Temp 16°C to 17°C - Heavy rain- more than 30mm fell today to go with the 23mm from yesterday. Almost no wind. The rain meant Chew had less mud today and Herriot's Pool was raging. Floods made roads difficult and the road and path to Stratford hide were impassable. Still some good birds seen today but let's hope we don't need to start building arks just yet-seems like only 5 minutes since the last lot.
With the recent Shag, the Avon year list stands at 214, viewable here. Or see the checklist of Avon birds here.
It is not too late to sign up to the BTO winter gull survey that is taking place this or next week, still some local sites available: https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/winter-gull-survey
Purple Sandpiper
Curlew Sandpiper
Spotted Redshank
3 Osprey
Little Stint
BRISTOL
No reports.
SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Oldbury Power Station:
WeBS: 2 Teal, 6 Wigeon, 5 Coot, 4 Lapwing, 36 Ringed Plover, 81 Curlew, 1 Bar tailed Godwit, 2 Black tailed Godwit, 1 Curlew Sandpiper, 1 GBB Gull, 2 Grey Heron, 6 Little Egret, 6 Chiffchaff, 2 Chaffinch
BRISTOL
No reports.
SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Oldbury Power Station:
WeBS: 2 Teal, 6 Wigeon, 5 Coot, 4 Lapwing, 36 Ringed Plover, 81 Curlew, 1 Bar tailed Godwit, 2 Black tailed Godwit, 1 Curlew Sandpiper, 1 GBB Gull, 2 Grey Heron, 6 Little Egret, 6 Chiffchaff, 2 Chaffinch
NorthwickWarth/Pilning Wetlands:
1 Pintail, 25 Ringed Plover, 3 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Turnstone, 1 juv Little Stint, 48 Redshank, 6 Little Egret, 1 Kingfisher
New Passage:
3 Pintail, 4 Bar-tailed Godwit, 3 Dunlin
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| 23-09-24 Purple Sandpiper, Severn Beach (Paul Bowerman) |
1 Purple Sandpiper
NORTH SOMERSET
Clevedon:
Garden: 1 Magpie
BELOW M4 & BANES
Chew Magna:
13 Little Egret
RESERVOIRS
Blagdon Lake:
WeBS: 20 Canada Goose, 51 Mute Swan -- Inc 4 juv, 52 Eurasian Wigeon, 21 Northern Pintail, 46 Common Pochard, 616 Tufted Duck, 38 Little Grebe, 35 Great Crested Grebe, 78 Moorhen, 1243 Eurasian Coot -- WeBS count, 2 Ringed Plover, 2 Northern Lapwing, 2 Common Sandpiper, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Little Egret, 10 Great White Egret
Chew Valley Lake
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| 23-09-24 Spotted Redshank, CVL (Bri Thompson) |
1 Black Swan, 3 Green Sandpiper, 1 Spotted Redshank
Stratford:
69 Pintail, 8 Lapwing, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Common Gull, 1 Yellow-legged Gull, 3 Osprey, 2 Marsh Harrier, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Hobby
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| 23-09-24 Osprey, CVL (Bri Thompson) |
Herriotts inc. Pool:
No waders, 1 Marsh Harrier
Reported by: Paul Bowerman, Andy Davis, Andy Gibb, Rob Hargreaves, MJ, Andrew Middleton, Nick Page, Nigel Povey, Ian Stapp, Andy Stockhausen, Bri Thompson blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG
No waders, 1 Marsh Harrier
Reported by: Paul Bowerman, Andy Davis, Andy Gibb, Rob Hargreaves, MJ, Andrew Middleton, Nick Page, Nigel Povey, Ian Stapp, Andy Stockhausen, Bri Thompson blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG
