03-03-23 Friday - Smew

 Temp 4° to 6° C.  Cold and overcast with a light easterly wind.

Pink-footed Goose

Ring-necked Duck, Smew

Hume's Warbler 

Firecrests
Black Redstart

Grey Heron at Bath ( Jonathan Margetts)

BRISTOL

Blaise Castle:

2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Jay, 8 Bluetit, 5 Great Tit, 1 Firecrest, 2 Nuthatch, 4 Wren, 7 Blackbird, 1 Song Thrush, 5 Robin, 2 Dunnock, 6 Chaffinch.

Stockwood Open Space:

4 Mallard, 1 Nuthatch, 2 Bullfinch, 3 Greenfinch

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Garden in Almondsbury:

Wren, 2 Siskin

Pilning Wetlands:

15 Canada Goose, 1 Pink-footed Goose

 

Severn Beach:
1 Black Redstart

NORTH SOMERSET
no reports

Wren in an Almondsbury garden (Vera Carpenter)

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield - Shire Valley:

Skylark - singing, c100 Fieldfare, 1 Stonechat (f), small flock of Meadow Pipit

Bath:

Widcombe Vale : 3 Grey Heron ( 1 pair nesting), 2 Song Thrush. 1 Grey Wagtail.

Widcombe Lock : Grey Heron

Pulteney Weir : 2 Canada Goose (courtship display), 2 Mute Swan, 4 Mallard, 1 Cormorant, 20 Black-headed Gull, 2 Pied Wagtail, 2 Grey Wagtail.

Brickfields Park : 3 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 3 Redwing, 8 Pied Wagtail.

Garden, Englishcombe Lane : 1 Red Kite (flew over), 8 Jackdaw, 4 Blackcap (3 m.,1 f.), 1 Song Thrush, 2 Redwing, 10+ House Sparrow.

Compton Dando SWT:

1 Hume's Warbler 

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
1 m. Ring-necked Duck, 1 Great White Egret

Chew Valley Lake

Woodford:
2+ Goldcrest, 1 Firecrest

Heron's Green:

1 Smew

Reported by: Di Bunniss, Vera Carpenter, Bryan Cook, Paul Francis, Jonathan Margetts, Robbie Morse, Mike Moxon, Carol Rushton, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG, contributors to local WhatsApp groups