Thursday 6 October 2022

06-10-22 Thursday - Osprey

Dry & mainly sunny, max temp 19°C, southwesterly breeze

Garganey
Grey plover
Ruff
Osprey
Marsh Harrier
 
06-10-22 Great White Egret, CVL (Derek Clarke)

BRISTOL

Eastville Park:
1 Teal (f)

Purdown:
vismig: 1 Swallow, 7 Alba Wagtail, 22 Meadow Pipit, 2 Greenfinch, 5 Linnet

Feeder Canal / St Anne's:
1 Cormorant, 1 Grey Heron, flock of Starling

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
1 Kingfisher, 9 Swallow, 15 House Martin

Avening Green:
1 Stonechat (m)

NORTH SOMERSET

Backwell Lake:
1 Wigeon, 4 Little Grebe, 5 Little Egret,1 Greenfinch (& an otter)

Nailsea Moor:
2 Snipe, 2 Sparrowhawk, 6+ Buzzard, 3 Kestrel, 1 Goldcrest, 17 Stonechat

BELOW M4 & BANES

West Littleton Down:
2 Raven, 2 Stonechat

Keynsham, Manor road Playing Fields:
2 Woodpigeon, 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 9+ Jackdaw, 12+ Carrion Crow, 69+ Starling

06-10-22 leucistic Blackbird & Robin, Manor Road Community Woodlands (Andrew Harrison)
Keynsham, Manor Road Community Woodlands:
2 Feral Pigeon, 10 Woodpigeon, 1 Greater Spotted Woodpecker, 9 Magpie, 7 Rook, 8 Carrion Crow, 2 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, 24+ Long-tailed Tit, 1 Wren, 18+ Starling, 2 Blackbird, 9 Robin, 5 House Sparrow

Chew Magna
1 Skylark (first of the autumn here)

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
1 Osprey (Dam end of lake)

Chew Valley Lake:

Dam:
1 Common Sandpiper

06-10-22 Great White & Cattle Egrets, Herons Green CVL (George Stacey)
Heron's Green:
20+ Wigeon,  6+ Pintail, 10 Little Grebe (7 lake, 3 pool), 40+ Great Crested Grebe (lake), 10 Black-tailed Godwit, 7 GBB Gull, 1 Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Grey Heron, 15 Cattle Egret, 2 Great White Egret, 3 Little Egret, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 50+ Pied Wagtail, 50+ Meadow Pipit (on mud lake side)

06-10-22 Sparrowhawks, Stratford CVL (Simon Isgar)
Stratford:
1 Garganey, 10 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Ruff, 2 Grey Plover (in Herriots Bay), 2 Great White Egret, 2 Marsh Harrier (1f, 1juv), 2 Sparrowhawk

06-10-22 Kingfisher, Herriotts Bridge CVL (Ian Stapp)
06-10-22 Water Rail, Herriotts Bridge CVL (Ian Stapp)

06-10-22 Grey Wagtail, Herriotts Bridge CVL (George Stacey)
Herriott's inc Pool:
1 Shelduck (pool), 6 Shoveler, 40+ Pintail (lake), Lots Teal, 1 Water Rail (channel), 19 Lapwing (pool), 7 Black-tailed Godwit (lake), 40+ Snipe (pool), 2 Green Sandpiper (pool), 5 GBB Gull, 1 Common Gull (pool), 5 Grey Heron, 5 Great White Egret (pool & lake), 3 Little Egret (pool & lake), 1 Marsh Harrier (f), 2 Buzzard, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Peregrine, 20 Jackdaw, 12+ Crow,  2 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Grey Wagtail, 20+ Pied Wagtail, 1 Reed Bunting

Reports: Sue Caola, Derek Clarke, Peter Coslett, Ben Crabb, Chris Craig, Andy Davis, Andy Gibb, Steve Hurley, Simon Isgar, Fen Marshall, Andrew Harrison, Nige Milbourne, George Stacey, Ian Stapp, Larry Sweetland, Bri Thompson,