07-01-24 Sunday - Little Gull

Temp 1°C to 5°C - Cold in the moderate breeze from the N/NE but lovely to see the sun most of the day.

Ring-necked Duck

Scaup, Lesser Scaup
Long-tailed Duck

Slavonian and Black-necked Grebe

Avocet, Jack Snipe
Little Gull
Great Northern Diver

Waxwing

Bearded Tit
Black Redstart

Water Pipit

BRISTOL

Downend - garden:

3 Jay 

Redland gardens: 

2 Woodpigeon, 3 Jay, 2 Magpie, 1 Coal Tit, 2 Blue Tit, 1 Great Tit, 4 Long-tailed Tit, 1 m Blackcap, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Redwing, 1 f Blackbird, 1 Robin, 1 Dunnock, 4 House Sparrow

7-1-24 Bullfinch, St George garden (Wildwood Nature Photography)

Saint George garden:

1 m Blackcap, 1 f Bullfinch

Stoke Park:
1 Jack Snipe

Stockwood Open Space:

5 Mallard, 1 Moorhen, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker,  pr Bullfinch

Knowle:

1 Raven

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

07-01-24 Black Redstart, OPS (Mike Prior)

Oldbury Power Station:
1 Water Rail, 3 Ringed Plover, Curlew, 20 Dunlin, 1 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Jay, 2 Goldcrest, 50+ Redwing, 20+ Fieldfare, 2 Black Redstart (1m 1f), 2 Stonechat, 1 Meadow Pipit, 10+ Bullfinch, 2 Reed Bunting

7-1-24  Siskin, Littleton Brick Pits (Mark Dadds)

Littleton Brick Pits:
1 Waxwing heard, 2 Cetti's Warbler + 62 birds trapped - 2 Redwing, c.10 Greenfinch, c.20 Goldfinch, 2 Siskin

Northwick Road:

1 Waxwing

7-1-24 Slavonian Grebe, Pilning Wetland (Steve Jones)

Northwick Warth/Pilning Wetland:
40 Greylag Geese, 27 Gadwall, Wigeon, Teal, Pochard, 6 Stock Dove, 1 Little Grebe, 1 Slavonian Grebe,14 Avocet, c100 Lapwing, 10 Curlew, 83 Oystercatcher, 10 Black-tailed Godwit, c20 Dunlin, 6 Jack Snipe, 9 Grey Heron, 2 Little Egret, 1 Marsh Harrier, 3 Stonechat, 1 Water Pipit

Severn Beach:

50 Wigeon, 15 Teal, 1 Water Rail, 1 Grey Plover, 8 Ringed Plover, 40 Curlew, 1 Chiffchaff, 2 Stonechat, 1 Grey Wagtail, 8 Greenfinch

Crooks Marsh:
22 Mallard, 1 Moorhen, 2 Coot, 1 Little Grebe, 1 Stonechat

Chittening Wharth:

1 Water Rail, 150 Turnstone, 194 Oystercatcher, 2 Jack Snipe, 2 Snipe, 6 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Chiffchaff, 3 Stonechat, 4 Rock Pipit

7-1-24 Peregrine, Sodbury Common (Chris Teague)

(Chipping) Sodbury Common:
1 Jack Snipe, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Peregrine, Redwings, 8 Fieldfare, Meadow Pipits, 1 Bullfinch

Wickwar:

c60 Lapwing, 3 Little Egret, 2 Buzzard, 1 Barn Owl, 1 Little Owl, 1 Tawny Owl, 1 Kestrel,  2  Peregrine, 1 Jay, c50 Starling, 1 Mistle Thrush, 1 Stonechat, pr Bullfinch

Yate:

Garden: 1 m Blackcap, Goldfinch

Yate Rocks Garden: 1 m Blackcap

NORTH SOMERSET

7-1-24 Little Gull, Portbury Warth (Steve Jones)

Portbury Wharf:
10 Shoveler, 4 Gadwall, 12 Wigeon, 6 Teal, 3 Little Grebe, 1 Black-necked Grebe, 1 Snipe, 1 Little Gull, 2 GBB Gull, 1 LBB Gull, 10 Linnet

Weston-Super-Mare, land behind Melrose Car Park:

2 Raven, 1 m Blackcap, 5 Redwing

BELOW M4 & BANES

Warmley:

1 Sparrowhawk catching 1 Goldfinch

Willsbridge:

3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Coal Tit, 5 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Nuthatch, 1 Dipper, 2 m Bullfinch

Keynsham:

Flooded rugby pitch: 1 Tufted Duck- unusual here

STW/Broadmead Lane: 2 Green Woodpecker, 5+ Skylark, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Goldcrest, 5 Redwing, 1 Fieldfare, 1 Grey Wagtail, 3+ Meadow Pipit, 10+ Chaffinch, 5 Greenfinch, c20 Linnet, c5 Goldfinch

Saltford:

1 Little Owl

7-1-24 Jay,  Newton St Loe (Wayne Tucker)

Newton St Loe to Stanton Prior:

4 (3ad 1j) Mute Swan, 78 Mallard, 15 Teal, 2 Tufted Duck, 1 Red-legged Partridge, 1 Stock Dove, 4 Little Grebe, 200+ BH Gull, 300+ Common Gull, 10+ Herring Gull, 20+ LBB Gull, 1 Cormorant, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Red Kite, 3 Buzzard, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Kingfisher, 30+ Blue Tit, 1 Blackcap, 1 Treecreeper, 40+ Redwing, 3 Fieldfare, 6 Chaffinch, 6 Greenfinch, 8 Linnet, 1 Bullfinch, 7 Yellowhammer

Dyrham Park:

1 f Blackcap

Paulton:
1 BH Gull, 90 Common Gull, 1 Herring Gull, 1 LBB Gull, 1 Buzzard, 1 Raven, 33 Skylark

RESERVOIRS

Barrow Tank 1:
1 Long-tailed Duck with Tufted Duck, 1 Great Northern Diver

Blagdon:

1 Ring-necked Duck, 5 Great White Egret

Chew Valley Lake

Herons Green:
1 Lesser Scaup, 1 f Scaup, 3 f Goldeneye, 2 Great White Egret, 2 Little Egret

Stratford:
2 Great White Egret, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Coal Tit

Herriott's:
1 Great White Egret, 1 Sparrowhawk, 3 (2m/1f) Bearded Tit 

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