Saturday, 5 March 2022

05-03-22 Saturday - Avocet

 Over cast, with a cold N wind - showed as 9°C but felt like 4°C

Jack Snipe
Cattle Egret
Spotted Redshank
Long-tailed Duck
Brambling
Avocet
Barnacle Goose
Grey Partridge
05-03-22 Long-tailed Duck BG  (Lee Gardiner)
BRISTOL


Bishop Rd to Horfield Common:
19 Feral Pigeon, 23 Woodpigeon, 3 Collared Dove, 5 Black-headed Gull, 4 Herring Gull, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 1 Cormorant - flying south, 2 Jay, 11 Magpie, 2 Jackdaw, 8 Carrion Crow, 5 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, 1 Blackcap (f), 2 Wren, 9 Starling, 7 Blackbird, 2 Redwing, 8 Robin, 26 House Sparrow, 4 Dunnock, 1 Pied Wagtail, 4 Greenfinch, 8 Goldfinch

Bishopston - garden:
1 Brambling - still 

Redland - garden:
2 Wood Pigeon, 2 Feral Pigeon, 1 Carrion Crow, 2 Magpie, 1 Coal Tit, 1 Blue Tit, 1 Great Tit, 2 Blackcap (f&m) - separate occasions, 2 Blackbird (m), 1 Robin, 10+ House Sparrow - -  and at last some frogspawn 

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

05-03-22 Stonechat OPS (Peter Coslett)
Oldbury Power Station:

1 Barnacle Goose - yacht club, 3 Gadwall, 3 Coot - fighting, 2 Little Grebe, 1 Stonechat

New Passage/Northwick:
26 Avocet

05-03-22 Med Gull Pilning Wetlands (Paul Bowerman)
Pilning Wetlands:
1 Mediterranean Gull - ad

Itchington - garden:
1 Brambling again - different lighter coloured bird than last time

Yate - garden:
1 Blackcap (f), a charm of Goldfinch

Chipping Sodbury Common:

Winterbourne:
2 Little Egret - over

Almondsbury- garden:
1 Greenfinch

05-03-22 Grey Partridge Bradley Stoke (not available at present)
Bradley Stoke - garden:
1 Grey Partridge - pic supplied

NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon - Yeo:
1 Brent Goose att Dowlais at dawn, 33 Canada Goose, 90+ Shelduck, 22 Shoveler - Dowlais, 170 Wigeon, 100 Teal, Mallard, 8 Tufted Duck - KP, 3 Coot, 5 Oystercatcher, 22 Lapwing, 13 Grey Plover, 110 Curlew, 1 Turnstone, 2 Jack Snipe, 140 Dunlin - 60 at Kenn 80 Yeo, 320 Redshank, 1 Spotted Redshank - with Redshank up Yeo, 90 Black-headed Gull, 4 Little Egret, 3 Raven, 1+ Skylark - singing, 1 Rock Pipit

BELOW M4 & BANES

Downend - garden:
2 Great Spotted Woodpecker (f&m)

05-03-22 Buzzard Keynsham (Andrew Harrison)
Keynsham:
- Memorial Park: 31 Mallard, 9 Woodpigeon, 2 Moorhen, 9 Black-headed Gull, 1 Herring Gull, 1 Cormorant, 5 Wren
- Chococate Factory Nature Walk: 2 Mallard, 8 Woodpigeon, 1 Moorhen, 3 Cormorant, 2 Buzzard, 4 Magpie, 3 Carrion Crow, 2 Great Tit, 4+ Skylark, 12 Wren, 1 Blackbird, 7 Robin, 3 Dunnock, 1 Goldfinch

Bath - Lansdown/Fairfield Park garden:
1 Wood Pigeon, 1 Collared Dove, 2 Tawny Owl - pair duetting last night, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker - daily, sunflower seed, 1 Blue Tit, 1 Blackcap (f) feeder guardian, 2 Blackbird, 2 Robin, 2 Dunnock, 3 Chaffinch, 1 Greenfinch, 1 Goldfinch

RESERVOIRS

05-03-22 Long-tailed Duck BG  (Lee Gardiner)

Barrow Tanks:

1 Long-tailed Duck

Chew Valley Lake
05-03-22 Cattle Egret CVL (Lucy Masters)
Stratford:

3 Snipe, 30 Cattle Egret - in the lane fields

Reports: Nancy Barrett, Paul Bowerman, Peter Bryant, John Budd, Véra Carpenter, Paul Chapman, Peter Coslett, Barry Dursley, Heather England, Lee Gardiner, Malcolm Gibbs, Andrew Harrison, Mike Jackson, Gareth Jones, Lucy Masters, Harvey Rose, Howard Taffs