WWT Slimbridge The GLOSSY IBIS flew S over the Rushy at 4:20pm. This morning the summer-plumaged CURLEW SANDPIPER and four Dunlins and a male Ruff with a white ruff and a Greenshank on the Top New Piece. (@slimbridge_wild).
Highnam Woods A Nightingale still today. (Warren Gill).
Symonds Yat From Yat Rock viewpoint today the resident Peregrines, a Red Kite, Ravens. Buzzards, ten Siskins, a Kingfisher, House Martins, Swallows and Swifts, a Reed Bunting, a Goldcrest, a Great Spotted Woodpecker and a Marsh Tit. (Chris & Phil Andrews).
Coombe Hill Meadows Birds today included two Ringed Plovers which left early, a Dunlin, a Black-tailed Godwit, four Shelducks, two Gadwalls, a Little Egret, five Grey Herons, c8 Lapwings, two Oystercatchers, two Curlews, two Redshanks, two Redstarts, a Cetti’s Warbler, a Reed Warbler, five Sedge Warblers, four Whitethroats and three Reed Buntings. (Juliet Bailey/Les Brown/Mike Smart). At Ashleworth, the pair of Shelducks have only three ducklings left. (Les Brown).
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