Wednesday 14th August 2024

Frampton     At the sailing lake this afternoon the adult Yellow-legged Gull, 15+ Yellow Wagtails, all females and juveniles, in the 1st stubble field on the left after the lake but hard to see on the ground. Good numbers of warblers in the elders at the end of the path S of the lake including 6+ Chiffchaffs, 2+ Blackcaps, a Willow Warbler and a Goldcrest. (MK).

Yellow-legged Gull by Mike King

Yellow-legged Gull by Mike King

Willow Warbler by Mike King

Yellow Wagtail by Mike King

Elmore Court     A SHORT-EARED OWL near the Severn at Elmore Court rewilding today. From Broadmeadow Bank birds included two Little Grebes, a Great White Egret, a Little Egret, two Red Kites, a Hobby, a Lesser Whitethroat, eight Mistle Thrushes, a pair of Stonechats and 120 Goldfinches. (Andy Jayne). This evening four Whinchats from the Broadmeadow Bank. (Mark Hobson).

Saul Warth     A moulting adult Mediterranean Gull over the Warth this evening. (Gordon Hodgson).

Coombe Hill Meadows     This morning three Kingfishers, a Sedge Warbler, a Chiffchaff and a Redstart . On the scrapes a Great White Egret, six Little Egrets, three Grey Herons. a juvenile Dunlin, a Common Sandpiper and a Snipe. Shoveler and Teal numbers creeping up. (Ian Hull). Additionally in the evening ten Mute Swans, two Canada Geese, 15 Teal, 50 Mallards, an adult Coot with three fully grown young, three Lapwings, two Little Ringed Plovers, a Green Sandpiper, three Chiffchaffs calling and a huge Jackdaw roost of many hundred birds over Long Pool. (Mike Smart).

Epney     Below the Anchor Inn this afternoon a Common Sandpiper, three Lapwings, a Common Gull amongst the growing gull roost and 48 Mallards. (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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