25-01-25 Saturday

Temp 02°C to 08°C - A cold start but some very welcome sun. A light wind from the W/SW.

Mediterranean Gull

Great Northern Diver
Ring-necked Duck
Glossy Ibis

Purple Sandpiper

Black Redstart

Red-breasted Merganser

Grey Partridge- probably released birds, but we can still enjoy them

BRISTOL

Crews Hole Woodland:

1 Mediterranean Gull over

Eastville Park:

3 Canada Goose, 14 Mute Swan, 100+ Feral Pigeon, 20+ Wood Pigeon, 1 Collared Dove, 1 Moorhen, 20+ Coot, 20+ Black-headed Guill, 7 Cormorant, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Tawny Owl, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Jay, 10+ Magpie, 20+ Jackdaw, 10+ Carrion Crow, 10 Blue Tit, 15+ Great Tit, 20+ Long-tailed Tit, 1 Blackcap, 4+ Goldcrest 2 Wren, 5 Song Thrush, 4 Blackbird, 2 Robin, 1 Grey Wagtail

Sea Mills:
River: 25 Mallard, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Redshank, c200 Gull- mainly BH, 1 Cormorant

Open space: 14 species including: 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Goldcrest, 1 Song Thrush singing, 2 Chaffinch, 2+ Greenfinch (first heard in this area)

Stoke Park:

3 Redpoll

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Thornbury:

1 Ring-necked Parakeet

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead:

6 Purple Sandpiper (at high tide)

Clevedon:
Near pier: 1 Black Redstart
Blind Yeo: 3 Goosander

Garden: 1 Feral Pigeon, 1 Herring Gull, 6 Magpie, 1 Jay, 1 Jackdaw, 6 Crow, 3 Robin

Banwell:
Garden: 14 species including: 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Jay, 1 Marsh Tit, 1 Blackcap, 2 Nuthatch

Backwell Lake:

Canada Goose, Mute Swan, Mallard, Moorhen, Herring Gull, LBB Gull, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Little Egret

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield - BOC walk:
34 species including: 2 Grey Partridge, 20-30 Red-legged Partridge, 6 Stock Dove, 165 Lapwing, 200 Common Gull, 3 Red Kite, 7 Buzzard, 3 Kestrel, 22 Skylark, 100 Fieldfare, 2 Stonechat, 10 Pied Wagtail, 1 Bullfinch, 21 Yellowhammer

Marshfield and Tormarton this evening: Red-legged Partridge, 5 Red Kite, 4 Buzzard, 2 Kestrel

Burnett:

2 Kestrel

Keynsham:

1 Water Rail

Holm Mead:

2 Egyptian Goose, 1 Lapwing, 1 Snipe, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Meadow Pipit

Bath:
2 Peregrine

RESERVOIRS

Barrow:

1 Great Northern Diver (tank 2)

Blagdon Lake:
1 Ring-necked Duck, 1 Common Sandpiper

Chew Valley Lake

Denny Lane:

In small field near building works: 1 Glossy Ibis

25-01-25 Red-breasted Merganser, CVL (Ian Stapp)

Dam:
6 Goldeneye, 8+ Goosander, 1 Red-breasted Merganser, 65+ Great Crested Grebe, 1 Common Sandpiper, 100+ Cormorant, 1 Grey Wagtail

Woodford:
6 Goldeneye, 9 Little Egret, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Kingfisher, 3 Goldcrest, 4+ Redwing

Herons Green:
2 Egyptian Goose, 6 Goldeneye, 2 Little Grebe, 32 Great Crested Grebe, 5+ Snipe, 2 GBB Gull, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker

Moreton:
100+ Canada Goose, 7+ Goldeneye, 22 Great Crested Grebe, 1 Water Rail, 4 GBB Gull, 3 Grey Heron, 2 Little Egret, 3 Great White Egret, 1 Buzzard, 2 Jay, 1 Chiffchaff

Herriotts inc. Pool:
13 Shelduck, 80+ Teal, 6 Goldeneye, 2 GBB Gull, 3 Grey Heron, 5 Little Egret, 37 Great White Egret, 67 Cormorant

Reported by: Di Bunniss, Paul Chapman, Alan Daniells, Don & James Dickinson, Robert Duerr, Duncan Evered, Fermandez Francis, Mike Jackson, Rob Laughton, Andy Leggatt, Nick Page, Matt Plenty, Nigel Povey, Rich Scantlebury, Ian Stapp, Ben Sykes, Chris Teague, John Thorogood

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