08-01-23 Sunday - Short-eared Owl

Temp 9° to 6°C     Cloudy and feeling chilly, rain, some heavy, on and off with light but sometimes gusty SSW winds

Short-eared Owl

Ring-necked Duck

Little Gull 

Guillemot

Smew

Long-tailed Duck

BRISTOL

Eastville Park:
14 Canada Goose, 2 Little Grebe

Filton UWE Stoke Lane:

1 Water Rail

Redland - garden:

3 Wood Pigeon, 5 Feral Pigeon, 4 Herring Gull, 1 Jay, 1 Magpie, 1 Carrion Crow, 1 Raven - over, calling, 2 Blackbird, 1 Robin, 8+ House Sparrow, 2 Dunnock

The Downs:

8 Greylag Goose - over this morning

08-01-23 Little Grebe Stoke Park (Patrick Richards)

Stoke Park, Duchess Pond:
2 Mute Swan, 20 Mallard, 100+ Feral Pigeon, 21 Woodpigeon, 1 Water Rail, 11 Moorhen, 6 Coot, 3 Little Grebe, 72 Black-headed Gull, 4 Herring Gull, 1 Cormorant, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Sparrowhawk, (m), 1 Buzzard, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Ring-neck Parakeet, 1 Jay, 30 Magpie, 48 Jackdaw, 19 Carrion Crow, 1 Coal Tit, 15 Blue Tit, 1 Goldcrest, 1 Wren, 15 Starling, 1 Song Thrush - singing, 20+ Redwing, 3 Blackbird, 4 Robin, 6 House Sparrow, 2 Bullfinch (m), 22+ Goldfinch, 1 Reed Bunting, (m).

Withywood:
1 Blackcap (m) on the feeders and 2 Pied Wagtail in the street.

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
1 Little Grebe, 1 Chiffchaff - both at the lake

Aust Warth:
30 Shelduck, 1 Short-eared Owl - flushed and pestered by Carrion Crow, 4:15 pm

New Passage/Northwick:
45 Oystercatcher, 12 Grey Plover, 80 Curlew, 30 Dunlin

Severn Beach:
1 Bar-tailed Godwit, 1 Kittiwake, 1 Little Gull - 1st wint, 1 Guillemot, 1 Black Redstart

Wickwar:

2 Mute Swan - on flooded fields, 1 Sparrowhawk (m), 1 Little Owl - calling, 1 Redpoll - rare here

NORTH SOMERSET

Portbury Wharf:
15 Tufted Duck, 4 Gadwall, c75Wigeon, 25 Shoveler, 1 Little Grebe, 15 Lapwing 

Gordano Valley, Weston Big Wood:
2 Buzzard, 50+ Raven

Clevedon - garden

usual Pigeon, 2 Collared Dove, 2 Coal Tit, 1 Blackcap (m), 1 Robin, 1 Pied Wagtail, 2 Chaffinch, 12 Goldfinch

08-01-23 Cattle and Little Egret Cl-Y (Howard Taffs)

Kingston Seymore:

1 Cattle Egret, 20 Little Egret, 

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield:
1 Mute Swan, 4 Red Kite, 3 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 5 Raven 1 Mistle Thrush

08-01-23 Blackcap Bromley Heath (Craig Lewis)

Bromley Heath - garden:

Blue and Great Tit, 6 or 7 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Blackcap (m)

Hanham - garden:

1 Red Kite -  overhead

Warmley:

1 Stock Dove - calling

08-01-23 Grey Heron Bath (Andrew Harrison)

Bath:
1 Grey Heron, 2 Peregrine (St John's Church) 1 Long-tailed Tit

RESERVOIRS

Barrow Gurney Tanks:

1 Long-tailed Duck, 1 Little Grebe

Blagdon Lake:
2 Ring-necked Duck (f&m), 1 Scaup (m), 1 Goosander, 1 Common Sandpiper, 3 Great White Egret, 1 Cetti's Warbler - singing, 2 Stonechat, 

Chew Valley Lake

Heron's Green:
8 Greylag Goose, 1 Smew, 1 Great White Egret, 1 Kingfisher

08-01-23 Snipe CVL (Gill Sapsed)

Stratford:
40 Snipe

Reported by:  Nancy Barrett, Mark Coller, Peter Coslett, Neil Delaney, Matt Hall, Andrew Harrison, Nick Hudson, Simon Isgar, John Klosinski, Iris Langson, Craig Lewis, Paul Marshall, Paul Moon, Brian Mulgrew, Darren Pearce, Patrick Richards, Paul Sadley, Gill Sapsed, Vic Savery, Tony Scott, Larry Sweetland, Howard Taffs
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