29-12-22 Thursday - Yellow-browed Warbler

A very wet and windy morning but still mild, temp up to 9°C.  Sunny spells later, but heavy rain and hail as well.

Brent Goose

Smew

Avocets, Purple Sandpipers

Merlin
Yellow-browed Warbler

Water Pipit

Water Pipit at Stratford, Chew Valley Lake  (Lee Gardiner)

BRISTOL

Bishopston garden:

1 Blackcap, 1 Fieldfare

Troopers Hill:
2 Sparrowhawk

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
38 Canada Goose but one pale-bellied Brent Goose, 2 Mute Swan, 2 Shelduck, 160 Wigeon, 18 Mallard, 17 Lapwing, 224 Curlew, 46 Redshank, 1 Peregrine, 15 Pied Wagtail.

New Passage/Northwick:
1000's Dunlin.
 
Severn Beach:
4 Pintail, 1 Fulmar, 38 Kittiwake (heading NE), 1 Merlin

Yate:
7 Tufted Duck, 1 Little Grebe, 4 Blackcap, Chiffchaff, 1 garden Yellow-browed Warbler

Golden Plover in a car park (Rob Emery)

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead:

Battery point at high tide: 3 Avocet (flypast), 4 Purple Sandpiper

Garden in Redcliffe Bay:

1 m. Sparrowhawk, pr. Woodpigeon, 5 LT Tit, 3 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, 1 f. Blackcap, 2 Robin, 3 Dunnock, c.25 Greenfinch, 2 Goldfinch.

Bristol Airport:
33 Golden Plover in a car park.

BELOW M4 & BANES

female Kingfisher, River Chew (Andrew Harrison)

Keynsham, Memorial Park:
Little Grebe, f. Kingfisher.

Little Grebe on River Chew in KMP (Andrew Harrison)

Burnett:

2 Red Kite.

Hunstrete:

100 Lapwing (flyover), 2 Buzzard, 2 Raven, 30+ Meadow Pipit, 20+ Linnet, 5 Yellowhammer.

Yellowhammer at Hunstrete (Ian Stapp)

Bath Centre, opp Apple Store:

222 Pied Wagtail in a tree

29-12-22 Pied Wagtails, Bath Apple Store (Rob Hargreaves)

RESERVOIRS

Barrow Tanks:
m. Long-tailed Duck (on tank 1)

Kingfisher at Herriotts Bridge (Ian Stapp)

Chew Valley Lake

Dam:

30+ Pochard, 8+ Goldeneye, 5+ Goosander, 80+ Cormorant (flyover), 2 Grey Heron, 12+ LT Tit, 2 Pied Wagtail, 6 Chaffinch.

Woodford:

 20+ Goldeneye, 4 Goosander, 3 GBB Gull, 2 Grey Heron, 1 Great White Egret, 12 LT Tit, 7 Redwing, 10+ Chaffinch, 1 Bullfinch.

Heron's Green:
200+ Canada Goose, 6 Goldeneye, redhead Smew, 2 GBB Gull, 15 Cattle Egret, 2 Grey Heron, 2 Great White Egret, 4 Little Egret, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 100+ Starling, 4 Pied Wagtail.

  

Moreton:

60+ Teal, 5 Goldeneye, 1 Snipe, 3 Grey Heron, 1 Great White Egret, 1 m. Marsh Harrier, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Jay, 2 Raven, 12+ LT Tit, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Goldcrest, 4 Meadow Pipit.    

Stratford:
4 Goosander, 32 Snipe, 1 Great White Egret, 1 m. Marsh Harrier, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Coal Tit, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Chiffchaff,  1 f. Stonechat, 1 Water Pipit, 4 Meadow Pipit, 4 Pied Wagtail

Herriott's inc Pool:
4 Shelduck, 6 Shoveler, 7 Pintail, 2 GBB Gull, 1 Bittern (flew along in front reeds lake side to main reed bed), 2 Grey Heron, 7 Great White Egret came in to roost, 1 Kingfisher, 7 Jackdaw, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Grey Wagtail, 4 Pied Wagtail.

Reported by: Peter Bryant, Jane Cumming, Andy Davis, Rob Emery, Lee Gardiner, Rob Hargreaves, Andrew Harrison, David Howes, Andy Middleton, Jean Oliver, Ian Stapp, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG, members of WhatsApp groups for Avon and South Glos.