Tuesday 4th October 2022

WWT Slimbridge    Three Curlew Sandpipers on the Rushy ⁦this morning until 9:12am, also 43 Black-tailed Godwits, six Redshanks, two Spotted Redshanks, ten Ruff, an Avocet, two Snipe and a Grey Wagtail. At low tide mid-morning from Middle Point ⁦two Little Stints, a Curlew Sandpiper, 28 Dunlins, 19 Ringed Plovers, seven Grey Plovers, 42 Curlews and two Little Egrets. (Paul Masters). Three Spotted Redshanks on the Tack Piece. Three Curlew Sandpipers with eight Ruff from Zeiss hide. (Roy Kinchin).

Curlew Sandpiper by Paul Masters

Frampton    On Court Lake early morning three Spotted Redshanks (adult non- breeding, a first winter and a dusky juvenile), a Garganey, four Great White Egrets and the Chiloe Wigeon hybrid (Rushy WWT bird, superficially like eclipse American) with 121 Eurasian Wigeon. (Martin McGill). Additionally this evening two Green Sandpipers, ten Cattle Egrets, five Great White Egrets, four Little Egrets, three Grey Herons, 14 Teal, 46 Gadwalls, eight Shovelers, a Kingfisher, two Swallows, a Hobby and two Tawny Owls calling. (Nick Goatman). From Splatt Bridge this morning between 11-12 midday three Stonechats, two males and a female, two Little Egrets, eight Cattle Egrets, a Marsh Harrier, two Kestrels and a Kingfisher. (Paul Sutton).

Cattle Egret by Paul Sutton

Cotswold Water Park East     At Pit 132 a Jack Snipe, a Greenshank, six Wigeon and five Lapwings. (Martin McGill).

Didmarton     A party of 20 Mistle Thrushes feeding in a stubble field, 7+ Chiffchaffs, a Marsh Tit, 32 Swallows and 21 House Martins flying S. (Terry Grant).

Leighterton     28 alba wagtails, including 6 or 7  White Wagtails, feeding in a field. (Terry Grant).

Prestbury     A Hawfinch flew over The Plough calling at 3:36pm heading SW. (Ken Heron).

Maisemore     From Court Lake along hedges and the ditches and 2km upstream of the weir this afternoon two Yellowhammers, 37 Linnets, a Snipe, seven Long-tailed Tits, two Green Woodpeckers, a Great Spotted Woodpecker, two Grey Wagtails, nine Mallards, five Moorhens, four Coots and five Buzzards. Also a very active Bee hive in a tree hole. (John Fletcher).

Bees by John Fletcher

May Hill     c50 Linnets in the windmill field in the village today. (Rob Guest).

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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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