WWT Slimbridge     The male WHITE-SPOTTED BLUETHROAT at Middle Point from the Shepherd’s Hut at 9:25am. (Jeremy Holland/Mike Davis). The BLACK-WINGED STILT still on South Lake today until 5:20pm at least best viewed from Hogarth hide. Also three Little Ringed Plovers, 167 Avocets, 139 Black-tailed Godwits, two Pochards and two Wigeon. (Jeanne Vitkovskis/Mark Hobson). Three Mediterranean Gulls on South Lake. (Paul Clark).

Breadstone     A Spotted Flycatcher in Breadstone Wood this evening along the path behind the house at the entrance. (Brian Kings).

Forest of Dean     At Pope’s Hill a female Hawfinch on the bird table today clearly carrying away sunflower hearts to feed young. Also an adult male Great Spotted Woodpecker  with a juvenile on the peanut feeder. (Harvey Sherwood).

Coombe Hill Meadows     Today birds included a Snipe, a Curlew, Lapwings with young, four Avocets with three young, three Little Ringed Plovers, a Redshank, a Great White Egret, a Little Egret, four Grey Herons, a pair of Wigeon, two Cormorants, a Red Kite, a Cuckoo, a Yellow Wagtail, four Pied Wagtails, two Whitethroats, two Chiffchaffs, three Blackcaps, three Sedge Warblers, Reed Warblers, a Lesser Whitethroat, three Cetti’s Warblers, four Long-tailed Tits and two male Yellowhammers. Three Swifts, two Swallows and House Martins in the village. (David Lawrence/Richard Williams/Alan Hooper).

Sedge Warbler by Alan Hooper

Cheltenham     Two Red Kites over Morrison’s car park at 4pm. (Eric Harris). A Red Kite drifted over Bath Road car park heading for the town centre at 2pm. (David Norman). A Goldcrest calling from a Yew tree in Clarence Square this morning. At Pittville Lawn a Goldcrest calling and a Mistle Thrush gathering food this evening. (Howard Taylor).