Frampton    The OSPREY until 10:30am when it circled the lake then headed off along the Perryway carrying a fish. (Paul Sutton). It returned at 3:30pm to the southernmost island. (Mike Davis). This evening it was perched and preening in trees at the back of Court Lake. (James Robinson). Also a Great White Egret, 12+ Cormorants, two Great Crested Grebes, a male Blackcap and a showy Cetti’s Warbler. (MK).

Osprey by Paul Sutton

Cetti’s Warbler by Mike King

Saul Warth     After high tide four Grey Herons, three Little Egrets, 63 Shelducks, three Knot, 14 Curlews, two Common Sandpipers, a Stonechat, a Chiffchaff and a pair of Common Darters laying eggs in a pool which will be gone after the high tides. (MK).

Forest of Dean    Five redhead Goosanders on Woorgreens Lake this morning. Also a Kingfisher heard. (Frank Williams). At Cannop Upper Pond this morning four Mute Swans, four Little Grebes, four female Tufted Ducks, a Gadwall, a Marsh Tit, a Nuthatch, a Coal Tit and two Chaffinches. (Chris Keeling).

Purton     This morning a Tree Pipit, five Rock Pipits, 449 Meadow Pipits, a Spotted Flycatcher, 64 Swallows, 367 House Martins, 11 Siskins, a Hobby, six Wigeon, seven Pintails, a Mandarin, five Curlews, four Ruff, nine Ringed Plovers, five Redshanks, a Mediterranean Gull N, a Great White Egret and three Little Egrets. Also a Harbour Seal up close before high tide caught a fish. (Francis Steuck/Mike Davis).

Stanley Downton     A Peregrine on a pylon this morning, seen off by a Buzzard then headed towards Frocester. (Paul Sutton).

Gloucester     A Dewick’s Plusia trapped at Hempsted last night, only the 6th Gloucestershire record and a first for SO81. (Gordon Avery).

Dewick’s Plusia by Gordon Avery