Coombe Hill Meadows     From the Grundon hide a pair of GARGANEYS showing but slightly hidden on Short Pool early afternoon. (Les Ditchburn). Also today four Mute Swans, a Greylag, six Shelducks, 50 Wigeon, 200 Teal, 30 Mallards, five Pintails, 20 Shovelers, a Great White Egret, four Little Egrets, two Grey Herons, 15 Coots, a Little Ringed Plover, 15 Lapwings, two Dunlins, two Snipe, four Black-tailed Godwits, two Curlews, a Redshank, five singing Skylarks, at least 15 singing Chiffchaffs and c5 singing Reed Buntings. (Mike Smart/James Darke).

Cobney Meadows     Three Canada Geese, two Gadwalls, 20 Teal, six Mallards, 20 Snipe, six Curlews, two Carrion Crows and a Raven. (Mike Smart).

Cleeve Hill     A female BLACK REDSTART in a small quarry with two trees roughly above the main drive from the Rising Sun before you draw level with Thrift Wood. (Paul Pickering). Two Red Kites and a Kestrel this morning. (Eric Harris).

Stinchcombe Hill     A male Wheatear on the 5th fairway, ten Chiffchaffs singing, a Brambling N and a Meadow Pipit in song flight. (James Robinson).

WWT Slimbridge     Two SPOONBILLS and three Snow Geese on the Tack Piece. On South Lake 103 Avocets 103 and a female Goldeneye. 197 White-fronted Geese, two Greenland White-fronted Geese, two Pink-footed Geese and the Ross’s Goose from the Estuary Tower. Two Ruff from Zeiss hide. Two Little Ringed Plovers on the Rushy. Also seven Cattle Egrets around today. (Paul Grennard/Dot Jones/Helen Bojaniwska/Mike Davis).

Frampton     At Splatt Bridge this morning, a Great White Egret, a Pintail, five Teal, 20 Curlews, ten Redshanks, two Oystercatchers, seven Pochards, five Lapwings, a few new-in Chiffchaffs and a Mink. (Gordon Hodgson). At the pools four LITTLE GULLS still feeding at 6:30pm. Also 30 Chiffchaffs, 17 Blackcaps, three Meadow Pipits, five Cetti’s Warblers, ten Teal, eight Gadwalls, 100 Tufted Ducks, the Ross’s Goose and 122 Barnacle Geese. (Nick Goatman/Keith Davies/Colin Greenfield).

Leckhampton Hill     c224 Golden Plovers in the crop field on the W side of the Hartley Lane upper car park. (Sam Walker).

Stonehouse     At Ryeford two Buzzards, 8+ Chiffchaffs singing, Wrens, Long-tailed Tits, a Dipper and a Grey Heron. Also a Brimstone, a Small Tortoiseshell, a Holly Blue and a Small White. At Stanley Downton a male Kestrel, three singing Chiffchaffs, a Grey Heron, small numbers of Chaffinches and Long-tailed Tits, two Buzzards and a Raven. (Paul Sutton).

Chiffchaff by Paul Sutton