WWT Slimbridge    At Middle Point a brief view of the male WHITE-SPOTTED BLUETHROAT, a Hobby, a Sparrowhawk and 40+ Curlews. 10+ Green Sandpipers, two Common Sandpipers, 5+ Ruff, a Spotted Redshank, 200+ Black-tailed Godwits, a Little Grebe and a Kingfisher on South Lake. (Paul Clark).

Saul Warth     High tide at midday 102+ Curlews, 100+ Avocets, nine Black-tailed Godwits, ten Oystercatchers, three Redshanks, a Lapwing, 80+ Shelducks, two adult Common Gulls, a Sparrowhawk, a Kestrel, two Lesser Whitethroats and three Chiffchaffs. (MK).

Gloucester     A juvenile Redstart in the back garden at Kingsholm this afternoon. (Paul Clark).

Rodley     A Hobby, a juvenile Green Woodpecker and a Buzzard today. (Rachel Thomas).

Hobby by Rachel Thomas

Green Woodpecker by Rachel Thomas

Leckhampton, Pilley Bridge     Near to the junction of Leckhampton Road and Moorend Road a Red Kite, a Swift, a Great Spotted Woodpecker and a Green Woodpecker and Coal Tits heard. (Steve Brown).

Aylburton Common     A Dipper outside the house at 5:15am. (Martin Vaisey).

Chedworth    60+ juvenile House Martins on wires at Stowell Mill today. (Harvey Sherwood).

Coombe Hill Meadows     This evening 13 Mute Swans, a Canada Goose, five Teal, 60 Mallards, two Great White Egrets, two Little Egrets, a Grey Heron, a Water Rail calling, six Coots and several full grown chicks, a pair of Moorhens on the canal with chicks, three Little Ringed Plovers, 18 Lapwings, two Green Sandpipers, a Redshank, 20 Swallows and ten House Martins, still two or three each of Sedge and Reed Warblers singing. Massive corvid roost in Long Pool, many hundreds of birds, mainly Jackdaws and some Carrion Crows and Rooks. (Mike Smart).