WWT Slimbridge The male WHITE-SPOTTED BLUETHROAT singing at Middle Point again today. (Jonathan Bull/Mike Davis/Dot Jones/Tom Mabbett). At least four Sanderlings with c40 Ringed Plovers and ten Dunlins from Middle Point. Also a Mole crossing the path and a Green Sandpiper on South Lake. (Tom Mabbett).
Winchcombe A WHITE STORK over at 5:30pm heading N seen from the garden. (Peter Rodgers). In the garden today, two adult Great Spotted Woodpeckers and a juvenile being fed, a male Siskin, two Greenfinches, juvenile Coal Tits, juvenile Goldfinches and a singing Song Thrush. (Gill Worthington).
Coombe Hill Meadows 30 Mute Swans, two Greylags, an Egyptian Goose, seven Gadwalls, five Teal, 50+ Mallards with lots of ducklings, a male Shoveler, a Great White Egret, two Grey Herons, two Cormorants and 12 Coots. Waders included a pair of Oystercatchers with three chicks, c6 Avocets, two Little Ringed Plovers, 16 Lapwings and two full grown flying Lapwing chicks, a Curlew, two Redshanks, two Ringed Plovers, a Lesser Black-backed Gull, 15 Swifts, five House Martins,50 Jackdaws, 200 Carrion Crows and song from Cuckoo, Skylark, Sedge Warbler, Blackcap, Whitethroat, Chiffchaff and Reed Bunting. (Mike Smart).
Cobney Meadows A pair of Canada Geese with three goslings, three Teal, 20 Mallards, a Little Egret, two Lapwings, two Treecreepers and a Redstart singing. (Mike Smart).
Prestbury Hill Reserves Mid afternoon at Bill Smyllie four Marsh Fritillaries and three Adonis Blues, also Dingy Skipper, Common Blue, Small Blue, Brown Argus, Small Heath and Brimstone. In the Masts Field many Small Blues, two Adonis Blues, and a Brimstone. Also a Chimney Sweeper moth, a Bee Orchid, two Tree Pipits and two Swifts working the scarp. (Steve Brown).