02-12-21 - Jack Snipe

Bright sunshine, chilly. Bristol max 6°C

Bewick’s Swan, Long-tailed Duck, Goosander

Jack Snipe

Cattle Egret, Bittern

Marsh Harrier

Barn Owl, Little Owl

Bearded Tit

Firecrest

Black Redstart

  

02-12-21 Jack Snipe, Stratford, CVL (Keith Williams)

BRISTOL

Eastville Park:
1 m Goosander

Stoke Park - inc Duchess Pond:
Pale Plantation - 1 Firecrest, seemingly foraging in tandem with a Goldcrest

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

02-12-21 1 juv m Sparrowhawk, OPS (Peter Hazelwood)

Oldbury Power Station:
c1000 Dunlin, 100 Lapwing, 1 Peregrine ( chasing a Lapwing), I Sparrowhawk,  c 1000 Starling, 1 Mistle Thrush,1 fem- type Black Redstart

Pilning Wetland:

several hundred Lapwing, 500+ Black-tailed Godwit,  a few Knot, Dunlin, Curlew 

02-12-21 Mistle Thrush + Mistletoe, Almondsbury (Vera Carpenter)

Almondsbury:

Garden - 1 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Blackcap, 1 Goldcrest, 1 Nuthatch, 1 Mistle Thrush, 2 Blackcap, 1 Goldcrest

Coalpit Heath:
9 Canada Goose, 15 Moorhen,  1 Grey Heron, 1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Buzzard,  1 Little Owl, 23 Redwing,  2 Mistle Thrush,  2 Stonechat,  5 Pied Wagtail, 9 Meadow Pipit, 1 Bullfinch, 20 Linnet 

Patchway:

Charlton Hayes (old Filton airfield) - 2 Stonechat 

NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon Pier:

1 f Black Redstart still

Clevedon - Yeo:
Blind Yeo - 6 Goosander (2 drakes), 4 Little Grebe, 2 Little Egret, 1 m  Peregrine, 3 Raven, pair Stonechat

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield:
4 Pheasant, c.200 BH Gull, 1 Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 18 Rook, flock c.30 Skylark with 8 Meadow Pipits, 10 LT Tit, 1 Goldcrest, 1 Nuthatch, 1 Treecreeper, c.50 Fieldfare, c.120 Redwing, 9 Chaffinch, 3 Corn Bunting, 2 Yellowhammer

Cameley:

Over the garden, late afternoon  - 1f Peregrine being chased by a territorial  Raven

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

02-12-21 Barn Owl, Heron's Green Bay, CVL (Lucy Gaze)

Dam:

1 Long-tailed Duck still

02-12-21 Long-tailed Duck, Dam, CVL (John Osborne)

Woodford:

8 Goosander

Villice:
5 Bewick’s Swan (4 adults,one juvenile), 2 Mute Swan,4 Wigeon, good numbers of Teal and, Tufted Duck, several Shoveller and Gadwall, Coots, 1 Little Egret, 2 Grey Heron, 1 Sparrowhawk

Heron's Green:

1 Marsh Harrier, 1 Barn Owl

Field between Heron’s Green Pool and Breech Hill - 13 Cattle Egret

02-12-21 Marsh Harrier (fem left, male right), Stratford, CVL (Keith Williams)

Stratford: 

1 pr  Goldeneye, 1 Jack Snipe, 1 Common Snipe, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Marsh Harrier (1m 1f), 1 Bearded Tit (flypast), Cetti's Warbler, 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 Reed Bunting

02-12-21 Bittern, Herriott's Pool, CVL (John Osborne)

Herriott's inc Pool:

Pintail, 25 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Green Sandpiper, I Bittern,  2 Cattle Egret (at 3pm),1 Peregrine, Bearded Tit (at least 2 birds heard in main reeds from Herriott’s Bridge)

Reports:  Paul Bowerman, Rob Bright, Vera Carpenter, Paul Chapman, Andy Davis,  Lucy Gaze, Simon Isgar, Michael Hutchinson, Mike Jackson, Bob Medland, John Osborne, Lois Pryce, Larry Sweetland, Howard Taffs, Gary Thoburn, Keith Williams, opsbirding