06-01-26 Tuesday - Purple Sandpiper

Temp 02°C to 06°C -  Sunshine and cloud, which thickened later, with rain about tea time. A gentle breeze from the south west, backing to south south west with the rain and gusting to 27 mph in the evening.

Calling all photographers -- the 2025 Avon Bird Report

As we have now entered 2026 planning and preparation has already begun for the next Avon Bird Report to be published in the autumn.  We are now using a full colour printing system and we will need a good range of photographs, some of these could be quite small (say a quarter page) while others  might be full page.  They need to have been taken in Avon in 2025. So if you have anything that you think might be suitable could you please send them to me at blacktgodwit@gmail.com  the e-mail address I use for all matters relating to the Report. Most will be in 'landscape' style but a few in 'portrait' are also welcome, we will use one of the best shots for the cover. Any of the usual print formats are acceptable.  Although the Report will not appear until the autumn we need to get started and so the earlier we receive your photos the better..  Finally I would like to extend this invitation to include both drawings and paintings.

Avocet

Purple Sandpiper

Whooper Swan

Ring-necked Duck

BRISTOL

Bishopston:

1 Grey Wagtail

Eastville Park:

1 Little Egret

Hengrove Mounds - part of BOC walk:

inc- 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Rook, 1 Song Thrush, 10 Redwing

Manor Woods - part of BOC walk:

inc- 2 Jay, 1 Raven, 1 Coal Tit, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Nuthatch, 7 Redwing, 1 Chaffinch

Crox Bottom - part of BOC walk:

inc- 7 Mallard, 4 Moorhen, 1 Cormorant, 1 Goldcrest, 1 Treecreeper, 5 Redwing, 15 House Sparrow, 1 Grey Wagtail, 18 Goldfinch

New Cut & Cumberland Basin:

1 Canada Goose, 1 Moorhen, 30 Black-headed Gull, 6 Cormorant, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Raven. 4 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Redwing, 3 Grey Wagtail, 1 Pied Wagtail, 2 Chaffinch

06-01-26 Snipe Sea MIlls (Di Bunniss)

Sea Mills:

1 Lapwing, 8 Dunlin, 1 Common Snipe, 1 Common Sandpiper, 6 Redshank, 2 Cormorant. 1 Reed Bunting

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:

2 Canada Goose, 1 Shoveler, 370 Lapwing, 1 Little Owl, 4 Stonechat - 2pr, 1 Grey Wagtail

New Passage/Northwick:
16 White-fronted Goose, 1 Pochard - drifting, 4 Goosander - over SW, 15 Ringed Plover, 34 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Knot, 300 Dunlin, 1 Kingfisher

Frampton Cotterell:

c70 Lapwing - over north

NORTH SOMERSET

Portbury Wharf:
2 Jack Snipe

06-01-26 Purple Sandpiper Battery Point (Darren Burton)

Portishead - Battery Point:
3 Purple Sandpiper, 2 Turnstone, 1 Rock Pipit

Clevedon - Yeo:
80 Shelduck, 40 Wigeon, 30 Teal, 70 Lapwing, 1 Golden Plover, 20 Curlew, 8 Turnstone, 00 Dunlin, 2 Snipe, 20 Redshank, 2 Buzzard, 1 Linnet

Uphill:

 Beach: 26 Oystercatcher, 3 Avocet, 10 Lapwing, 44 Ringed Plover, 21 Curlew, 1 Knot, 2 Sanderling, 485 Dunlin, 50 Redshank, 1 Common Gull, 2 Stonechat

Lake:   1 Little Grebe, 1 Little Egret, 2 Raven

BELOW M4 & BANES

Downend - garden feeders:

2 Coal Tit, 2 Blackcap (m), 5 Greenfinch

Oldland Common - garden:

1 Chiffchaff

Warmley Forest Park:

45 Redwing, 12+ Siskin

Wellow:

1 Great Spotted Woodpecker - drumming

Combe Hey:

Lapwing - going over, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker

Burnett:
1 Buzzard

Chelwood to Marksbury:

3 Buzzard

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

Dam:

1 Goldeneye, 2 Grey Heron, 1 G W Egret, 3 G BB Gull, 1 G S Woodpecker, 1 Grey Wagtail, 5 Pied Wagtail, 10+ Chaffinch

Bittern Trail:
10+ Redwing

06-01-26 Goosander CVL (George Stacey)

Walley Bank Path:
2 Goosander (f&m), 

Nunnery:
2 Whooper Swan

06-01-2026 Ring-necked Duck CVL (Ian Stapp)

Herons Green:
24 Gadwell, 18 Shoveler, 24 Wigeon, 32 Tufted Duck, 16 Pochard, 6 Goldeneye, 1 Ring-necked Duck, 3 Little Grebe,  3 Snipe, 2 G BB Gull, 3 Cattle Egret, 2 Grey Heron, 2 G W Egret, 1 Buzzard, 2 Raven, 3 Pied Wagtail, 8 Chaffinch

Moreton:

142 Canada Goose, 4 Goldeneye, 5 Lapwing, 2 G BB Gull, 1 Cattle Egret, 1 Grey Heron, 3 G W Egret,
2 Marsh Harrier, 1 Buzzard, 2 Raven, 1 G S Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker - calling,
12+ L TT, 1 Chiffchaff, 5 Redwing, 3 Pied Wagtail

Stratford:

2 Egyptian Goose, 6 Shelduck, 2 Pintail, 2 Goldeneye, 2 Goosander (f), 1 Water Rail - calling, 11 Lapwing, 2 Grey Heron, 1 G W Egret,1 Marsh Harrier, 1 Buzzard, 1 G S Wood, 6+ Siskin, 1 Coal Tit, 10+ L TT, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Chiffchaff, 2 Pied Wagtail, 2 Reed Bunting

06-01-26 Water Rail CVL (Lucy Masters)

Herriotts inc Pool:

2 Egyptian Goose, 6 Shelduck, 2 Water Rail, BH Gull - inc ringed bird, 2 G BB Gull, 3 Grey Heron, 2 G W Egret,  2 Goldeneye, 1 Marsh Harrier, 1 Buzzard, 10+ L TT, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Grey Wagtail, 3 Pied Wagtail, 3 Reed Bunting

Reported by: Graham Blacker, Dru Brook-Tylor, Di Bunniss, Darren Burton, Jane Cumming, Alan Daniells, Barry Dursley, Julian Eastoe, Tim Ford, Markas Gilmartin, Alison Griffiths, David Hanks, Matt Hall, Nigel Jones, John Lewis, Lucy Masters, Mike Moxon, Stewart Poiner, Jackie Powell, Ian Stapp, Andy Stockhausen, Larry Sweetland,  Howard Taffs

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