Sunday 11th August 2024

WWT Slimbridge     A SPOONBILL on the Top New Piece viewed from the Estuary Tower. A Greenshank and two Spotted Redshanks on the Rushy. (Slimbridge Sightings/Roberta Goodall).

Saul Warth     At high tide five Grey Herons, three Little Egrets, three Cormorants, a Common Tern, a Common Gull, 61+ Shelducks, 133+ Curlews, 60+ Avocets, six Dunlins, a Ringed Plover heard, a Buzzard, a Peregrine, three Kestrels, a Little Owl, four Chiffchaffs, two Lesser Whitethroats, four Swallows and a juvenile Great Crested Grebe on the canal. (MK).

Chiffchaff by Mike King

Elmore Court     In the rewilding area this morning viewed from Broadmeadow Bank birds included a Great White Egret, a Cattle Egret and a Little Egret, three Lapwings, two Teal and a Little Grebe on the scrape. Also five Buzzards, a Red Kite, a Sparrowhawk, a Kestrel, and a Little Owl called briefly and a buck Roe Deer. (Steve Pullen).

Hatherop     A male Hobby hunting House Martins above Hatherop at 4:15pm today. (Chris McLaren).

Cam Green     From the garden this morning two Red Kites over, and a Jersey Tiger in nettles. (Brian Kings).

Leckhampton Court/St Peter’s Church     A Buzzard begging, a Jay, a Raven heard distantly, a Green Woodpecker, a Great Spotted Woodpecker and three Mistle Thrushes. (Steve Brown).

Aylburton Warth     Birds today included four juvenile Shelducks, three Mallards, a Grey Heron, three Oystercatchers, a Ringed Plover, 30 Dunlins, a Black-tailed Godwit, 517 Curlews in the high tide roost, a Redshank heard, ten Swallows, a Yellow Wagtail, a Meadow Pipit and 60 Linnets. (Mike Smart).

Painswick Beacon     A scruffy Meadow Pipit near the top of the beacon at 3:45pm. (Lee Manton).

Meadow Pipit by Lee Manton
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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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