18-10-26 Sunday - Ring Ouzel

Temp 07°C to 13°C - sunny until coffee time with cloud creeping in mid afternoon, A gentle breeze, reinforced by chilling 24mph gusts from the north backing north north east with the thickening cloud.

Ring Ouzel

BRISTOL

Blaise - Cherry Orchard:

1 Green Woodpecker, 1 GS Woodpecker, 2 Firecrest, 1 Goldcrest, 1 Nuthatch, c 30 Redwing - in 2 flocks

Clifton Down - Sea Walls:

1 Skylark, 15 Redwing

18-10-26 Blackcap Coombe Dingle (Pete Bunniss)

Coombe Dingle - garden:

2 Blackcap (f&m) - feeding in the garden, the fruit is Beauty Berry bush (Callicarpa)

Eastville roof - vismic:

1 Lapwing, 3 Common Gull, 1 Little Egret, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Ring-necked Parakeet - heard, 10 Jay, 7 Rook, 4 Raven, 3 Skylark, 1 Song Thrush, 1039 Redwing, 3 Fieldfare, 1 Grey Wagtail, 3 Pied Wagtail, 4 Meadow Pipit, 10 Chaffinch, 1 Greenfinch, 8 Siskin

18-10-26 Kingfisher EP (Rich Scantlebury)

Eastville Park inc Lake:

I Little Egret, 1 Tawny Owl (f), 1 Kingfisher

Redcatch Park:

2 Repoll - calling goingx over early 

Sea Mills - Harbour & R Avon:
4 Mallard, 191 Feral Pigeon, 2 Redshank, 8 Black-headed Gull, 2 Herring Gull 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 1 Blackbird, 4 House Sparrow, 1 Dunnock - singing

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Aust Services - vismig:

23145 Redwing - record count, 1 Ring Ouzel, 1 Hawfinch, 1 Yellowhammer

18-10-26 Starling Wickwar (Paul Sadley)

Wickwar - garden:

Starling

NORTH SOMERSET

Pill - allotments:
Flocks of Redwing and Fieldfare, biggest flock was RW 30+ and FF 15

Portbury Wharf:
1 Shoveler, 2 Collared Dove, 2 Lapwing, 3 Snipe, 1 Little Grebe, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Kestrel, 2000  Redwing over, 50 Fieldfare - over, 

Clevedon -  Wain's Hill:

vismig:     50 Wood Pigeon, 67 Skylark, 150 Starling, 20 Blackbird, 90 Fieldfare, 5043 Redwing - in flocks of 50 to 100, 2 Grey Wagtail, 8 Pied Wagtail, 32 Meadow Pipit, 710 Chaffinch, 12 Greenfinch, 10 Linnet, 40 Goldfinch.

present: 1 Grey Heron, 1 Sparrow Hawk, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Peregrine, 50 Carrion Crow.

Backwell Lake:
32 Gadwall, 3 Teal, 2 Water Rail, 3 Little Grebe, 1 Red Kite, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Jay, 1 Raven, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 65 Redwing, 2 Grey Wagtail, 2 Greenfinch

Nailsea:

200 Jackday - over with great noise to the west 08:45

BELOW M4 & BANES

Bitton, Holm Mead - vismig :

200 + Woodpigeon, 16 Skylark, 1 Song Thrush, 107 Redwing, 4 Meadow Pipit, 12 Chaffinch, 14 Linnet, 1 Siskin

Corston Fields:

4 Red-Legged Partridge, 2 Buzzard, 3 Green Woodpecker, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 5 Skylark, 1 Redwing, 2 Meadow Pipit, 38 Linnet

18-10-26 Fieldfare Chew Stoke (Lucy Masters)

Chew Stoke - garden:
Fieldfare

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

18-10-26 Water Rail CVL (Lee Gardiner)

Herriotts Bridge:
1 Water Rail, 3 Snipe, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Kingfisher

Reported by: David Allward, Paul Bowerman, Pete Bunniss, B&D Burton, Oscar Dewhurst, Trevor Ford, Lee Gardiner, Robert Hargreaves, Annie & Nick Hawkridge, Matt Hobbs, Rob Laughton, Robin Martin, Giles Morris, Lee Patch, Bob Proctor, Paul Sadley, Steve Sanins, Joe Sargent, Rich Scantlebury, Larry Sweetland

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