Friday, 31 October 2025

31-10-25 Friday - Glossy Ibis

Temp 10°C to 17°C - Sun breaking through at times with some heavy rain around midday. A moderate southerly breeze until teatime, then vearing to south south west until nightfall, gusts to 40 mph.

Glossy Ibis
Snow Bunting
Whooper Swan
Goosander
Avocet
Black-necked Grebe

BRISTOL

Ashton March - Colliters Brook:
2 Water Rail - calling, 1 Kestrel, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 7 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Stonechat

Bishopston:
2 Jay, 1 Grey Wagtail

Downend:
2 Redwing

Royal Fort Gardens:
2 Coal Tit, 1 Redwing, 1 Pied Wagtail, 1 Meadow Pipit

Withywood - garden:
1 Red Kite, 1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Raven, 1 Coal Tit, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long-tailed Tit, 1 Chaffinch (m)

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
1 Brent Goose - pale bellied

Aust Cliff/Services:
18 Shelduck, c.50 Wigeon, 4 Pheasant (f), 1 Oystercatcher, 4 Curlew, c.40 BH Gull, 1 Redwing, 13 Pied Wagtail - a flock inc browner juv

New Passage/Northwick:
180 Wigeon, 210 Teal, 6 Oystercatcher, 3 Avocet, 84 Lapwing, 12 Curlew, 28 Black-tailed Godwit, 6 Turnstone, 1 Little Egret, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Kestrel, 7 Skylark, 1 Chiffchaff, 15 Redwing, 1 Rock Pipit, 14 Chaffinch, 1 Brambling

Pilning Wetlands:
16 Gadwall, 1 Tufted Duck, 4 Jack Snipe, 17 Snipe, 1 Grey Heron

Yate - Kingsgate Park:
2 Goosander, 17 Moorhen, 2 Common Gull, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Coal Tit, 4 Chiffchaff, 4 Goldcrest, 2 Song Thrush, 21 Redwing, 1 Grey Wagtail, 2 Chaffinch

Kendleshire Golf Club:
3 Mute Swan, 1 Mandarin Duck, 83 Mallard, 7 Moorhen, 1 Little Grebe, 2 Herring Gull,
1 Grey Heron, 2 Jay, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Redwing, 3 Blackbird, 2 Pied Wagtail

NORTH SOMERSET
31-10-25 Sparrowhawk Pill (Jade Norris)
Pill:
1 Sparrowhawk

Portbury Wharf:
3 Little Grebe, 10 Snipe - flushed by raptor, 1 Buzzard, 50 Starling, 4 Meadow Pipit

Clevedon - Wain's Hill:
8 Shelduck, 2 Curlew, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Peregrine, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Goldcrest, 66 Starling, 3 Redwing, 3 Pied Wagtail, 1 Meadow Pipit, 180 Chaffinch, 3 Greenfinch, 16 Linnet, 4 Redpoll, 3 Siskin, 1 Reed Bunting

Long Ashton - Yanley Patch:
7 Woodpigeon, 15 BH Gull, 1 Cormorant, 1 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 4 Magpie, 8 Jackdaw, 1 Carrion Crow, 2 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, 1 Skylark, 3 LT Tit, 2 Goldcrest, 3 Wren, 1 Treecreeper, 10 Redwing, 2 Blackbird, 3 Robin, 2 Meadow Pipit, 1 Chaffinch, 10 Goldfinch, 3 Siskin.

Langford - Vets School:
2 Collared Dove, 40 Jackdaw, 1 Redwing

Sand Point - vismig:
2 Mute Swan (rare here), 1 Lapwing, 1 GBB Gull, 5 Skylark, 2285 Starling, 2 Mistle Thrush, 4 Redwing, 2 alba Wagtail, 11 Mipit, 886 Chaffinch, 6 Brambling, 10 Greenfinch, 1 Redpoll, 6 Siskin & 2 Reed Bunting 
- Present: 1 Barn Owl at first light, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Firecrest, 10 Goldcrest, 1 Treecreeper, 2 Song Thrush, 3 Redwing & 1 Stonechat.
31-10-2025 Snow Bunting SNB (Mike Moxon)
Sand Bay:
1 Snow Bunting

BELOW M4 & BANES

Mangotsfield:
1 Sparrowhawk - driven away by a small flock racing pigeon!!
31-10-25 Coal Tit Keynsham (Ian Stapp)
Keynsham, garden:
40+ Feral Pigeon, 2 Woodpigeon, 4 Magpie, 12+ Jackdaw, 2 Coal Tit, 3 Blue Tit, 12+ L TT, 1 Wren, 100+ Starling, 2 Blackbird, 2 Robin, 1 Dunnock

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
1 Black-necked Grebe, 49 Lapwing, 32 Great White Egret

Litton Reservoir:


Chew Valley Lake

Main Dam:
1 Goldeneye

BK Hide:
Hybrid Goose - inc juv, 2 Goldeneye

Woodford:
1 Yellow-legged Gull
31-10-2025 Whooper Swan CVL (George Stacey)
Roman Shallows
1 Ruff

Moreton:
5 Whooper Swan

Stratford:
7 Whooper Swan - ad, 9 Black-tailed Godwit, 50+ Great White Egret, 1 Sparrowhawk, 3 Marsh Harrier (1m), 1 Tawny Owl - heard, 1 Mistle Thrush - west, 2 Stonechat, 10 Chaffinch - south

Herriotts inc Pool:
9 Glossy Ibis

Reported by: Louise Bailey, Josh Brown, Darren Burton, Merv Carlyon, Mark Coller, Andy Davis, Neil Delaney, Barry Dursley, Fermandez Francis, Chris Gay, David Gibbs, Nick Hawkridge, Matt Hull, Mike Jackson, Stephen Le Flohic, John Lewis, Tim Mcgrath, Mike Moxon, Jade Norris, Nick Page, Lois Pryce, Aravind Ramesh, Ian Stapp, Howard Taffs, Nick Tippett, Rich Williams

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