07-01-21 Thursday - Fog

Temp -3 to 1°C. Horrible cold and foggy day so not much to be seen

Pochard
Water Rail
Snipe
Raven
Little Owl
Firecrest

Starling

Meadow Pipit

Bullfinch

7-1-21 Oystercatcher, Dowlais (Howard Taffs)

BRISTOL

Clifton Downs-Zoo Bank:

2 Jay, 2 Coal Tit, 1 Firecrest, 1 Nuthatch

7-1-21 Bullfinch, Clifton Down (Keith Williams)

Ladies Mile:

Lots of Blackbirds and Redwings, 2 Song Thrush, 1 Mistle Thrush, 1 Bullfinch

7-1-21 Redwing, Clifton Down (Keith Williams)

Durdham & Clifton Down:

Black-headed Gulls on the pitches; Woodpigeon; 1 Jay; Magpie; Jackdaw; Crow; Blue Tit; Great Tit; 1 Long-tailed Tit; 1 F Blackcap; 2 Wren; 35 Starling (by North View); Blackbird; many Redwing; 1 Song Thrush; 3 Mistle Thrush (2 having a disagreement); Robin; 3 Bullfinch (2M 1F) half-way along ladies Mile; 1 Greenfinch; many Goldfinch including one flock (charm?) of 80 odd

Redland garden:

1m Blackcap

Stoke Bishop garden:

4 Long-tailed Tit, 6 Blackcaps (3 male), 1 Nuthatch, 3 Greenfinch, 4 Goldfinch + the usual Dunnock, Robin, Great, Blue and Coal Tits

Bishopston:

flock of Long-tailed Tit, 1 Blackcap (m), 20 Redwing - following the line of Cranbrook.

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Pilning Wetland:

2 Shelduck, c.80 Wigeon, 3 Coot, 3 Lapwing, 3 Curlew (heard only), 10 Dunlin, 2 Snipe, 12 Redshank, 3 Great Tit, 2 Redwing, 2 Song Thrush, 2 Pied Wagtail

7-1-21 Starling, New Passage (Lisegirl)

New Passage:

Starling, 4 Greenfinch

Redwick:

1 Little Owl, 1 leucistic Blackbird

Severn Beach:
5000 Starling

NORTH SOMERSET

Nailsea- garden:

6 Long-tailed Tit

Portishead - Sugar Loaf Bay:

15 Pochard

Portishead - Weston Big Wood, 7th:

25 Raven

7-1-21 Snipe, Dowlais (Howard Taffs)

Clevedon, Dowlais:

1 Oystercatcher, 1 Snipe

Loxton hill:

Plenty of Blackbirds, but very little else - couples of Pheasant / Carrion Crow / Fieldfare / Robin / Dunnock & heard a flock of Jackdaws (but couldn't see in fog)

Winthill, Banwell:

1 m Green Woodpecker, 2 m/f Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Nuthatch, 30+ Redwing, 10 Fieldfare, 4 Blackbird, 9 House Sparrow, 13 Chaffinch, 1 f Bullfinch, 8 Goldfinch and 1 Fox!

Rickford - garden:

1 Blackcap (m)

BELOW M4 & BANES

Oldland Common garden:

2 m Blackcap, 1 Song Thrush

Stantonbury Hill:

100 Fieldfare and Redwing, 1 Stonechat

Bath Centre:

1 Moorhen, 1 Water Rail, 1 Blackbird

7-1-21 Blackbird, Bath (Tony Cook)

Bath, Oldfield Park:

1 f Blackbird

Bath Twerton:

2 Coal Tit, 8 Blue Tit, 3 Great Tit, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 3 Redwing

Paulton:

36 Mallard, 12 Moorhen, 50 BH Gull, 1 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Nuthatch, 11 Blackbird, 50 Redwing, 2 Song Thrush, 2 Chaffinch, 4 Goldfinch

and at the sewage works...

1 Grey Wagtail, 63 Pied Wagtail, 4 Meadow Pipit

RESERVOIRS

07-01-21Deserted Herriott's (Lucy Masters)

All locked Down

but locals fishing is allowed!

Reports: Paul Bowerman, Tony Cook, Elaine Davis, Tim Ford, Lisegirl, Patrick Hancock, Robert Hawkridge, Peter Hazelwood, Glen Maddison, Giles Morris, Michael Moxon, Lois Pryce, Vic Savery, Jean & Steve, Tony Scott, Julie Smallbone, Howard Taffs, John Thorogood, Roger White, Keith Williams, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG