18-10-24 Friday - Yellow-browed Warblers

Temp 11°C to 15°C - Sunny morning, clouding over as the next front moved in with light drizzle increasing towards dusk.  Light westerly wind.

Scaup

Bearded Tit

Yellow-browed Warblers

Firecrest        

Scaup at Herons Green (Ian Stapp)

BRISTOL

Arno's Vale cemetery:

4 Greenfinch

Bishop Rd to Horfield Common:

2 Feral Pigeon, 18 Woodpigeon, 2 Collared Dove, 4 Herring Gull, 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 5 Magpie, 1 Jackdaw, 5 Crow, 2 Blue Tit, 4 Great Tit, 2 Wren, 7 Starling, 2 Blackbird, 3 Redwing, 11 Robin, 3 House Sparrow, 2 Dunnock, 1 Chaffinch, 5 Goldfinch

Blaise Estate:

2 Buzzard, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Jay, Magpie, 3 Blue Tit, 5 Great Tit, Wren, 2 Nuthatch, 2 Blackbird,  Robins, 2 Grey Wagtail.

Goldcrest at Emersons Green (Chak Kan Lam)

Emersons Green:

Village Park:  1 Kingfisher, 2 Jay, 6 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Firecrest, 1 Goldcrest. 

Greenbank cemetery, Easton:

1 GS Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Jay, LT Tit, Goldcrest, 4 Redwing (over).

Hengrove Mounds LNR:
1 LBB Gull (1st winter), GS Woodpecker, 2 Jay,  15 Carrion Crow, 3 flyover Skylark, 12 LT Tit, 5 Song Thrush (plumage suggesting continental migrants), 11 Robin, 1 Grey Wagtail, 4 Pied Wagtail, 1 Chaffinch, 2 Greenfinch, 1 flyover Linnet, 5 Goldfinch.

Oldland:
1 Skylark, 9 Redwing, 4 Meadow Pipit.

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:

2 Little Grebe on the lake.  Water Rail, Rock Pipit.

Littleton: 7 Barnacle Goose.

3 Snipe, 1 Great White Egret (to NE), 11 Skylark, 25 Jackdaw, 1 Mistle Thrush, 2 Song Thrush, 140 Redwing, 190 Starling, 1 Brambling 51 Chaffinch, 15 Greenfinch, 6 Siskin.

Oldbury Court / Frome Valley: 

4 Mallard, 11 Woodpigeon, 2 Moorhen, 1 Kingfisher, 3 Ring-necked Parakeet, 5 Magpie, 26 Carrion Crow, 2 Blue Tit, 3 Great Tit, 8 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Goldcrest, 4 Wren, 1 Nuthatch, 20 Starling, 1 Blackbird, 3 Robin, 1 Grey Wagtail.  (No Dipper, river may be too high.) 

NORTH SOMERSET

Wains Hill:

9 Skylark, 20 Redwing, 300 Chaffinch

Sand Point:
85 Woodpigeon, 35 Skylark, 1 Jay, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Yellow-browed Warbler, 1 Goldcrest, 1 Firecrest, 340 Starling, 30 Redwing, 9 Meadow Pipit, 425 Chaffinch, 5 Brambling, 16 Greenfinch, 9 Siskin, 2 Yellowhammer, 6 Reed Bunting.

Weston-s-Mare - Grove Park:
2 Yellow-browed Warbler 

BELOW M4 & BANES

Keynsham (last night):

1 Tawny Owl, flyover Redwings.

Chelwood:

1 Red Kite, 2 Buzzard. 

Common Sandpipers at Herons Green (Ian Stapp)

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

Main Dam:

1 Common Sandpiper

Herons Green:

8+ Pochard, pr Scaup, 4 Little Grebe, 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 GBB Gull, 100+ Cormorant, 3 Grey Heron, 5 Great White Egret, 1 Little Egret, 1 Marsh Harrier, 1 Peregrine, 8+ flyover Skylark, 10+ Swallow, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 20+ Starling, 30+ Redwing (fly over), 2 Pied Wagtail. 

Scaup at Herons Green (George Stacey)

Stratford and Moreton:

6 Goldeneye, sightings of up to 4-5 Bearded Tit

Herriotts inc. Pool:

28 Mallard, 2 Gadwall, 8 Shoveler, 4 Pintail, 44 Teal, 12 Tufted Duck, 4 Moorhen, 5 Common Gull, 4 GBB Gull, 400+ Cormorant, 1 Cattle Egret, 6 Grey Heron, 18 Great White Egret, 5 Little Egret, 2 Marsh Harrier (m., f.), 1 Kingfisher, 1 GS Woodpecker, 2 Jay, 17 Jackdaw, 2 Raven, 2 Bearded Tit (lake side reeds), 3 Cetti's Warbler.

Reported by:  John Budd, Di Bunniss, Pete Harrison, Chris Holloway, Chak Kan Lam, John Lewis, Blake Norton, Ian Stapp, all contributors to local WhatsApp groups, blagdonlakebirds, opsbirding.