Sunday 2 January 2022

02-01-22 - Black-necked Grebe

Temp 12 to 10°C. Getting colder through the day, some sun late morning followed fair amount of rain

Long-tailed Duck
Black-necked Grebe
Avocet, Purple Sandpiper, Jack Snipe
Ring-necked Parakeet
Penduline Tit, Bearded Tit


2-1-22 Goosander, Blind Yeo (Paul Chapman)
BRISTOL

Duchess Park: 
2 Teal, 3 Little Grebe, 2 Ring-necked Parakeet (Hermitage Woods), 3 Meadow Pipit

Filton Park garden:
1 f Blackcap

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station: 
1 Green Sandpiper

New Passage: 
360 Wigeon, 20 Shoveler & Teal, 1 Avocet, Oystercatcher, 60 Curlew, 150 Black-tailed Godwit, 20 Knot, 759 Dunlin, 12 Snipe, Redshank, 1 f Marsh Harrier but only thing I saw it chase was a female Peregrine

Chipping Sodbury, Ridge Woods: 
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Nuthatch exploring hole

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead, Battery Point:
7 Purple Sandpiper, 28 Raven above the quarry

Clevedon-Yeo:
5 2d Goosander, 2 Otter

2-1-22 Stonechat, Weston Airfield (Pagan Birder)
Weston Airfield:

175 Canada Geese, 6 Shoveler, 100+ Wigeon, 90+ Teal, 3 Lapwing + 150 over, 1 Sparrowhawk, Snipe, 1 Kingfisher, 3 Penduline Tit, 4 Bearded Tit, Cetti's Warbler, 1 Chiffchaff,  Fieldfares, Stonechats

2-1-22 Canada Goose, Weston Airfield (Mike Moxon)
BELOW M4 & BANES


2-1-22 Stonechat, Marshfield (Peter Coslett)
Marshfield, Drifton Hill:

85 Common Gull, Sky Lark, 60 Fieldfare, 4 Stonechat, Meadow Pipit, a few Corn Bunting

Keynsham, Broadmead Lane:
1 Woodpigeon, 150 BH Gull, 150 Common Gull, 2 Herring Gull, 5 LBB Gull, 1 Green Woodpecker, 3 Magpie, 5 Jackdaw, 19 Carrion Crow, 1 Raven, 7 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, 1 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Goldcrest, 30 Starling, 3 Blackbird, 15 Redwing, 3 Song Thrush, 9 Robin, 12 Dunnock, 5 Grey Wagtail, 32 Pied Wagtail, 1 Chaffinch, 4 Goldfinch

RESERVOIRS

Barrow Tank 1:
1 Long-tailed Duck

2-1-22 Goosander, Blagdon Lake (Mark Savage)
Blagdon Lake:

7 Goosander, 1 Black-necked Grebe

Chew Valley Lake

Villice:
1 Barn Owl, 2 Treecreeper

2-1-22 Jack Snipe, Stratford CVL (Mark Savage)
Stratford:
 
4 Goldeneye, 1 Jack Snipe, 1 m Marsh Harrier, 2 Bearded Tit, 1 Great White Egret, small flock Siskin

Herriotts:
1 Egyptian Goose, 7 Pintail, 2 Little Grebe, 2 Peregrine

Reports: Liz Barker, Pagan Birder, Alex Carlisle, Paul Chapman, Peter Coslett, Chris Craig, Alan Daniells, Ian Dickie, Peter Hazelwood, Rupert Higgins, Adrian Hockey, Simon Isgar, Susan Kempson, Michael Moxon, Mark Savage, Larry Sweetland, blagdonlakebirds, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG