Friday, 3 October 2025

03-10-25 Friday

Temp 11°C to 18°C - cloudy most of the day, with the some heavy showers. A fresh breeze veering from south west to south south west with gusts up to 42 mph in the pm.

Glossy Ibis
Pectoral Sandpiper

BRISTOL

Badock's Wood:
1 Coal Tit, 3 Chiffchaff, 6 Goldcrest

Stoke Park:
2 Stonechat, 1 Reed Bunting 

Purdown:
1 Green Woodpecker, 3 Magpie, 2 Chaffinch, 1 Goldfinch
03-10-25 Long-tailed Tit Withywood (Lee Patch)
Withywood - garden:
3 Blue Tit, 4 Great Tit, 11 Long-tailed Tit, 14 Goldfinch

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
10 Wigeon, 19 Oystercatcher, 1 Ringed Plover, 5 Curlew, 1 Great Black-backed Gull, 1 Grey Heron, 2 Little Egret, 

Aust Warth:
1 Shelduck, 8 Wigeon, 12 Teal, 3 Curlew, 5 Skylark, flock c.20 Winter Thrush (flying over as I was driving in), 6 Meadow Pipit, c.30 Linnet
03-10-25 Siskin NP (Lisa Presland)
New Passage/Northwick:
Siskin

NORTH SOMERSET

Clapton in Gordano:
1 Raven

BELOW M4 & BANES

Mangotsfield:
30+ mix of Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long-tailed Tit, 2 Chiffchaff

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:

Top End:
40 Lapwing, 1 Ruff, 9 Dunlin, 2 Glossy Ibis

Litton Reservoir:
Mallard, Teal, Moorhen, Little Grebe, Little Egret 

Chew Valley Lake
03-10-25 Common Sandpiper CVL (Merv Carlyon)
Bernard King Hide:
8 Egyptian Goose, 35+ Pintail, 2 Ringed Plover, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 29 Great White Egret (miles away near Herriots but they are big enough to see!)
03-10-25 Ruff CVL (Ian Stapp)
Herriott's Bridge:

4 Shelduck, 4 Stock Dove, 1 Water Rail, 9 Little Grebe, 12 Lapwing, 14 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Ruff, 2 Pectoral Sandpiper, 11 Snipe, 2 Common Sandpiper, 6 Green Sandpiper, 1 Wood Sandpiper, 3 Greenshank, 4 G BB Gull, 3 Common Gull, 2 Glossy Ibis, 1 Cattle Egret, 9 Grey Heron, 38 Great White Egret, 4 Little Egret, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Red Kite, 2 Marsh Harrier, 3 Kingfisher, 4+ Jay, 7 Jackdaw, 2 Raven, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Grey Wagtail, 4 Pied Wagtail, 2 Chaffinch

Out of Area

Cheddar Res:
1 Grey Plover, 6 Ringed Plover, 4 Ruff, 1 Temminck's Stint, 12+ Dunlin, 2 Little Stint, 10 Snipe

Reported by: Kit Britten, Merv Carlyon, Rob Emery, Pete Hazelwood, Matt Hobbs, Robert Kelsh, Mike Moxon, Jo Page, Nick Page, Lee Patch, Lisa Presland, Lois Pryce, Ian Stapp, Larry Sweetland, Nick Tippit, Wayne Tucker, Martin Wightman, 
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