Month: November 2017
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29th November 2017 – Eastville Park
On our walk around Eastville Park we spent a while looking for the reported firecrest, but no luck. I was quite happy to see a dozen long-tailed tits (one of my favourite birds) and enjoyed the good light to see lots of the the regular attenders. No kingfisher today but plenty of others had seen…
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28th November 2017 – Stoke Park
It was a beautiful morning and so I couldn’t give up a chance for a brief walk around Stoke Park Estate this morning even though I had less than an hour. There wasn’t a lot about; however, I was very pleased to see a green woodpecker – the first for a long time. I also…
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26th November 2017 – Chew Valley Lake
We went out to Chew Lake to try and see a hawfinch that had been reported but we had no luck. The light was not too good so I was very happy to have lots of great white egrets to concentrate on. “I am considerably bigger than you” said the great white to the little…
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19th November 2017 – WWT Slimbridge
They say the sun always shines on the righteous; it was very gloomy when we set off but very sunny by the time I had a camera in my hand at Slimbridge; so make of that what you wish. Some of the highlights of today: Pintail Pintail Pintails More pintails Greylag goose White fronted goose…
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16th November 2017 – Stoke Park Estate, Bristol
I didn’t really have time for a walk but it was such a beautiful morning that I decided I had to fit one in. The colours in the park were magnificent but there wasn’t much bird life – not even the reliable stonechats of recent visits. I was just about to give up, thinking that…
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14th November 2017 – Chew Valley Lake
A morning free to go birding and the weather changes for the worse. Never mind, in between the rain I did manage a few shots of interest. There are reported to be 30+ great white egrets on the lake and as I watched from Herons Green and Herriott’s Bridge I must have seen a good…
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13th November 2017 – Stoke Park Estate, Bristol
There was not an awful lot around this afternoon. A song thrush on the path leading up to the motorway and a couple of blue tits; two stonechats, 3 goldfinches, and a meadow pipit in among the reeds beyond the pool and a couple of moorhens and a black-headed gull on the pond. Did anyone…
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9th November 2017 – Stoke Park, Bristol
A sunny window to take a short walk in Stoke Park and I was rewarded with good views of fresh autumn stonechats (2) and meadow pipits (3) and a grey heron. There was also a solitary goldfinch, 2 black-headed gulls, moorhens, mallards and a fleeting visit of two grey wagtails. The teasels looked lovely too.…
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6th November 2017 – Eastville Park
I went for a stroll around Eastville Park this morning and set off in the sunshine; but by the time I was down by the river the sun had disappeared and it was cold and dark and not much bird life around. However, after a chat with a few of the locals, the sun reappeared…
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5th November 2017 – Somerset Levels
A lovely sunny day but quite cold for a trip to the Somerset Levels: we went first of all to Westhay Moor in the hope of bearded tits but no luck and not much else other than lots of shoveler and widgeon. At Ham Wall we saw no marsh harriers (which I think is the…
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