Tuesday 1st April 2025

Frampton    15 LITTLE GULLS on the sailing lake from 12:45am until mid afternoon. (Gordon Hodgson et al). Also two Swallows, four Sand Martins, 28 Fieldfares, 20 Linnets, a male Reed Bunting, five Shovelers, 50 Tufted Ducks and two Oystercatchers. (Nick Goatman). Splatt Bridge at first light today a Great White Egret, a Little Egret, a Marsh Harrier, a Buzzard, 50+ Curlews, two Oystercatchers, four Redshanks, two Shovelers, seven Gadwalls, eight Shelducks and 12 Mallards on the flashes, and two Mute Swans and a Kingfisher on the canal. (Steve Pullen).

Little Gulls by Mark Dowie 

Little Gulls with Black-headed Gulls by Mike King

Little Gulls by Mike King

Saul Warth     12 LITTLE GULLS flew NE through Saul Warth at 10:30am with a few Black-headed Gulls. A Red Kite flew through NW over Awre at 10:15am. (Les Ditchburn/MK). At high tide a male Marsh Harrier flushed 30 Teal from the Warth, and eight more on the river, 32 Shelducks, 27 Curlews, three Grey Plovers, five Ringed Plovers, nine Dunlins, a Common Sandpiper, six Oystercatchers, a Little Egret, four Skylarks, five Sand Martins, four Meadow Pipits and two Chiffchaffs. (MK).

WWT Slimbridge    Five LITTLE GULLS flew up river and cut inland past Estuary Tower at 11:20am. (Paul Rich). From South Finger a male Goshawk with a Moorhen kill this morning, then flew S with it.

Wotton-Under-Edge     Three Swallows flew across the playing fields at 3:30pm. (Jon Dexter).

Leckhampton     A Red Kite near Pilley Bridge at 8:30am and later a pair of Buzzards drifted S. A Raven through and two more over the Eagle Tower. From Burrows Field to the church another Raven, a Green Woodpecker, a Greenfinch and several singing Chiffchaffs. Also three Peacock Butterflies. (Steve Brown).

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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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