Thursday 28 October 2021

28-10-21 Thursday - Common Scoter

 A mild, overcast, windy morning turned into a wet afternoon with steady rain after 3 p.m.  Temp  still an unseasonal 17°C.

Lesser Scaup
Common Scoter
Yellow-legged and Mediterranean Gull
Short-eared Owl
Fieldfares and Redwings
Brambling, Siskins

Lapwing and Ringed Plover at Stratford Bay, Chew (George Stacey)
BRISTOL
no reports

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
34 Pheasant, a high count of 7+ Rock Pipit (on shore/saltmarsh at Shepperdine).
"Vismig" mainly to the SW: 36 Redwing, 1+ Brambling, 40 Chaffinch, 4 Siskin (2 heading NE).

Redwing (George Stacey)
Northwick Warth:
Short-eared Owl

New Passage:
c200 Black-tailed Godwit, 134 Turnstone, c12 Knot, 1 Peregrine

NORTH SOMERSET

Yatton, Wemberham Lane:
8 Little Egret, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Peregrine, 3 Raven, 8 Skylark (overflying migrants), 600 Starling, 5 Linnet.

BELOW M4 & BANES
No reports

Ringed Plovers at Stratford Bay, Chew (George Stacey)
RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

Hollow Brook:

Just a Green Sandpiper.


Sutton Wick:
1 f. Common Scoter

Green Sandpiper at Chew (George Stacey)
Villice & Parkland:
1 Green Sandpiper.  300+ thrushes, mostly Redwing with a few Fieldfare.

Heron's Green:
2 Green Sandpiper, ad. Yellow-legged Gull, ad. Mediterranean Gull

Stratford:
2 Ringed Plover, 1 Lapwing.

Herriott's inc Pool:
"Shedloads" of Pintail, distant Lesser Scaup in poor viewing conditions.

Reports:  Chris Craig, Trevor Riddle, Tony Scott, George Stacey, blagdonlakebirdsnslbirdingopsbirdingsevernsidebirdsTBOSG

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