Monday 9th September 2024

Frampton     Two LITTLE GULLS on the sailing lake at 6pm. (Nick Goatman).

Elmore Court    At the Rewilding Project from the public footpath along Broadmeadow Bank a WOOD SANDPIPER, a first for the site. Also two Teal, three Green Sandpipers, two Grey Herons, three Little Egrets, six Buzzards, three Kestrels, two Hobbies, two Ravens and 50+ House Martins. (Andy Jayne).

WWT Slimbridge     The leucistic Marsh Harrier showed well this morning from the Kingfisher hide. Also a BITTERN flew from the reedbed in front of the Van de Bovenkamp hide and flew off high up-river. (Nigel Gardener).

Leucistic Marsh Harrier by Nigel Gardener

Saul Warth     Four hazy Whinchats on dock in the Warth field, two Wheatears still on the rocks, a Hobby hunting and a Small Tortoiseshell the best. Also six Pintails, 130+ Shelducks, a Kestrel, three Buzzards, a Greenshank calling, 35+ Curlews, four Dunlins, 24 Little Egrets, two Chiffchaffs, ten Pied Wagtails, two Swallows, two House Martins and a Raven. (MK/Paul Sutton/Mike Davis).

Wheatears by Paul Sutton

Small Tortoiseshell by Mike King

Rodley/Epney     A Hobby over Rodley and another over the Anchor Inn this morning. Lots of hirundines over the river and 26 Curlews on the river opposite. (Jeremy Squire). At Longney Sands five Common Sandpipers and 33 Lapwings on the Rodley side. (Andy Jayne).

Edge     Two Spotted Flycatchers near cattle pen car park at Rudge Hill NNR SO847095 at 12:30pm. (Ian Elphick).

Sharpness     From SARA this morning at 8:30am at least 35 Redshanks, a Curlew, a Black-tailed Godwit and a Peregrine being mobbed by corvids. (Mike Davis).

Cherington     At the Lake and the very close two smaller ponds and surrounding woodland early afternoon two Little Grebes, 15 Mallards, five Moorhens, two Grey Herons, two Mute Swans, five Goldfinches and two Red Kites. (John Fletcher).

Red Kite by John Fletcher
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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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