WWT Slimbridge     The Summer Walkway is due to open (Sat 27th April) and the WHITE-SPOTTED BLUETHROAT has returned to the reserve for an incredible 4th year. Also today an OSPREY flew downriver and a Cuckoo calling. (Slimbridge Sightings). 

Coombe Hill Meadows     Two White Storks (ringed Knepp birds), two Great White Egrets, 15 Little Egrets, nine Cattle Egrets, ten Grey Herons, a Bar-tailed Godwit, five Black-tailed Godwits, three Whimbrels, two Greenshanks, two Avocets, three Egyptian Geese, an adult LITTLE GULL, a Cuckoo heard, six Sedge Warblers, six Whitethroats and two Reed Buntings. Wellies recommended still. (MK/Duncan Dine/Eric Harris/Roy Shilham). Also this evening c40 Mute Swans, ten Greylags, ten Canada Geese, 84 Shelducks, two Wigeon, ten Gadwalls, a Teal, 30 Mallards and a female with 11 ducklings, at least 32 Shovelers, 25 Tufted Ducks, two Little Grebes, 20 Coots, three Oystercatchers, five Lapwings, a female Ruff, a distant bubbling Curlew, two Redshanks and 250 Black-headed Gulls. (Mike Smart).

Little Gull by Roy Shilham

White Stork by Mike King

Bar-tailed Godwit with a Black-tailed Godwit by Duncan Dine

Churcham      On floods four Shelducks, two Gadwalls, two Lapwings, three Whimbrels, a Swift and five Yellow Wagtails. (Andy Jayne).

Frampton     From Splatt Bridge at first light, two Swifts, two Swallows, five Common Cranes briefly, a Whimbrel, four Redshanks, three Lapwings, a Grey Heron, four Little Egrets, six Gadwalls and eight Shelducks. (Steve Pullen). Early morning on the Sailing Lake a few Swallows, 30+ Sand Martins, a Common Sandpiper, new in Reed Warbler and Willow Warbler. (Nick Goatman).

Claypits     At work Grasshopper Warbler reeling for the 4th morning behind the shop. Also a Whitethroat, a Skylark singing and two Shelducks. (Nick Goatman).

Chavenage Lane area     A Whinchat, two Wheatears, a Willow Warbler, a Whitethroat, two Yellowhammers, a Greenfinch and a Red Kite. (Paul Rich).

Forest of Dean     Two pairs of Pied Flycatchers and a pair of Redstart at Nagshead. Five Crossbills and 40+ Lesser Redpolls feeding on Larch cones at Crabtree Hill. (Terry Grant).

Redstart by Terry Grant

Elmstone Hardwicke     This afternoon two Swallows on the telegraph wires by the village hall. (David Norman).