WWT Slimbridge     A pair of LITTLE RINGED PLOVERS on the Tack Piece from Robbie Garnett hide this afternoon. (Nick Skilbeck). A CATTLE EGRET coming into breeding plumage on South Lake today. (Jeremy Holland). A MERLIN on the Bottom New Piece late morning. (Roberta Goodall).

Awre    This morning the RICHARD’S PIPIT still at SO7205908775 feeding in tractor tracks between the obvious lone bush and the shoreline reedbed. (Oliver Smart). Park at the church and follow the footpath out to the shoreline. Please keep to public right of way and don’t wander around in private fields. Thank you.  

Saul Warth     114+ Curlews, 5 Oystercatchers, 13 Dunlins, two Grey Plovers and 12 Meadow Pipits. A drake Mandarin at Saul Lodge pond. (MK).

Frampton     On the flashes N of Splatt a Little Egret, six Redshanks and two male Shovelers, a Cetti’s Warbler along the canal S of Saul Lodge and a male Marsh Harrier distant over the 100-Acre. (MK). Around the pools 50+ Sand Martins, 50+ Meadow Pipits, three Chiffchaffs, a Blackcap, two Oystercatchers, a pair of Mandarins, 45 Pied Wagtails, two Cetti’s Warblers, three Reed Buntings, 30+ Fieldfares and Redwings, a Nuthatch, 54 Tufted Ducks, four Gadwalls, 12 Teal and two Little Grebes. (Nick Goatman). A Reed Bunting on Court Lake and a male Bullfinch at the gravel wash. (Nigel Young).

Reed Bunting by Nigel Young

Coombe Hill Meadows     c35 Sand Martins, 72 Black-tailed Godwits, two Ruff, two Curlews, four Dunlins, a Common Sandpiper, three Redshanks, two Oystercatchers, Pintail, Shoveler and a male Bullfinch. (Eric Harris/David Benton).

Nailsworth     At least 30 Siskins, 15 Greenfinches and five Blackcaps amongst the birds on the garden feeders and bird bathing area. (Terry Grant).

Twyning     At Upham Meadow a sub-adult male Peregrine caught and ate a Black-headed Gull, two Oystercatchers, six Curlews (four of them colour-ringed, two males ringed here in 2021, a female ringed and satellite tagged here in 2022 which wintered in Portugal and is now back; another female with a satellite tag marked in Devon where it had wintered, now back, as last year), at least 200 Herring Gulls and Lesser Black-backed Gulls on the floodwater, at least 50 Black-headed Gulls, at least 50 Carrion Crows and two Skylarks. (Mike Smart).