Monday 29th January 2024

Frampton     The LITTLE GULL still on the sailing lake for most of the day, sometimes disappearing to feed on the adjacent flooded field. (Shane Long).

Rodborough Common     31 WAXWINGS again today about the Common favouring an area around W3W tailwind.disarmed.gold until 2:40pm at least. (Sonia Leyshon).

Charlton Kings     19 WAXWINGS back at the junction of Bradley Road and Cirencester Road this morning, but mobile. (Duncan Dine). Probably the same 19 WAXWINGS forced off the Bafford Lane mistletoe by a Mistle Thrush at 1:20 and flew over to feed on Cirencester Road. (Nigel Bayliss/Tom Mabbett).

Longlevens    16 WAXWINGS at the junction of Brooklands Park and Innsworth Lane again this morning. (Keith Colcombe).

Cheltenham     A pair of Ravens at Park Campus today. (Steve Brown).

Berkeley shore     This evening a WATER PIPIT flew from a wet stubble field near the Power Station to the saltmarsh S of Severn House Farm calling. Also two Rock Pipits, two Turnstones, ten Dunlins, six Redshanks, two Curlews, two Stonechats, five Wigeon (4m, 1f), six Mallards (5m, 1f) and 60+ Common Gulls. (Thomas Weston).

WWT Slimbridge     A MERLIN on the Dumbles viewed from Zeiss hide. (Ian Hull).

Saul Warth     Early morning pre-high tide 22 Shelducks, 73 Curlews, 100 Lapwings flew S, a pair of Peregrines over, 20 Meadow Pipits, a male Stonechat, a Chiffchaff at the sewage works and 400 Black-headed Gulls on the Warth. (MK).

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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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