Monday 12th May 2025

WWT Slimbridge      The male WHITE-SPOTTED BLUETHROAT showing on and off in the reedbeds at Middle Point from the Shepherds Hut today. A Turnstone and five Grey Plovers from Middle Point. The GLOSSY IBIS mobile around the reserve. A Little Ringed Plover on South Lake. (Martin Price/Slimbridge Sightings).

Saul Warth    From 6am-7am this morning a CURLEW SANDPIPER, 120+ Ringed Plovers with 50+Dunlin fairly distant, at least four Sanderlings, two Knots, 12 Avocets, four Bar-tailed Godwits, four Curlews and six Oystercatchers. (Steve Pullen).

Rodley     Five Whimbrels and a Cuckoo this morning. (Rachel Thomas).

Cuckoo by Rachel Thomas

Frampton     This afternoon at Court Lake a Cuckoo, two Kingfishers, four Reed Warblers and a Sparrowhawk. At the sailing lake six Common Terns, a Black Swan and three Pied Wagtails. (John Fletcher).

Black Swan by John Fletcher
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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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