Sunday 16 January 2022

16-01--22 Sunday - Yellow-browed Warbler

Some sunshine after a damp start - light wind and max temperature 10°C

Yellow-browed Warbler
Black Redstart
Barn Owl
Penduline Tit, Bearded Tit
Brambling
16-01-22 Yellow-browed Warbler WsM (Karen Jayne)
BRISTOL


Coombe Dingle - walk along the R Trym:
1 Blue Tit, 5 Great Tit, 3 Long-tailed Tit, 3 Goldcrest, 2 Wren, 1 Blackbird, 2 Robin,1 Grey Wagtail, 2 Chaffinch - - - alas no Kingfisher today

Redland - garden:
2 Woodpigeon, 8 Herring Gull, 2 Magpie, 3 Carrion Crow, 1 Coal Tit, 2 Blue Tit, 1 Great Tit, 1 Blackcap (m) 1st this winter, 4 Blackbird (2f&2m), 2 Robin, 10 House Sparrow

Stoke Bishop - garden:
3 Blackcap (2m)  - feeding together on Mahonia 

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
1 Water Rail - calling, 1 Cormorant, 3 Black Redstart (1m), 2 Stonechat (pr), 16 Bullfinch - in 3 groups, 

Wickwar - Hall End:
1 Barn Owl - hunting

NORTH SOMERSET

Portbury Wharf:
1 Stock Dove, 1 Jack Snipe, c20 Snipe, 1 Barn Owl, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Raven, 3 Linnet

Clevedon
Pier: 1 Peregrine, 1 Black Redstart, 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 Rock Pipit
Blind Yeo: 7 Goosander (4m), 1 Little Egret

Backwell Hill:
I Buzzard, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Raven - dong dong call, 2 Coal Tit, 2 Goldcrest, 2 Nuthatch, 3 Song Thrush
Snowdrops flowering in the grounds of Backwell Down Manor

Backwell to Flax Bourton - cycle path:
15+ Yellowhammer

Kenn Pier:
30 Canada Goose, 6 Cormorant, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Little Egret, 
16-01-22 Bearded Tit WsM (Gill Sapsed)
Weston-Super-Mare:
disused airfield: 3 Penduline Tit, 1 Bearded Tit, 1 Stonechat
garden: 1 Yellow-browed Warbler

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield:
6 Stock Dove, small flocks of Starling and Fieldfare, 4 Brambling among 300 mixed finches, small flock of Linnet, plenty of Corn Bunting, 

Downend - garden:
1 Sparrowhawk, some Long-tailed Tit, a few Fieldfare and Redwing,  1 Grey Wagtail, Chaffinch (f only)

Warmley:
2 Stock Dove, 1 Little Egret - Siston Brook, 2 Green Woodpecker, 1 Jay - mimicking a Buzzard, several Song Thrush - on territories, Bullfinch 
16-01-22 Grey Wagtail Wick (Nigel Jones)
Wick - R Boyd weir:
4 Moorhen, 2 Black-headed Gull, 1 Common Gull, 1 Buzzard, 1 Mistle Thrush, 1 Grey Wagtail

Avon Valley - Holm Mead:
1 Egyptian Goose, 4 Goosander (1f & 3m)  

Paulton:
2 Kestrel, 50 Fieldfare, 4 Redwing, 1 Stonechat

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake
16-01-22 Snipe CVL (Tony Bridge)
Stratford:

12 Snipe, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Bearded Tit (f & m)

Reports: Nancy Barrett, Tony Bridges, Di Bunniss, Paul Chapman, Ben Crabb, Stephen Curtis, Barry Dursley, Heather England, Patrick Hancock, Annie & Nick Hawkridge, Nick Hudson, Simon Isgar, Karen Jayne, Nigel Jones, Iris & Andrew Langson, Craig Lewis, Chris Mott, Linda Moysey, Dean Reeves, Carol Rushton, Paul Sadley, Gill Sapsed, Roger White