Sunday 26 February 2017

26 Feb '17 Sunday - Med Gull

Another dull day with some rain and cold wind in afternoon

Marsh Tit in Bristol
Waxwing at Bradley Stoke
Short-eared Owl at Uphill
Cattle Egret at Toghill Farm
Mediterranean Gull at Newton St Loe and Chew
Siskin at Paulton
Great White Egret at Chew

26-2-17 Great Spotted Woodpecker (Allan Chard)

BRISTOL

Garden:
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker

Coombe Dingle:
1 Marsh Tit (last seen 6-5-16)

Eastville Park:
1 Grey Heron

Frampton Cotterell:
4 Little Egrets at 7.30

Stockwood Open Space:
2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Jay, 1 Coal Tit, 20 Fieldfare/Redwing, 2 m+f Stonechat, 15+ Goldfinch


26-2-17 Grey Heron at Eastville Park (Sid Simmons)
SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Bradley Stoke, Three Brooks, Tesco Petrol:
15 Waxwings
26-2-17 Waxwing at Tesco (Rod Holbrook)
Frampton Pools, for your interest:
5 Red Crested Pochard, 1 Great White Egret, 60+ Waxwings

26-2-17 Stonechat at OPS (Peter Coslett)
Oldbury Power Station:
2 Grey Heron, 2 Common Buzzard, 1 Peregrine, 1 Kestrel, 6 Common Snipe, 50 Curlew, 6 Common Stonechat, 6 Bullfinch
26-2-17 Goldcrest at New Passage (Lisegirl)
New Passage/Northwick Warth:
33 Shoveler, 25 Tufted Duck, 1 Little Egret, big flock Knot, 0 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Goldcrest, 1 Cetti's Warbler (singing), 130 Fieldfare, 20 Redwing

NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon-Yeo:
2 Mute Swan, 38 Canada Goose, 70 Shelduck, 180 Wigeon, 40 Teal, 2 Pintail, 1 Cormorant, 2 Little Egret, 20 Oystercatcher, 18 Grey Plover, 18 Lapwing, 1 Ringed Plover, 140 Curlew, 24 Turnstone, 950 Dunlin, 185 Redshank, 4 Snipe, 200+ BH Gull, 12 LBB Gull, 10 Herring Gull, 12+ Skylark, 40 Fieldfare, 4 Rock Pipit

26-2-17 Short-eared Owl at Uphill (Paul Cousins)



Backwell Lake 0630hrs:
16 Mute Swan, 4 Canada Goose, 1 Gadwall, 2 Pochard, 14 Tufted Duck, 3 Cormorant, 16 Little Egrets left the island roost between 6.55 and 7.05 (official sunrise time 7.03), 1 Grey Heron, 1 Kingfisher


Uphill:
1 Kestrel, 11 Redshank, 1 Short-eared Owl, 1 Song Thrush, 5 Meadow Pipit, 4 Reed Bunting




BELOW M4 & BANES

Wick, Toghill Farm:
2 Cattle Egret

Saltford:
2 Cormorant, 1 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 200+ Fieldfare/Redwing, 1 Grey Wagtail, 4 Pied Wagtail, 70+ Finch flock
24-2-17 Peregrine (Bath Peregrines)
Bath:
2 Peregrines mating at St John's Church on 24th
Prior Park Landscape Garden: 1 f Goosander
Twerton gdn: 1 Mute Swan flyover, 1 Cormorant, 2 Jay, 4 Coal Tit, 4 Long-tailed Tit, 2 m&f Blackcap

26-2-17 Mediterranean Gull (Wayne Tucker)
A first at Newton St Loe
Newton St Loe:
15 Teal, 1 Goosander, 8 Grey Heron (nesting), 1 Little Grebe, 1 Buzzard, 7 Common Gull, 1 Mediterranean Gull (see NSL blog tonight), 10 Goldcrest, 9 Skylark, 1 Nuthatch, 3 Bullfinch

Paulton:
1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 5 Goldcrest, 2 Chiffchaff, 30 Redwing, 1 Mistle Thrush, 1 Stonechat, 1 Meadow Pipit, 20 Chaffinch, 25 Goldfinch, 7 Siskin, 1 Bullfinch
Sewage Works: 2 Grey Wagtail, 72 Pied Wagtail

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
1 Egyptian Geese, 1 Common Sandpiper

Chew Valley Lake:
1 Great White Egret fly over
Dam:
1 m Scaup

Villice Bay:
5 Little Grebe

26-2-17 Two Mediterranean Gull at Chew (Simon Mackie)
Herons Green:
2  Mediterranean Gull

East Shore, Bernard King hide:
many Goldeneye, 1 Goosander, 1 Cetti's Warbler

Moreton:
1 Shelduck, 5 Scaup, Goldeneye, 2 Green Sandpiper, Tawny Owl calling

26-2-17 Sparrowhawk at Stratford putting up Snipe (Kevin Balch)
Stratford Hide:
1 Sparrowhawk, 8 Snipe

Herriott's End:
Canada Goose? 3 Shelduck, 7 Pintail, Shoveler
26-2-17 When is a Canada Goose a Canada Goose (Simon Mackie)

Reports: Kevin Balch, Karle Burford, Allan Chard, Teresa Chard, Peter Coslett, Paul Cousins, Barry Dursley, Iain Dykes, William Earp, Lee Gardiner, Nick Goatman, Patrick Hancock, Lisegirl, Simon Mackie, Patrick Hancock, Rod Holbrook, Andrew Jordan, Glen Maddison, John Martin, Rosalind Maud, Nigel Milbourne, H E Rose, Sid Simmons,  Mike Thomas, Mrs Trellis, Wayne Tucker, blagdonlakebirds, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG