Aylburton Warth     A very flighty and vocal SNOW BUNTING today. Also three Rock Pipits and a Clouded Yellow butterfly. (Lewis Thomson).

Snow Bunting by Lewis Thomson

Awre     The RICHARD’S PIPIT seen and heard calling at 9:40am from a grassy field the other side of the sea wall and again at 9:55am and heard at 10:05am at SO7204508849. Park at St Andrew’s Church and follow the footpath out to the shoreline. Also three Common Cranes, 45+ Curlews, two Snipe, 120+ Lapwings, 60+ Common Gulls, a Rock Pipit, 20+ Meadow Pipits, eight Stonechats, 10+ Skylarks and a Reed Bunting, a Common Darter and a Peacock. (Paul Masters/MK). This afternoon the RICHARD’S PIPT heard again at 2:30pm. Also 28 Meadow Pipits, nine Skylarks, three Snipe, four Stonechats, 450 Fieldfares, 98 Curlews, a Great White Egret. a Jay, a Kestrel and two Red Admirals. (Stephen Curtis & Carol Rushton).

Coombe Hill Meadows     An adult KITTIWAKE on the Short pool,  two Mute Swans, 179 Greylags, 45 Canada Geese, a Swan Goose, 99 Wigeon, two Gadwalls, 19 Teal, 25 Mallards, five Shovelers, two Moorhens, five Snipe, 150 Herring Gulls and a Lesser Black-backed Gull roosting at first light, a Sparrowhawk, a Peregrine, a Kingfisher, ten Meadow Pipits, 11 Skylarks, 60 Pied Wagtails, large numbers of Fieldfares and Redwings, at least four Stonechats, at least two singing Cetti’s Warblers and a Chiffchaff calling.(Mike Smart/Ian Ralphs).

Ashleworth Ham     14 Greylags, 29 Canada Geese, 85 Wigeon, 295 Teal, 120 Mallards, three Pintails, 20 Shoveler and four Grey Herons. (Mike Smart).

WWT Slimbridge     A BITTERN preening on South Lake at 12:30-12:50pm. (Mike Davis). Also five Cattle Egrets there. (Jeanne Vitkovskis). A Marsh Harrier on a kill from Zeiss hide. (Helen Bojaniwska).

Lydney New Grounds    A WHINCHAT still, eight Stonechats and two Rock Pipits today. (Lewis Thomson).

Frampton    From Splatt Bridge this morning two MERLINS, a Great White Egret, an adult Mediterranean Gull, 200 Dunlins, 35 Grey Plovers, three Bar-tailed Godwits, 300 Lapwings S, two Stonechats, a Chiffchaff, many Redwings and Fieldfares and a Brambling over. (Gordon Hodgson). Around the pools this afternoon on the Sailing Lake, three Little Grebes, four Great Crested Grebes, a Yellow-legged Gull, three Common Gulls and four Shovelers. On Court Lake, 20+ Gadwalls, 20+ Wigeon, three Little Grebes, nine Cormorants and a Little Egret. Also a Peacock butterfly. (Steve Pullen). A Barn Owl over the garden in the village this evening, a garden tick. (Gordon Hodgson).

Saul Warth     Late morning five Grey Plovers, a Common Sandpiper, 15 Curlews, 26 Shelducks, two Stonechats, six Skylarks, 15 Meadow Pipits, three Grey Herons and four Little Egrets. Also a Red Admiral and a Common Darter. (Steve Pullen).

Cotswold Water Park West    On Pit 41 seven Goosanders, a Red Kite, a Kingfisher, four Chiffchaffs and a Nuthatch, two Goldeneye nearby on Pit 57. Also a Clouded Yellow and Brimstone and Common Darters. (Andy Jayne).

Stroud     1200+ Woodpigeons, 120+ Redwings and 80 Fieldfares flying S in half an hour today. (Terry Grant).

Gloucester     At Horsbere Flood Storage Area five Stonechats (3m,2f), six Goldfinches, two Linnets, two Reed Buntings, two Mute Swans, two Grey Herons, two Teals, a Kestrel and a Buzzard. (John Fletcher). A Kingfisher on the river in Barnwood Park. (Rob Crofton).

Stonehouse    A Buzzard, several Pied Wagtails and a Grey Wagtail, a Little Grebe, c20 Redwings, a small mixed flock of tits with c10 Goldfinches, a female Great Spotted Woodpecker and 60 Woodpigeons. (Paul Sutton).

Little Grebe by Paul Sutton