28-12-24 Saturday - Great Northern Diver

Temp 04°C to 05°C - Misty all day again. Slight breeze from WSW for most of the day.

Ring Necked Duck

Lesser Scaup

Slavonian Grebe

Glossy Ibis

Bearded Tit

Siberian Chiffchaff

Black Redstart

Great Northern Diver

BRISTOL

Fishponds:

1 Blackcap(f)

Arnos Vale Cemetery

2 Collared Dove, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Jay, 1 Coal Tit, 1 Chiffchaff, 3 Firecrest, 1 Goldcrest, 1 Redwing

Redland:- Bishop Road to Horfield Common

7 Feral Pigeon, 15 Woodpigeon, 3 Collared Dove, 1 Common Gull (rare here), 11 Herring Gull, 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 8 Magpie, 1 Jackdaw, 8 Crow, 6 Blue Tit, 4 Great Tit, 42 Starling, 5 Blackbird, 10 Robin, 17 House Sparrow, 1 Dunnock, 6 Goldfinch

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Yate: - Kingston Park

1 Shoveler (f), 2 Gadwall, 7 Tufted Duck, 2 Goosander

NORTH SOMERSET

Portbury Wharf:

20 Lapwing, 7 Snipe

Clevedon - Yeo:
12 Goosander (6f,6m) 1 Great White Egret, 3 Little Egret

Clevedon - Highdale Gardens:

5 Woodpigeon, 1 Herring Gull, 1 Magpie, 4 Jackdaw

28-12-24 Kestrel Kingston Seymour (Paul Chapman)

Kingston Seymour:

21 Cattle Egret, 3 Little Egret, 1 Kestrel

Weston-Super-Mare: Knightstone Island

1 Black Redstart, 1 Rock Pipit

BELOW M4 & BANES

Compton Dando:

1 Siberian Chiffchaff, 2 Common Chiffchaff, 1 Treecreeper, 1 Grey Wagtail, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Jay

Folly Farm:

1 Stock Dove (singing), 1 Grey Heron, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Jay, 1 Raven, 50 Redwing, 1 Song Thrush (singing), 6 Chaffinch, 5 Bullfinch, 1 Greenfinch, 30 Goldfinch.

RESERVOIRS

Great Northern Diver, Barrow Tank 2 (NSL-Birding)

Barrow Tanks:

8 Little Grebe, 25+ Common Gull, 1 Great Northern Diver

Blagdon Lake:
1 Ring-Necked Duck, 1 Scaup, 1 Lesser Scaup (f), 29 Goldeneye, 6 Goosander, 1 Great White Egret

Chew Valley Lake

Moreton:

3 Shoveler, 6 Pintail, 2 Water Rail, 1 Kingfisher, 2 Coal Tit, 5 Siskin, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 4 Bearded Tit

Stratford:
1 Goldeneye (m), 1 Slavonian Grebe, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker

28-12-24 Egyptian Goose CVL (Gill Sapsed)

Herriotts inc Pool:
2 Egyptian Goose, 1 Goldeneye (f),  Evening roost of 4 Water Rail, 3 Glossy Ibis, 74 Cattle Egret, 3 Grey Heron, 60 Great White Egret, 29 Little Egret, 1 Tawny Owl (estimate of over 200 birds using a thermal camera)

Out of Area

Kilmersdon, Nr Radstock:

6 Hawfinch

Reported by: Jon Angell, Pete Brain, Dru Brooke-Taylor, John Budd, Merv Carlyon, Paul Chapman, Chris Craig, Adrian Dutt, Julian Eastoe, Duncan Evered, Lee Gardiner, Rob Hargreaves, Blake Norton, James Richard, Gill Sapsed, Bri Thompson, Lauren Tucker, Wayne Tucker,  blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds