Saul Warth Three GREY PHALAROPES feeding along the edge of the mud toward the Noose at 7:30am. (MK). One remained after a Peregrine pass, and at 10am two were back on the Noose with Curlews. (Martin McGill). One was still present at 4:50pm. (Mark Hobson). Also this morning at high tide 98 Curlews, four Bar-tailed Godwits, 100+ Ringed Plovers, 100+ Dunlins, a Grey Plover, six Knot, 1+ Curlew Sandpiper, 34 Shelducks, a SPOONBILL, five Little Egrets, nine Grey Herons, six Cormorants, two Hobbies migrating south very high up, a Peregrine, a male Marsh Harrier, three Yellow Wagtails, 10+ Meadow Pipits, a Blackcap, seven Chiffchaffs, a male Wheatear, a Stonechat and ten Swallows. (MK).

Grey Phalarope by Mike King
WWT Slimbridge 26 Cattle Egrets on South Lake and two GLOSSY IBISES from Martin Smith hide. A Pintail on Big Pen and another on South Lake. (Dot Jones/Jeanne Vitkovskis/Paul Clark). An OSPREY reported along the river at 5:05pm.
Tresham Early morning a juvenile Hobby, two Red Kites, a Wheatear and a Red-legged Partridge. (Paul Rich).
Nailsworth At 7pm-7:15pm as dusk was falling a large movement of 320 Swallows, 40+ House Martins and 80+ Sand Martins. (Terry Grant).
Cherington At the lake and in surrounding woodland 14 Mallards, six Moorhens, two Coots, two Grey Wagtails, four Goldfinches, two Ravens and a Grey Heron. (John Fletcher).
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