06-01-23 Friday - Ring-necked Duck

Overcast with the sun breaking through from time to time, and a brighter afternoon followed by late rain.  Mild with a light SW wind, temp 8° to 11°C.     

Ring-necked Duck, Scaup

Cattle Egrets

Marsh Tit

Firecrest
Brambling

BRISTOL

6-1-23 Firecrest, Clifton (Chris White)

Clifton:

1 Firecrest

Stoke Park, Duchess Pond:

3 Ring-necked Parakeet, 1 Reed Bunting. 

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
4 Pintail - 2pr

Yate:
2 Sparrowhawk - circling and harassed by gulls, 1 Red Kite - heading towards East

Avening Green:
2 Marsh Tit - on the feeders regularly

Wickwar:

1 Sparrowhawk (m), 1 Green Woodpecker - yaffling, 12 Long-tailed Tit - garden, 1 Song Thrush - singing

Horton Bushes:
2 Stock Dove, Woodpigeon, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Jay, Carrion Crow, 5 Blue Tit, 1 Great Tit, 2 Wren, 1 Nuthatch, Blackbird, 1 Fieldfare, Robin, 1 Grey Wagtail.

Ridge Woods:
(yesterday)  Woodpigeon, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Jay, Magpie, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, 2 Coal Tit, 10 Blue Tit, 3 Great Tit, 8 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Goldcrest, 2 Wren, 1 Nuthatch, 1 Song Thrush, 1 Redwing, Blackbird, Robin, 1 Dunnock, 3 Goldfinch.

06-01-23 Stonechat Frampton Cotterell (David Hanks)

Frampton Cotterell:

1 Stonechat (m)

Bradley Stoke, Three Brooks Nature Reserve:

8 Teal, 3 Little Grebe, 56 Black-headed Gull, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 1 Reed Bunting

NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon, Colehouse Lane:
WBS:  43 Canada Goose, 17 Mallard, 5 Moorhen, 1 Cormorant, 1 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Jay, 2 Goldcrest, 85+ Redwing, 13 Fieldfare, 9 Meadow Pipit, 1 Brambling with about 7 Chaffinches (in woods beside the Blind Yeo east of Kenn Road bridge)

Congresbury Moor:

1 Great White Egret, 1 Water Rail, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 4 Raven, 3750 Starling, 585 Fieldfare, 1150 Redwing, 1 Song Thrush, 6 Pied Wagtail, 25 Meadow Pipit, 15 Chaffinch.

Weston-Super-Mare:

Knightstone Island:  2 Shelduck, 20 Oystercatcher.

Weston Bay: 14 Shelduck, 68 Oystercatcher, 2 Curlew, c.180 Lapwing (in flight over Uphill/Brean levels).

Woodspring Priory:  26 Mute Swan, c.120 Lapwing (in flight towards Worlebury), 1 Grey Heron, 1 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 2 Skylark, c.90 Jackdaw. 

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield:

24 Red-legged Partridge, 1 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 100+ Skylark, 100+ Starling, 3 Redwing, 60 Fieldfare, 6 Stonechat, 25 House Sparrow, 1 Pied Wagtail, 12 Linnet, 40 Corn Bunting, 30 Yellowhammer.

Paulton:

3 Common Gull, 1 Sparrowhawk, 70 Skylark, 11 Fieldfare, 3 Meadow Pipit.

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:

m. Ring-necked Duck, 2 Great White Egret.

Chew Valley Lake

Villice:

c.200 Teal, 3 Little Grebe, 1 Great White Egret, 1 Raven.

Nunnery:
1 f. Scaup.

06-01-22 Scaup CVL (Paul Williams)

Heron's Green:

4 Cattle Egret, 1 Great White Egret.

Moreton:

4 Pintail, 1 f. Scaup, Water rail heard.

Stratford:

40 Lapwing, 34 Snipe. 5 Cattle Egret, 1 Water Pipit

Herriott's inc Pool:

1 Mediterranean Gull (winter plumaged adult).

Reported by:  Jon Angell, Karle Burford, Jane Cumming, Alan Daniells, Andy Davis, Barry Dursley, Patrick Hancock, Nevil Hanks, Sue Kempson, Fen Marshall, Paul Moon, Paul Sadley, Steve Sanins, Chris Teague, Vic Savery, Larry Sweetland, Bri Thompson, Lauren Tucker, Chris White, Paul Williams

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