Wednesday 7th July 2021 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Coombe Hill Meadows     A Great White Egret, a Little Egret, five Green Sandpipers, two Common Sandpipers, five Teal, a female Tufted Duck, two juvenile Yellow Wagtails, two Lesser Whitethroats, a Whitethroat, two Sedge Warblers and a Blackcap. (Ian Hull/Mark Pidgeon/Nigel Young). A Wood Sandpiper briefly early morning then it disappeared into one of the channels and didn’t show again. (Mark Pidgeon).

Sedge Warbler by Nigel Young

Great White Egret by Mark Pidgeon

Frampton pools    The Ross’s Goose, 100+ Mute Swans, two Reed Warblers singing, a Cetti’s Warbler, a Common Tern, ten Pied Wagtails, including three juveniles, 20+ Swifts flying S and a Sparrowhawk. (MK).

Ross’s Goose by Mike King

WWT Slimbridge     Birds today included 15 Avocets, two Black-tailed Godwits, 12 Curlews, two Green Sandpipers, a Little Ringed Plover, two Redshanks, five Ringed Plovers, a Ruff and a Blackcap. (Mark Pidgeon).

Sudeley grounds to Waterhatch     This morning Chiffchaffs calling, a Song Thrush singing, a Green Woodpecker, Skylarks singing, a Jay, seven House Martins and two Kestrels together and calling. Also a Roe Deer, a Ringlet and three Beautiful Demoiselles. (Andrew Worthington).

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About The Gloster Birder

My name is Mike King and have lived all my life in Gloucestershire. I am happiest birding around Frampton but I especially love Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. I have birded all over Europe, in the U.S.A. and Canada, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Costa Rica, Belize, Madeira, Mexico, Grand Cayman, Dominican Republic, The Gambia, the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana, Tanzania, Trinidad & Tobago, Turkey and most recently Thailand.
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