WWT Slimbridge     At least 100 LITTLE GULLS N upriver this morning. The Spotted Redshank on South Lake. Four GARGANEYS (3m, 1f) on the Tack Piece. On the Dumbles a pair of Peregrines with a kill, a Great White Egret from Zeiss hide. (Slimbridge Sightings/Jeremy Holland/Paul Masters/Paul Rich). At 9:40am a SWIFT over the Rushy. (Tim McGrath). A Green Sandpiper on the Rushy. (Roberta Goodall). A Common Tern flew over the car park at 1:10pm. (Nigel Tucker). A Red Kite over the rookery at 1:15pm. (Bridgette King/MK). A drake Goldeneye displaying and a drake Pochard chasing Redheads both in the Eider Pen. (Paul Masters/Neil Smart/MK).

Goldeneye by Mike King

Green Sandpiper by Mike King

Frampton     17 LITTLE GULLS, 15 adults and two first-summer, at 1:50pm but did not linger. Also three Oystercatchers, two Common Sandpipers, three Yellow Wagtails, 100+ Sand Martins, 18 Swallows, three House Martins, two Reed Warblers, a Sedge Warbler, 27 Blackcaps, 22 Chiffchaffs and two Willow Warblers. (Nick Goatman). Two Swifts  over the Sailing Lake this evening. (James Robinson).

Little Gull by Nick Goatman

Saul Warth     At high tide 120+ Bar-tailed Godwits, an Avocet, six Grey Plovers, 1+ Whimbrel, 15 Curlews, two Oystercatchers, 50 Dunlins, a Common Sandpiper and a Great White Egret flew W. (Gordon Hodgson/Neil Smart/MK). A Yellow Wagtail very early (GH) and a Whitethroat late morning. (MK).

Stinchcombe Hill     The RING OUZEL still at 9am showing and calling in SSSI land below the public car park. (James Robinson).

Purton     29 Whimbrels, five Bar-tailed Godwits, a Grey Plover, three Dunlins, two Oystercatchers, three Swifts, 140 Swallows, 30 House Martins, 20 Sand Martins, 50 Linnets and 300 Goldfinches through between 6-8pm. (Francis Steuck).

Highnam Woods     A couple of short bursts of song from a Nightingale, but not seen, this morning. (Ken Hurcombe).

Longney     Two Sedge Warblers, two Shelducks, 200 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 150 Black-headed Gulls, six Cormorants, three Mallards, two Swallows, two Blackcaps, a Great Spotted Woodpecker, a Sparrowhawk and a Buzzard today. (John Fletcher).

Winchcombe     At Old Brockhampton Road/New Meadow Barn at least two Green Woodpeckers calling, a Buzzard, Chiffchaffs calling, 5+ Goldfinches, 4+ Chaffinches, a Goldcrest. Also Brimstone, Peacock, Orange Tip, and Common Blue butterflies. (Gill & Andrew Worthington).

Cheltenham    At 4pm a Swallow flew W over Benhall. (David Norman). At Pittville Lake at the Albert Road end a Buzzard calling, a pair of Moorhens nesting on the island, a Goldcrest and a Chiffchaff heard. (Howard Taylor). In the Benhall Green area either side of Robert Burns Avenue in Cheltenham this evening a Green Woodpecker, a Great Spotted Woodpecker, a Mistle Thrush, two Chiffchaffs, two Blackcaps and a Garden Warbler. (Keith White).

Miserden     A Red Kite very low at 1pm and four House Martins over the village centre. (Nikki Smith).

Ashleworth Ham     A Mute Swan, five Greylag Geese, four Canada Geese, four Shelducks, 15 Teal, five Gadwalls, 20 Mallard, ten Shovelers, two Great Crested Grebes, a Little Grebe, 15 Coots, an Oystercatcher, two Swallows, a Whitethroat, two Blackcaps, a Willow Warbler and 2 or 3 Chiffchaffs. (Mike Smart).

Hasfield Ham     13 Mute Swans, two Canada Geese, 20 Mallards, four Curlews, a Green Sandpiper, 2 or 3 Skylarks, five Redstarts, 2 or 3  Chiffchaffs and 1+ Reed Buntings. (Mike Smart).