Monthly Archives: December 2022

WWT Slimbridge     The PALE-BELLIED BRENT GOOSE on the Bottom New Piece from Kingfisher hide today. The first-winter drake SCAUP on the Rushy again. The BITTERN still showing well on South Lake. Male and female Goldeneye also on the deep … Continue reading →

Frampton     A drake Red Crested Pochard on Court Lake this afternoon. (Nigel Young). At the Sailing Lake a Fieldfare in a bankside apple tree retaining its fruit.  Also a Mistle Thrush. (Andy & Sue Gibbons) Red Crested Pochard by … Continue reading →

WWT Slimbridge     A PALE-BELLIED BRENT GOOSE on the Bottom New Piece and later on the Dumbles, likely the Brent Goose seen yesterday. Also the BITTERN showing again on South Lake. (Martin McGill). Coombe Hill Meadows     280 Wigeon, 245 … Continue reading →

WWT Slimbridge     The first-winter drake SCAUP on the Rushy at 9am. The BITTERN still at the back of South Lake today. (Molly Gould). Frampton     Male and female Red Crested Pochards on the Sailing Lake this afternoon.(Molly Gould). Lydney  … Continue reading →

Whitminster     A BITTERN at 9:30am today on the last piece of disused Stroudwater Canal. It took off flew and landed 100ft along the bank in the direction of Whitminster. (Tanya Allen). Berkeley     Three COMMON DOLPHINS, probably two adults … Continue reading →

WWT Slimbridge     A female HEN HARRIER flew the length of the Dumbles viewed from the Estuary Tower at 11:40am. Also a Peregrine, eight Common Cranes and c300 Canada Geese. The first-winter drake SCAUP on South Lake today and back … Continue reading →

WWT Slimbridge     A very mobile FIRECREST with Long-tailed Tits, a Goldcrest and a Treecreeper under the rookery behind Zeiss hide. (Jeremy Holland). The BITTERN again on South Lake in the afternoon. (Roberta Goodall). Also a Chiffchaff amongst nettles at … Continue reading →

Tewkesbury     A Common Sandpiper in a ditch next to the rugby club today. (Sarah Loaring). Forest of Dean     A Red Kite flying S over Longhope at 1:30pm. (Angela Carswell). WWT Slimbridge     The BITTERN again at the back … Continue reading →

Quedgeley    An adult male RING-NECKED PARAKEET near Rea Bridge by footpath just north of Elmore Lane West this morning. (Paul Masters). Ring-necked Parakeet by Paul Masters Coombe Hill Meadows     Six Greylags, a juvenile DARK-BELLIED BRENT GOOSE, 190 Wigeon, … Continue reading →

Coombe Hill Meadows     Seven Greylags, the juvenile DARK-BELLIED BRENT GOOSE, at least 250 Wigeon, at least 350 Teal, 60 Mallards, three Pintails, 20 Shovelers, four Coots, a Water Rail in Broadmere, three Lapwings, a Snipe, three Black-headed Gulls, at … Continue reading →