Wednesday 15th February 2023

WWT Slimbridge     The WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER all day on South Lake today and showing well at times. The first-winter drake SCAUP still on the Rushy. (Martin McGill).

White-rumped Sandpiper by Paul Masters

Forest of Dean    At New Fancy View, 8:45-10am, a perched Goshawk, two Mistle Thrushes, three Crossbills, a Raven, a Bullfinch and three Goldfinches. (Roy Kinchin).

Saul Warth     This afternoon 75+ Curlews, five Oystercatchers, seven Snipe, a Grey Heron, a Little Egret and 16 Meadow Pipits. (MK).

Moreton Valence     50+ Skylarks near the canal, two fields S of Castle Lane at 4:45pm. (MK).

Stroud     The female Goosander was on the E side of Bowbridge lock between 10am-2pm. (Paul Sutton).

Goosander by Paul Sutton

Gloucester     A Chiffchaff, a female Reed Bunting and Blue Tits foraging around the bullrushes at Saintbridge Pond today. (John Elley).

Chiffchaff by John Elley

Cheltenham    On the High Street a Peregrine this morning circling above Regents Arcade and scaring Feral Pigeons. Three Cormorants sunning on Dowdeswell reservoir superstructure this morning. (Howard Taylor).

Bourton-on-the-Water     A Red Kite gliding over Jubilee Lodge, three Chaffinches in the church yard and a Greenfinch heard. A Sparrowhawk over the High Street being mobbed by corvids. (Howard Taylor).

Cotswolds    Just before the A436/Salperton turn a Red Kite low over the stone wall. Opposite the Hawling turn four Red Kites on the ground. (Howard Taylor).

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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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