Friday 30th December 2022

Saul Warth     On the rising tide a GUILLEMOT but it quickly died. (Martin McGill). At high tide 12 Grey Plovers, 360 Dunlins, nine Meadow Pipits, a Rock Pipit, a Grey Wagtail, 20 Redwings and ten Fieldfares. (Martin McGill/MK). Later the Common Sandpiper flew upriver past Hock Cliff. (MK).

WWT Slimbridge     The first-winter drake SCAUP on the Rushy mid-morning and earlier on South Lake. (Slimbridge Sightings).

Coombe Hill Meadows     150 Greylags, 302 Canada Geese, 1100 Wigeon, three Gadwalls, 10+ Mallards, 100+ Teal, 95+ Pintails, 32+ Shovelers, five Tufted Ducks, three Coots, 170 Lapwings, ten Fieldfares, 40 Redwings and a Reed Bunting. (Mike Smart).

Tewkesbury     At Mitton in a partly flooded shallow field along the River Avon immediately S of Bredons Hardwick pits, a Mute Swan, 105 Greylags, ten Canada Geese, 30 Wigeon, 61 Teal, three Shovelers and 220 Lapwings. (Mike Smart).

Stonehouse    A male and female Blackcap feeding in the garden today. (Jon Dexter).

Dursley    Two male Blackcaps on garden feeders this morning and a female yesterday. Also ten Long-tailed tits. (Magnus Carter).

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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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