Sunday, 19 December 2021

19-12-21 Sunday

Dank and foggy all day; got steadily chillier too. Bristol max 7°C (first thing)

Jack Snipe
Bearded Tit
Cattle Egret
Mediterranean Gull
 
19-12-21 Sparrowhawk, Battery Point, Portishead (David Howes)

BRISTOL

Bishopston:
Garden - flock of 90 Starling, 3 Redwing 

19-12-21 Wren and Stonechat, Duchess Pond, Bristol (Patrick Hardyman Richards)

Stoke Park, Duchess Pond:
13 Mallard (8m, 5f), 40 Feral Pigeon, 1 Stock Dove,  9 Woodpigeon, 2 Collared Dove, 9 Moorhen, 8 Coot, 3 Little Grebe, 4 Black-headed Gull, 3 Herring Gull,1 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 3 Cormorant, 1 Green Woodpecker,10 Magpie, 15 Jackdaw, 4 Carrion Crow, 1 Great Tit, 2 Wren, 34+ Starling, 1 Blackbird, 3 Robin, 2 Stonechat, 5 House Sparrow, 1 Dunnock, 3 Greenfinch

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Pilning Wetlands:
200 Wigeon, 140 Lapwing

Itchington:
"Had an influx of very dark Blackbird, Fieldfare and 3 Song Thrush amongst the finches this morning in the gloom"
19-12-21 Chaffinch Wickwar (Paul Sadley)
Wickwar:
rare - Chaffinch in the garden

Bradley Stoke - 3 Brooks NR:
1 Mistle Thrush - singing

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead:
near Battery Point - 2nd year male Sparrowhawk caught and ringed

Nailsea Moor:
55 Lapwing, 1 Kingfisher, 11 Stonechat, 3 Reed Bunting

BELOW M4 & BANES

No reports

RESERVOIRS

19-12-21 Mediterranean Gull, Picnic site,  CVL (Mark Coller)
Blagdon Lake:
Lapwing, 1 Great White Egret, 4 Little Egret

Chew Valley Lake

Main Dam:
1 Common Sandpiper

Picnic Site one:
1 Mediterranean Gull

Moreton:
1 Green Sandpiper
19-12-21 CVL in the fog (Gill Sapsed)
19-12-21 Jack Snipe, Stratford, CVL (Lee Gardiner)
Stratford:
Jack Snipe, 6 Snipe, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Bearded Tit, 1 Coal Tit, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Nuthatch

Herriott's:
18 Cattle Egret, 1 Great White Egret 

Reports:  Mark Coller, Ben Crabb, Heather England, Lee Gardiner, Nick Hawkridge, David Howes, Simon Isgar, Robin Jones, Patrick Hardyman Richards, Paul Sadley, Gill Sapsed, blagdonlakebirdssevernsidebirds