23-02-21 Tuesday - Red Kite

Tempestuous - wind 25mph from the south. Temp 12 °C.

Cattle Egret, Red Kite

Yellow-legged Gull

Black Redstart
 

23-02-21 Long-tailed Tit EP (Allan Chard)

BRISTOL

Bedminster - Greville Smyth Park:

2 Carrion Crow - mobbing a Raven

Bishopston - garden:

2 Woodpigeon, 2 Herring Gull, 4 Carrion Crow, 4 Blue Tit, 1 Great Tit, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Blackcap (f&m) - never on the feeders together but a nice brief snatch of song, 3 Blackbird - spare (f) got shoo'd off by the resident (f), 2 Dunnock, 1 Chaffinch (f) - rare

Coombe Dingle - garden:

1 Coal Tit, 1 Blackcap (f), 2 Bullfinch - pr, 3 Greenfinch, 4 Siskin

23-02-21 Grey Wagtail EP (Martin Tayler)

Eastville Park:

Cormorant, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Treecreeper, Grey Wagtail, Goldfinch

Redland - gardenburgs

1 Blackcap - singing

St Werburghs - Narroways:
12 Woodpigeon, 3 Herring Gull - over, 1 Peregrine - over, heading across the allotments fairly high to the south, 8 Magpie, 1 Common Raven - over, 1 Coal Tit, 4 Blue Tit, 7 Great Tit, 6 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Goldcrest, 2 Blackbird, 3 Robin, 1 Chaffinch

23-02-21 Little Grebe Stoke Park (Patrick Richards)

Stoke Park, Duchess Pond:
6 Canada Goose, 14 Mallard (5f&9m) 8 Woodpecker, 6 Moorhen, 7 Coot, 2 Little Grebe (possible pair), 37 Black-backed Gull, 3 Herring Gull, 1 Cormorant, 2 Buzzard, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker, 16 Magpie, 23 Jackdaw, 10 Carrion Crow, 5 Blue Tit, 18 Great Tit - 12 in a flock, 8 Long-tailed Tit, 4 Wren, 1 Nuthatch, 1 Treecreeper, 10 Starling, 4 Blackbird (m) 6 Redwing, 9 House Sparrow, 2 Dunnock, 2 Chaffinch - pr, 1 Greenfinch, 17 Goldfinch.

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

New Passage:

Chaffinch

Almondsbury - garden:

1Stock Dove - rare here, 1 Mistle Thrush

NORTH SOMERSET

Pill:
23 Grey Heron - around 15 active nests, 1 Green Woodpecker

23-02-21 Shoveler Dowlais (Howard Taffs)

Clevedon - Dowlais:
29 Shoveler - 23 flew off when disturbed

Cambridge Batch to Tyntesfield:

Mallard, Woodpigeon, Moorhen, 3 +Little Grebe, Herring Gull, 2+ Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, Kestrel, Peregrine, Magpie, quite a lot of Jackdaw, Rook, Carrion Crow, Raven, quite a lot of Blue Tit, Great Tit - heard them but never actually saw one, Blackbird, 1 Song Thrush, Robin, 3 Stonechat (f&2m), House Sparrow, Dunnock, Greenfinch, Goldfinch

Nailsea Moor:

28 Mute Swan, 20 Woodpigeon, 40 Black-headed Gull, 9 Herring Gull, 4 Grey Heron, 3 Buzzard, 3 Magpie, 13 Carrion Crow, 1 Raven, 2 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, 3 long-tailed Tit, 200 Starling, 2 Blackbird, 1 Robin, 4 Stonechat, 5 House Sparrow, 1 Pied Wagtail, 2 Greenfinch, 3 Goldfinch.

Kenn:
1 Black Redstart (f) - back in the garden early

BELOW M4 & BANES

23-02-21 Treecreeper  MF (Martyn Hayes)

Marshfield:
1 Treecreeper

Warmley:

1 Grey Heron - over, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Mistle Thrush - singing, "no better sound", 1 Bullfinch

23-02-21 Peregrine Bath (BUPP)

Bath:

Bloomfield - garden - 1 Blackcap (f)
St John's Church - Peregrine (f) taken charge of the nest site

Twerton, Bath Mill - Dunnock, Goldfinch, 2 Siskin

Heronry - active 

23-02-21 Grey Heron Bath (Suk Trippier)

Stanton Drew:

1 Cattle Egret, 3 Little Egret, 1 Red Kite 

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

Herriott's Bridge:

1 Yellow-legged Gull - sub adult, 2 Great White Egret 

Reports: Dru Brooke-Taylor, BUPP, Véra Carpenter, Raoul Chandrasakera, Allan Chard, John Croxton, Alastair Fraser, Pete Harrison, Nick Hawkridge, Martyn Hayes, Nick Hudson, John Lewis, Brian Martin, Jean Oliver, Lisa Presland, Patrick Richards, Tony Scott, Howard Taffs, Martin Tayler, Suk Trippier, Wayne Tucker

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