Sunday 22nd June 2025

WWT Slimbridge    The male WHITE-SPOTTED BLUETHROAT still in the reedbeds at Middle Point from the Shepherds Hut. On South Lake 86 Avocets and two Spotted Redshanks. An eclipse Garganey from Zeiss hide and a Hobby on the Dumbles scrape this morning. (Roberta Goodall).

Chapmans Cross     Around Cranhill Barn this morning a Red Kite, a Swift, eight Swallows, 20+ Skylarks, six Yellowhammers, six Linnets, six Goldfinches and three Corn Buntings. (MK).

Yellowhammer by Mike King

Standish     This afternoon four Yellow Wagtails, six Yellowhammers, a Little Owl heard, two Buzzards, 5+ Skylarks, eight Linnets, three Whitethroats and a Roe Deer. (Steve Pullen).

Frampton pools     Two Cattle Egrets, nine Little Egrets, six Grey Herons, eight Great Crested Grebes and nine young, 30+ Swifts, 50+ Sand Martins, four Common Terns, a Spotted Flycatcher, a Hobby and an adult Yellow-legged Gull today. (Nick Goatman).

Naunton     At Lower Harford a Buzzard, a Kestrel, a Grey Heron,  four Ravens, a Green Woodpecker, four Stock Doves and a Nuthatch. Butterflies included a Comma, a Large Skipper, a Ringlet, numerous Large Whites and Meadow Browns and a mass of Green-veined Whites on wet mud. Also a Black-tailed Skimmer, many Beautiful Demoiselles, a few blue Damselfly sp and many tiny Toads around the ford. (Steve Brown).

Kilkenny viewpoint     Two Buzzards, a Great Spotted Woodpecker, a Tree Pipit singing, a Yellowhammer and a small flock of Linnets. Butterflies included a few Large and Small Skippers, a Painted Lady, a Small Tortoiseshell and many Marbled Whites, Ringlets and Meadow Browns. (Steve Brown).

Winchcombe     Near Greet a post-breeding flock of 1000-1500 Rooks in a grass field and also yesterday. (John Kime).

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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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