Purton     A COMMON SCOTER just S of Tite’s Point at 5:30pm about to head up on the tide. (Andy Jordan).

Berkeley shore     Birds today included a drake COMMON SCOTER flew upriver at 9:35am, four Common Sandpipers, 83 Redshanks at the Pill, 160 Mallards, 124 Canada Geese, 24 Common Gulls, nine Cormorants, a Little Egret, a Ringed Plover, male and female Sparrowhawk and a female Kestrel. (Jon Haw/Dave Emery).

Saul Warth     At high tide at 7:45am 19 Avocets, 122+ Curlews, a Ringed Plover, 31 Shelducks, seven Grey Herons, five Little Egrets and two Kestrels. In the hedges four Lesser Whitethroats, two Whitethroats, a Sedge Warbler, a Chiffchaff, two Blackcaps, a male Yellow Wagtail and a pair of Greenfinches. On the canal a Kingfisher and a Reed Warbler. (MK).

Kingfisher by Mike King

Bourton-on-the-Water     An adult and a young Hobby picking off dragonflies close to the surface of the south pit today. (Andy Lewis).

Frampton pools     Late evening two Dunlins over, 3+ Spotted Flycatchers, 16 Little Egrets, two Ravens, 16 Gadwalls, two Sparrowhawks, an adult Yellow-legged Gull, 123 Coots, 36 Moorhens, 67 Mute Swans, 38 Greylags, 17 Barnacle Geese, two Little Grebes and four Great Crested Grebes. (Nick Goatman).

Coombe Hill Meadows     Late morning viewing from the canalside footpath beyond (W of) the closed Grundon hide, a Stock Dove, two Grey Herons, three Great White Egrets, a Little Egret, a distant Buzzard, a Kestrel and five Whinchats, at least two juveniles. (Andy & Sue Gibbons).

WWT Slimbridge     On the Top New Piece this morning a juvenile WOOD SANDPIPER, a Garganey, a juvenile Little Ringed Plover and three juvenile Greenshanks. (Martin McGill).

Elmore Court    This lunchtime in the rewilding area viewed from the public footpath along Broadmeadow Bank birds included 2+ Greenshanks on the scrape with two Green Sandpipers, three Lapwings, the Great White Egret still, three Little Egrets and two Grey Herons. Also two Green Woodpeckers and four Yellow Wagtails flushed by a hunting Kestrel. (Steve Pullen).

Gloucester     Around Alney Island and Over 4+ Southern Migrant Hawkers, a Buzzard, a Green Woodpecker, a Kingfisher, three House Martins and a pair of Mute Swans with six juveniles. (Paul Clark).

Cleeve Hill     Near Wontley Farm towards Warden’s Wood a Whinchat, a Stonechat, four Yellowhammers, two Whitethroats, a small mixed flock of Goldfinches and Linnets and two Ravens. At Warden’s Wood two Bullfinches and a Yellowhammer. A Corn Bunting at the fence between West Down and the main common. (Steve Brown).

Guscar Rocks/Aylburton Warth     This morning birds included two Snow Geese, 45 Canada Geese, two Shelducks, 25 Mallards, six Grey Herons, two Oystercatchers, 74 Ringed Plovers, 14 Dunlins, 492 Curlews, a Redshank, a Turnstone, a Buzzard, six Skylarks, 20 Swallows, 12 Yellow Wagtails, two Reed Warblers, two Willow Warblers, two Chiffchaffs, 90 Carrion Crows, 40 Linnets and a Reed Bunting. (Mike Smart).

Cheltenham    This morning a Grey Heron  in a tree by the lake in the Park Campus. (David Norman).

Grey Heron by David Norman