Saul Warth     At 6:15am a Bar-tailed Godwit, four Curlews, a Whimbrel heard, three Oystercatchers, 40 Dunlins, six Ringed Plovers, a Little Egret, 41 Shelducks, a pair of Shovelers, a pair of Gadwalls, a Swallow and a Whitethroat. (MK/Martin McGill). Later seven Whimbrels. (Tom Mabbett). This evening a drake GARGANEY arrived and flew past Hock Ditch over the Severn this evening, the returned back along the shore and seemed to drop onto Splatt Flashes. (Martin McGill).

Hasfield Ham     A pair of GARGANEYS flushed in Stank Lane then circled the reserve calling. (Les Ditchburn).

Frampton     At Court Lake at 8:30am a new in Cuckoo showed well, also the Ross’s Goose, early success for Barnacle Geese with 1 gosling, three Oystercatchers, two Swallows, a Mistle Thrush chasing a Sparrowhawk and the Bar-headed x Snow Goose hybrid. (MK).

Cuckoo by Mike King

Cuckoo by Mike King

Ashleworth Ham     At an early morning ringing session birds rung included seven Sedge Warblers, four Whitethroats, a Lesser Whitethroat, a Chiffchaff, a Bullfinch and two Reed Buntings. Around the reserve a Canada Goose, 20 Mallards, a Little Egret, a Grey Heron, three Curlews, five Skylarks, a male Redstart, 5+ Sedge Warblers, 5+ Whitethroats, a Lesser Whitethroat, a Willow Warbler, two Chiffchaffs and three Reed Buntings. (Mervyn Greening/Mike Smart).

Elmore Court     In the rewilding area early morning, at least seven Sedge Warblers, a Reed Warbler, a Cetti’s Warbler, three Reed Buntings and a Stonechat. On the scrape four Little Egrets and two Lapwings. (Steve Pullen).

Gloucester     At Horsebere Brook two Yellow Wagtails still on the muck heap at 2:30pm. (Simon Hart).

Crickley Hill     A Peregrine, a Marsh Tit, a Tree Pipit, a Great Spotted Woodpecker, a Green Woodpecker and a female Emperor Moth female today. (Keith Colcombe).

Stonehouse     In the Ocean area this afternoon a Raven, a Sparrowhawk, a Kestrel, a Blackcap, a Cetti’s Warbler, Chiffchaffs and Green-veined White and Orange Tip butterflies. (Paul Sutton).

Green-veined Whites by Paul Sutton