Sharpness     A MANX SHEARWATER flying mid-channel level with Lydney viewed from SARA at 10am but lost in the murk. Also a Common Tern. (Oliver Paisey).

WWT Slimbridge     A juvenile Little Ringed Plover and 12 Green Sandpipers from Robbie Garnett hide at 10am. From Zeiss hide mid-morning waders included two Spotted Redshanks, 60 Black-tailed Godwits, two Avocets, three Ruff, two Green Sandpipers and 22 Dunlins, also a SPOONBILL and 25 Shovelers. A Kingfisher from Van de Bovenkamp hide and a Great White Egret from Knott hide. (MK).

Spoonbill by Mike King

Great White Egret by Mike King

Frampton pools     4+ Spotted Flycatchers, 40+ Swifts, 50+ Swallows, 200+ Sand Martins, 10+ House Martins, a Cattle Egret, nine Little Egrets, the adult Yellow-legged Gull, four Common Terns, 132 Coots, 80 Mute Swans, the Ross’s Goose, 82 Barnacle Geese, 25 Greylags and six Cormorants today. (Nick Goatman/Nigel Young).

Yellow-legged Gull by Nigel Young

Nailsworth     A small but steady passage of Swifts along the valley. Also 50/60 House Martins in a flock at 10:15 this morning. (Roy Bircher).