21-12-22 Wednesday - Smew, Firecrest

Temp 6 to 10°C. After a rainy night, surprisingly nice day with plenty of sun

Smew
Diver sp.
Firecrest

21-12-22 cygnet Mute Swan with crook in neck, Duchess Pond (Patrick Richards)

BRISTOL

Stoke Park, Duchess pond:
1 crook necked cygnet Mute Swan

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:

1 Diver sp., possibly Great Northern, 2 imm male + fem  Marsh Harrier

Ridge Woods:

1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Raven, Coal Tits singing, 2m +1f Bullfinch

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead, nr Battery Point:

2 f Firecrest ringed

Clevedon, Blind Two at Kenn Road Bridge:

3 Mute Swan, 1 Great White Egret, 1 Little Egret

Worle garden:
2 Blackcap, 1 m Bullfinch

BELOW M4 & BANES

Chew Magna:

1 Little Egret (Winford Brook), c.120 Greenfinch pre roost

21-12-22 Red Kite, Dyrham Park (Matty England)

Dyrham Park, 12;30:

1 Red Kite, 1 Kestrel

Bath, Carrs Wood and City Farm:
4 Collared Dove, 1 Buzzard, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpeckerr, 2 Jay, 32 Magpie, 1 Raven, 4 Coal Tit, 31 Blue Tit, 23 Great Tit, 3 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Starling, 19 Blackbird, 26 Redwing, 1 Pied Wagtail, 4 Chaffinch, 1 m Bullfinch, 6 Greenfinch, 24 Goldfinch

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

Walley Bank:

25 Goosander

Herons Green:

1 f Scaup, 1 f Smew

Reports: Jane Cumming, Alan Daniells, Andy Davis, Rob Hargreaves, Peter Hazelwood, David Howes, Matt Plenty, Dean Reeves, Patrick Richards, Rod Taylor, blagdonlakebirds, eBird, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG