05-02-19 Tuesday - Richard's Pipit

Overcast all day, with light rain at times.

Siberian Chiffchaff
Long-tailed Duck
Richard's Pipit
Common Scoter, Spotted Redshank, 
Scaup

BRISTOL

05-02-2019 Sparrowhawk Fishponds (Allan Chard)
Fishponds:
1 Sparrowhawk and an ex pigeon.

St Anne's:
05-02-2019 Blackcap St Anne's (Gill Sapsed)
SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
2 Lesser Redpoll over to NE, Corn Bunting, Yellowhammer and 4 Reed Bunting still in hedge near yacht club.
05-02-2019 Songthrush Almondsbury (Vera Carpenter)
Almondsbury:
1 Wren, 1 Nuthatch, 1 Fieldfare, 2 Song Thrush.

NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon-Yeo:
1 Greylag Goose, 100 Canada Goose, 3 Mute Swan, 175 Shelduck, 24 Shoveler - at KP, the only birds there, 640 Wigeon, 20 Mallard, 175 Teal, 2 Common Scoter (Blackstone), 10 Goosander Blind Yeo, 1m & 9f, 4 Little Egret, 1 Cormorant, 17 Oystercatcher, 175 Lapwing, 14 Grey Plover, 290 Curlew - 140 up Yeo and 35 at Kenn, 3 Black Tailed Godwit (Yeo), 15 Turnstone, 8 Knot, Dunlin 1850, 4 Snipe, 305 Redshank, 1 Spotted Redshank - up Yeo, seen and heard, 34 Skylark, 2 Stonechat, Richard's Pipit flying off giving its alarm call a dry chrrrt, 2 Rock Pipit, 7 Bullfinch, 10+ Greenfinch 40+ Linnet, 5 Reed Bunting.

BELOW M4 & BANES

Bath:
2 Peregrine  - St Johns birds settling in to the nest box.

Prior Park:
1 Kingfisher - back in the Serpentine.

Pensford:

BOC Tuesday Walk.
2 Mute Swan, 4 Mallard, 2 Teal pr, Pheasant, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Cormorant, 5 Buzzard, 1 Moorhen, 14 Black-headed Gull, 7 Common Gull, Herring Gull, Woodpigeon, 6 Collared Dove, 5 Great Spotted Woodpecker - courting noises, 5 Magpie, Jackdaw - all paired off, 12 Carrion Crow,  2 Raven - display flight, 4 Coal Tit, Blue Tit, Great Tit, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Goldcrest, 5 Wren, 4 Nuthatch, 300+ Starling - flock of 290, 30 Fieldfare, 120 Redwing - flocks of 90 and 20, 1 Song Thrush, 3 Mistle Thrush, 9 Robin, 1 Dipper, House Sparrow, 1 Grey Wagtail, 45 Meadow Pipit, 16 Chaffinch, 3 Greenfinch, 43 Goldfinch - flocks of 11, 10 and 12.

Chew Stoke STW:
3 Chiffchaff, 1 Siberian Chiffchaff, - Note that this site is private,view only from the footpath beside the R.Chew.

RESERVOIRS

05-02-2019 Long-tailed Duck -Little Grebe BG (Bri Thompson)
Barrow Tanks:
1 Long-tailed Duck, 1 Little Grebe

Chew Valley Lake


05-02-2019 Barn Owl CVL (Raoul Chandrasakera)
Heron's Green:
6 Goldeneye, 1 Little Egret, 2 Buzzard, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Barn Owl, 500-1000 Starling, 15 Goldfinch.

05-02-2019 Starling CVL (Robert Hargreaves)
Moreton:
1 Wigeon, 1 Scaup (f), 20 Goldeneye, 1 Barn Owl, 1 Peregrine, 12 Long-tailed Tit.

Herriott's:
34 Mute Swan, 2 Shelduck, 8 Pintail

Reports: Vĕra Carpenter, Raoul Chandrasakera, Allan Chard, Andy Davis, Robert Hargreaves, Nick Hawkridge, Glen Maddison, Harvey Rose, Steve Sanins, Gill Sapsed, Howard Taffs, Bri Thompson, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG

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