24-02-26 Tuesday - Hooded Merganser

Temp 08°C to 14°C - overcast until sunshine came through from 10am. The moderate breeze from the south gusting to 26mph but abating as the day progressed.

Hooded Merganser

Bearded Tit

Purple Sandpiper

BRISTOL

Bishopston:

2 Jay

BAWA - playing fields

29 Pied Wagtail

City Centre - Floating Harbour:

1 Great Created Grebe

Southmead Community Sports Field:

2 Sparrowhawk - interacting !

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

New Passage/Northwick:
3 Pintail, 50 Turnstone, 1 Knot, 300 Dunlin, 1 Sparrowhawk. 6 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 2 Raven, 2 Water Pipit, 1 Scandinavian Rock Pipit, 12 Pied Wagtail, 20 Meadow Pipit

24-02-2026 Hooded Merganser PIL (Terry Winter)

Pilning Wetlands:
1 Pochard, 3 Tufted Duck, 34 Shoveler, 1 Hooded Merganser (f), 2 Little Grebe, 18 Lapwing, 12 Snipe, 1 Mediterranean Gull - ad, 1 Cormorant, 1 Little Egret, 30 Redwing, 2 Stonechat

Severn Beach:
2 Cormorant, another Scandinavian Rock Pipit

NORTH SOMERSET

24-02-26 Skylark Ashton Court (Lee Patch)

Ashton Court:

30+ Skylark, 5 Stonechat (2f &3m), 4 Pied Wagtail - 2pr

Battery Point:

5 Purple Sandpiper

24-02-26 Red Kite Clevedon (Wayne Pannell)

Clevedon Moor:

1 Red Kite

Clevedon - Yeo:
120 Shelduck, 15 Stock Dove - sw, 10+ Oystercatcher, 20 Grey Plover, 10+ Lapwing, 5 Curlew, 3 Turnstone, c10,000 Dunlin, 400 Black Headed Gull, 1 Great Black Backed Gull, 4 Little Egret, 6 Skylark, 2 Stonechat, 3 Pied Wagtail.

BELOW M4 & BANES

Warmley Forest Park:

1 Redpoll - feeding

24-02-26 Song Thrush Keynsham (Paul Tompkins)

Keynsham, Lock & Marina:
4 Cormorant, 1 Buzzard, 2 Kingfisher, 10 Magpie, 1 Crow,  3 Goldcrest, 2 Song Thrush, 1 Grey Wagtail 

24-02-26 Red Kite Lansdown (Caron Thornton Trippit)

Lansdown - BOC walk:

1 Pheasant, Woodpigeon, Herring Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, 2 Red Kite, 5 Buzzard, 2 Green Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, Magpie, 2 Rook, Carrion Crow, 1 Raven, 6 Blue Tit, 1 Great Tit, 26 Skylark, 1 Goldcrest, 5 Wren, 1 Nuthatch, 1 Treecreeper, 1 Song Thrush, 3 Blackbird, 7 Robin, 2 Stonechat, House Sparrow, 4 Dunnock, 2 Chaffinch, 3 Greenfinch, 6 Goldfinch

Stanton Drew - Sandy Lane:
1st Skylark of the year in the fields

24-02-26 Yellowhammer Burnett (Ian Stapp)

Burnett:

4 Yellowhammer

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

24-02-26 Goldeneye CVL (George Stacey)

Dam:
8 Canada Goose, 1 Greylag Goose, 6 Goldeneye, 2 Grey Heron, 1 Song Thrush, 3 Pied Wagtail, 7 Chaffinch

Picnic site 2

1 Stonechat (f)

Bittern Trail:
3 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Goldcrest, 1 Redwing

Woodford:
1 Jay

Perry House Farm:
c30 small Egret - mostly Cattle Egret

Herons Green:
9 Goldeneye, 40+ Tufted Duck, 1 Little Grebe, 1 Snipe, 60+ B H Gull, 50+ Common Gull, 2 G W Egret, 2 Grey Heron,  1 Marsh Harrier (f), 2 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker - calling, 1 G S Woodpecker, 2 Pied Wagtail

Stratford:
12+ Goldeneye, 60+ Tufted Duck, 14 Great Crested Grebe - one sum plum,  20+ Woodpigeon, 3 Marsh Harrier (2f &1m),  1 Red Kite, 4 Buzzard, 1 G S Wood - drumming, 1 Peregrine, 4 Raven - two pr, 

2 Cetti's Warbler

Herriotts inc Pool:
6 Shelduck, 10 Goldeneye, 46 Teal, 40 Woodpigeon, 1 Oystercatcher - over, 200 mix BH &Common Gull, 7 Herring Gull, 2 Great Black-backed Gull, 1 Great White Egret, 3 Grey Heron, 3 Marsh Harrier, 2 Red Kite, 2 Buzzard, 2 Raven,  1 Bearded Tit (m), 2 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Reed Bunting

Reported by: John Croxton, Jane Cumming, Alan Daniells, Andy Davis, Robert Hargreaves, Nick Hawkridge, Rich Keel, Rob Laughton, Mike Owen, Wayne Pannell, Lee Patch, Jackie Powell, Trevor Riddle, George Stacey, Ian Stapp, Andy Stockhausen, Caron Thornton Trippit, Paul Tompkins, Terry Winter

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