WWT Slimbridge Two juvenile WOOD SANDPIPERS and three Cattle Egrets on the Top New Piece from Zeiss hide. From Middle Point two Pintails, three SPOONBILLS, a Great White Egret, 16 Little Egrets, 150 Ringed Plovers, 100+ Dunlins and 7+ Sanderlings. Two Garganeys on the Rushy still. Also two Spotted Redshanks, 17 Redshanks, two Ruff and a Snipe. (Martin McGill/Vic Polley). A Whinchat and a Wheatear on the Summer walkway and three Green Sandpipers and a Kingfisher from Robbie Garnett hide. (Nigel Gardener).

Kingfisher by Nigel Gardener
Highnam Late afternoon in the Lynton Farm area two Red Kites, 46 Mallards, a Buzzard, two Moorhens, five Goldfinches, three Chiffchaffs, seven Mute Swans and 43 Mallards. (John Fletcher).
Saul Warth At high tide at 6:15am five Grey Herons, four Little Egrets, 93 Shelducks, 200+ Curlews, three Common Sandpipers, 28 Great Black-backed Gulls, a Kestrel, a Reed Warbler, a Chiffchaff, a Grey Wagtail, 12 Swallows and a distant small tern sp, probably Arctic, off of Middle Point from 7-8am at least. (MK).
Coombe Hill Meadows This afternoon three Grey Herons, five Little Egrets, four Cattle Egrets, 10+ Lapwings, two Buzzards, a female Kestrel and small numbers of House Martins and Swallows. (Paul Clark).
Nailsworth A flock of 120+ House Martins flying S was scattered by a Hobby in pursuit. (Terry Grant).
Gloucester A steady flow of House Martins over the College between 12:30-1pm heading S. (Ken Hurcombe).
Cheltenham A Grey Heron over the railway station this morning. (Howard Taylor).
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