Temp 06°C to 12°C - Very heavy rain and strong SW winds this morning which eased off as the day went on with the temperature dropping.
A good list of rarities despite the weather with a number of brave souls completing a New Year's Day list.
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Great Northern Diver
Slavonian Grebe
Black-necked Grebe
Glossy Ibis
Bearded Tit
Siberian Chiffchaff
Redpoll
BRISTOL
Eastville Park:
1 Firecrest
Stoke Park inc Duchess Pond:
2 Stonechat, 3 Redpoll
SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Brimsham Park Lake:
1 Goosander
Kingsgate Park:
11 Tufted Duck, 1 Goosander
Blackcap, Stoke Gifford (Keith Fowler)
Stoke Gifford:
1 Blackcap(m)
Chipping Sodbury Common:
Chipping Sodbury Common:
1 Water Rail, 1 Snipe, 1 Stonechat
NORTH SOMERSET
NORTH SOMERSET
Clevedon (Canonsgate Rd garden):
c100 Jackdaw (coming into roost), 13 Greenfinch, 8 Goldfinch
Clevedon (Highdale Rd garden):
4 Woodpigeon, 1 Herring Gull, 1 magpie, 2 Jackdaw, 1 Robin
Clevedon (Strode Road bridge):
1 Goosander(f), 1 Grey Wagtail
Clevedon(Dowlais):
1 Kestrel
BELOW M4 & BANES
Compton Dando STW:
1 Siberian Chiffchaff
RESERVOIRS
RESERVOIRS
Barrow Tank 2:
1 Great Northern Diver
Blagdon Lake:
Dam
1 Lesser Scaup
Long Bay
1 Ring-necked Duck
Chew Valley Lake
Moreton:
Chew Valley Lake
Moreton:
2 Egyptian Goose (in field opposite hide), 1 Slavonian Grebe, 1 Black-Necked Grebe, 3 Great White Egret, 1 Marsh Harrier, 2 Bearded Tit, c20,000 Starling murmuration
Stratford:
1 Slavonian Grebe,
Herriotts inc Pool:
2 Egyptian Goose, 5 Pintail(1f,4m), Goosander(m), 3 Glossy Ibis, c60 Cattle Egret (evening roost), 1 Red Kite
Out of Area
Cheddar Reservoir:
3 Scaup, 2 Black-necked Grebe,
Reported by: Karle Burford, Mark Coller, Chris Craig, Stephen Curtis, Frankie Macrow, Carol Rushton, Trudy Sheen, Andy Stockhausen, Larry Sweetland
