16-02-19 Saturday - Waxwing

Mild, but cloudy, without the sunshine of the last couple of days. High of just under 14°C

White-fronted Goose
Great White Egret
Red Kite
Avocet
Mediterranean Gull
Little Owl, Short-eared Owl
Waxwing
Scaup

16-02-19 Smartening up for spring
 Blue Tit in Winterbourne (dan@twit1144) and Starling in Bristol (Gillygilly@tiger8lotus)

BRISTOL

Westbury-on-Trym:

Vicinity of Canford Lane cemetery - 1 Waxwing

' This lunchtime it was the call that made me look up and out of the window - as usual I had the window open - as it was "different", a sort of low gentle churring, rattling sound. I didn't get much time to check him out, maybe 20 seconds, but it was through binocs so a good clear view. The most distinctive feature was the crest, like it was having a bad hair day, and the bold black and white markings around the eye. The plumage was a pinky/buff/ brown ' (Andy Fraser)

Eastville Park:
1 Kingfisher, 1 Dipper

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

16-02-19 White-fronted Goose, Northwick Warth (Robert Hargreaves)

Pilning Wetland:
5 White-fronted Goose,1 Pochard, l Little Egret, 1 Water Rail, 147 Black-tailed Godwit, 5 Knot , 7 Snipe, Great Spotted Woodpecker,  40+ Pied Wagtail, 1 Reed Bunting

New Passage:

13 Shoveler, 2 Little Grebe, 2 Grey Heron, 400 Lapwing, 100 Curlew, 100 Dunlin, 1 Short-eared Owl, 1 Kestrel, 1 Chiffchaff , 55+ Pied Wagtail, 5 Meadow Pipit 

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead:
Eastdown & Battery Point LNR- 20 Wigeon, 2 Oystercatcher, 5 Curlew, 1 Redshank, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Coal Tit, 20+ Blue Tit, 4 Long-tailed Tit, 4 Goldcrest, 3 Nuthatch, 6 Chaffinch, 4 Greenfinch, 20 Goldfinch

Clevedon-Yeo:
43 Wigeon,1 Pintail, 1 Buzzard, 1 Avocet feeding near the wrecks, 1100 Dunlin, 71 Redshank, 8 Grey Plover, 1 Kestrel, 7 Skylark, 53 Fieldfare, 9 Redwing, 3 Rock Pipit

[No sign of the Richards Pipit]

Wick St. Lawrence:

Fields (west bound side M5) - 60 (+) Mute Swan 

Loxton:

5 Cormorant (pylon day time roost)

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield:
Down Road area - 30 Red Legged Partridge, 2 Buzzard,1 Sparrowhawk, 30 Stock Dove, 100 Wood Pigeon, 2 Little Owl, 3 Raven, a few Skylark singing, 1 Chiffchaff, 200 Starling, 40 Fieldfare, 40 Linnet. Also 2 Brown Hare

Midford:
1 Red Kite

RESERVOIRS:

Blagdon Lake:
19 Mute Swan, 3 Scaup - (1f & 2m), 2 Great White Egret, 2 Snipe, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Tawny Owl - minus its head!!, 1 Peregrine - (f imm), 2 Skylark - over, 3 Reed Bunting.

Chew Valley Lake

Nunnery: 
7 Mediterranean Gull in gull roost

Herriott's:
2 Great White Egret,  1 Little Egret
Reports: Rich Andrews, Peter Coslett, Andy Fraser,  Richard Giles and Fiona Neate, Robert Hargreaves,Simon Harris, Simon Isgar, Aravind Ramesh, Dean Reeves, Andy Stockhausen, Martin Tayler 
blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG