Wednesday 28 December 2016

28th Dec '16 Wednesday - Blue Rock Thrush

A frosty start, cold but sunny all day with some stubborn patches of fog

28 Swans A Swimming
The Blyth's Pipit still at Blagdon Lake - will it hang on for 2017?
Probable Firecrest at Eastville Park
The adult male Ring-necked Duck and adult Black-necked Grebe at Chew Valley Lake
Many locals off twitching a Cotswolds Blue Rock Thrush


28-12-16 Blue Rock Thrush, Stow-on-the-Wold (Brian Thompson)
At least in terms of birding, 2016 has just kept on giving
Bristol
Coombe Dingle, Garden:
1 Blackcap
Eastville Park:
1 Grey Heron, 1 Kingfisher, 20+ Goldcrest, 1 Firecrest, 1 Coal Tit, 1 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Nuthatch, 200+ Humans!
28-12-16 Long-tailed Tit (Allan Chard)
Eastville Park, Bristol
Stockwood Open Space:
1 Sparrowhawk,  3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Jay, 2 Goldcrest, 15 Blackbird, 10 Fieldfare, 1 Song Thrush, 2 Redwing, 8 Robin, 10 Goldfinch, 4 Bullfinch
Stoke Park, Duchess Pond:
5 Moorhen, 1 Kingfisher, 1 m Stonechat
28-12-16 Kingfisher (Richard Scantlebury)
Stoke Park, Duchess Pond
Kenn, Duck Lane:
3 Wren
28-12-16 4 Geese A Grazing (Dan White)
Pilning Wetland
Chelvey:
1 Grey Heron, 1 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker heard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Fieldfare, 70 Redwing
28-12-16 Little Egret (Higgy)
Birding from the bedroom window
Yatton, Stowey Road:
1 Little Egret, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Fieldfare, 10 Redwing, 2 Blackcap, 2 Reed Bunting

Banwell, Winthill:
1 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Goldcrest, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Nuthatch, 1 Treecreeper, 1 Song Thrush, 12 Redwing

28-12-16 Golden Plover, Pennsylvania (Pete Coslett)
c.1000 strong flock today, a South Glos record count
Pennsylvania, nr Marshfield:
c.1000 Golden Plover (record South Glos count!)

Marshfield, Down Road:
60 Lapwing, 2 Stonechat

28-12-16 Stonechat (Pete Coslett)
Down Rd area, Marshfield
Saltford:
4 Mute Swan, 2 Gadwall, 5 Teal, 2 Cormorant, 2 Grey Heron, 5 Moorhen, 40 Common Gull, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Green Woodpecker, 5 Long-tailed Tit, 9 Blackbird, 4 Song Thrush, 35 Redwing, 2 Mistle Thrush, 20 Robin, 1 Grey Wagtail, 25 Pied Wagtail, 1 Bullfinch, 8 Goldfinch

Newton St Loe:
26 Teal, 9 Goosander, 3 Buzzard, 1 Common Gull, 3 Kingfisher, 3 Green Woodpecker, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Meadow Pipit

Blagdon Lake:
3 Bewick's Swan, 5+ Great White Egret, 1 Little Stint, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Blyth's Pipit

Chew Valley Lake:
Woodford:
2 Stonechat
Heron's Green:
5 Goosander,  2 Little Egret, 8 Great White Egret, 1 Water Rail, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Kingfisher, 50+ Starling
28-12-16 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker A Drumming (Ian Stapp)
Moreton:
4 Goldeneye, 1 Goosander, 1 Great White Egret, 1 Buzzard, 1 Great Black-backed Gull, 2 Stock Dove, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Raven, 1 Coal Tit, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Chiffchaff, 10+ Fieldfare, 100+ Redwing, 8+ Robin, 3 Stonechat, 10 Chaffinch, 6 Goldfinch, 1 Reed Bunting
Herriotts End:
16 Shelduck, 5 Pintail, 4 Goosander, 1 Little Egret, 1 Great White Egret, 1 adult Mediterranean Gull, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Grey Wagtail, 2 Reed Bunting

28-12-16 Black-headed Gull (Ian Stapp)
Yellow 2KTS, ringed by North Thames Gull Group (thanks BL Birds)
Sutton Wick:
1 Black-necked Grebe
Hollow Brook:
7 Snipe
Denny Island:
5 Bewick's Swan, 1 drake Ring-necked Duck

Reports: Allan Chard, Pete Coslett, Anne Crow, John Croxton, Michael Davis, Robert Hargreaves, Higgy, Nigel Milbourne, Vic Savery, Richard Scantlebury, George Stacey, Ian Stapp, Brian Thompson, John Thorogood, Keith Vinicombe, Dan White blagdonlakebirds, nslbirding,  TBOSG