Sunday 21st September 2025

Saul Warth     From dawn until 9:30am, a GREY PHALAROPE (3rd day) appeared in the bay near the Noose with Black-headed Gulls at the top of the tide. Also 69 Curlews, 33 Avocets, three Redshanks, 20 Dunlins, three SPOONBILLS, two Little Egrets, 15 Common Cranes, a Hobby, a Peregrine, a Sparrowhawk, two Kestrels, a Yellow Wagtail, 12 Pied Wagtails, two Meadow Pipits, three Chiffchaffs, a male Wheatear, a Stonechat, 40 Swallows, two House Martins, two Ravens and two Reed Buntings. (MK/Paul Masters/Andy Chapman/Steve Brown).

WWT Slimbridge    Two GLOSSY IBISES from Martin Smith hide. Two Garganeys and five Spotted Redshanks on the Rushy this morning. (Slimbridge Sightings/David Creber). Three Pintails on the Top New Piece. A Wheatear on Dumbles from Pill Box viewing platform. Four Cattle Egrets flew in to the Rushy at 1:20pm. (Julian Gould). A Mediterranean Gull on South Lake this afternoon. (Ken Mihill).

Glossy Ibis by Heather England

Nailsworth     A Great White Egret flew south past Windsoredge this morning, followed 17 minutes later by an OSPREY which circled for a while then flew south. (Terry Grant).

Chavenage Lane area     Four Kestrels, eight Red Kites, a female Sparrowhawk, 18+ Buzzards, a female Goshawk, 22 Meadow Pipits and nine Red-legged Partridges. (Terry Grant).

Frampton pools     Two Marsh Tits, 65 Swallows, 12 Sand Martins, a House Martin, a Common Sandpiper, five Great Crested Grebes, three Little Grebes, three Wigeon, 51 Gadwalls, 35 Mallards, eight Teal, 252 Coots, 22 Moorhens, two Curlews, a Black Swan and 12 Meadow Pipits today. (Nick Goatman).

Cotswold Water Park East     On Pit 131 a Ruff, a Common Sandpiper, a Great White Egret, a female Marsh Harrier and a different Marsh Harrier on Pit 114. (Duncan Dine).

Chedworth     A Wheatear and a Whinchat today on the old airfield. (Duncan Dine).

Elmore Court     In the rewilding area this afternoon, 4+Whinchats still with 5+ Stonechats, a Hobby, four Buzzards, two Kestrels, a Snipe, 30+ Linnets with 20+ Goldfinches, two Skylarks, eight Meadow Pipits, two Grey Herons, 15 Swallows, ten House Martins and a Nuthatch. (Steve Pullen).

Hawling     A flock of 60 Golden Plovers north of the village today. (Chris Furley).

Halmore     Birds this evening included a Kingfisher, three Siskins, a juvenile Bullfinch, several Chaffinches, two Greenfinches, many Goldfinches and Chiffchaffs, two Nuthatches, a Treecreeper, a Spotted Flycatcher, several Willow Warblers and Blackcaps, two Great Spotted Woodpeckers and a hunting Sparrowhawk. (Chris Newton).

Bullfinch by Chris Newton

Guscar Rocks/Aylburton Warth     This morning at high tide 30 Canada Geese, two Shelducks, 160 Teal, a Mallard, nine Grey Herons, a Kestrel, four Ringed Plovers, 322 Curlews, a Black-tailed Godwit, 11 Redshanks, two Common Sandpiper, a Turnstone, 500 Black-headed Gulls, five Common Gulls, 50 Herring Gulls, ten Lesser Black-backed Gulls, six Skylarks, 50 Swallows and 30 Carrion Crows. (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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