WWT Slimbridge     5+ COMMON SCOTERS flew downriver off the high tide, viewed from Estuary Tower. Two WHOOPER SWANS distantly to the N from Sloane Tower. Also three Great White Egrets, a Kestrel, a Buzzard, a Goldcrest, a female Blackcap and a female Peregrine dive-bombing a Fox. (Jake King). A SIBERIAN CHIFFCHAFF showing and calling in the South Finger filtration bed sallows with a Chiffchaff this afternoon. The WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER still but elusive putting brief appearances at South Lake and the Estuary Tower pools. South Lake early morning ten Cattle Egrets and four Little Egrets left the roost and gathered here prior to heading for Shepherds Patch and the Glos to Sharpness Canal. (Martin McGill).

Forest of Dean     A mixed flock of c60 finches including c30 Bramblings feeding on Beech mast just outside of the Crabtree Hill fence this morning at 9:25am. (Frank Williams).

Gloucester     A Ring-necked Parakeet heard calling around Abbeymead at 3:50pm. (Sam Walker).

Nailsworth     At Barton End a female-type MERLIN distant on a stone wall, a female Kestrel with prey, and two groups of c30 Golden Plovers. (Chris Newton).

Hardwicke    Around the canal at Hardwicke today, a Green Woodpecker, a Mistle Thrush, a Kingfisher, two Fieldfares, two Mute Swans, nine Mallards, 11 Black-headed Gulls, three Moorhens and two Long-tailed Tits. (Paul Masters).

Roel Gate     A male MERLIN hunting thrushes just W of the crossroads at midday. (Graham Baker).

Tewkesbury     At Mythe Hook really large numbers of ducks and geese, minimum of 1900 ducks. This must represent the majority of the ducks from Ripple, Coombe Hill and Ashleworth (all deeply flooded) gathering in one shallowly flooded site.12 Mute Swans, 500 Greylags, 200 Canada Geese, three Shelducks, 900 Wigeon, 700 Teal, 50 Mallards, 55 Pintails, 75 Shovelers, 70 Tufted Ducks, a Pochard, six Grey Herons, a Little Grebe, three Cormorants, 30 Coots, eight Snipe and c30 Fieldfares. (Mike Smart).