Sunday 7th August 2022

Saul     Four WHITE STORKS drifted low E over the garden at 5pm. (Roberta Goodall).

Epney     Today the TURTLE DOVE still in gardens behind the Anchor Inn. Please park sensibly by the entrance opposite the seawall or on the road without blocking access and not in the pub unless you are using it. Thank you. (Fred & Heather Hobson/Aravind Ramesh). Also on the river, two Grey Herons, a Little Egret and two Lapwings and a Stock Dove and two Reed Warblers along the footpath behind the pub. (Steve Pullen).

Roel Hill     A QUAIL calling this morning. (Bob Fryer).

Sudeley Hill     c400 Linnets feeding on stubble this morning. (Bob Fryer).

Sharpness     A Whinchat still 1km S of the picnic area today. Also a Yellow Wagtail, a Wheatear, a Sedge Warbler, a Turnstone and a Golden Plover. (Andy Jordan).

Frampton pools     This morning two Spotted Flycatchers, four Great White Egrets, a Hobby, an adult Yellow-legged Gull, a Peregrine, 8+Willow Warblers and a Whitethroat. (Nick Goatman).

Saul Warth     Between 1-2:30pm, six Avocets, 35 Black-tailed Godwits, 60+ Curlews, two Oystercatchers, eight Shelducks, two Great Black-backed Gulls, a Cormorant and four Skylarks. (Steve Pullen).

North Cotswolds     A newly fledged Hobby today. (Richard Tyler).

Hobby by Richard Tyler

Cotswold Water Park East     Three Green Sandpipers at Pit 132 today. (Duncan Dine).

Cleeve Hill     A first winter Whinchat, several Redstarts both adults and first winters and a Painted Lady. (Ian Ralphs).

Whitminster     A Red Kite E over the garage on the A38 at 8:30am. (Mark Hobson).

Stanley Downton     A Hobby over very high up at 9:15am, a pale Buzzard, a moulting Red Kite (M Prout) and a juvenile Whitethroat on the railway embankment. (Paul Sutton).

Quedgeley    A Kestrel and five Ravens soaring overhead at 3pm at Shelduck Road. (Steve Pullen).

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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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