WWT Slimbridge     The juvenile SPOONBILL again on South Lake before moving around the grounds. Also six Avocets and 72 Pochards (67m, 5f). On the Rushy two WHOOPER SWANS and 70 Bewick’s Swans. The Little Stint on the scrape from Estuary Tower. (Slimbridge Sightings).

Shepherds Patch, Slimbridge     Eight Cattle Egrets in the field opposite The Patch car park at 9am. (Geoff Moyser).

Stroud to Thrupp    On a return walk along the Thames & Severn canal from Lodgemore, Stroud to Ham Mill, Thrupp this afternoon a Dipper at Ham Mill on the Frome, a Red Kite and a Treecreeper at Griffin’s Mill, an aberrant drake Mandarin at Bowbridge, two drake Mandarins and a Little Egret on Fromehall Millpond at Lodgemore. (MK/Bridgette King).

Dipper by Mike King

Aberrant drake Mandarin by Mike King

Hazleton    On the approach road from the Salperton direction on the corner by a gateway at SP0744518704 a male and two female Bramblings, best viewed from your car. The flock is easily spooked. (Chris Snook).

Fromebridge     Two Green Sandpipers flew up from the River Frome at Fromebridge Mill this morning, seen initially from the car park, then later a bit further down the river. Also two Curlews and a Kingfisher along the river. (Sue Beynon).

Coombe Hill Meadows     Still heavy flooding, not accessible from the usual approach
along the canal towpath, so the only approach possible is from the northern
side near Apperley. Birds today included three Mute Swans, 70 Wigeon, 750 Teal, 50 Mallards, 100 Pintails, 30 Shovelers and a Coot. (Mike Smart).

Maisemore     Mid afternoon Court Lake to the upper parting above the weir 129 Fieldfares, two Mallards, nine Moorhens, three Buzzards, 230 Black-headed Gulls, two Grey Herons, five Goldfinches, a Great Spotted Woodpecker, six Great Tits and seven Chaffinches. (John Fletcher).