin, 1 pr Stonechat

28-12-20 Yellowhammer, Horton (Serena Sweeting)

Horton:

Badminton Hazel Wood - large flock including 20 Chaffinch, 20-30 Yellowhammers, 13 Reed Bunting 

Bitterwell Lake, Coalpit Heath:

1 pr Treecreeper

NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon-Yeo:
Dowlais - 47 Canada Goose, 1 Greylag Goose, 3 redhead Goosander flew high inland, 3 Turnstone 

Bristol Airport:

1 Barn Owl, 1 Short-eared Owl (also present yesterday and favouring the SW corner of the Airfield)

BELOW M4 & BANES

Bath:
Bloomfield garden - 1 m Blackcap, 2 Redwing
Walcot garden - 1 Water Rail again

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:

1m  Pintail, 2 Common Sandpiper, 25 Cattle Egret, 2 Little Egret, 1 Great White Egret, 1 Stonechat , 

Reports :Phil Baber, Bob Hindle, Adrian Hoickey, Glen Maddison, Brian Martin, Aravind Ramesh, Serena sweeting, Larry Sweetland, Howard Taffs, blagdonlakebirds, opsbirding