Saul Warth     A SHORT-EARED OWL flushed at 7:20am. It flew across mud towards Frampton/Slimbridge. (Roy Widgery).

WWT Slimbridge     On the Tack Piece a Common Sandpiper and the Spotted Redshank. A Little Ringed Plover on the Rushy and another on South Lake. Two Wheatears from Estuary Tower. (Slimbridge Sightings). Three Yellow Wagtails on the Tack Piece. (Roy Kinchin).

Spotted Redshank by Richard Tyler

Common Sandpiper by Richard Tyler

North Cerney     Two Whinchats along Chapel Lane in the rapeseed fields this evening. (Dave Soons).

Cotswold Water Park West     A Grasshopper Warbler at Pits 43/65 today. (David Creber).

Frampton     At the pools this evening a male Redstart and a very late Fieldfare S of the Sailing Lake. Also around the pools 30 Tufted Ducks, a Common Sandpiper, a Cetti’s Warbler, ten Chiffchaffs, seven Blackcaps, a Nuthatch calling, a Bullfinch, five Pied Wagtails and two Sand Martins. (Gordon Hodgson/MK). A Cuckoo from  Splatt Bridge today. (Gordon Kirk).

Redstart by Mike King

Fieldfare by Mike King

Halmore     A male Cuckoo calling from oak trees off Halmore Lane at 7pm tonight. (Chris Newton).

Cleeve Hill     Two Swallows, a Kestrel, a Willow Warbler, a Chiffchaff , a male Blackcap, three Red Kites, a Buzzard, a female RING OUZEL, a Goldfinch collecting nesting material, a Stonechat, Skylarks and Meadow Pipits. Also three Adders and three Slow Worms. (Alan Waterman & GNS meeting lead by Giles Alder).

Adder by Alan Waterman

Coombe Hill Meadows     Six Shelducks, 24 Shovelers, six Gadwalls, five Teal, 29 Tufted Ducks, 10+ Coots, seven Little Grebes, three Great Crested Grebes, two Oystercatchers, 14 Lapwings, three Ringed Plovers, four Little Ringed Plovers, four Curlews, three Common Sandpipers, two Redshanks, two Cattle Egrets, a Little Egret, a Swallow, five Sedge Warblers, a Lesser Whitethroat, two Whitethroats, three singing Redstarts, a White Wagtail and two Egyptian Geese flew over. (Andy Jayne). Also had a Reed Warbler. (Ian Hull).

Tewkesbury     At The Mythe, four Shelducks, a Gadwall, 12 Tufted Ducks, an Oystercatcher, a Common Sandpiper, a Little Egret, a Great White Egret, a Kingfisher, two Cetti’s Warblers, two Sedge Warblers and a Lesser Whitethroat. (Andy Jayne).

Tirley     A Great White Egret near the church today. (Andy Jayne).

Great White Egret by Andy Jayne

Ashleworth Ham, two Shelducks, a Shoveler, three Gadwall, two Pochard, 32 Tufted Duck, four Little Grebes, two Great Crested Grebes, a Red Kite, two Peregrines, 60+ Sand Martins and three Swallows. (Andy Jayne).

Maisemore Ham     Seven Egyptian Geese and four Fieldfares today.  (Andy Jayne).

Forest of Dean     Male and female Pied Flycatcher at Nagshead today. (Martin Price). A Woodcock flushed today just behind the Cycle Centre at Cannop. (Gillian Guest).

Stanley Downton area    Four House Martins, a Swallow, a pair of Greenfinches, a Blackcap, two Common Sandpipers, a Little Egret, a Grey Heron, a Buzzard, two Kestrels, a distant pair of Sparrowhawks circling and a male flew through St Cyr’s churchyard. (Paul Sutton).

Stinchcombe Hill     This morning a Collared Dove (2nd this year), 13 Ravens and a Swallow. (James Robinson).

Sharpness to Berkeley Pill     Six Wheatears, five Oystercatchers, a Curlew, seven Redshanks, many Skylarks, Meadow Pipits and Linnets and a Swallow. (Mike Tranter).

Prestbury     At 1:55pm a House Martin over the two schools. (Ken Heron).