Saturday 19 November 2022

19-11-22 Saturday - Purple Sandpiper

 Temp 7° to 10°C sunny turning to cloudy, wind from West South West

Purple Sandpiper
Hawfinch
Long-tailed Duck
Smew
Red-crested Pochard
Bewick's Swan
Firecrest
19-11-2022 Purple Sandpiper Battery Point (Jason Williams)
BRISTOL

Cumberland Basin - highlights:
1 Teal, 154 Feral Pigeon, 1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Raven

Filton Park:
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Jay, 30 Carrion Crow

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE
19-11-22 Black Redstart OPS (Tim Salkeld)
Oldbury Power Station:
2 Black Redstart (f&m), 1 Hawfinch - calling in flight around the car park

Aust Warth:
Water Rail, 2 Avocet, 2 Bar-tailed Godwit, 5 Jack Snipe

Chittening Warth:
Water Rail, 13 Jack Snipe, 2 Snipe, Water Pipit, 10 Rock Pipit
19-11-22 Redwing Wickwar (Paul Sadley)
Wickwar:
1 Sparrowhawk, Redwing - feeding

Yate Rocks - garden:
1 Marsh Tit, 3 Fieldfare, 1 Song Thrush, 

Chipping Sodbury Common:
1 Red Kite

Coalpit Heath:
Influx of Redwing

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead - Battery Point:
5 Purple Sandpiper

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield:
25 RL Partridge, 6 Pheasant, c.90 Common Gull, 100+ Herring Gull - over to the south-west, 2 Buzzard, c.60 Rook, 2 Skylark, c.70 Starling, 2 Blackbird, 35 Fieldfare,  c.120 Redwing (scattered groups), 10 Meadow Pipit, 6 Chaffinch, c.80 Corn Bunting.

Kingswood:
Tit flock - inc 7 Long-tailed

Hanham:
1 Tawny Owl - calling at 02:30
19-11-22 Mistle Thrush Keynsham (Andrew Harrison)
Keynsham, Manor Road Community Woodlands:
20 Mallard, 7 Magpie, 19 Rook, 10 Carrion Crow, 1 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, 7 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Wren, 1 Mistle Thrush, 1 Redwing, 7 Blackbird, 10 Robin, 9 House Sparrow

Lansdown:
360 Golden Plover, 22 Snipe - roosting, 400 Chaffinch, 12 Brambling, 

Timsbury - garden:
1 Firecrest

RESERVOIRS
19-11-2022 Long-tailed Duck BG (Bri Thompson)
Barrow Tanks:
1 Long-tailed Duck

Chew Valley Lake
19-11-22 Smew CVL (Richard Clease)
Bittern Trail:
4 Goldcrest, 2 Treecreeper

19-11-22 Peregrine CVL (Richard Clease)
Nunnery Point:
1 Peregrine

Heron's Green:
2 Water Rail, 4 Black-tailed Godwit, 6 Green Sandpiper, 23 Cattle Egret, 

Moreton:
1 Long-tailed Duck
19-11-22 Cetti's Warbler CVL (Lucy Masters)
Stratford:
2 Bewick's Swan - ad one with yellow ring ZBN, 1 Red-crested Pochard, 1 Common Scoter, 1 Smew 1 Cetti's Warbler - morning

Reported by:  Derek Angell, Bru Brooke-Taylor, Peter Bryant, Alex Carlisle, Richard Clease, Mark Collar, Barry Dursley, Matt Hall, Andrew Harrison, Nick Hawkridge, Martyn Hayes, Rupert Higgins, Mike Jackson, Rob Laughton, Lucy Masters, Linda Moysey, Nick Patel, Lois Pryce, Paul Sadley, Tim Salkeld, Cliff Smith, Rod Taylor, Bri Thompson, Jason Williams
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