A warmer and calmer day. Temp 6°C to 13°C. Overcast. Light easterly turning southerly.
Mandarin DuckScaup
Stratford:
4 Scaup (1m, 3f)
Reported by: Pete Bunniss, Mark Coller, Andy Davis, Julian Eastoe, Tim Ford, Trevor Ford, Richard Giles, Rob Laughton, Adrian Morgan, Linda Moysey, Fiona Neate, Mike Owen, Nick Page, Lois Pryce, Joe Sargent, Nigel Sluman, Andy Stockhausen, Howard Taffs
Black-necked Grebe
Jack Snipe
Cattle Egret
Marsh Tit
Firecrest
Oldbury Power Station:
Aust Warth / services / sewage works:
Yate Rocks garden:
1 Marsh Tit
Coopers Lake, Yate:
Kingsgate Park, Yate:
Yate garden:
BRISTOL
Clifton Down:
2 Collared Dove singing, c12 Redwing, 1 Chaffinch (f), 3 Bullfinch
Downfield Road, Clifton
c12 Redwing, 2 Chaffinch (1m, 1f)
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Coombe Dingle garden:
1 Blackcap (f)
Redland garden:
1 Lesser Whitethroat still present
SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Oldbury Power Station:
5 Grey Plover at Pillhead Gout, 3 Mistle Thrush in "the Plantation"
Aust Warth / services / sewage works:
1 Pheasant, 3 GBB Gull, 2 Cormorant, 1 Little Egret, 1 Peregrine, 2 Raven, 9 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Chiff Chaff, 3 Goldcrest, 1 Stonechat, 1 Grey Wagtail, 2 Chaffinch, 4 Bullfinch, 1 Reed Bunting
Aust Warth, Cake Pill:
50 Shelduck, 40 Curlew, 1 Jack Snipe, 25 Redshank, 8 Meadow Pipit
NorthwickWarth/Pilning Wetlands:
10 Greylag Goose, 4 Tufted Duck, 1 Little Grebe, 200 Lapwing, 33 Curlew, 8 Turnstone, 300 Dunlin, 44 Redshank, 1 Little Egret, 2 Raven, 20+ Redwing, 1 Stonechat, c20 Meadow Pipit, 3 Linnet
10 Greylag Goose, 4 Tufted Duck, 1 Little Grebe, 200 Lapwing, 33 Curlew, 8 Turnstone, 300 Dunlin, 44 Redshank, 1 Little Egret, 2 Raven, 20+ Redwing, 1 Stonechat, c20 Meadow Pipit, 3 Linnet
Ingst (AWBS):
1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, 22 Rook, 1 Song thrush, 2 Mistle Thrush, 122 Redwing, 4 Linnet
Yate Rocks garden:
1 Marsh Tit
Coopers Lake, Yate:
2 Mandarin Duck (1m, 1f), 9 Goosander (3m, 6f)
Kingsgate Park, Yate:
13 Tufted Duck, 3 Goosander (1m, 2f)
Yate garden:
2 Goosander (2f, over, heading towards Westerleigh)
Windmill Farm Carp Lake, Westerleigh:
2 Goosander (f) - ?same birds as above
NORTH SOMERSET
2 Goosander (f) - ?same birds as above
NORTH SOMERSET
Backwell Lake:
19 Canada Geese, 18 Mute Swan, 4 Gadwall (2f,2m), 14 Mallard, 1 Tufted Duck (f), 18 Feral Pigeon, 9 Moorhen, 1 Little Grebe, 100 Black-Headed Gull, 5 Cormorant, 1 Wren, 1 Mistle Thrush.Nailsea Park:
13 Magpie
Portbury Wharf:
BELOW M4 & BANES
Portbury Wharf:
15 Shoveler, 43 Wigeon, 12 Teal, Water Rail (heard), 1 Black-necked Grebe, 18 Lapwing, 16 Snipe, + a noticeable increase in LBB gulls on the island after none all winter
& on the mudflats/saltmarsh: 2 Curlew, c150 Dunlin, 2 Redshank, 1 Stonechat (m)
Uphill:
3 Canada Goose, 9 Shelduck, 3 Shoveler, 138 Wigeon, Mallard, Teal, 1 Oystercatcher, 538 Lapwing. 6 Curlew, c800 Dunlin, 79 Redshank, small numbers of BH Gull, Herring Gull & LBB Gull, Carrion Crows
BELOW M4 & BANES
Oldland Common:
1 Sparrowhawk (m)
By River Chew, Stanton Drew:
51+ Cattle Egret
1 Sparrowhawk (m)
By River Chew, Stanton Drew:
51+ Cattle Egret
Writhlington:
3 Red Kite, 6 Skylark, 18 Pied Wagtail, 20 Goldfinch
RESERVOIRS
3 Red Kite, 6 Skylark, 18 Pied Wagtail, 20 Goldfinch
RESERVOIRS
Blagdon Lake:
23 Stock Dove, 1 Scaup (m 1st winter), 33 Goldeneye, 15 Goosander, 8 Great White Egret, 1 Little Egret, 3 Chiffchaff, 1 SiskinChew Valley Lake:
Woodford:
Firecrest
Firecrest
Moreton:
28 Wigeon, 1 Cattle Egret (over to south), 1 Marsh Harrier (f), c70 Redwing
28 Wigeon, 1 Cattle Egret (over to south), 1 Marsh Harrier (f), c70 Redwing
Stratford:
4 Scaup (1m, 3f)
