WWT Slimbridge Two WHOOPER SWANS with 68 Bewick’s Swans this morning on the Rushy. On South Lake three Goldeneyes (2m, 1f), the juvenile SPOONBILL and six Avocets. The Little Stint and a Ringed Plover on the scrape from Estuary Tower. A Great White Egret in the Decoy. (Slimbridge Sightings/Paul Masters/Roberta Goodall).
Berkeley shore 307 Dunlins, nine Turnstones, ten Redshanks, two Curlews and eight Snipe in wader roosts. Also 30+ Meadow Pipits, two Rock Pipits, two Stonechats and a Reed Bunting. (Thomas McClung). The female BLACK REDSTART still in the field directly opposite the entrance to Hamfield Farm at ST66475 99424. View from the gate. (Thomas McClung/Paul Masters/Andy Chapman).
Frampton This afternoon on the sailing lake five Great Crested Grebes, 95 Tufted Ducks, two Gadwalls, seven Cormorants, 130 Coots, a Goldcrest and two Reed Buntings. On fields to south 250+ mixed Redwings and Fieldfares, 11 Blackbirds, two Song Thrushes and seven Goldfinches. (John Fletcher). Also this afternoon a drake Goldeneye displaying to itself in the fog, a Peregrine flew in from Vicarage Road towards Claypits and roosted on a distant pylon. Also 12 Skylarks and 15 Meadow Pipits. (MK).
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