Tuesday 13th January 2026

Berkeley shore     Five Turnstones, two Meadow Pipits, 30+ Dunlins, 20+ Redshanks and 20+ Snipe this morning. (Les Ditchburn).

Prestbury     A male MERLIN flew across Shaw Green Lane following a Blue TIt. Flocks of 88 and 100+ Redwings and eight Fieldfares. (Ken Heron).

WWT Slimbridge    A Goshawk perched at South Finger distantly viewed from Zeiss hide. (Warren Gill). Two Great White Egrets, 1 in the Decoy, 1 from Zeiss hide, a Water Rail by the South Finger reedbed filter, the Pink-footed Goose of unknown origin on the Dumbles with the Canada Goose flock, 19 Avocets on South Lake and a Grey Wagtail and a Black Swan on the Eider pen. (MK).

Water Rail by Mike King

Coombe Hill Meadows     Eight Mute Swans, two Greylags, 30 Canada Geese, c2000 Wigeon, ten Gadwalls, c2000 Teal, 60 Mallards, 126+ Pintails, 222+ Shovelers, eight Tufted Ducks, 30 Coots, 450 Lapwings, 20 Fieldfares, a Cetti’s Warbler singing and 15 Carrion Crows this morning. (Mike Smart).

Stonehouse    A Bullfinch in Great Oldbury today, a local patch tick. (Harrison Rowsell).

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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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