03-12-18 Monday - Bittern

Temp 12 to 11℃. Lots of rain in squalls, 6mm, some sun but cold in the wind

Bewick's Swan
Scaup, Lesser Scaup
Black-necked Grebe
Bittern, Cattle Egret
Marsh Harrier 
Grey Plover, Jack Snipe, Little Stint
Marsh Tit
Black Redstart
Water Pipit

3-12-18 Goosander sleeping Scaup, Moreton  (Ian Stapp)

BRISTOL

Eastville Park:
30 Redwing

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
64 Teal, 6 Grey Plover, 6 Snipe, 1 f Black Redstart

NORTH SOMERSET

Backwell garden:
5 Tit day, Coal, Marsh, Blue, Great and Long-tailed Tit

3-12-18 Black Redstart, Clevedon Pier (NSL-Birding)

Clevedon Pier:
1 Black Redstart

Clevedon-Dowlais:
38 Lapwing, 4 Turnstone, 250 Dunlin

Kenn and Congressbury Moors, Yacwag reserve;
1 Jack Snipe, 8 Snipe, 1 Kestrel and 1 Water Rail, 20 Snipe

BELOW M4 & BANES

3-12-18 Bullfinch in Bath (Sean Whyte)

Bath, Weston:
Chaffinch and Bullfinch together

3-12-18 Black-tailed Godwit, Herons Green (Bob Brewer)

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
1 Egyptian Goose, 57 Wigeon, 50 Gadwall, 1 ad♂Pintail, 873 Teal, a few Pochard, 58 Lapwings, 1 Common Sandpiper

3-12-18 Bewick's Swan, CVL (Bob Brewer)

Chew Valley Lake, Stratford:

98 Canada Goose, 8 2 juv Bewick's Swan (Herriott's), 2 Egyptian Goose, 2 Shelduck,

3-12-18 Pintail, Bernard King (George Stacey)

12 Pintail, 4 ad f Scaup (Moreton), 1 m Lesser Scaup (Stratford), 9 Goldeneye, 10 2m Goosander, 11 Little Grebe, 1 Black-necked Grebe, 1 Bittern, 13 Cattle Egret, 6 Grey Heron, 9 Great White Egret, 8 Little Egret, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 f Marsh Harrier (Herons Green), 1 Buzzard, 2 Water Rail, 500 Lapwing (H), 14 (poss 20) Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Jack Snipe, 8 Snipe, 2 Dunlin, 1 j Little Stint (H)

3-12-18 Common Sandpiper,  the Dam (George Stacey)

1 Common and 1 Green Sandpiper (HG), 5 GBB Gull, 5 Stock Dove, 2 Kingfisher, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Peregrine, 2 Jay, 1 Raven, 20+ tits (mixed most L TT), 2 Cetti's Warbler, 250+ Starling, 25 Fieldfare, 50 Redwing, 1 Song Thrush, 1 Mistle Thrush, 1 Stonechat (M), 6 House Sparrow, 1 Grey Wagtail (HG), 2 Meadow Pipit, 4 Water Pipit, 2 Bullfinch (W), 6 Goldfinch, 3 Reed Bunting (H)

3-12-18 Snipe, Stratford (Bob Brewer)

Out of Avon
1 juv Great Northern Diver at Cheddar with Mandarin

Reports: Bob Brewer, Raoul Chandrasakera, Robert Hargreaves, Peter Hazelwood, Robin Lambert, Nigel Milbourne, Dean Reeves, Trevor Riddle, Rich Scantlebury, George Stacey, Ian Stapp, Howard Taffs, Wayne Tucker, Sean Whyte