03-12-25 Wednesday

Temp 02°C to 10°C. Clear, sunny, cold day. A gentle breeze from SSE gusting to 13 mph.

Whooper Swan

Short-eared Owl

Water Pipit

03-12-25 Cattle Egret & BH Gulls, Herons Green (Ian Stapp)

BRISTOL

Sea Mills:

10 Common Sandpipers roosting under Sea Mills railway bridge

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
1 drake Pintail at Shepperdine

Aust Warth:
2 or 3 Water Pipit at Cake Pill 

Northwick Warth:
a couple of flocks of Skylark numbering c30

Latteridge:

1 Sparrowhawk

Easter Compton:
2 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Raven, 2 Coal Tit, 12 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Firecrest, 7 Goldcrest, 3 Treecreeper, 3 Song Thrush, 1 Mistle Thrush, c30 Redwing

Old Sodbury:
160 Golden Plover, 20 Common Gull, 3 Buzzard, 20 Rook, 2 Raven, 11 Fieldfare

NORTH SOMERSET

Battery Point, Portishead:

1 Rock Pipit

Ashton Hill Plantation:
4 Coal Tit, 7 Blue Tit, 3 Great Tit, 9 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Firecrest, 3 Goldcrest, 2 Nuthatch, 1 Song Thrush, 8 Redwing, 2 Blackbird, 5 Chaffinch, 4 Goldfinch

Wemberham, Yatton:

1 Mute Swan, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Little Egret, 3 Grey Heron, 1 Buzzard, 2 Kingfisher, 6 Skylark, 3 Song Thrush, 15 Redwing, 7 Fieldfare, 2 Grey Wagtail, 3 Meadow Pipit

Puxton Moor:

1 Short-eared Owl, mobbed by 3 Carrion Crow and 2 Herring Gull,
Also 47 Starling, 55 Redwing, 2 Fieldfare, 4 Reed Bunting

BELOW M4 & BANES

03-12-25 Kestrel, Marshfield (Harry MacPhillimy)

Marshfield:

1 Red Kite, 2 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, several redwing, 2 chaffinch, several goldfinch

River Boyd, Wick:
1 Little Egret, 1 Kingfisher

Chelwood:
1 Red Kite

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

Dam:
1 Goosander, 2 GBB Gull, 2 Great White Egret, 5 Grey Heron, 3 Pied Wagtail

03-12-25 Pintail, BK Hide (George Stacey)

Bernard King Hide:
6 Pintail

03-12-25 Whooper Swan, Herons Green (Lee Patch)

Herons Green:
1 Whooper Swan, Shoveler, Gadwall, Wigeon, Teal, Tufted Duck, 1 Goldeneye, 2 Little Grebe, 1 Great Crested Grebe, 4 Black-tailed Godwit, 60+ Common Gull, 2 GBB Gull, 5 Little Egret, 9 Great White Egret, 1 Cattle Egret, 3 Grey Heron, 2 Buzzard, 100+ Crow & Jackdaw, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 20+ Starling, 4 Stonechat (1f, 3m), 1 Grey Wagtail, 6 Pied Wagtail, 10+ Linnet

Moreton:
6 Wigeon, 100+ Teal, 3 Great White Egret, 2 Grey Heron, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Marsh Harrier,
1 Cetti's Warbler, 12+ Long-tailed Tit, 3 Chiffchaff

03-12-25 Marsh Harrier, Stratford (Wayne Tucker)

Stratford:

5 Shelduck, 10 Wigeon, 1 Goosander (redhead), 1 Snipe, 1 Green Sandpiper, 3 Marsh Harrier, (inc ad m with trailing leg)

Herriotts inc Pool:

7 Egyptian Goose, 4 Shelduck, Shoveler, Teal, 5 Pintail, Tufted Duck, 2 Goldeneye, 1 Great Crested Grebe, 1 Lapwing, 2 GBB Gull, 4 Little Egret, 15 Great White Egret, 5 Grey Heron,  1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Marsh Harrier, 1 Buzzard, 1 Kingfisher, 2 Raven, Bearded Tit (calling in reeds), 2 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Chiffchaff, 2 Grey Wagtail, 10+ Pied Wagtail 

Reported by: Diana Bunniss, Andy Davis, Julian Eastoe, Alastair Fraser, Nick Hawkridge, Brian Lancastle, Stephen Le Frohic, Harry MacPhillimy, Steve Newland, Lee Patch, Trevor Riddle, Gareth Roberts, George Stacey, Ian Stapp, Chris Teague, Wayne Tucker, Les Williams:

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