Sunday, 23 January 2022

23-01-22 Sunday - Siberian Chiffchaff

Cloudy and dank got up to 9°C - but didn't feel like it

Brent Goose, Avocet
Long-tailed Duck
Penduline Tit
Siberian Chiffchaff
Brambling
Barnacle Goose
Merlin
Woodcock

BRISTOL

Bishopston - garden
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker

Fishponds - garden:
1 Blackcap

Redland - garden
2 Blackcap (f&m)

Sea Mills - WeBS:
48 Mallard, 60 Lapwing, 18 Common Snipe - a record, 5 Common Sandpiper, 14 Dunlin, 103 Redshank, 123 Black Headed Gull, 1 Mediterranean Gull, 1 Common Gull, 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 1 Herring Gull, 1 Grey Heron,

Southmead Swimming Lake - WeBS:
12 Mallard, 7 Moorhen, 1 Black-headed Gull, 3 Herring Gull, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, 1 Kingfisher

Stapleton - Sims' Hill/Grow Wilder
100+ Woodpigeon, 2 Woodcock, 40+ Black-headed Gull, 2 Peregrine,12 Blackbird, 3 Fieldfare, c20 Redwing, 45 Pied Wagtail, 6 Meadow Pipit, 20 Chaffinch, 1 Bullfinch, 3 Greenfinch, c10 Goldfinch, 

Stoke Park - inc Duchess Pond:
11 Canada Goose, 3 Little Grebe, 2 Ring-necked Parakeet - Barn Wood

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE
23-01-22 Great Spot' Almondsbury (Véra Carpenter)
Almondsbury - garden:
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Blackcap, 1 Nuthatch, 1 Mistle Thrush

Oldbury Power Station:
45 Canada Goose, 1 Barnacle Goose

Aust - STW:
12 Chiffchaff, 1 Siberian Chiffchaff

Severn Beach - Shaft Rocks:
3 Ringed Plover, 104 Turnstone, 800+ Dunlin, 

Yate - Coopers Lake:
5 Goosander (3f&2m)

Frampton Cotterell:
50+ Redwing, 7 Brambling, 50-100 Chaffinch, 250+ Linnet - very mobile and hard to count

NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon - Yeo, WeBS:
80+ Canada Goose, 1 Egyptian Goose, 80+ Shelduck, 20 Shoveler, 120 Wigeon, 20 Mallard, 160 Teal, 4 Tufted Duck, 2 Moorhen, 2 Oystercatcher, 45 Lapwing, 75 Curlew, 4 Turnstone, 130 Dunlin, 6 Snipe, 375 Redshank, 80 Black-headed Gull, 6 Herring Gull, 1 Grey Heron, 7 Little Egret, 1 Sparrowhawk (f), 1 Stonechat

Yeo Est - South, WeBS
1 Brent Goose, 3 Canada Goose, 4 Mute Swan, 2 Egyptian Goose, 114 Shelduck, 250 Wigeon, 36 Mallard, 105 Teal, 2 Tufted Duck, 2 Grey Heron, 2 Little Egret, 6 Cormorant, 7 Coot, 1 Oystercatcher,
28 Avocet, 150 Lapwing, 94 Curlew, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 200 Dunlin 200, 1 Snipe, 300 Redshank, 144 Black-headed Gull, 2 Common Gull, 27 Herring Gull, 6 Lesser Black-backed Gull

Weston-Super-Mare - disused airfield:
3 Penduline Tit

BELOW M4 & BANES

Downend - garden:
3 Blackcap (m), Fieldfare, 1 Dunnock

Oldland - Siston Brook:
1 Kingfisher

Bath:
1 Blackcap - on crab apples

RESERVOIRS

Barrow Tanks:
1 Long-tailed Duck, 28 Little Grebe - 9 on T1, 19 on T2

Blagdon Lake:
1 Scaup (m), 1 Black-necked Grebe, 23 Lapwing, 1 Great White Egret, Chiffchaff, 30 Siskin

Chew Valley Lake
3 Scaup (2m), 1 Goosander
23-01-22 Snipe CVL (Lee Gardiner)
Stratford:

10 Snipe, 1 Merlin (m)

Herriott's inc Pool:
1 Kingfisher

Out of area
23-01-22 Ring Ouzel Brean Down (Merv Carlyon)
Brean Down:
1 Ring Ouzel

Reports: Pete Bryant, Merv Carlyon, Véra Carpenter, Allan Chard, Barry Dursley, Rob Emery, David Esam, Lee Gardiner, Donna Harvey,  Nick Hawkridge, Matt Hobbs, Michael Hutchinson, Brian Martin, Andy Mears, Nige Milbourne, Giles Morris, Jean Oliver, Harvey Rose, Gill Sapsed, Tony Scott, Cliff Smith, Larry Sweetland