Friday 12th August 2022

Saul Warth     This morning 152 Curlews, 17 Avocets, four Teal, a Black-tailed Godwit, the Ruddy Shelduck/hybrid, a Yellow Wagtail, a Wheatear. In the bushes 9+ Chiffchaffs, six Blackcaps, four Willow Warblers, a Lesser Whitethroat, a Green Woodpecker and a Spotted Flycatcher. (Duerden Cormack).

Stinchcombe Hill     COMMON SCOTER(S) heard going over at 2:30am. (James Robinson).

Gloucester     Three Red Kites at Sandhurst Hill this morning. Five Sand Martins and a Yellow Wagtail flew N into the breeze. Also two Ravens, a Kestrel, 18 Willow Warblers and a Lesser Whitethroat. (Andy Jayne).

Frampton     On Court Lake seven Great White Egrets, 12 Little Egrets, five Grey Herons, a Hobby, an adult Yellow-legged Gull and two Cormorants. (Nick Goatman).

Bourton-on-the-Water     A Dipper on the River Windrush, the first for several years, on private land near Bourton. (Rita Gerry per Andy Lewis).

Guscar Rocks    At high tide this evening four Grey Herons, 337 Curlews on the mud at low tide, some flying over to Guscar, most moving upstream to Aylburton, of 200 at Guscar seven rings read, all birds ringed at Wibdon between 2010 and 2013. Also 20 Swallows, a Yellow Wagtail and 70 Carrion Crows. (Mike Smart).

Quedgeley    An adult and a juvenile Peregrine sat on the front of the incinerator at 8pm near M5/J12. (Paul Sutton).

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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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