Wednesday 26th October 2022

WWT Slimbridge     The COLLARED PRATINCOLE still today on South Lake for most of the day and showing well. (Gordon Youdale). From Zeiss hide, birds included four Common Cranes close to the hide, one unringed, several Barnacle Geese, at least three White-Fronted Geese and two Spotted Redshanks. (Chris Newton). A female Marsh Harrier over the Tack Piece this afternoon and 29 White-fronted Geese on the Top New Piece. (Thomas Weston/Charlotte Foote). A Snow Goose with the Barnacle Geese and four Ravens from Zeiss hide and a pair of Stonechats at Middle Point. Two Peregrines hunting the Dumbles together and one over South Lake later.  (Paul Sutton).

Collared Pratincole by Steve Young

Collared Pratincole by Steve Young

Collared Pratincole by Steve Young

Collared Pratincole by Chris Newton

Collared Pratincole by Michael Colquhoun

Collared Pratincole by Paul Sutton

Lydney      A SNOW BUNTING on the rocks along the foreshore at New Grounds again this afternoon. W3W bathtubs.nylon.carefully. (Owen Follis).

Snow Bunting by Owen Follis

Saul Warth     Early morning at high tide, W of Hock Ditch along the rocks a Rock Pipit, a Wheatear, a male Reed Bunting and a Stonechat. Also 15 Grey Plovers, 59+ Dunlins, a Common Sandpiper, a Lapwing, 45 Curlews, 26 Shelducks, a Little Egret, a Raven, a Sparrowhawk, a Kestrel and a Mistle Thrush. (MK).

Wheatear by Mike King

Rock Pipit by Mike King

Frampton     Around the pools this evening six Cattle Egrets, two Great White Egrets, nine Little Egrets, two Grey Herons, a Kingfisher, nine Greylags, 33 Tufted Ducks and a Yellow-legged Gull. (Nick Goatman). From Splatt Bridge at 4pm a Kestrel, four Mistle Thrushes, c5 Fieldfares, a Kingfisher on the canal and later in a ditch by the church a Cormorant and a Little Egret over. (Paul Sutton).

Hawling area     Two Red Kites, a Buzzard, a Kestrel, a Raven and seven Red-legged Partridges today. (Eric Harris).

Tewkesbury     This evening at Lower Lode brickpits seven Mute Swans, a male Mandarin, a Wigeon, 90 Mallards, two Shovelers, 45 Cormorants, eight Coots, a Kingfisher, 15 Fieldfares going to roost. Also 53 Greylags coming down the Severn from the N on the way to roost. (Mike Smart).

Cheltenham    This morning in Benhall a Raven drifted low overhead moving S. At midday a Peregrine on one of the spires at Christchurch. (David Norman).

Peregrine by David Norman

Highnam     Along the Highnam/Over Cycle path this morning two Buzzards, two Wrens, a hunting Kestrel, c10 Long-tailed Tits, Goldfinches, a Grey Heron, numerous Blue Tits and Great Tits and three Red Kites, being harassed by a corvid, following the River Leadon towards Over. (Clare McLeod).

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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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