27-10-26 Tuesday - Long-tailed Duck

Temp 09°C to 15°C - sunny intervals with some heavy showers carried on a moderate breeze from the west south west with gusts to 33 mph.

The 2025 ABR is available. You can purchase a copy from the editor, Harvey Rose, for £15 + P&P, email bktlgodwit@gmail.com. Paper or e-copies will be with BOC and Bristol Nats members soon.

Long-tailed Duck

Grey Phalarope

Fieldfare

Swallow

Whooper Swan

Green-winged Teal

BRISTOL

Horfield - garden:

2 Ring-necked Parakeet

Hotwells:

3 Buzzard

St Andrews - garden:

2 Blackcap (f&m)

Stoke Park inc Duchess Pond:

1 Kestrel, 1 Raven, 1 Swallow

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

New Passage/Northwick:
31 Greylag Goose, 1 Avocet, 1 Grey Plover, 5 Bar-tailed Godwit, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Kingfisher 

Pilning Wetlands:
6 Pintail, 5 Curlew, 3 Snipe, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Kestrel, 2 Raven, 2 Stonechat

Severn Beach:
160 Shelduck, 1 Long-tailed Duck, 7 Ringed Plover, 1 Grey Phalarope, 6 Turnstone, 1 Marsh Harrier, 1 Rock Pipit

Chittening Warth:
12 Knot, 2 Marsh Harrier

Chipping Sodbury Common:
17 Stock Dove, 1 Snipe, 2 Cormorant, 1 Red Kite, 1 Raven, 34+ Skylark, 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 76 Redwing, 2 Stonechat, 1 Reed Bunting, 1 Yellowhammer

NORTH SOMERSET

Failand - Ashton Hill Plantation:

2 Raven

Portishead Seafront:
3 Shelduck, 1 Oystercatcher, 2 Curlew, Black-headed Gull, Carrion Crow, 3 Pied Wagtail, 2 Rock Pipit

Yatton - Wemberham:
32 Mute Swan, 4 Moorhen, 6 Snipe, 340 Herring Gull, 3 Cormorant, 1 Little Egret, 1 Great White Egret, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 7 Skylark, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Fieldfare, 1 Grey Wagtail, 4 Pied Wagtail

BELOW M4 & BANES

Frenchay Common:

6 Ring-necked Parakeet, 2 Jay, 1 Nuthatch, 2 Dunnock, 2 Chaffinch, 15 Goldfinch

Frenchay Moor:

1 Stock Dove, 1 Woodpigeon, 1 Ring-necked Parakeet, 1 Coal Tit, 1 Dunnock, 1 Chaffinch, 2 Goldfinch

Burnett:

6 Pheasant, 6 Stock Dove, 25 Woodpigeon, 8 Herring Gull, 1 Red Kite, 1 Buzzard, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, 2 Coal Tit, 2 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, 1 Swallow, 12 Long-tailed Tit, 5 Wren, 1 Song Thrush,
22 Redwing, 4 Blackbird, 14 Robin, 6 Dunnock, 1 Grey Wagtail, 2 Chaffinch

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

27-10-26 Cattle Egret CVL (Merv Carlyon)

Woodford:
Cattle Egret

27-10-2026 Green-winged Teal CVL (Marc Hunt)

Herons Green:
1 Green-winged Teal

27-10-2026 Whooper Swan CVL (Marc Hunt))

Stratford:
1 Whooper Swan, 3 Egyptian Goose, 2 Stonechat

27-10-26 Egyptian Goose CVL (Denise Rudeforth)

OUT OF AREA

Somerset

Priddy - BOC walk:

300 Woodpigeon, 20 Black-headed Gull, 14 Herring Gull, 1 Red Kite, 1 Kestrel, 5 Magpie, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, 2 Raven, 7 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, 1 Coal Tit, 12 Skylark, 1 Chiffchaff, 2 Wren, 1 Nuthatch, 226 Starling, 24 Redwing, 1 Blackbird, 7 Robin, 1 Grey Wagtail, 2 Pied Wagtail, 10 Meadow Pipit, 3 Chaffinch, 3 Goldfinch

Reported by: Paul Bowerman, Dru Brooke-Taylor, Darren Burton, Mark Coller, Anne Crowe, Oscar Dewhurst, Julie Evans, Alastair Fraser, Matt Hall, Tim Hall, Robert Hargreaves, Leon Hickman, Marc Hunt, Gill Johnson, Rich Mielcarek, Tom O'Shea, Trevor Riddle, Darren Robson, Denise Rudeforth, Joe Sargent, John Skinner, Beth Yeates

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