Temp 11° but feeling chillier in the strong wind and heavy showers. Precious little sign of any sun breaking through - rotten weather for birding.
Ring-necked DuckYellow-legged Gull
Little Gull
Avocets
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| 12-01-23 Long-tailed Tit Yate (Chris Teague) |
Kingswood:
Raven
Redland:
3 Herring Gull, 2 Woodpigeon, 1 m. Sparrowhawk bathing in pond, 2 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, 1 Robin, 10 House Sparrow.
Stoke Park:
113 Black-headed Gull, 6 Common Gull.
Victoria Park:
SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Oldbury Power Station:
1 Kittiwake, 1 Snipe
6 Common Gull. (BH, HGs and LBB Gulls are regular at this site but have never seen this species here before.)
Oldbury Power Station:
1 Kittiwake, 1 Snipe
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| Kittiwake at Severn Beach (Paul Bowerman) |
13 Pintail, 1 ad. Little Gull, 10 Kittiwake, 1 Black Redstart.
NORTH SOMERSET
Portbury Wharf:
10 Avocet.
Portishead:
f. Blackcap (in the garden, and I'm going nowhere else in this weather)
Gordano Valley:
f. Blackcap (in the garden, and I'm going nowhere else in this weather)
Gordano Valley:
30 Raven.
Clevedon - Yeo:
BELOW M4 & BANES
no reports
RESERVOIRS
Blagdon Lake:
1 m. Ring-necked Duck, 1 Lesser Redpoll (on feeder).
92 Canada Goose, 4 Shoveler, 2 m. Goosander (Strode Road bridge), 80 BH Gull, 40 Herring Gull, 1 LBB Gull, 1 Yellow-legged Gull, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Cattle Egret, 36 Little Egret, 1 Kingfisher (sluice), 1 Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, 2 Kestrel, 60 Fieldfare, 1 Rock Pipit, 2 Greenfinch.
no reports
RESERVOIRS
Blagdon Lake:
1 m. Ring-necked Duck, 1 Lesser Redpoll (on feeder).
Chew Valley Lake
no reports
Reported by: Nancy Barrett, Paul Chapman, Stephen Curtis & Carol Rushton, John Lewis, Larry Sweetland, Howard Taffs,
blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG, contributors to the local WhatsApp groups
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