Coombe Hill Meadows     This morning 5:15-8:10am birds included 18 Mute Swans, 17 Gadwalls, three male Shovelers, a pair of Tufted Ducks, a pair of Wigeon, five Shelducks, a Little Grebe, five Avocets, 32 Black-tailed Godwits, two Redshanks, four Lapwings, two Oystercatchers, three Little Egrets, three Grey Herons, a Peregrine, a Sparrowhawk, a Cuckoo, a Lesser Whitethroat, four Whitethroats, 6+ Reed Warblers, 6+ Sedge Warblers, a Cetti’s Warbler, two Chiffchaffs, a Swallow, a male Bullfinch and two male Reed Buntings. (MK).

Little Egret by Mike King

Twigworth     A Barn Owl flew over the road at Orchard Park at 5:05am. (MK).

WWT Slimbridge     A drake GARGANEY on the Rushy this morning. The female Red Crested Pochard in the Decoy again. Two Mediterranean Gulls on South Lake. (Slimbridge Sightings/Roger & Sheila Wasley).

Mediterranean Gull by Roger Wasley

Gloucester     In the City an Oystercatcher again feeding on the grass verge at SO8349918690 on the left just after the station by the new construction site on Bruton Way at 8:45am. (MK).

Cheltenham   Before noon, a female Peregrine on a Christ Church spire was joined by a male on an opposite spire. A Grey Heron in the trees on the island on the Park Campus lake. (David Norman).

Grey Heron by David Norman

Edge     At Rudge Hill this morning a Garden Warbler singing, several Willow Warblers, and a few Whitethroats. (Ian Elphick).

Ashleworth Ham     This afternoon birds included a Curlew, five Grey Herons, two Little Egrets, seven Greylags and six small goslings, six Mallards and three ducklings, two Shelducks, two Shovelers, a Gadwall, a Coot, two Chaffinches, a Whitethroat, two Swallows and eight Sand Martins. (John Fletcher).