02-12-24 Monday - Lesser Scaup

Temp 05°C to 10°C - Overcast with sunny intervals before lunch, then rain showers. A moderate breeze from the west south west, going round more northerly by the evening, gusts increasing to 35 mph.

Lesser Scaup

Ring-necked Duck

Crossbill

Purple Sandpiper

Firecrest

Slavonian Grebe

Glossy Ibis

BRISTOL

Blaise Estate - R Tryme:

1 Kingfisher

Fishponds - Combe Brook Valley LNR:

1 Firecrest

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
2 Grey Plover, 223 Curlew, 3 Bar-tailed Godwit

02-12-24 Pintail NP (Paul Bowerman)

New Passage/Northwick:
1 WWT-ringed Barnacle Goose. 3 Pintail. 130 Oystercatcher, 1 Barwit, 10 Blackwit, 88 Curlew, 2 Turnstone, 79 Redshank, c600 Dunlin, 2 Raven, 2 Rock Pipit, 3 Redpoll

Pilning Wetlands:
Water Rail - squealing everywhere, 42 Lapwing, 1 Golden Plover, 1 Little Egret, 1 Stonechat.

Severn Beach:
1 Water Rail, 1 Great Black-backed Gull, 2 Turnstone, 1 Raven, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 4 Stonechat, 1 Rock Pipit

Yate - Kingsgate Park:
2 Shoveler (f&m), 2 Gadwall, 5 Tufted Duck, 4 Goosander (2f&2m)

NORTH SOMERSET

02-12-24 Purple Sandpiper Battery Point (Jason Williams)

Portishead - Battery Point:

6 Purple Sandpiper

Portishead - Lake Grounds -  AWBS

46 Canada Goose, 15 Mute Swan, 1 Shelduck, 2 Wigeon, 131 Mallard, 14 Tufted Duck, 13 Woodpigeon, 7 Moorhen, 2 Curlew, 60 Black-headed Gull, 1 Common Gull, 35 Herring Gull, 2 Magpie, 50+ Carrion Crow, 1 Robin, 3 Pied Wagtail

Portishead - Walton Bay:
4 Red Kite, 4 Buzzard, 1 Peregrine 

Clevedon - Highdale garden:
2 Herring Gull, 3 Magpie, 1 Robin

Nailsea Wall - Clevedon Boundary Rhyne:
5 Little Grebe, Great Egret, Little Egret, Grey Wagtail

Brockley Combe:
2Marsh Tit, 1 Hawfinch

Yatton - Wemberham:

11 Little Egret, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Jay, 1 Blackbird - both alarm calling, probably at a Tawny Owl. 30 Rook, 1 Skylark, 1 Fieldfare, 3 Meadow Pipit, 10 Linnet.

Congresbury Moor:
2 Snipe, 1 Barn Owl and 1 Kingfisher

BELOW M4 & BANES

Hanham - garden:

2 Crossbill - calling going over

02-12-24 Water Rail Keynsham (Paul Tompkins)

Keynsham, Memorial Park:
1 Water Rail

Newton St Loe:
3 Hawfinch

Stanton Drew:
c15 Cattle Egret, 1 Red Kite

02-12-24 Red Kite Writhlington (Merv Carlyon)

Radstock, Writhlington:

1 Red Kite, Long-tailed Tit

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

Dam:
1 Common Sandpiper

Bittern Trail:
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker

02-12-24 Stonechat CVL (George Stacey)

Walley Bank Path:
2 Stonechat (f&m)

02-12-2024 Slavonian Grebe CVL (Mike Trew)

Moreton:
1 Ring-necked Duck, 1 Slavonian Grebe, 1 Black-necked Grebe, 1 Glossy Ibis

02-12-2024 Lesser Scaup CVL (Mike Trew)

Stratford:
1 Scaup, 1 Lesser Scaup (f), 52 Snipe

Herriotts inc Pool:
1 Ring-necked Duck

Reported by: Pete Allen, Paul Bowerman, Di Bunniss, Merv Carlyon, Mark Coller, Chris Craig, John Croxton, Jane Cumming, Andy Davis, Marc Hunt, Iris & Andy Langson, Rob Laughton, Andy Mears, Andy Middleton, Nigel Povey, Trevor Riddle, Vic Savery, George Stacey, Andy Stockhausen, Larry Sweetland, Paul Tompkins, Mike Trew, 

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