02-11-18 Friday - Yellow-browed Warbler
Bright and sunny today after frosty start. Temp 1-11 deg C
Bewick's Swan
Great White Egret
Woodcock, Jack Snipe
Yellow-browed Warbler
BRISTOL
No reports
SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Pilning Wetland:
c16 Shoveler, 2 Tufted Duck, 1 Little Grebe, 1 Water Rail, 15 Lapwing, 50 Curlew, c70 Dunlin, Snipe , 2 Black- tailed Godwit, 1500 Starling
New Passage/Northwick:
"Lovely afternoon watching male and female Merlin down at New Passage till some clown with a drone right out on the saltmarsh flushed them off"
c 300 Wigeon,1 f Sparrowhawk
Lower Woods, Wickwar
2 Woodcock, 1 Barn Owl, a nocturnal Skylark flyover
Winterbourne:
Monk's Pool and Bradley Brook LNR - 1 female Sparrowhawk, 2 Buzzard, 2 Stock Dove, 2 Jay, 14 Jackdaw, 2 Great Tit, 9 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Song Thrush, 3 Mistle Thrush, 7 Meadow Pipit, 1 Chaffinch, 12 Goldfinch.
NORTH SOMERSET
Yatton:
Wemberham Lane - 4 Teal, 2 Grey Heron, 1 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 1 Peregrine, 2 Raven, 5 Redwing .
BELOW M4 & BANES
Bath:
Prior Park - 1 Yellow-browed Warbler (calling from trees on left side of path up from lower-gate, mobile with Long-tailed Tit flock)
Publow:
Church - 1 Kingfisher, 1 Dipper, 1 Grey Wagtail
Chelwood:
1 Buzzard
Chew Magna:
RESERVOIRS:
Blagdon:
2 Bewick's Swans (Bell's Bush, possibly same birds as at CVL; one bird with metal ring), 2 f Goosander,2 Great White Egret, 2 Little Egret, 1 Water Rail, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Cetti's Warbler
Of interest:
a) 1 ringed Redshank seen at Barrow in July 2017, originally ringed Sept 3rd 2016 on the Solent at Chichester Harbour as a juvenile.
b) 1 Cormorant seen at CVL on 22 October 2018, with a large darkish-green ring on its right leg,
with white letters 'SNB', was ringed as pullus at nest on Denny Island, Bristol Channel on 7 June 2015. Subsequently seen at Blagdon Lake on 20 Dec 2016 and then at Chew Valley Lake on 11 Aug 2017.
Reports: Pete Brain, Anne Crowe, Stephen Curtis, Ken Hall, Robert Hargreaves, Mike Jackson, Glenn Maddison, Aravind Ramesh, Trevor Riddle, Carol Rushton, George Stacey, Chris Stone, TalkingtoBears, blagdonlakebirds,
Bewick's Swan
Great White Egret
Woodcock, Jack Snipe
Yellow-browed Warbler
BRISTOL
No reports
SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Pilning Wetland:
c16 Shoveler, 2 Tufted Duck, 1 Little Grebe, 1 Water Rail, 15 Lapwing, 50 Curlew, c70 Dunlin, Snipe , 2 Black- tailed Godwit, 1500 Starling
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| 02-11-18 Merlin, Northwick Warth (Aravind Ramesh) |
"Lovely afternoon watching male and female Merlin down at New Passage till some clown with a drone right out on the saltmarsh flushed them off"
c 300 Wigeon,1 f Sparrowhawk
Lower Woods, Wickwar
2 Woodcock, 1 Barn Owl, a nocturnal Skylark flyover
Winterbourne:
Monk's Pool and Bradley Brook LNR - 1 female Sparrowhawk, 2 Buzzard, 2 Stock Dove, 2 Jay, 14 Jackdaw, 2 Great Tit, 9 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Song Thrush, 3 Mistle Thrush, 7 Meadow Pipit, 1 Chaffinch, 12 Goldfinch.
NORTH SOMERSET
Yatton:
Wemberham Lane - 4 Teal, 2 Grey Heron, 1 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 1 Peregrine, 2 Raven, 5 Redwing .
BELOW M4 & BANES
Bath:
Prior Park - 1 Yellow-browed Warbler (calling from trees on left side of path up from lower-gate, mobile with Long-tailed Tit flock)
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| 02-11-18 Dipper, Publow (Rob Hargreaves) |
Church - 1 Kingfisher, 1 Dipper, 1 Grey Wagtail
Chelwood:
1 Buzzard
Chew Magna:
village- 1 Kingfisher, 1 Grey Wagtail
1 mile north of village - 80 Goldfinch in a single flock
1 mile north of village - 80 Goldfinch in a single flock
RESERVOIRS:
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| 02-11-18 Bewick's Swan, off Denny Island, CVL (George Stacey ) |
2 Bewick's Swans (Bell's Bush, possibly same birds as at CVL; one bird with metal ring), 2 f Goosander,2 Great White Egret, 2 Little Egret, 1 Water Rail, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Cetti's Warbler
Chew Valley Lake
2 Bewicks Swan (Denny Island) , 2 Egyptian Goose, 4 Goldeneye, 1 Goosander, 2 Grey Heron, 8 Great White Egret (5 Heron's Green, 2 Herriotts), 5 Little Egret, 1 Water Rail, 36 Lapwing, 2 Black-Tailed Godwit, 1 Dunlin, 1 Jack Snipe (Heron's Green), 8 Snipe, 1 Common Sandpiper, 6 Green Sandpiper, 1 Kingfisher, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Reed Bunting
2 Bewicks Swan (Denny Island) , 2 Egyptian Goose, 4 Goldeneye, 1 Goosander, 2 Grey Heron, 8 Great White Egret (5 Heron's Green, 2 Herriotts), 5 Little Egret, 1 Water Rail, 36 Lapwing, 2 Black-Tailed Godwit, 1 Dunlin, 1 Jack Snipe (Heron's Green), 8 Snipe, 1 Common Sandpiper, 6 Green Sandpiper, 1 Kingfisher, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Reed Bunting
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| 02-11-18 Jack Snipe, Heron's Green, CVL ( George Stacey) |
Of interest:
a) 1 ringed Redshank seen at Barrow in July 2017, originally ringed Sept 3rd 2016 on the Solent at Chichester Harbour as a juvenile.
b) 1 Cormorant seen at CVL on 22 October 2018, with a large darkish-green ring on its right leg,
with white letters 'SNB', was ringed as pullus at nest on Denny Island, Bristol Channel on 7 June 2015. Subsequently seen at Blagdon Lake on 20 Dec 2016 and then at Chew Valley Lake on 11 Aug 2017.
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| 02-11-18 Pied Wagtail, CVL (TalkingtoBears) |
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