10-12-22 Saturday - Avocets

Barely above freezing all day, but thankfully no wind.  Bright despite a lot of grey cloud following overnight frost and ice.  Surprisingly, one brief afternoon shower.

Bewick's Swan

Long-tailed Duck, Smew

Avocets

Jack Snipe

Shags

Black Redstart

Calling Tawny Owls at Thornbury, Willsbridge and Portishead.

Garden Blackcaps at Almondsbury, Stoke Bishop, Hanham and Portishead.

Blackcap (Vĕra Carpenter)

BRISTOL

Sea Mills:

40 Mallard, 1 Grey Heron, 10 Lapwing, 6 Dunlin, 30 Redshank, BH, Herring and 2 LBB Gulls.

Stoke Park:

4 Little Grebe, 1 Little Egret (over). 

St George - Crews Hole:

1 Tawny Owl - flew towards the river

Three Brooks reserve:
1 Water Rail, 1 Little Egret,3 Reed Bunting,

Warmley Forest Park:
Siskins

Lapwing at Sea Mills (Di Bunniss)

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
8 Moorhen, 1 Water Rail, c.2,500 Dunlin, 2 Snipe, Raven, 3 Stonechat, 2+ Yellowhammer, 10+ Reed Bunting.

Aust Warth:
c. 60 Lapwing, 1 Snipe, 2 Common Gull, 3 Little Egret, 1 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, c. 30 Jackdaw, c. 15 Redwing, 1 Fieldfare, 10 Linnet.

Avening Green, Little River Avon:

1 Grey Wagtail

Almondsbury:

300+ mixed Redwing and Fieldfare in Almondsbury orchard.

New Passage/Northwick:
7 Avocet, 9 Knot, 100s Black-tailed Godwit, 100s Dunlin.

Severn Beach:
Black Redstart

Chipping Sodbury Common:

6 Snipe, Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, Peregrine, 2 Barn Owl, 2 Green Woodpecker, 3 Raven, Fieldfares and Redwings, 25+ Linnet.

Goldfinch and Blue Tit  (NSL Birding)

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead:
(garden) Sparrowhawk, Song Thrush (a hard-weather visitor here)

Nailsea Moor:
2 Lapwing, 2 Snipe, 7 Buzzard, 1 Kingfisher, 3 Kestrel, 1 Peregrine, 4 Stonechat, 1 Reed Bunting

Clevedon Marine Lake:

2 Shag

Clevedon - Yeo:
4 Goosander (Wains Hill, 3 m. and 1 f,)

10-12-22 Buzzard Watercress Fm (Rob Martin)

Watercress Farm, Wraxall:

(3 survey teams - highlights)

Stock Doves, 32 Lapwing (over), 3 Buzzard, Common and BH Gull, Green Woodpecker, 20 Skylark, Goldcrest, LT Tit, 2 Nuthatch, 14 Starling, 50 Meadow Pipit, 1 Grey Wagtail.  Large finch flocks of  Chaffinch, Goldfinch, 50 Linnet, 45+ Yellowhammer, 50 Reed Bunting,

Backwell Lake:

(80% iced)  2 Snipe, 1 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker

Weston-super-Mare, M5 Junc 21:

2000 Starling - over towards the airfield (disused)

Yatton:

Little Owl

What is it?  It's a very strange view of a Collared Dove (NSL Birding)

BELOW M4 & BANES

Saltford - weir:

7 Mute Swan - inc 5 juv, 1 Kestrel, 1 Grey Wagtail

Newton St Loe:

2 Mute Swan, 27 Mallard, 3 Teal, 1 Tufted Duck, 1 Collared Dove, 2 Little Grebe, 23 Lapwing, 1 Grey Heron. 1 Red Kite, 2 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Raven, 13 Fieldfare, 15 Redwing, 15 Blackbird.

Paulton:

16 Mallard, 6 Moorhen, 107 Black-headed Gull, 1 Grey Heron, 2 Buzzard, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Jay, 1 Coal Tit, 4 Chiffchaff, 1 Goldcrest, 16 Blackbird, 15 Redwing, 3 Song Thrush, 2 Stonechat, 2 Chaffinch, 2 Goldfinch.

Paulton Sewage Works:

21 Pied Wagtail, 2 Meadow Pipit.

Black-tailed Godwit at Herons Green (Simon Isgar)

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:

5 Pintail, 1 Lapwing, 2 Great White Egret, 1 Little Egret, 1 Peregrine, 1 Stonechat.

Chew Valley Lake

Nunnery:
1 f. Smew

Heron's Green:
1 Black-tailed Godwit

Moreton:
1 Long-tailed Duck, 50 Lapwing, 

Stratford:
5 Snipe, 2 Great White Egret, 3 Marsh Harrier (1 m., 2 f.), 2 Sparrowhawk, 

Herriott's inc Pool:
1 Bewick's Swan, 14 Goosander, 3 Jack Snipe

Buzzard  (NSL Birding)

Reported by:  Richard Belson, Di Bunniss, Vĕra Carpenter, Ben Crabb, Richard Giles, Patrick Hancock, Simon Isgar, Robin Martin, Mike Moxon, Fiona Neate, Trevor Riddle, Matt Scott, Larry Sweetland, 

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