Sunday, 3 November 2024

03-11-24 Sunday - Red-crested Pochard

Temp 10°C to 14°C - A drab grey day with a light breeze from east south east gusting to 18mph

Red-crested Pochard
Short-eared Owl
Bearded Tit
Caspian Gull
Hawfinch
Crossbill

BRISTOL
03-11-24 Tawny Owl and Kingfisher EP (Martin Tayler)
Eastville Park - inc vismig:
400 Woodpigeon, 83 Lapwing - single flock, 1 Tawny Owl, 1 Kingfisher, 30 Redwing, 40 Fieldfare, 3 Chaffinch, 7 Linnet

Knowle:
a flock of 10 Magpie

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE
03-11-2024 possible  Chiffchaff - abietinus Aust Cliff (Jamie Dunning)
Aust Cliff - vismig and ringing session:
31 Stock Dove, 197 Lapwing, inc a potential Northern Chiffchaff - abietinus ringed, 3428 Starling, 313 Fieldfare, 646 Chaffinch, 3 Brambling, 10 Redpoll

New Passage/Northwick:
1 Brent Goose, Canada Goose, 20 Black-tailed Godwit, 22 Knot, 40 Dunlin, 1 Water Pipit

Pilning Wetlands:
50 Lapwing, 1 Spotted Redshank, 1 Caspian Gull - 1st wint
03-11-2024 Red-crested Pochard SB (Paul Bowerman)
Severn Beach:
70 Wigeon, 2 Red-crested Pochard, 45 Teal, 20 Curlew, 30 Turnstone, 1 Dunlin, 1 Great Black-backed Gull, 2 Grey Heron, 4 Little Egret, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 20 Redwing, 1 Stonechat 

Chipping Sodbury Common:
300+ Woodpigeon, 1 Lapwing, Snipe, 50+ Common Gull, 1 Buzzard, 1 Short-eared Owl, 50+ Redwing, 100+ Fieldfare, 2 Stonechat, a few Chaffinch and Greenfinch, 4 Bullfinch, 15 Linnet 

NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon - Highdale garden:

1 Woodpigeon, 1 Herring Gull, 5 Magpie, 1 Jackdaw 

Clevedon - Yeo,  inc Wain's Hill vismig:
3 Brent Goose, c 180 Shelduck, 44 Woodpigeon, 1 Snipe, 2 Great White Egret, 1 Little Egret, 85 Starling, 2 Song Thrush, 4 Redwing, 2 Fieldfares, 31 Meadow Pipit, 408 Chaffinch, 1 Brambling, 40 Linnets 1 Redpoll, 2 Crossbill, 1 Siskin

Sand Point/Middle Hope - vismig:
26O Woodpigeon, 4 Golden Plover, 24 Lapwing, 125 Dunlin, 4 Snipe, 3 GBB Gull, 3050 Starling, 5 Mistle Thrush, 51 Redwing, 160 Fieldfare, 1435 Chaffinch, 6 Brambling, 4 Hawfinch, 45 Siskin
03-11-24 Firecrest Uphill (Adrian Dutt)
Uphill - garden:
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Coal Tit, 1 Firecrest, Greenfinch

BELOW M4 & BANES

Hanham - garden:
trickle of Redwing, Chaffinch, 1 Brambling - over

Warmley - garden:
1 Mistle Thrush - on Rowan berries - 1st in a year

Keynsham - Broadmead flash:
4 Snipe

Newton St Loe:
5 Mute Swan, 20 Mallard, 1 Tufted Duck, 3 Stock Dove, 120 Woodpigeon, 4 Moorhen, 2 Coot, 21 Black-headed Gull, 4 Common Gull, 15 Herring Gull, 60 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 7 Little Grebe, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Red Kite, 2 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 8 Magpie, 22 Jackdaw, 65 Rook, 17 Carrion Crow, 1 Raven, 20 Skylark, 3 Goldcrest, 3 Mistle Thrush, 30 Redwing, 2 Grey Wagtail, 6 Goldfinch.

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

Moreton:
2 Scaup (f&m)

Stratford:
114 Lapwing - over, 14 Great White Egret, 1 Marsh Harrier (m), 1 Tawny Owl, 2 Bearded Tit, Fieldfare, 1 Stonechat, 4 Meadow Pipit, 2 Redpoll, 7 Siskin

Herriotts inc Pool:
thousands of Starling going to roost

Reported by: David Allward, Paul Bowerman, Mark Coller, Milosz Cousens, Matt Coward, Ian Dickie, Jamie Dunning, Adrian Dutt, Matt Hobbs, Nick Hudson, Matt Hull, Rob Laughton, Nick Page, Nigel Povey, Aravind Ramesh, John Rossetti, Andy Stockhausen, Larry Sweetland, Howard Taffs, Wayne Tucker
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