08-10-2025 Wednesday- Whooper Swan, Black-necked Grebe

Temp 12°C to 17°C - cloudy with some sun and the odd shower. Quite still with a light W/WSW breeze when it blew.

Whooper Swan

Pectoral Sandpiper

Black-necked Grebe

Crane

BRISTOL

Henleaze, Golden Hill:

Avon winter bird survey: 2 Jay, 1 House Martin - made 2 passes around a chimney stack, then away SW.

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

New Passage/Pilning:
$ Pintail, 1 Water Rail, c200 Oystercatcher, 3 Grey Plover, 5 Ringed Plover, c130 Curlew, 1 Turnstone, 1 Knot, 3 Dunlin, c120 Redshank, 1 Snipe, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Little Egret, 1 Kestrel, 1 Merlin

Chipping Sodbury:
Kingrove Common: Blue Tit, 12 Long-tailed Tit, Goldcrest, 4 Blackbird, 6 Redwing, 5 Song Thrush, Chaffinch, Goldfinch

NORTH SOMERSET

08-10-25 Rock Pipit, Clevedon (Howard Taffs)

Clevedon:
Wain's Hill vis mig: Meadow Pipit, Chaffinch

Present: 1 Rock Pipit

Kingston Pill/Sea Wall: 10 Knot, Curlew Sandpiper, Dunlin

Sand Point/Middle Hope:

13 Skylark, 71 Swallow, 10 House Martin, 4 Chiffchaff, 1 Firecrest, 8 Goldcrest, 17 Starling, 3 Song Thrush, 17 alba Wagtail, 126 Meadow Pipit, 126 Chaffinch, 16 Greenfinch, 25 Linnet, 12 Redpoll, 28 Siskin, 7 Reed Bunting

Long Ashton:

5 Woodpigeon, 2 Crane, 1 Jay, 1 Magpie, 5 Jackdaw, 1 Blue Tit, 6 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Robin, 2 Meadow Pipit

BELOW M4 & BANES

West Harptree:
50 Goldfinch

East Harptree - Harptree Combe:

1 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Raven, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Goldcrest, 2 Nuthatch,1 Grey Wagtail

Compton sewage works:

1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Coal Tit, 2 Goldcrest, 2 Chiffchaff, 3 Redwing, 2 Grey Wagtail 

08-10-25 Crossbill, Hunstrete (Merv Carlyon)

Hunstrete:
4 Buzzard, 1 Red Kite, 30+ House Sparrow, 10+ Linnet, 1 Yellowhammer

Car park entrance for lake: c6 Crossbill 

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
Top End: 34 Lapwing, 7 Dunlin, 2 Curlew Sandpiper, 1 juv Merlin, 15 Meadow Pipit

Lodge: 1 Black-necked Grebe

Chew Valley Lake
Some duplication of reports

Bernard King
1 Peregrine, 9 Black-tailed Godwit (spit in middle of lake)

Nunnery:
Spit in middle of lake:  6 Ringed Plover, 7 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Knot, 6 Ruff,  2 Dunlin, 1 Little Stint, 1 Curlew Sandpiper, 1 Pectoral Sandpiper

Herons Green:
1 Whooper Swan, 6 Great White Egret, 2 Raven, 35+ Meadow Pipit

08-10-2025 Whooper Swan, CVL (Ian Stapp)

Moreton:
Spit in middle of lake:  Ringed Plover, 8 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Knot, 8 Ruff, Dunlin, 1 Little Stint, 1 Turnstone

Stratford:
35+ Ringed Plover, 1 Little Stint, 1 Pectoral Sandpiper, 1 Curlew Sandpiper, 1 Dunlin, 41 Great White Egret

08-10-25 Cormorant, CVL (Merv Carlyon)

Herriotts inc. Pool:
4 Shelduck, 4 Little Grebe, 14 Lapwing, 2 Green Sandpiper, 1 Pectoral Sandpiper, 1 Greenshank, 3 Snipe, 1 Kingfisher

Reported by: Jon Angell, Pete Brain, Peter Bryant, Beth Burton, Merv Carlyon, Raoul Chandrasakera, Andy Davis, Nick Hawkridge, Matt Hull, Stephen Le Flohic, Lucy Masters, Andy Mears, Rich Mielcarek, Mike Moxon, Nick Page, Lee Patch, Ian Stapp, Howard Taffs

blagdonlakebirds, opsbirding, severnsidebirds