Sunday 9th October 2022

Saul Warth     This morning 29 Curlews, 39 Grey Plovers, 150+ Dunlins, two Lapwings, a Ringed Plover, a Common Sandpiper, three Stonechats, five Swallows and a WATER PIPIT. Nearby 12 Cattle Egrets by Saul Lodge. (Gordon Hodgson).

Stonechat by Paul Sutton

Aylburton Warth    Four Cetti’s Warblers, 22 Stonechats, two Yellowhammer over SW, eight Reed Buntings, two Siskins, four Chiffchaffs, a Rock Pipit, c200 Starlings, eight House Martins, four Swallows, a Snipe, two Redshanks, two Grey Plovers, 91 Curlews, 82 Teal and good numbers of Meadow Pipits and Skylarks moving. (Lewis Thomson).

WWT Slimbridge     Four Curlew Sandpipers close to Robbie Garnett hide this morning. (Neil Smart). A Mediterranean Gull on South Lake and a pair of Mandarins on the Duck Decoy Pond. An Avocet, four Redshanks and four Spotted Redshanks on the Rushy this afternoon. (Ken Mihill).

Painswick Beacon    Vismig included a Merlin and four Rock Pipits this morning. (Francis Steuck).

Dowdeswell Reservoir     Two Grey Herons, a Cormorant, a Great Crested Grebe, a Kingfisher, c10 Siskins, a Chiffchaff, Moorhens and a Migrant Hawker ovipositing. (Tom Mabbett).

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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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