Sunday 20 November 2016

20th Nov '16 Sunday - Cattle Egret

Cold rainy dull day

Cattle Egret viewable from ST 31955 56045, near Accommodation Rd, W-S-M
Common Scoter off Clevedon coast

20-11-16 Dipper (Gill Sapsed)
Delighting the audience at Eastville
BRISTOL 
Eastville Park:
1 Kingfisher, 2 Dipper (feeding together away from the flood), 1 Grey Wagtail

20-11-16 Kingfisher on Duchess Pond (Richard Scantlbury)
Stoke Park, Duchess Pond:
Grey Heron, Snipe, Kingfisher, Blackbird, Redwing, Grey Wagtails
Warmley Forest Park:
1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Buzzard, 2 Moorhens, 2 Jays, 2 Goldcrests, 5 Blue Tits, 4 Great Tits, 2 Coal Tits,
8 Long-tailed Tits, 100+ Wood Pigeons, 30+ Blackbirds. 40+ Redwing, 3 Dunnocks, 9 Greenfinch,
10 Goldfinch, 2 Bullfinch.

Sharpness:
Black Redstart

Oldbury Power Station:
juv + ad Black Redstart

Aust, pm: 
1 Teal, 20 Curlew, 2 Godwit, 80 Dunlin, 30 Redshank, 4 Snipe, 2 Meadow Pipit
Hundreds more waders and other birds along shoreline stretching down to New Passage

New Passage/Northwick:
2 Buzzard along M48

20-11-16 Purple Sandpiper at Battery Point (Lee Gardiner)
Portishead - Battery Point:
Purple Sandpiper, Redwing

Clevedon, Wain's Hill:
juv f  Common Scoter

20-11-16 Turnstone at Kingston Seymour (Higgy)
Clevedon-Yeo:
15 Mute Swan, 14 Canada Goose, 50 Shelduck, 110 Wigeon, 25 Teal, 20 Mallard, 1 Tufted Duck,
4 Little Egret, 2 Grey Heron, 14 Oystercatcher, 5 Grey Plover, 110 Lapwing, 80 Curlew,
23 Turnstone, 900 Dunlin, 1 Jack Snipe, 1 Snipe, 60 BH Gull, 1Peregrine, 1 Fieldfare (More in lanes)

Kenn Moor:
47 Mute Swan, 27 Canada Goose, 2 Grey Heron, 4 Little Grebe, 100 Starling, 70+ Fieldfare
(Large numbers of Corvids and Gulls on the fields after the heavy rain)

Brockley/Chelvey Lanes:
1 Grey Heron, 200+ Fieldfare (throughout the lanes on hedges)

20-11-16 Grey Wagtail behind sea wall (Higgy)
Kingston Seymour Sea Wall:
2 Buzzard, 5 Grey Plover, 800+ Dunlin, 1 Snipe, Curlew (heard), 15 Turnstone, 2 Raven,
100+ Starling & 200+ Fieldfare (on dung heaps behind sea wall), 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 Pied Wagtail.

Uphill:
9 Ringed Plover, Lapwing, 4 Sanderling, Dunlin

20-11-16 Cattle Egret at the Sewage Works (James Packer)
Weston-Super-Mare - Sewage Treatment Works:
Cattle Egret, 8 Little Egret, 200 Lapwing, 1 Golden Plover, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 50 Stock Dove, 100's Fieldfare & Redwing, 1 Richard's Pipit (heard)

Newton St Loe:
3 Teal, 1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Raven, 35 Redwing, 3 Mistle Thrush,
50 Meadow pipits !

Paulton:
2 Jay, 1 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 1 Treecreeper, 21 Blackbird, 4 Song Thrush, 130 Redwing,
3 Bullfinch
And at the Sewage Works: 1 Grey Wagtail, 40 Pied Wagtail, 11 Meadow Pipit

Blagdon Lake:
16 Bewick's Swans,  13 Little Egrets, 16 Great White Egrets , 2 ad ♂ Red-crested Pochards,
1st-winter Scaup, 2 Dunlin (Lodge), Otter (on the spillway)

Chew Valley Ringing Station:
Ringed: 60+ Goldcrest (since Oct 5)
Recaptures: 2 juv Goldcrest

20-11-16 Redwing at Portishead (Lee Gardiner)
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