WWT Slimbridge      The male WHITE-SPOTTED BLUETHROAT showing on and off in the reedbeds at Middle Point from the Shepherds Hut today. Also the SHORT-EARED OWL again today. (Mike Davis). Also from Middle Point a Turnstone, seven Grey Plovers and 20 Sanderlings. (Paul Rich).

Forest of Dean     Early morning in the Woorgreens/Crabtree Hill area four Wood Warblers, eight Spotted Flycatchers, three Lesser Redpolls and a Firecrest (Nigel Sluman). Also a Willow Warbler and a Garden Warbler. At Nagshead a Garden Warbler heard at the the Nursery Pond. At the Lower hide this afternoon a pair of Great Spotted Woodpeckers, a Jay, a Spotted Flycatcher, a male Redstart and a pair of Grey Wagtails. (Andy & Sue Gibbons).

Halmore     In the woods at least six Spotted Flycatchers, a pair of Bullfinches, two Nuthatches, two Willow Warblers, many Blackcaps and Chiffchaffs, two Green Woodpeckers, several Whitethroats in the hedges, a Sparrowhawk over high, a distant Cuckoo, and late this evening a Hobby flew S across Slimbridge Lane and a Tawny Owl calling. In Halmore Lane a Red Kite over high, at least six Swallows and four House Martins and garden birds included three Great Spotted Woodpeckers, 14 Goldfinches and four Greenfinches. (Chris Newton).

Whitethroat by Chris Newton

Saul Warth     A Turnstone this morning. (Les Ditchburn).

Newnham-on-Severn     Two Oystercatchers on the river this afternoon. (Dan Watson).