WWT Slimbridge The WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER on the Dumbles this morning but always distant. Also 25 White-fronted Geese, a Little Stint and 400+ Dunlins today. The immature SPOONBILL on the Tack Piece. Two Bewick’s Swans on the Rushy. (Roberta Goodall/Paul Masters/Paul Clark).
Cleeve Hill At 9:30am a very late SWALLOW flew S past the 6th Tee. Possibly another 60+ yards away on the same flight path, beyond some gorse in poor viz. (John Kime).
Dowdeswell Reservoir This morning a Great White Egret, probably new for the site, and a female Goosander. (Tom Mabbett).
Saul Warth The male WHEATEAR flycatching in the sluice this morning. 41 Curlews, 145 Dunlins, a Black-tailed Godwit, four Little Egrets, 12 Fieldfares, two Stonechats, 17 Meadow Pipits, a Rock Pipit, five Chiffchaffs, one singing and two Reed Buntings. (MK).

Rock Pipit by Mike King

Reed Bunting by Mike King
Frampton At the sailing lake in the weedy field to the S no sign of the Corn Bunting but it could still be there. 20+ Chaffinches, 10+ Goldfinches, a Greenfinch, 20+ Fieldfares, two Jays, a Reed Bunting, a Chiffchaff and a Cetti’s Warbler. The adult Yellow-legged Gull on the lake. (Martin McGill/MK).

Yellow-legged Gull by Mike King
Epney Early morning 160 Lapwings and 23 Curlews on the river. (MK).
Nailsworth A Hen-type Harrier flew NW over Windsoredge at 11:45am, being mobbed by gulls. (Terry Grant).
Chavenage Lane Three Red Kites perched on a tree, as two others circled overhead. (Terry Grant).
Coombe Hill Meadows 17 Mute Swans, 150 Greylags, 100 Canada Geese, a Shelduck, 800+ Wigeon, 50+ Gadwalls, 1500+ Teal, 150+ Mallards, 250+ Pintails, 350+ Shovelers, 30+ Tufted Ducks, five Grey Herons, six Little Egrets, 40 Coots, a Water Rail heard, 345 Lapwings, 15 Dunlins, 15 Snipe, 30 Black-headed Gulls, five Skylarks, five Fieldfares, 15 Redwings, a Blackcap, three Chiffchaffs and a Reed Bunting. (Mike Smart).
Cheltenham A Cormorant on Pittville Park lake today. (David & Carole Bastin).
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