02-02-24 Friday - Merlin

Temp 8°C to 11°C - Early drizzle fizzled out to leave a mostly cloudy day with little sun. WSW wind picked up later, with gusts reaching 35mph. 

Garganey

Ring-necked Duck, Scaup

Black-necked Grebe

Purple Sandpiper

Mediterranean Gull

Bittern

Cattle Egret

Merlin

Water Pipit

02-02-24 Kingfisher, Newton St. Loe (Wayne Tucker)

BRISTOL:

Avonmouth - Hallen Marsh:

3 m Pheasant, 1 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 2 Peregrine, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 3 (2m/1f) Stonechat, 1 Dunnock, 1 Chaffinch, 6 Linnet, 2 Goldfinch

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Wickwar:

1 Little Owl - calling 17:35

Coalpit Heath:
1 Stock Dove, 1 Cormorant - over, 1 m Sparrowhawk, 10+ Rook, 2 Mistle Thrush, 30+ Fieldfare, 100+ Linnet

Lincombe Barn:

2 (m/f) Siskin

Emerson's Green Village Park:
1 Little Egret, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Coal Tit, 1 Goldcrest, 3 Song Thrush (1 in full song), 1 Redwing, 1 Dunnock

NORTH SOMERSET

Portbury Wharf:
1 Black-necked Grebe

Portishead - Battery Point:
3 Purple Sandpiper

Clevedon - Highdale Road:
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Jay, 1 Magpie, 1 Robin

02-02-24 Redwing, W-s-M garden (Dean Reeves)

Weston-Super-Mare:

1 Redwing - garden

Uphill:
3 Canada Goose, 12 Teal, 25 Oystercatcher, 800 Lapwing, 1 Golden Plover, c.20 Ringed Plover, 2 Curlew, 4+ Sanderling, 2100 Dunlin, 35 Redshank, 1 Common Gull, 4 Song Thrush, 15 Redwing, 1 Stonechat, 5 Meadow Pipit, 1 Water Pipit, 4 Rock Pipit, 2 Chaffinch, 1 Reed Bunting

Bleadon Levels/Weston STW:
255 Lapwing, 1 Little Egret, 1 Skylark, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Song Thrush, 60 Chaffinch (one flock), 2 Greenfinch, 130 Linnet, 4 Goldfinch, 1 Reed Bunting

BELOW M4 & BANES

02-02-24 Grey Wagtail, Newton St. Loe (Wayne Tucker)

Newton St Loe:
2 Mute Swan, 43 Mallard, 12 Teal, 1 Tufted Duck, 4 Stock Dove, 6 Moorhen, 5 Coot, 5 Little Grebe, 100+ Black-headed Gull, 100+ Common Gull, 6 Cormorant, 6 Grey Heron (one pair on nest), 1 Red Kite, 2 Buzzard, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Kestrel, 7 Skylark, 10 Long-tailed Tit, 3 Goldcrest, 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 Meadow Pipit

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
14 Mute Swan, 1 Ring-necked Duck, 1 Scaup, 6 Goosander, 1 Mediterranean Gull, 3 Grey Heron, 8 Great White Egret, 1 Little Egret, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Red Kite, 1 Buzzard, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Goldcrest, 100 Starling, 1 Song Thrush, 2 House Sparrow, 1 Greenfinch

Chew Valley Lake

Denny Island:
18 Cattle Egret

Moreton:
1 Merlin

Stratford:
1st-w Garganey, 3 Shoveler, 2 (m/f) Gadwall, 6 Wigeon, 3 (1m/2f) Scaup, 1 2cy Marsh Harrier

Herriotts inc. Pool:

3 (2m/1f) Pintail, 1 Bittern

02-02-24 Baikal Teal, Greylake (Oli Mockridge)

Out of area:

Baikal and Green-winged Teal still at Greylake

Reported by: Chris Craig, Andy Davis, Julie Evans, David Hughes, Matt Hull, Mike Jackson, Chak Kan Lam, Nigel Milbourne, Oli Mockridge, Mike Moxon, Nigel Povey, Dean Reeves, Paul Sadley, Simon Stuart, Wayne Tucker, Karen Wilkinson.

blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG

The Recorder’s Committee is making good progress reviewing 2023 records of locally rare species but there are still a few where we have no supporting notes and/or photographs. If you saw any of the reports listed below please submit full information to avonbirds@hotmail.co.uk as soon as possible.