Tuesday 21st October 2025

Bishops Cleeve     A female type BLACK REDSTART very mobile on roofs and back gardens in Bramley Close and Mirabelle Road from late morning until 4:30pm at least. A garden tick. (Steve Rickard).

Black Redstart by Steve Rickard

WWT Slimbridge     The TEMMINCK’S STINT on the Rushy again today. Also three Spotted Redshanks. A GLOSSY IBIS, a Curlew Sandpiper, a Little Stint and two BITTERNS from Zeiss hide. (Roy Kinchin/Martin Price/Dot Jones/Terry Stevenson).

Saul Warth     Between 7:30-10am at high tide 192 Avocets, 89 Curlews, 82 Lapwings, a Common Sandpiper, a Redshank, 77 Shelducks, 120 Teal, four Little Egrets, two Chiffchaffs, a flock of 11 Magpies, a Raven, a Mistle Thrush, a male Stonechat, a small passage of ten Skylarks, 26 Meadow Pipits and 16 Linnets. (MK).

Chavenage Lane area     A Whinchat again still this afternoon with six Stonechats. Also ten Red Kites and a flock of 21 Long-tailed Tits. (Terry Grant).

Halmore    Around the woods today a Kestrel, a Buzzard, a Kingfisher, a Blackcap, a Nuthatch, two Greenfinches, a Great Spotted Woodpecker, a Song Thrush, eight Long-Tailed Tits, five Linnets, a flock of c25 Redwings at dusk and a male Muntjac. (Chris Newton).

Coombe Hill Meadows     This morning a Kestrel, a Kingfisher, a Green Woodpecker, two Great Spotted Woodpeckers, a Fieldfare, 20+ Redwings, 50+ mixed flock of Linnets and Goldfinches, 32 Canada Geese over, 6+ Skylarks, three Meadow Pipits, two Reed Buntings, 6+ Long-tailed Tits and 4+ male Willow Emerald damselflies. (Paul Clark). Five Redwings in Tewkesbury this morning. (Les Ditchburn).

Newnham-on-Severn     A Firecrest and two Swallows along the river this morning. (Dan Watson).

Dudbridge     Four Swallows over heading SE at 12:30pm. (Steve Pullen).

Stonehouse to Ebley     Along the Stroudwater Canal this morning five Cormorants and a Kingfisher at Ebley wharf. A Little Grebe at Ryeford double lock and a Jay. A Cetti’s Warbler between Skew bridge and Wycliffe old boat house. A Sparrowhawk over Upper Mills bridge. A Kingfisher along the canal between St Cyr’s to the Ocean and a Cormorant at the Ocean. Around the Ocean area late afternoon a Kingfisher, a Buzzard and a Kestrel. (Paul Sutton).

Little Grebe 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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