Sunday 20 November 2022

20-11-22 Sunday - Curlew Sandpiper

 Temp 5° to 11°C sunny with heavy cloud, light wind from the west

Guillemot
Spoonbill
Long-tailed Duck
Common Scoter
Red-crested Pochard
Purple Sandpiper
Cattle Egret
Curlew Sandpiper

BRISTOL

Brandon Hill:
1 Magpie, 28 Carrion Crow - pre-roost gathering, 1 Goldcrest, 1 Robin - singing

Eastville Park:
1 Common Gull

Eastville - garden:
1 Blackcap (m)

Clifton - Royal Fort Gardens:
15 Feral Pigeon, 8 Woodpigeon, 3 Herring Gull, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 1 Jay, 3 Magpie, 4 Carrion Crow, 3 Blue Tit, 1 Great Tit, 6 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Goldcrest, 1 Nuthatch, 5 Blackbird, 1 Song Thrush, 4 Robin, 1 Dunnock, 1 Chaffinch (f), 3 Greenfinch (m) over, 1 Goldfinch

Stoke Bishop - garden:
1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Blackcap (f&m), 2 Fieldfare, 6 Redwing

Stoke Park, Duchess Pond:
1 Teal (f),1 Water Rail, 1 Little Grebe

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE
20-11-22 Black Redstart OPS (Heather England)
Oldbury Power Station:
2 Black Redstart 

Pilning Wetlands:
plenty of Shoveler, Wigeon, Teal, Lapwing, Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, Snipe, Redshank,  1 Curlew Sandpiper, 1 Water Pipit

Severn Beach:
1 Jack Snipe, 20 Kittiwake, 1 Fulmar, 1 Spoonbill

Wickwar:
16 Lapwing, 1 Peregrine 

Coalpit Heath:
2 Lapwing, 1 Nuthatch, 1 Treecreeper, 53 Redwing

NORTH SOMERSET

Portbury Wharf:
4 Gadwall, c30Wigeon, 6 Shoveler, Tufted Duck, 15 Teal, 2 Little Grebe, 13 Lapwing, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, a few Fieldfare & Redwing , 2 Mistle Thrush 

Wraxall - Watercress Farm:
2 Teal, 3 Moorhen, 1 Little Grebe, 1 Common Gull, 2 Green Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, 2 Ravens, Skylark, Redwing, 1 Redpoll, 5 Yellowhammer

20-11-2022 Purple Sandpiper Battery Point (Mike Owen)
Portishead - Battery Point:
5 Purple Sandpiper, 3 Common Gull, 7 Guillemot

BELOW M4 & BANES
20-11-22 Red Kite MF (Peter Coslett)
Marshfield:
Stock Dove, 1 Grey Heron, 4 Red Kite,2 Buzzard, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Green Woodpecker, 1 Raven, Coal, Blue and Great Tit, 8+Blackbird, 80 Fieldfare, 40 Redwing, 4 Mistle Thrush, Pied Wagtail, 15 Meadow Pipit, Chaffinch, Goldfinch

Keynsham - Ham
2 Stonechat, 1 Dunnock, 8 Pied Wagtail
20-11-22 Pigeons Keynsham (Andrew Harrison)
Keynsham, Manor Road Community Woodlands:
10 Feral Pigeon, 11 Woodpigeon, 6 Magpie, 27 Rook, 36 Carrion Crow, 1 Blue Tit, 1 Great Tit,
8 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Goldcrest, 5 Starling, 4 Blackbird, 4 Robin, 11 House Sparrow, 6 Goldfinch

Newton St Loe:
2 Mute Swan, 1 Wigeon, 1 Tufted Duck, 5 Moorhen, 2 Coot, 2 Little Grebe, 54 Black-headed Gull, 1 Common Gull, 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 2 Grey Heron, 1 Little Egret, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, 1 Jay, 50 Rook, 2 Coal Tit, 4 Skylark, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 3 Wren, 2 Nuthatch, 12 Blackbird, 30 Redwing, 2 Mistle Thrush, 4 Stonechat, 1 Grey Wagtail, 2 Pied Wagtail, 6 Meadow Pipit, 1 Greenfinch, 3 Goldfinch

RESERVOIRS

Barrow Tanks:
4 Pochard, 1 Long-tailed Duck, 1 Great-crested Grebe

Blagdon Lake:
30 Golden Plover, quite a few Black-tailed Godwit, 25 Dunlin

Chew Valley Lake

Dam:
8 Goosander

Heron's Green:
6 Goosander (4f & 2m), 28 Cattle Egret, 2 Great White Egret, 

Moreton:
1 Scaup, 1 Long-tailed Duck, 1 Marsh Harrier (m)
20-11-22 Smew CVL (Bri Thompson)
Stratford:

1 Red-crested Pochard, 1 Common Scoter, 1 Smew, 4 Dunlin - flying around, 2 Peregrine - noisy

Herriott's inc Pool:
5 Bewick's Swan - inc juv

Reported by: Paul Bowerman, Peter Coslett, Anne Crowe, Oscar Dewhurst, Heather England, Andy Gibb, Andrew Harrison, Dave Hughes, Simon Isgar, Mike Jackson, Gareth Jones, Steve Jones, Robert Kelsh, John Lewis, Simon Mackie, Andy Mears, Mike Owen,  Larry Sweetland, Bri Thompson, Lauren & Wayne Tucker,  Roger White, Jason Williams