WWT Slimbridge On the Tack Piece this morning a female Ruddy Shelduck still. On South Lake 51 adult Avocets and many chicks of various ages, an Oystercatcher with two chicks and a Little Ringed Plover from Hogarth hide. From Zeiss hide a Knot with 57 Black-tailed Godwits, 16 Redshanks, an Oystercatcher and 73 Avocets. A Green Sandpiper on the Rushy. Members of the public and WWT members must pre-book online to visit so numbers can be managed. (Slimbridge Sightings). Pic by Paul Masters.
Tewkesbury Two Kingfishers at The Mythe N.R. today. (Lizzie Croose).
Forest of Dean In the Flaxley area today, a Goshawk, a Firecrest, a Wood Warbler, three Garden Warblers, three Spotted Flycatchers, four juvenile Treecreepers, two Grey Wagtails, a Dipper and five Siskins. (Andy Jayne).
Newent Two Spotted Flycatcher N of Newent, near the Three Shires Garden Centre. Also a Barn Owl hunting on Monday 8th. (Dan Mason).
Coombe Hill Meadows A Ringed Teal (or hybrid) was present yesterday, 9th. (Eden Tanner). Pic by Eden.
Gloucester A Red Kite low over Tuffley Avenue and Tuffley Park this afternoon. (Justin Hobbs per Ian Elphick). In Hempsted two Great Spotted Woodpeckers together on a garden bird feeder this morning. (per Mike Teesdale).
Winchcombe From the garden a male Bullfinch, five Long-tailed Tits, families of Goldfinches around the bird feeders, a Greenfinch and three Swifts circling overhead. (Andrew Worthington).