05-12-25 Friday

Temp 09°C to 12°C - A  dry but gloomy start to the day with rain setting in around midday. The southerly wind backing to south south east with the rain and the fresh breeze gusting to 48 mph.

Whooper Swan

BRISTOL

Bishopston - garden:

43 Feral Pigeon - teach me to spill seed, 2 Jay, 13 House Sparrow

Bishop Rd to Horfield Common:

18 Feral Pigeon, 19 Woodpigeon, 3 Collared Dove, 1 Herring Gull, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 8 Magpie, 2 Jackdaw, 5 Crow, 2 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, 19 Starling, 5 Blackbird, 11 Robin, 22 House Sparrow, 1 Dunnock, 4 Chaffinch, 8 Goldfinch

Clifton Down:

1 Peregrine -over

Redland:

2 Collared Dove, 1 Coal Tit, 5 Robin, 1 Greenfinch

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

New Passage/Northwick/Pilning Wetlands:
60 Canada Goose, 45 Greylag Goose, 5 Shelduck, 10 Shoveler, 8 Gadwall, 30 Wigeon, 12 Teal, 3 Coot, 85 Oystercatcher, 90 Lapwing, 1 Little Grebe, 17 Curlew, 7 Redshank, 1 Kestrel

Severn Beach:
12 Shelduck, 15 Wigeon, 3 Oystercatcher, 1 Ringed Plover, 3 Curlew, 60 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Turnstone, 50 Black-headed Gull, 3 Great Black-backed Gull, 30 Starling, 1 Redwing, 6 Pied Wagtail, 15 Meadow Pipit, 25 Linnet, 25 Goldfinch

05-12-25 Goosander Yate (Chris Teague)

Yate - Brimsham Ponds:
5 Goosander (4f&M), 1 Kingfisher, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Blackcap

Bradley Stoke:
3 Blackcap (2f)

NORTH SOMERSET

Portbury Wharf:
1 Marsh Harrier

Backwell Lake:
Shoveler, Gadwall, Tufted Duck, 2 Coot, 2 Common Gull, 3 Little Grebe, 1 Mistle Thrush, 1 Bullfinch

BELOW M4 & BANES

05-12-25 Buzzard Willsbridge (Chris Hall)

Willsbridge:

 - garden: 2 Buzzard - after a chicken carcass, 2 Pied Wagtail

- Cherry Garden: 2 Red Kite - heading for Bitton

Chew Magna - Winford Brook
1 Great White Egret

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

05-12-25 Goldcrest CVL (Andrew Parsons)

Woodford:
c30 Cattle Egret, Goldcrest

05-12-25 Black-tailed Godwit CVL (Andrew Parsons)

Herons Green:
2 Whooper Swan - ad, Gadwall, Teal, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, Great White Egret, Meadow Pipit, Chaffinch, Linnet

Reported by: Josh Brown, John Budd, Andy Davis, Julian Eastoe, Tim Ford, Chris Hall, Nick Hawkridge, Steve Newland, Andrew Parsons, Lois Pryce, Emily Siganos, Paul Sweet, Chris Teague, Guy Watson,

blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, opsbirding, severnsidebirds

04-12-25 Thursday

Temp 0°C to 8°C - Heavy rain before dawn. The day brightened up gradually to sunny intervals and a gentle breeze from west.

Whinchat

Water Pipit

Jack Snipe

Brambling

Woodcock

Whooper Swan

BRISTOL

No reports

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Common Sandpiper, Aust Warth (Brian Lancastle)

Aust Warth:
1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Kingfisher, 2 Peregrine (m+f - stooping on a BH gull), 2 Water Pipit, 1 Rock Pipit

Northwick Warth:
2 Jack Snipe, 15 Skylark, 1 Whinchat, 5 Stonechat, 40 Linnet

NORTH SOMERSET

Portbury Wharf:
1 Water Rail

Gordano Valley:

1 Woodcock, 43 Snipe, 1 Kingfisher

BELOW M4 & BANES

Upton Cheyney:
1 Barn Owl

Brambling, Stanton Prior (Ian Stapp)

Stanton Prior:
60+ Pheasant, 1 Sparrowhawk, + Blue Tit, + Great Tit, 1 Mistle Thrush, 20+ Redwing, 3 Robin, 4+ Brambling, 3 Yellowhammer

Stanton Drew:
1 Song Thrush (singing), 20+Redwing

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

Herons Green:
2 Whooper Swan, 4 Black-tailed Godwit

OUT OF AREA

Highbridge (Walrow):

1 Yellow-browed Warbler, 1 Dusky Warbler

Reported by: Derek Clarke, Chris Craig, Julian Eastoe, Geoff Hardman, Colin Hawkins, Richard Keel, Brian Lancastle, Nigel Sluman, Ian Stapp

blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, opsbirding, severnsidebirds

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:

blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, opsbirding, severnsidebirds

02-12-25 Tuesday

 Temp 02°C to 09°C - Fine in the morning. Light rain in the afternoon with light winds from the south.

Green-winged Teal

BRISTOL

Eastville Park:

1 Kingfisher (lake)

Stoke Park inc Duchess Pond:

2 Little Grebe, 1 Water Rail, 1 Stonechat, 12 Meadow Pipit

Hallen Marsh (survey):

12 Mallard, 6 Teal, 2 Pheasant, 1 Stock Dove, Woodpigeon, 1 Snipe, 60 Herring Gull, 5 Grey Heron, 1 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Kestrel, 7 Magpie, 11 Carrion Crow, 2 Raven, 2 Blue Tit, 90 Starling, 20 Redwing, 11 Blackbird, 4 Robin, 3 Stonechat, 8 Meadow Pipit, 2 Chaffinch, 45 Goldfinch

Sparrowhawk, Whitchurch (~Denise)

Whitchurch (garden):

1 Sparrowhawk

New Cut and Cumberland Basin:

1 Mute Swan, 3 Black-headed Gull, 8 Herring Gull, 4 Cormorant, 1 Magpie, 2 Carrion Crow, 6 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, 1 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Goldcrest, 1 Wren, 9 Starling, 1 Robin, 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 Pied/White Wagtail, 2 Goldfinch

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
1 Water Rail (heard- lag 2), 1 Oystercatcher, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Jay, 1 Raven, 2 Skylark, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Goldcrest, 1 Song Thrush, 20+ Redwing, 3 Stonechat, 2 Bullfinch, 4 Greenfinch

NORTH SOMERSET

No Reports

BELOW M4 & BANES

Oldland Common:
3 Red Kite (2 displaying)

Grey Wagtail, Keynsham Lock (Paul Tompkins)

Keynsham (lock):
2 Little Grebe, 1 Grey Heron, 2+ Kingfisher, 1 Goldcrest, 1 Grey Wagtail

Stanton Drew (Sandy Lane):
2 Collared Dove, 10 Cattle Egret, 1 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Raven, 5 Coal Tit, 20 Blue Tit, 25 Long-tailed Tit, 110 Fieldfare, 5 Meadow Pipit, 30 Goldfinch

Hunstrete:
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Treecreeper, 2 Redwing, 14 Fieldfare, 12+ Goldfinch

Chelwood to Stanton Wick:
2 Red Kite (over road)

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

Dam:
2 Goldeneye, 2 Goosander, 1 Little Grebe, 3 Great Black-backed Gull, 3 Grey Heron, 4 Great White Egret, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 3 Pied/White Wagtail

Chiffchaff, Bittern Trail (George Stacey)

Bittern Trail:
1 Chiffchaff

Goosander, BK Hide (George Stacey)

Bernard King Hide:
1 Green-winged Teal, 2 Goosander (m+f), 1 Meadow Pipit, Linnet (++)

Herons Green:
1 Greylag Goose (with a Canada Goose and 4 Hybrid Goslings), 2 Whooper Swan, 2 Little Grebe, 5 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Cattle Egret, 3 Grey Heron, 7 Great White Egret, 4 Little Egret, 2 Buzzard (1 very white), 2 Cetti's Warbler, 20+ Starling, 1 Grey Wagtail, 6 Pied/White Wagtail, 20+ Linnet

Avocet, Stratford (Ian Stapp)

Kingfisher (with Dragonfly nymph), Stratford (Raoul Chandrasekera))

Marsh Harrier mobbed by crows, Stratford (Raoul Chandrasakera)

Stratford:
5 Shelduck, 4 Pintail, 1 Goldeneye, 4 Pheasant (f), 1 Avocet, 5 Lapwing, 5 Grey Heron, 11 Great White Egret, 4 Little Egret, 3 Marsh Harrier, 1 Kingfisher, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Chiffchaff, 30+ Starling, 5 Pied/White Wagtail, 20+ Linnet

Kingfisher, Herriotts (Ian Stapp)

Herriotts inc Pool:
5 Shelduck, 3 Goldeneye, 2 Great Black-backed Gull, 8 Great White Egret, 4 Little Egret, 2 Marsh Harrier, 2 Kingfisher, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Chiffchaff, 2 Grey Wagtail, 10+ Pied/White Wagtail

OUT OF AREA

Steart (BOC walk):

12 Canada Goose, 8 Mute Swan, 13 Shelduck, Shoveler, Wigeon, Mallard, Teal, 1 Pheasant, 2 Woodpigeon, 1 Oystercatcher, 50 Avocet, Lapwing, Golden Plover, 7 Curlew, 30Black-tailed Godwit, 7 Dunlin, 4 Snipe, 5 Redshank, Black-headed Gull, 1 Common Gull, 2 Great Black-backed Gull, Herring Gull, 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 2 Grey Heron, 1 Little Egret, 3 Marsh Harrier, 1 Kestrel, 1 Merlin, 1 Peregrine, 3 Magpie, 2 Jackdaw, Rook, Carrion Crow, 2 Raven, Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, Skylark, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Goldcrest, Wren, Starling, 2 Blackbird, 1 Robin, 3 Stonechat, 1 Dunnock, 3 Pied/White Wagtail, 1 Meadow Pipit, 4 Chaffinch, 2 Greenfinch, 6 Goldfinch, 1 Reed Bunting

Reported by: Jon Angell, Raoul Chandrasakera, Tim Fell, Paul Francis, Rich Keel, Elaine Lambert, John Lewis, Richard Meilcarek,  Mike Prior, George Stacey, Ian Stapp, Larry Sweetland, Paul Tompkins

blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, opsbirding, severnsidebirds

01-12-25 Monday

Temp 05°C to 14°C - Rain - pretty much all day. A fresh breeze from the south south west and gusting to 43 mph.

Whooper Swan

BRISTOL

Clifton - Royal Fort Gardens:

2 Woodpigeon, 1 Jay, 1 Magpie, 1 Carrion Crow, 5 Blackbird, 1 Robin

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
68 Wigeon, c5 Teal, 1 Water Rail, c35 Lapwing, 3 Curlew, 1 Turnstone, 1 Dunlin, 2 Redshank, 2 Cormorant, 2 Grey Heron, c100 Jackdaw, c100 Rook, 1 Coal Tit, 25 Skylark, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 5+ Long-tailed Tit, 4 Goldcrest, 1 Nuthatch, 4 Song Thrush, 12 Redwing, 1 Greenfinch, 10 Goldfinch

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead:
1 Woodpigeon, 1 Collared Dove, 1 Great Black-backed Gull, 2 Magpie, 4 Jackdaw

Walton-in-Gordano:
1 Red Kite

BELOW M4 & BANES

01-12-25 Little Grebe North Widcombe (Merv Carlyon)

North Widcombe:

1 Little Grebe

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

01-12-2025 Whooper Swan CVL (Merv Carlyon)

Herons Green:
2 Whooper Swan, 5 Goldeneye, 5 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Snipe, 1 Marsh Harrier (m), 1 Red Kite, c60 Linnet

01-12-25 Black-tailed Godwit CVL (Merv Carlyon)

Moreton:
Mallard, Coot

01-12-25 Water Pipit CVL (Rod Taylor)

Stratford:
2 Water Pipit

Reported by: Josh Brown, Merv Carlyon, Andy Davis, Julian Eastoe, Rich Mielcarek, Steve Newland, Rod Taylor

blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, opsbirding, severnsidebirds