Saturday 20th September 2025

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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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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