16-02-23 Thursday - Alpine Swift & Swallow

 Temp a mild 10-12°C. Light south-westerly. Overcast with rainy spells.

Ring-necked Duck

Scaup

Smew

Alpine Swift

Mediterranean Gull

Swallow

Black Redstart

16-02-23 Alpine Swift, Oldbury Power Station (Vic Savery)

BRISTOL

River Trym Coombe Dingle to Sea Mills:

Mallard, several Redshank, Black-headed Gull, 1 Kingfisher, pair Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, Magpie, Blue Tit, Great Tit, 1 Blackcap, Wren, 1 Treecreeper,  Blackbird, Robin, 1 Dunnock, 1 Grey Wagtail, flock of Goldfinch

UWE - Frenchay Campus:

50 Greenfinch- evening roost (outside M block)

Stoke Park / Duchess Pond:

2 Chiffchaff

Eastville garden:
5 Golden Plover (over)

Victoria Park, Bedminster:
16 Woodpigeon, 4 Herring Gull, 3 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 6 Common Magpie, 8 Carrion Crow, 7 Blue Tit, 7 Great Tit, 14 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Blackcap (f probably the known wintering bird at thios site), 1 Goldcrest, 6 Wren, 14 Blackbird, 7 Robin, 7 Dunnock, 26 House Sparrow, 1 Pied Wagtail/White Wagtail, 5 Goldfinch

Malago Greenway below Windmill Hill:

6 Woodpigeon, 2 Collared Dove, 2 Herring Gull mobbing the 1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Kingfisher (pair), 1 Magpie, 1 Carrion Crow, 2 Coal Tit, 3 Blue Tit, 4 Great Tit, 2 Chiffchaff (1 collybita, 1 tristis), 3 Long-tailed Tit, 5 Wren, 5 Blackbird, 4 Robin, 1 Dunnock, 7 House Sparrow, 2 Grey Wagtail (pair, with m singing)

Crews Hole / Troopers Hill:
3 Mallard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker drumming, 2 Song Thrush

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
12 Canada Goose, 2 Mute Swan, 6 Shelduck, 9 Mallard, 1 Alpine Swift, 3 Moorhen, 1 Coot, 3 Curlew, 4 Sand Martin, 1 Cetti’s Warbler, 6 Long-tailed Tit, 4 Song Thrush, 2 Black Redstart (1m, 1f), 1 Pied Wagtail

Severn Beach:
1 Black Redstart 

NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon / Wains Hill:
6 Turnstone, 1 GBB Gull, 2 Peregrine

Clevedon - Yeo Estuary / Dowlais:
2 Barnacle Goose, 5 Goosander

Claverham Drove, Kenn Moor:
52 Mute Swan, 1 Cormorant, 1 Buzzard

BELOW M4 & BANES

Keynsham:

2 Red Kite

Bath - Queens Square:

1 Red Kite - circling and in no hurry

Harptree:
1 Red Kite

Stantonbury Hill:

7 Pheasant (5m, 2f), 2 Red Kite, 3 Buzzard, 2 Raven

Stanton Prior:

1 Kestrel, 4 Skylark, 1 Greenfinch

Radstock:

1 Red Kite

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
1 Ring-necked Duck (m), 6 Great White Egret, 100 Sand Martin, 1 Swallow

Chew Valley Lake
2 Cattle Egret (flew to the South over the lake at midday)

Heron's Green:
1 Smew (redhead), 1 Mediterranean Gull (ad in full summer plumage)

Stratford:

2 Scaup (2f), 1 Great White Egret, 1 Marsh Harrier (first-calendar year), 2 Sand Martin

Herriott's inc Pool:
1 Red Kite

Reported by Paul Bowerman, Di Bunniss, Stephanie Chadwick, David Child, Mark Coller, Pete Coslett, Chris Craig, Andy Davis, Mark Dowie, Lee Evans, Nicholas Galley, Andy Gibb, Richard Giles, Peter Hazelwood, Dave Hughes, Karen Jayne, Nigel Jones, Nigel Kempson, Roy Kinchin, John Lewis,  Paul Masters, Pete  Maxfield, Andrew Middleton, Nige Milbourne, Robbie Morse, Mike Moxon, Fiona Neate, Nick Page, Lois Pryce, Dean Reeves, Vic Savery, Cliff Smith, Larry Sweetland, Howard Taffs,

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