Saturday, 25 October 2025

25-10-25 Saturday

Temp 06°C to 12°C - Cloudy with the sun breaking through. A light westerly breeze to start, but going round north westerly from mid morning with gusts to 32 mph.

Whooper Swan
Black Redstart
Jack Snipe
Firecrest

BRISTOL

Arnos Vale Cemetery:
2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Jay, 19 Blue Tit, 19 Long-tailed Tit, 10 Chiffchaff, 2 Firecrest, 11 Goldcrest, 4 Greenfinch
25-10-25 Starling Coombe Dingle (Di & Pete Bunniss)
Coombe Dingle - garden:
80 to 100 Starling - a mini invasion
25-10-25 Kingfisher EP (Les Williams)
Eastville Park:
3 Kingfisher

Henbury - garden:
1 Sparrowhawk

Stoke Park inc Duchess Pond:
2 Common Gull (over), 2 Stonechat, 9 Meadow Pipit

St Phillips - Sainsburys
1 Buzzard - calling

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
1700 Woodpigeon - SW, 3 Lapwing, 10+ Curlew, 30 Turnstone, 12 Dunlin, 4 Snipe, 2 Kestrel, 1 Peregrine, 2 Raven, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 5 Goldcrest, 6 Black Redstart, 30 Chaffinch, 6 Siskin

New Passage/Northwick:
1 Grey Plover. 2 Jack Snipe, 1 Marsh Harrier

Pilning Wetlands:
2 Pintail

NORTH SOMERSET
25-10-25 Robin PW (Beth Burton)
Portbury Wharf:
50 Canada Goose, 6 Wigeon, 1 Teal, 1 Little Grebe, 9 Cormorant. 1 Grey Heron, 1 Skylark, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Goldcrest, 1 Robin, 2 Stonechat, 2 Grey Wagtail
25-10-25 Sparrowhawk, Peregrine, C Crow Wain's Hill (Howard Taffs)
Clevedon:
 - Wain's Hill: 1 Sparrowhawk - mobbed by a Carrion Crow, 17 Jackdaw, 1 Peregrine - ad, 1 Goldcrest, 82 Chaffinch, 15 Greenfinch, 6 Siskin
- Channel View: 3 Cattle Egret, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Peregrine, 1 Brambling, 4 Goldfinch, 2 Siskin

Backwell Lake:

Long Ashton - Yanley Patch:
1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker,6 Jackdaw, 1 Rook,
1 Skylark, 10 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Chiffchaff, 3 Goldcrest, 4 Robin

Kenn - Duck Lane:
1 Red Kite
25-10-25 Treecreeper SP (Matt Hull)
Sand Point/Bay:
210 Shelduck, 1 GBB Gull, 10 Common Gull, 1 Merlin, 40 Skylark, 2 Chiffchaff, 22 Goldcrest, 1 Treecreeper (3rd patch record!), 854 Starling, 2 Redwing, 583 Chaffinch, 3 Brambling, 44 Greenfinch, 4 Redpoll, 34 Siskin & 1 Reed Bunting.

Langford:
Woodpigeon - good movement, 2 Redpoll - over

BELOW M4 & BANES

Keynsham to Swinford:
1 Buzzard, 2 Kingfisher, 1 Kestrel, 2 Skylark, 3 Chiffchaff

Bath - Odd Down:
1 Red Kit

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

Moreton - Roman Shallows:
6 Whooper Swan

Reported by: Di & Pete Bunniss, Beth & Darren Burton, Paul Chapman, John Croxton, Tim Fell, Stephen Le Flohic, Tim Ford, Fermandez Francis, Nick Hawkridge, Rupert Higgins, Matt Hull, Alex Martinson, Andy Middleton, Larry Sweetland, Howard Taffs, Reuben Veal, Les Williams

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