Mild but damp - rain never far away all day. Little wind; overcast
Scaup
Long-tailed Duck
Black-necked Grebe
Ring-necked Parakeet
Firecrest
Siskin
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| 28-1-18 Short-eared Owl, Aust Warth (Allan Chard) |
Fishponds:
1 Peregrine
Eastville Park:
1 Firecrest (copse by narrow bridge next to weir)
Bishopston:
2 Redwing
Stockwood Open Space:
I Moorhen, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 10 Magpie, 3 Carrion Crow, 2 Raven, 15 mixed Blue/ Great Tit, 8 Long-tailed Tit, 12 blackbird, 10 Redwing, , 2 Chaffinch, 2 Bullfinch
I Moorhen, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 10 Magpie, 3 Carrion Crow, 2 Raven, 15 mixed Blue/ Great Tit, 8 Long-tailed Tit, 12 blackbird, 10 Redwing, , 2 Chaffinch, 2 Bullfinch
SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE
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| 28-1-18 another view of the Short-eared Owl, Aust Warth (Allan Chard) |
NORTH SOMERSET
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| 28-1-18 Ring-necked Parakeet, Clevedon (Molly Pannell, aged 9, via i-phone) |
1 Ring-necked Parakeet
Langford:
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| 28-1-18 Blackcap pair, Langford (David Goodliffe) |
BELOW M4 & BANES
Bath:
Lower Weston - 1 Sparrowhawk Bath:
Oldland, St Anne's Church:
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| 27-1-18 Hawfinch, St Anne's Church Oldland (Richard Bedwell) One of the regularly reported birds has a damaged beak - half the upper mandible is missing |
RESERVOIRS
Barrow Tanks:
No 1 Tank: Long-tailed Duck still
No 3 Tank: 3 Goldeneye
Blagdon:
Barrow Tanks:
No 1 Tank: Long-tailed Duck still
No 3 Tank: 3 Goldeneye
Blagdon:
1m Scaup, 2 Black-necked Grebe
Chew Valley Lake:
Chew Valley Lake:
Ringing Station update: weather limited ringing but did however produce a female Coal Tit, ringed here in autumn 2015 as a young bird. She was around and started breeding the following spring, but then disappeared 'til the 2016 / 17 winter. She is back visiting this winter.
Villice Bay:
4 Scaup (3m,1f)
Moreton:
Out of area:
Somerset Levels, Ham Wall, VP1 - Drake Ferruginous Duck. Torr Hide - Drake Ring-necked Duck
Gloucestershire, Crabtree Hill Great Grey Shrike
Gloucestershire, Arlingham Richard's Pipit
Gloucestershire, Plock Court, Penduline Tit
Gloucestershire, Arlingham Richard's Pipit
Gloucestershire, Plock Court, Penduline Tit
Gloucestershire, Sharpness, Great Northern Diver
Reports: Jon Angell, Richard Bedwell, Birdguides, Allan Chard, Teresa Chard, Chris Craig, Sean Davies, Michael Davis, David Goodliffe, John Griffiths, Mike Meecham, Molly Pannell, Shane Pannell, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG
Reports: Jon Angell, Richard Bedwell, Birdguides, Allan Chard, Teresa Chard, Chris Craig, Sean Davies, Michael Davis, David Goodliffe, John Griffiths, Mike Meecham, Molly Pannell, Shane Pannell, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG
2017 Avon Bird Report
We are still missing descriptive notes or photographs for quite a few of the local rarities seen last year. In order to make the 2017 report as complete as possible, if you saw any of the birds on the list below can you please let us have some confirmatory notes as soon as possible.
Thanks
Rich Mielcarek
Thanks
Rich Mielcarek
| Species | Count | Date | Site |
| Whooper Swan | 1 | 26/10/2017 | Clevedon-Yeo (Cl-Y), Clevedon Pill |
| Whooper Swan | 1 | 05/12/2017 | Blagdon Lake (BL) |
| Lesser Scaup | 1 | 12/11/2017 | Chew Valley Lake (CVL) |
| Great Northern Diver | 1 | 11/11/2017 | Chew Valley Lake (CVL) |
| Balearic Shearwater | 1 | 11/09/2017 | Weston-super-Mare, Anchor Head |
| Leach's Petrel | 1 | 11/09/2017 | Weston-super-Mare, Anchor Head |
| Leach's Petrel | 4 | 13/09/2017 | Weston-super-Mare, Anchor Head |
| Cattle Egret | 2 | 11/02/2017 | Winterbourne, Moorend, R Frome |
| Cattle Egret | 1 | 17/02/2017 | Congresbury |
| Great White Egret | 1 | 17/02/2017 | Kenn Moor, Claverham Drove |
| Great White Egret | 1 | 26/02/2017 | Chew Valley Lake (CVL) |
| Great White Egret | 1 | 21/04/2017 | New Passage / Northwick Warth, PW |
| Grey Phalarope | 1 | 11/09/2017 | Weston-super-Mare, Anchor Head |
| Ring-billed Gull | Present | 08/01/2017 | Chew Valley Lake (CVL) |
| Caspian Gull | Present | 02/03/2017 | Chew Valley Lake (CVL), Villice |
| Turtle Dove | 1 | 25/04/2017 | Clevedon-Yeo (Cl-Y) |
| Nightjar | 1 | 15/10/2017 | Avonmouth, Trading Estate, Severn Rd to Hallen |
| Lesser Spotted Woodpecker | 1 | 03/04/2017 | Tortworth, Michael Wood, Little River Avon |
| Lesser Spotted Woodpecker | 3 | 13/04/2017 | R. Chew N of Compton Dando |
| Lesser Spotted Woodpecker | 1 | 08/05/2017 | Wickwar, Lower Woods |
| Lesser Spotted Woodpecker | 5 | 25/06/2017 | R. Chew N of Compton Dando |
| Willow Tit | 1 | 21/12/2017 | Radstock, Cycle Track |
| Woodlark | 1 | 29/10/2017 | New Passage / Northwick Warth |
| Yellow-browed Warbler | 1 | 15/10/2017 | Winterbourne |
| Waxwing | 1 | 14/01/2017 | Yate |
| Waxwing | 20 | 14/01/2017 | Bristol, Fishponds, Staple Hill, CO-OP |
| Waxwing | 1 | 17/01/2017 | Aust |
| Waxwing | 6 | 04/02/2017 | Bristol, Staple Hill, Signal Rd |
| Waxwing | 4 | 01/03/2017 | Thornbury |
| Tree Sparrow | 1 | 31/10/2017 | Dundry, Garden |
| Richard's Pipit | 1 | 24/09/2017 | Clevedon-Yeo (Cl-Y), Channel View farm sea wall |
| Hawfinch | 1 | 15/10/2017 | Aust Cliff |
| Hawfinch | 1 | 18/10/2017 | Aust Cliff |
| Hawfinch | 1 | 31/10/2017 | Dundry, Garden |
| Hawfinch | 2 | 02/11/2017 | Cribbs Causeway |
| Hawfinch | 1 | 10/11/2017 | Dundry |
| Hawfinch | 1 | 30/11/2017 | Tortworth, Court |
| Lapland Bunting | 1 | 15/10/2017 | Clevedon-Yeo (Cl-Y) Wain's Hill |
