WWT Slimbridge The drake GREEN-WINGED TEAL on South Lake today. Also the SPOONBILL, a pair of Oystercatchers and ten Avocets. Two WHOOPER SWANS and 70+ Bewick’s Swans on the Rushy. 115 White-fronted Geese along South Finger. (Slimbridge Sightings)./Oliver Paisey). The GLOSSY IBIS still in roadside fields today. (Andy Jordan).
Slimbridge Ten Cattle Egrets in a field near the substation bend on Kingston Road this morning. (Oliver Paisey).
Naunton An immature female MERLIN perched up briefly this afternoon. (Duncan Dine).
Notgrove A Barn Owl this morning. (Mark Bonner).
Maisemore From Maisemore Bridge along the Three Choirs Way to the pool at SO825204 three Little Grebes, seven Gadwalls, 38 Shelducks, nine Mallards, two Shovelers, 250+ Fieldfares, seven Chaffinches, 21 Starlings, 37 Goldfinches, a Chiffchaff, two Buzzards, three Coots, seven Moorhens, a Grey Heron, two Canada Geese, four Cormorants, 150 Black-headed Gulls, two Mute Swans and three Roe Deer. (John Fletcher).

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