Apart from the systematic list and the annual ringing and Breeding Bird Survey reports, this report contains three papers. The first is by David Warden on the decline of the Little Owl around the Chew Valley. The second is by Brian Edge, it discusses the birds of Batheaston Meadows – a site under considerable pressure at the moment. The third, by Nigel Milbourne, gives an account of the first sighting of a BIyth's Pipit in the region seen by many birders at Blagdon Lake in December.