Friday 16 February 2024

16-02-24 Friday - a Ring-billed Gull for our 3,000th post

Temp 9°C to 11°C - a fine and sunny start, clouding over after noon with some drizzle later.  Mild, but a strong SW wind kept it feeling fresh.

Purple Sandpipers
Mediterranean Gull
Ring-billed Gull 
Short-eared Owl
Firecrest
Hawfinches

Firecrest st Woodford, Chew (Ian Stapp))
Bristol

Redland:
a garden:  5 Herring Gull, 1 Jay, 5+ House Sparrow, 2 Blue Tit, 1 Great Tit, 1 Coal Tit.

Southmead:
ad. Ring-billed Gull on BAWA playing fields (Southmead) this morning at 09:20 amongst Black-headed and Common Gulls

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Aust Warth:
Short-eared Owl at 15:30

Wickwar:
Little Egret.
(Lower Woods)  4 Hawfinch.

Yate garden:
f. Sparrowhawk

NORTH SOMERSET

Portbury Wharf:
1 Black-necked Grebe, c.200 Dunlin, 1 Curlew.

Portishead - Batttery Point and lake:
(AWBS highlights) 34 Canada Goose, 29 Mute Swain, 4 Shelduck, 78 Mallard, 3 Tufted Duck, 1 singing Stock Dove, 6 Moorhen, 6 Purple Sandpiper, 96 BH Gull, 15 H Gull, 1 LBB Gull, 48 Carrion Crow, 2 LT Tit, 4 Pied Wagtail.

Clevedon - Blind Yeo:
5 Mallard, 5 Goosander (1 drake), 9 Moorhen.

Clevedon - Dowlais:
1 Canada Goose, Shelducks, 20 Shoveler, 50 Wigeon, 12 Teal, 2 Goosander, Coot, Oystercatchers, 1 Grey Plover, Lapwings, Knot, Curlews, Common Sandpiper, 1 Peregrine, 3 Skylark, 2 Stonechat, Meadow Pipits, Greenfinches.

Tickenham - Cadbury Camp:
4 Buzzard, 2 GS Woodpecker, 8 Raven, 6 Coal Tit, 2 Nuthatch, 5 Chaffinch.

Backwell:
Marsh Tit in the garden.

BELOW M4 & BANES

Chew Magna:
34 Little Egret, 1 Cattle Egret.

Hunstrete:
(AWBS highlights)  4 Mallard, c.40 Stock Dove, 3 Red Kite, 1 Buzzard, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 m. Kestrel, 2 Jay, 1 Raven, 2 Blue Tit, 3 Great Tit, 4 Skylark, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 4 Wren, 3 Song Thrush. 40 Redwing, 4 Blackbird, 12 Robin, 2 Chaffinch, 4 Bullfinch, 10 Linnet. 3 Goldfinch.

Stanton Drew:
30+ Little Egret.

Newton St Loe:
17 Lapwing (in field opp. Globe Inn)

Burnett:
2 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel. 

Great Spotted Woodpecker at Moreton, Chew (Ian Stapp)
RESERVOIRS

Barrow Tanks:
drake Long-tailed Duck on Tank 3, and a Dunlin.

Blagdon Lake:
41 Canada Goose, m. Ring-necked Duck, (1W) m. Scaup, 4 Goosander (2 m., 2 f.), 6 Great White Egret, 4 Grey Heron, 1 Chiffchaff.

Chew Valley Lake
11 Goldeneye, 2 calling Water Rail, 1 Treecreeper.

Dam:
4 Goldeneye, 1 f. Goosander, 1 GW Egret, 4 GBB Gull, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Cetti's Warbler.

Woodford and path to Dam:
2 Kingfisher, 1 GS Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Raven, 3 Redwing, 4+ Goldcrest, Firecrest20+ LT Tit

Herons Green:
42 Canada Goose, 1 (2W) Mediterranean Gull, 1 GW Egret, 1 Grey Heron, 2 Little Egret, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Pied Wagtail.

Moreton:
4 Shelduck, 1 Water Rail (calling), 2 Great Crested Grebe, 1 Great White Egret, 2 Buzzard, 1 GS Woodpecker, 2 Raven, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Goldcrest, 20+ LT Tit, 100+ Redwing.

Stratford:
2 Scaup (m. and f.), 1 Barn Owl.

Herriotts inc. Pool:
4 Shelduck, 2 GBB Gull, 1 Dunlin (over high), 1 Great White Egret, 1 Marsh Harrier, 6 Jackdaw, 1 Cetti's Warbler.

Reported by: Nancy Barrett, Jane Cumming, Andy Davis, Julian Eastoe, Andy Gibb, Pete Harrison, Nick Hawkridge, Robin Lambert, Lois Pryce, Peter Rock, Sue Sayers, Ian Stapp, blagdonlakebirds, and all contributors to local WhatsApp groups