Frampton Mansell Belated news of a 2nd-calendar year female PALLID HARRIER photographed at Chapman’s Cross on the 10th May. No further sign since. (Chenie Prudhomme).

Pallid Harrier by Chenie Prudhomme

Pallid Harrier by Chenie Prudhomme
Forest of Dean An OSPREY at Woorgreens Lake at 6pm mobbed by gulls, then flew off in a southerly direction. (Rob Ward). At Cannop Upper Pond this morning a Coot pair with three young, a drake Mandarin, a Raven taking the ducks bread and stashing it behind in the steep bank and an adult and juvenile Mute Swan. (Chris Keeling).
Coombe Hill Meadows 11 Greenshanks and two Cattle Egrets from the Grundon hide, from the boardwalk five Yellow Wagtails and three Little Ringed Plovers. Along the canal three Redstarts and three Lesser Whitethroats. Also four Avocets, three Curlews, four Oystercatchers, three Redshanks, a Red Kite and two Swifts. (Steve Brown/Neil Pryce-Jones/Paul Clark).
Leckhampton A Red Kite over Church Road, still uncommon here, a Jay on Leckhampton Road, a Green Woodpecker heard in flight and encouraging numbers of Greenfinches and Song Thrushes around Burrows Fields. (Steve Brown).
Sapperton area 5+ Corn Buntings, 12+ Skylarks, two Garden Warblers, a male Stonechat, a Whitethroat, five Buzzards, a male Kestrel with prey, a male Yellowhammer and a Silver Y moth this afternoon. (MK).

Corn Bunting by Mike King
Frampton pools 70+ Swifts, a Common Sandpiper, ten Common Terns, 30+ Sand Martins, 12 Swallows, six House Martins, a Red Kite, two drake Mandarins, four Shelducks and a Kingfisher today. (Nick Goatman).
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