Friday 26th September 2025

WWT Slimbridge     Three SPOONBILLS from Middle Point this morning. Two GLOSSY IBISES on the Top New Piece from Zeiss hide. Three BITTERNS in the reed bed in front of Zeiss hide. (Tim Jukes/Oliver Paisey/Dot Jones).

Saul Warth     At high tide at 11am 62 Curlews, 74 Avocets, a Bar-tailed Godwit, three Black-tailed Godwits, four Grey Plovers, two Common Sandpipers, nine Little Egrets, a Great White Egret, 50 Shelducks, 105 Teal, 17 Wigeon, a  female Pintail, a male Marsh Harrier, two Hobbies, two Buzzards, two Kestrels, 6+ Chiffchaffs, a Lesser Whitethroat, a Goldcrest, five Meadow Pipits, a Skylark, 45 Linnets, a male Stonechat and three Reed Buntings. (MK).

Meadow Pipit by Mike King

Avocets by Mike King

Longney Crib     Mid afternoon 53 Lapwings, a Common Sandpiper, a Little Egret, two Grey Herons, five Cormorants, three Mallards, two Pied Wagtails, two Ravens and two Great Black-backed Gulls. (John Fletcher).

Berkeley shore     This afternoon a Green Sandpiper, three Curlews, two Turnstones, eight Cormorants, eight Chiffchaffs, two Blackcaps, two male Greenland Wheatears, two Swallows, 50+ House Martins and 90 Linnets. (Thomas McClung).

Leckhampton     A Grey Heron west over Old Station Drive. A Great Spotted Woodpecker calling repeatedly in Treelands Close. A Raven over (daily, four together yesterday). At Burley Fields lake a Green Woodpecker and a Great Spotted Woodpecker. (Steve Brown).

Guscar Rocks/Aylburton Warth     At high tide 110 Canada Geese, five Wigeon, 11 Teal, two Mallards, a Little Egret, three Grey Herons, a Cormorant, a Sparrowhawk, an Oystercatcher, 220+ Curlews, a Bar-tailed Godwit, 15 Redshanks, a Turnstone, 1000+ Black-headed Gulls, ten Lesser Black-backed Gulls, five Common Gulls, ten Skylarks, two Pied Wagtails, five Meadow Pipits, three Chiffchaffs and 20 Linnets. (Mike Smart).

Stonehouse to Ebley     This morning at Ebley wharf, a Kingfisher, at Ryeford double lock a Grey Wagtail. This afternoon at Stonehouse a Kingfisher between Boakes Drive and St Cyr’s church. Yesterday and the previous day, three Kingfishers between the Ocean and Bond’s Mill and a Cormorant. (Paul Sutton).

Kingfisher by Paul Sutton
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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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