Monday 11th August 2025

Saul Warth     Early morning 17 Cattle Egrets, four Little Egrets, four Grey Herons, 86 Curlews, seven Avocets, 45 Shelducks, five Kestrels, ten Cormorants, three Yellow Wagtails, six Pied Wagtails, a Grey Wagtail, three Chiffchaffs, a Whitethroat, five Blackcaps and 20 Swallows. (MK).

Cattle Egrets by Mike King

WWT Slimbridge    On the Rushy two Garganeys on the lower pond. On the Tack Piece the WOOD SANDPIPER with 18 Green Sandpipers. On the Top New Piece an adult and immature SPOONBILLS. (Slimbridge Sightings). Also nine Common Cranes and a Marsh Harrier from Zeiss hide. (Jon Dexter). A Tree Pipit flew S over Middle Point at 10am, 24 Yellow Wagtails around and a Sparrowhawk sat on the S side of the Tack Piece scrape. (Ian Ralphs).

Coombe Hill Meadows     This morning 5+ Buzzard, two Ravens, two Green Woodpeckers, three Grey Herons, a Little Egret, four Redstarts, three Greenfinches, a Whitethroat, three Reed Warblers, a Reed Bunting, two Swallows, five Bullfinches, three Chiffchaffs, a Roe Deer and a Clouded Yellow butterfly. (Paul Clark).

Painswick Beacon     This afternoon two Spotted Flycatchers and two Tree Pipits with a third flyover. Nearby on the Golf Course Chalkhill Blues still out in numbers, a Crossbill and a Tree Pipit over. (Mark Dowie).

Cleeve Hill     From the Radio Masts, to West Down and Wontley Farm this afternoon up to 20 Stonechats, two Whinchats, a male Redstart, two Whitethroats and a Corn Bunting. (Duncan Dine).

Corn Bunting by Mike King

Prestbury     Two Red Kites circling over at 9:58am. (Ken Heron).

Guscar Rocks/Aylburton Warth     WeBS count included 55 Canada Geese, ten Shelducks, six Teal, eight Grey Herons, a Little Egret, a Cormorant, seven Ringed Plovers, 520 Curlews, a Redshank, 510 Black-headed Gulls, five Common Gulls, 25 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 25 Herring Gulls, a Skylark, five Swallows, ten Goldfinches and a Reed Bunting. (Mike Smart).

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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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