Thursday 23rd November 2023

WWT Slimbridge     The juvenile WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER still today but elusive amongst Dunlins on the Dumbles. Also two Little Stints. (Jake King).

Cheltenham    A male Goosander on the boating lake at Pittville today. (Alan McIlquham).

Goosander by Alan McIlquham

Forest of Dean    Nine Crossbills at Lightmoor works this afternoon. (Owen Follis). At Darkham Wood, Redmarley 11 Goldcrests and a male FIRECREST ringed. (Phil Williams).

Elmore Court     At the Rewilding Project from the public footpath along Broadmeadow Bank Ditch birds this afternoon included two Mute Swans, 16 Mallards, a Moorhen, a Red Kite, a male Kestrel, a Buzzard, 400+ Fieldfares and 100+ Redwings in a roaming flock with at least four Mistle Thrushes, 10+ Blackbirds and 3+ Song Thrushes, a Chiffchaff, a Stonechat, four Skylarks, eight Meadow Pipits, a Nuthatch, four Stock Doves, two Ravens and two Bullfinches. (Steve Pullen).

Kingscote     A female MERLIN, a female Kestrel off of the A46, a distant Buzzard and three Muntjacs.

Hazlecote     c60 Fieldfares and a few Redwings with them. (Paul Sutton).

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About The Gloster Birder

My name is Mike King and have lived all my life in Gloucestershire. I am happiest birding around Frampton but I especially love Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. I have birded all over Europe, in the U.S.A. and Canada, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Costa Rica, Belize, Madeira, Mexico, Grand Cayman, Dominican Republic, The Gambia, the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana, Tanzania, Trinidad & Tobago, Turkey and most recently Thailand.
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