16-01-26 Friday - Great Northern Diver

Temp 5°C to 9°C -  a bit milder and fine after days of rain, with just a little high cloud and a light south-easterly breeze.  Much higher water levels at Chew.

Ring-necked Duck

Great Northern Diver
Avocets

Penduline Tits

Redpoll, Crossbills

Snipe with their reflections at Herons Green (Ian Stapp)

BRISTOL

Dundry:

500 Starling

Hallen Marsh:

4 Canada Goose, 4 Shoveler, 5 Wigeon,  101 Teal,  4 Stock Dove, 2 Coot, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Buzzard, 1 Barn Owl, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, 7 Skylark, 13 Long-tailed Tit,  2 Song Thrush, 4 Redwing, 1 Stonechat, 2 Grey Wagtail, 4 Chaffinch, 5 Linnet, 5 Goldfinch.

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
4 Bar-tailed Godwit, 1 Common Sandpiper (in the Pill), 90 Fieldfare.

Aust Wetlands:

2 Penduline Tit, 2 Reed Bunting.

Long-tailed Tit on Kenn Moor (Wayne Pannell)

NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon Moor:

3 Mute Swan, 1 Mallard, 3 Stock Dove, Moorhen, 1 Common Sandpiper, 4 Herring Gull, 2 LBB  

Gull, 2 Little Egret, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 7 LT Tit, Redwing, 1 Fieldfare, 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 Pied Wagtail.

Uphill:
3 Avocet, singing Greenfinches

Fieldfare in the Marshfield area (Les Williams)

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield:
200+ Fieldfare

Holm Mead, Bitton:

5 White-fronted Goose, 2 Snipe

Keynsham, Memorial Park:

6 Mallard, 1 Water Rail, 2 Moorhen, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Song Thrush.

Chelwood:

1 Red Kite.

Burnett:

3 Red Kite.

Pensford - Lord Wood:

 LT and Coal Tits, 4 Goldcrest, 1 Nuthatch, 2 Treecreeper, Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush, 1 Redpoll, 8 Crossbill.

Goldeneye at CVL (George Stacey)

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

Dam:

1 very noisy Greylag Goose with 6 Canada Goose, 2 Goldeneye, 2 G BB Gull, 1 Great White Egret, 2 Grey Heron, 4 Pied Wagtail.

Woodford:
11 Goosander, 2 G BB Gull, 2+ Cattle Egret, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker (drumming), 2 Jay, 2 Raven,  10+ LTT, 1 Coal Tit, 2 Cetti's Warbler (calling), 1 Chiffchaff, 4 Goldcrest, 20 Redwing, 5 Fieldfare, 4 Bullfinch. 

     

Herons Green:

1 Ring-necked Duck, 6 Goldeneye, 300+ Woodpigeon, 10 Stock Dove, 2 Little Grebe, 4 Snipe, 2 Great White Egret, 2 Grey Heron, 1 f. Marsh Harrier, 2 Barn Owl, 12 House Sparrow, 5 Pied Wagtail.

Moreton:
 122 Canada Goose (in the field behind the hide), 5 Goldeneye, 3 G BB Gull, 1 Great Northern Diver (in front of Denny Island), 2 Great White Egret, 1 Cattle Egret, 1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Marsh Harrier,  3 Buzzard, 1 Tawny Owl (calling), 1 Kingfisher, 1 Jay, 80+ Carrion Crow (over the opposite shore), 2 Raven, Bearded Reedling (heard briefly), 2 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Chiffchaff. 

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Stratford:

1 m. Goosander, 1 Water Rail, 2 Snipe, 1 f. Marsh Harrier, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Coal Tit, 1 Nuthatch, 2+ Bullfinch, 3 Siskin.

Herriotts Bridge:
10 Shelduck, 9 Shoveler, 40+ Teal, 5 Goldeneye, 1 Water Rail (calling), 2 Great White Egret, 2 Marsh Harrier, 1 Kingfisher, 3 Cetti's Warbler (calling), 2 Pied Wagtail, 1 Grey Wagtail, 3 Reed Bunting.

Greylag Goose at the dam (Ian Stapp)

Reported by: Pete Brain, Ben Crabb, Stephen Curtis & Carol Rushton, Andy Davis, Richard Giles & Fiona Neate, Andy Senior & Sus Sayers, George Stacey, Ian Stapp,  Les Williams,  opsbirding, all contributors to local WhatsApp groups