Sunday 7 January 2018

7-1-18 Sunday - Whooper Swan

Temp 0 to 5℃. NW wind up to 36 mph. Cold but bright Sunshine most of the time

White-fronted Geese, Brent Goose
Whooper Swan
Scaup
Long-tailed Duck
Black-necked Grebe
Red Kite, Marsh Harrier 
Golden Plover, Purple Sandpiper, Jack Snipe
Marsh Tit
Water Pipit
Hawfinch, Brambling
Corn Bunting
7-1-17 Whooper Swan, Northwick Warth (Brian Lancastle)
BRISTOL

Coombe Dingle garden:
1 Collared Dove, 2 Blue, 2 Great, 1 Coal Tit, 1 Green/12 Gold/4 Chaffinch, 1 m Bullfinch (harassed by m Blackcap + f), 

Netham Park:
1 f Sparrowhawk, 2 Goldcrest, flock Long-tailed Tit, 1 Mistle Thrush, 1? Hawfinch

7-1-17 Hawfinch at St Anne's (Charles Fayers)
Oldland, St Annes Churchyard:
1 Song Thrush, 5 Goldfinch, 5 Hawfinch

Redland Garden:
1 Coal Tit, 1 m Blackcap, 6 House Sparrows

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
17 Canada Goose, 400 Wigeon, 4 f Pintail, 1 Great crested Grebe, 30 Lapwing, 1000 Dunlin, 120 Curlew, 31 Redshank, 3 Stonechat, 1 Grey Wagtail

7-1-17 Whooper Swan, Northwick Warth (Mark Coller)
Severnside:
2 White-fronted Geese, 2 Whooper Swan, 30 Shelduck, 200 Wigeon, 20 Gadwall, 50 Teal, 12 Tufted Duck, 12 Oystercatcher, Dunlin, 5 Curlew, 1 Goldcrest, 11 Pied Wagtail

7-1-17 Mallard, New Passage (Vera Carpenter)
Severn Beach to Chittening Warth:
1 Water Rail, 14 Ringed Plover, 78 Dunlin, 4 Redshank, 100 Turnstone, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 10 Redwing, 3 Stonechat, 1 Water Pipit

NORTH SOMERSET
Purple Sandpiper 7th Jan 2018 Battery Point (Paul Marshall)

Portishead, Battery Point:
4 Purple Sandpiper

7-1-17 Grey Plover, Clevedon (Jason Williams)
Clevedon-Yeo:
1 Brent Goose, 60 Shelduck, 40 Wigeon, 220 Teal, 6 Shoveler, 1 Little Egret, 8 Little Grebe, 1 Buzzard, 1 Peregrine, 18 Oystercatcher, 12 Grey Plover, 60 Lapwing, 110 Curlew, 32 Turnstone, 1 Knot, 500 Dunlin, 300 Redshank, 1 Jack Snipe, 1 Snipe, 50 BH Gull, 2 Raven, 12 Skylark, 100 Fieldfare/Redwing, 1 m Stonechat, 2 Rock Pipit

Weston-super-Mare, Worlebury:
35 Lapwing, 3 m Bullfinch

Kenn:
3 Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 2 Raven

Yatton, Cadbury Hill:
Red Kite
7-1-17 Long-tailed Tit, Langford (David Goodliffe)
Langford:
10 Long-tailed Tit
1-7-17 Blackcap, Bleadon (William Hewitt)
Bleadon:
1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Blackcap

BELOW M4 and BANES

Stockwood Open Space:
1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Jay, 1 Wren, 15 Blackbird, 20 Fieldfare, 8 Robin, 1 F Stonechat, 1 Greenfinch

7-1-17 Golden Plover, Marshfield (Brian Thompson)
Marshfield:
25 Red-legged Partridge, 1 Little Egret, 1 Red Kite, 2 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 200 Golden Plover, 2 Stock Dove, 3 Marsh Tit, Skylarks, 1 Stonechat, 150 Chaffinch, 2 Brambling, 1 Hawfinch, 4 Bullfinch, 20 Yellowhammer, 50 Corn Bunting


7-1-17 Hawfinch at Keynsham (Ian Stapp)
Keynsham Manor Road Woodland:
1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Buzzard, 4 Stock Dove, 1 Collared Dove 1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Jay, 2 Raven, 2 Goldcrest, 2 Coal Tit, 6 Long-tailed Tit, 3 Treecreeper, 40+ Starling7 Blackbird, 2 Song Thrush, 14 Redwing, 30 House Sparrow, 2 Pied Wagtail, 7 Chaffinch, 3 Hawfinch, 40 Goldfinch, 11 Greenfinch, 3 Bullfinch, 1 Reed Bunting

1-7-17 Song Thrush, Keynsham (TtB)
Saltford:
1 Buzzard, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 40 Redwing

7-1-17 Wren at Newton St Loe (NSL Birding)
Newton St Loe:
2 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 2 Raven, 1 Nuthatch, 1 Treecreeper, 3 Fieldfare, 3 Hawfinch, 4 Greenfinch, 35 Linnet, 6 Yellowhammer 

RESERVOIRS

Barrow Tanks:
Tufted Duck, the Long-tailed Duck, a Little and Great Crested Grebe, Black-headed Gull and Goldcrest.

Blagdon:
1 Scaup, 1 Black-necked Grebe

Chew Valley Lake
2 Marsh Harrier over Herriotts reed bed

7-1-17 Whooper Swan, Northwick Warth (Brian Thompson)
And off to Wales
Reports: Rich Andrews, Erin B, Paul Bowerman, Paul Brennan, Karle Burford, Vera Carpenter, Ken Carruthers, Teresa Chard, Mark Coller, Peter Coslett, Steve Curtis, Rob Emery, Charles Fayers, Andrew Ford, Alastair Fraser, Lee Gardiner, Richard Giles, David Goodliffe, Robert Hargreaves, William Hewitt, Higgy, Brian Lancastle, Paul Marshall, John Martin, Andrew Middleton, Paul Milo, Jon Mortin, Darren Pearce, Chris Perry, George Rabin, Trevor Riddle, Harvey Rose, Carol Rushton, Gill Sapsed, Tony Scott, Roger Staples, Ian Stapp, Brian Thompson, Richard Tompkins, Jason Williams, Blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, NSL-Birding, Opsbirding, Severnsidebirds, TalkingtoBears, TBOSG