Wednesday, 20 October 2021

20-10-21 Wednesday - a quiet day birding


20-10-21 Great Spotted Woodpecker, CVL (Mike Prior)
Temp 9 to 16°C. Light rain showers and a moderate breeze, lovely rainbows

Bar-tailed Godwit, Little Stint

Glossy Ibis

Cattle Egret

BRISTOL

No reports

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Northwick Warth / Chessel Pill / Pilning Wetlands
73 Canada geese,  2 Mute Swan, 8 Gadwall, 320+ Wigeon, 31 Mallard, 50+ Teal, 4 Tufted duck, 4 Moorhen, 9 Coot, 50+ Oystercatcher, 76 Lapwing, 62 Curlew, 500+ Black-tailed Godwit, 560+ Dunlin, 260+ Redshank, 1 Cormorant, 5 Meadow Pipit, 100+ Linnet

Holes Mouth:
 
12 Mallard, 18 Teal, 57 Oystercatcher, 1 Curlew, 1 Bar-tailed Godwit, 140 Redshank, 106 BH Gull, 1 Rock Pipit

NORTH SOMERSET

Royal Portbury Dock
2 Great White Egret (note -Docks not Portbury Wharf)

Wains Hill:
1 Common Sandpiper (in the pill at high tide) plus a small passage over Wains Hill early morning including 9 Meadow Pipit, 37 Chaffinch, 7 Goldfinch, 5 Linnet, 6 Siskin

BELOW M4 & BANES

No reports

RESERVOIRS

20-10-21 Little Stint, CVL  (Mike Prior)
Chew Valley Lake

c5 Great White Egret, 1 m Marsh Harrier, 6 Bearded Tit

Villice:
1 Glossy Ibis
20-10-21 Ringed Plover, CVL  (Mike Prior)
Herons Green:

2 Little Grebe, 1 Ringed Plover, 1 Dunlin, 1 Little Stint (juv), 1 Yellow-legged Gull, 2 GBB Gull, 18 Cattle Egret, 3 Grey Heron, 1 Great White Egret, 3 Little Egret, 4 Buzzard, 2 Skylark, 1 Grey Wagtail, 3 Pied Wagtail

Stratford:
1 Chiffchaff (in song)

20-10-21 Water Rail, Herriotts Channel (Ian Stapp)
Herriotts Bridge:
2 Shelduck, 2 Collared Dove, 2 Water Rail, 4 Little Grebe, 4 Lapwing, 4 Snipe, 2 Green Sandpiper, 30 Common Gull, 4 GBB Gull, , 4 Grey Heron,  2 Great White Egret, 1 Little Egret, 1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Buzzard, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Jay, 6+ Jackdaw, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Grey Wagtail, 4 Pied Wagtail, 2 Reed Bunting

20-10-21 Shoveler & Wigeon, Herriotts Bridge (Ian Stapp)
Reports: Andy Davis, Simon Isgar, Mike Prior, Phil Quinn, Ian Stapp, blagdonlakebirds, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG


Special notice


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