Saturday 13th January 2024

Cheltenham     Six WAXWINGS on Priory Terrace feeding on a Rowan today. (Tom Mabbett). Eight WAXWINGS over Moorend Park Road/Osprey Road junction in Leckhampton early afternoon. A drake Mandarin back at Park Campus pond today. (Jeremy Holland).

Rodborough Common     35 WAXWINGS this evening. (Mark O’Connell).

Sharpness    The adult male and the female/immature BLACK REDSTART still today in Dock Road by the tallest building/silo. (Andy Jordan).

Awre     The RICHARD’S PIPIT still today but elusive around SO7205108792. (Richard Williams). Park at St Andrew’s church and follow the public footpath out to the shoreline. Wellies essential currently. Please keep to public right of way and don’t wander around in private fields. Thank you. Also a second-calendar year Goshawk put up all the gulls, two Common Cranes, 13 Dunlins, two Shelducks, 500+ Lapwings, three Golden Plovers, three Stonechats and a Rock Pipit. (Dan Watson).

Cotswold Water Park East     The juvenile GREATER SCAUP still this afternoon on Pit 114 but no sign of the Ferruginous Duck, or hybrid seen yesterday by Martin McGill. Also two Egyptian Geese. A LITTLE GULL, presumably the one seen at Lechlade, roosting on Pit 125 with Black-headed Gulls. (Ian Ralphs).

Birdlip    At Shab Hill 140 Golden Plovers and a Goshawk over in patrolling flight at 12.30pm. (Terry Fenton).

Saul Warth     At high tide 16 Shelducks, a pair of Pintails, two pairs of Wigeon, 230+ Curlews, 500+ Dunlins, a Common Sandpiper, 60+ Fieldfares, 10+ Redwings, 20+ Goldfinches, four Meadow Pipits, a Rock Pipit, a male Blackcap. Two Chiffchaffs and a Goldcrest at the sewage works. Two Common Cranes heard calling from Awre. (MK).

Dursley     A Dipper on the River Cam by the Vale Hospital in Lister Road today. (Roberta Goodall).

Bourton-on-the-Water      A pair of Goosanders on the north pits, here since early December. Also a small flock of Siskins and Lesser Redpolls. (Andy Lewis).

Gretton     Three Lesser Redpolls feeding in Alder trees at dusk today. (Roger & Sheila Wasley).

Lesser Redpoll by Roger Wasley

Ashleworth & Hasfield Hams     WeBS count today included 15 Canada Geese, 337 Wigeon, four Gadwall, 15 Teal, 14 Mallard, five Pintails and 18 Snipe. Also a Buzzard, three drumming Great Spotted Woodpeckers, 20 Meadow Pipits, 50 Fieldfares, a Cetti’s Warbler and a Raven. (Mike Smart).

Coombe Hill Meadows     WeBS count today included 160 Teal, 200 Wigeon, five Canada Geese, 13 Mallards, 43 Pintails, 30 Tufted Ducks, 26 Shovelers, 20 Herring Gulls, two Lesser Black-backed Gull, two Coots, 11 Moorhens and 125 Lapwings. (Ian Ralphs).

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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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