Cotswold Water Park West      A SPOONBILL at Shorncote this afternoon, it was with eight Little Egrets on the floods. (Jon Mercer).

Spoonbill by Jon Mercer

WWT Slimbridge     The first-winter male SCAUP still on the Rushy this morning. Also a drake Mandarin. The BITTERN showed well on South Lake. The Water Rail showed well from Willow hide. A Great White Egret was roosting on the Long Ground pool. (MK). Also a Snow Goose, of unknown origin, on the Tack Piece. (Alan Daniells).

Water Rail by Mike King

Snow Goose by Alan Daniells

Gloucester     The male BLACK REDSTART showed well on the W side of the Cathedral at 2:20pm. (Caroline Quinn).

Black Redstart by Caroline Quinn

Coombe Hill Meadows     A Little Owl briefly, a Great Spotted Woodpecker, a Goldcrest, a Stonechat, two Blackcaps, a Cetti’s Warbler, three Chiffchaffs, two Stock Doves, a Buzzard, a Skylark and numerous Long-tailed Tits, Goldfinches, Fieldfares and Redwings. Fairly quiet on the scrapes from Grundon hide late morning with c80 Wigeon, c40 Lapwing, c20 Pintail, c6 Teal, c30 Greylags, c20 Canada Geese, a Shoveler, a Gadwall, a Tufted Duck and two Mute Swans. A Red Kite also went over headed N which stirred all the Wigeon and Lapwing up briefly. (Caroline Quinn/Paul Clark).

Saul Warth     This morning 46 Curlews, 12 Grey Plovers, three Redshanks, 300+ Dunlins, a Common Sandpiper, two Bewick’s Swan flew towards WWT, 1+ Rock Pipit, two Chiffchaffs and 500+ Lapwings and 81 Golden Plovers flew S. (Gordon Hodgson).

Chavenage Lane area     A female MERLIN, two Red Kites, six Buzzards, 450+ Fieldfares, 380+ Redwings, two flocks of mixed corvids, totalling 1800+ and a flock of 1000+ Woodpigeons. (Terry Grant).

Berkeley shore     At Severn House Farm early morning three Rock Pipits, ten Dunlins and seven Redshanks. (Paul Rich).

Halmore     A Sparrowhawk took a Collared Dove in the garden this morning. (Chris Newton).

Quedgeley     A Red Kite over Hardwicke Farm at 3:55pm, it headed through Quedgeley and eventually I lost it E over Rose Tree Farm. (MK).

Red Kite by Mike King