21-01-21 Thursday - Firecrest in two locations

 A few showers but drier than yesterday with some watery sunshine. Bristol temperatures 4 - 7 °C

Fulmar

Barn Owl, Short-eared Owl

Firecrest
Yellowhammer

BRISTOL

Arnos Vale cemetery:

2 Jay, many Magpie, Coal Tit, 1Firecrest (by Roy Memorial), 1 Song Thrush, 3 Redwing

Blaise Estate + Henbury Golf Course:

1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Jay, 6 Magpie, 5 Blue Tit, 4 Great Tit, 3 Nuthatch, 6 Blackbird, 1 Redwing, 3 Song Thrush, 2 Mistle Thrush, many Robin, 1 Grey Wagtail

Brentry:
Fishpool Hill garden - 40+ Goldfinch

Clifton Down:

Slope opposite the Zoo - 1m, 1f Blackcap, 1m Firecrest

21-01--21 Redshank, Cumberland Basin, Bristol (Ian Loats)

Cumberland Basin

1 Moorhen, 2 Redshank, 20 Black-headed Gull, 1 Grey Wagtail

Castlemead:

1 f. Peregrine

Eastville Park:
River running very high with the weir under water - 2 Canada Goose, 8 Mute Swan, c20 Mallard, c50 Feral Pigeon, 2 Stock Dove, 5 Moorhen, 7 Coot, c120 Black-headed Gull, 5 Herring Gull (2 adult, 3 2nd wint.), 4 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 5 Cormorant, 2 Kingfisher, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 6+ Magpie, 1 Coal Tit, 10+ Long-tailed Tit, 2 Nuthatch, 4 Blackbird, 2 Song Thrush, 1 Dipper, 3 Grey Wagtail, 4 Pied Wagtail

Stoke Bishop:

Garden - Sparrowhawk (at the feeder ; flew off empty-clawed), 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker (back after 2 weeks absence), 3 Blackcap (1m)

Filton Park:

1 Blackcap (m) 

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

21-01-21 Fulmar, Severn Beach (Paul Bowerman)

Severn Beach:
1 Fulmar (year tick from observer's bedroom)

Winterbourne - Bradley Brook:

1 Pheasant, 3 Little Egret, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 7 Skylark, 50+ Fieldfare, 15 Redwing, 2 Stonechat, 2 Pied Wagtail, 22 Meadow Pipit, 3 Greenfinch, as well as 5 Roe Deer, including 2 bucks

NORTH SOMERSET

Abbots Leigh:

250+ Fieldfare

Wraxall:

2 Raven

21-01-21 Short-eared Owl, Bristol Airport (Jim Callaway)

Bristol Airport:

Short eared Owl, still present

Clevedon-Yeo:

8 Shoveler, 22 Lapwing ( both Dowlais),  400 Dunlin( Blackstone rocks), 1 pr Stonechat

Kingston Seymour:

Field - c25 Little Egret

Hutton Moor:

1 Barn Owl 

Congresbury Moor:

4 Heron, 2 Buzzard, 2 GS Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, 2 Peregrine, 1 Cetti’s Warbler, 1 Song Thrush, 1 Stonechat, 9 Linnet

BELOW M4 & BANES

 21-001-21 Starling (winter plumage in foreground)  Keynsham, (Ian Stapp)

Keynsham:

Garden: - 9 Feral Pigeon, 2 Collared Dove, 6 Wood Pigeon, 1 G-S Woodpecker, 2 Magpie, 6 Jackdaw, 1 Rook, 5 Carrion Crow,  3 Blue Tit, 4 Great Tit, 8+ LTT, 2 Blackcap (m + f), 2 Wren, 16+ Starling, 2 Blackbird, 2 Robin, 5 Redwing, 2 Dunnock, 7 Chaffinch, 25+ Goldfinch 3 Greenfinch 

 

Manor Road area on exercise walk : 6 Pheasant, 20+ Wood Pigeon, 40+ Feral Pigeon, 7+ B-H Gull, 12 LBB Gull , 4 Herring Gull, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 G-S Woodpecker, 40+Rook, 5 Magpie, 1 Jay,7 Carrion Crow, 6 Jackdaw, 6 Blue Tit, 7 Great Tit,  20+ LTT, 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Goldcrest, 100+ Starling  8 Dunnock,5 Blackbird, 2 Song Thrush, 4 Robin, 50+ House Sparrow, 2+ Chaffinch, 40+ Goldfinch, 2 Yellowhammer 

Paulton:
1 Kestrel, 45 Skylark, 7 Blackbird, 6 Redwing, 2 House Sparrow, 34 Meadow Pipit, 4 Chaffinch, 10 Yellowhammer

RESERVOIRS

Locked down

Chew Valley Lake:

Dam:
Egyptian Goose still (drive-by sighting)

Reports: Paul Bowerman, Di Bunniss, Jim Callaway, Chris Craig,   Mark Dadds, William Earp, Ollie Fournier,  Patrick Hancock, Adrian Hockey, Jim Callaway, Ian Loats, Hetty Metcalfe, Giles Morris, Jean Oliver, Phil Quinn, Dean Reeves, Trevor Riddle,  Richard Scantlebury, Ian Stapp, Howard Taffs, Roger and Andrew White, Keith Williams