Purton     This afternoon a first-winter CASPIAN GULL loitering around Tites Point/Purton area (four fly-bys in two hours). A Little Stint amongst 160 Ringed Plovers and 50 Dunlins and a Hobby marauding the steady NE passage of hirundines. (Francis Steuck).

Saul Warth     At high tide five Greenshanks, six Avocets, 37 Ringed Plovers, 11 Dunlins, 66+ Curlews, nine Teal, 123+ Shelducks, a Little Egret, three Grey Herons, a dark chocolate brown juvenile Marsh Harrier hunting by Fretherne Church, a Buzzard, two Kestrels, four Cormorants, 75 Swallows flew W, eight Pied Wagtails and three Chiffchaffs. (MK).

WWT Slimbridge     From the Shepherds Hut two BLACK TERNS flew downriver and 16 Pintails on the mud. (Martin McGill). From Middle Point two Curlew Sandpipers, a Little Stint, a Knot in a mixed flock of small waders including Dunlins, Ringed Plovers and 1+ Sanderling. Two Bar-tailed Godwits with Curlews viewed from Zeiss hide. Also 24 Ruff, another Knot, a Great White Egret, a SPOONBILL and two Pintails. (Steve Rickard).

Poulton     Belated news for yesterday 4th, 6+ Grey Partridges, two adults and a minimum of four smaller young feeding in a newly harvested field near the village between the A417 and Ashbrook Lane. (John Durell).

Cockadilly     A Grey Wagtail in the garden today, the first record in 25 years. (David Price).