Cotswold Water Park West     The GREAT NORTHERN DIVER still on Pit 87 today. (Jon Mercer).

Frampton    This morning between Fretherne and Splatt Bridges, viewing the flashes and the Warth from the towpath. A pair of Mandarins and two male Tufted Ducks on Saul Lodge pond. On the Warth six Teal, three Shovelers and four Gadwalls. A Great Crested Grebe on the canal, 44 Curlews, five Common Cranes landed briefly, a Great White Egret, four Little Egrets, a Red Kite flew N, a male Marsh Harrier, a Peregrine flew S, two Buzzards, a Sand Martin flew N, a Kingfisher, three Chiffchaffs, two male Blackcaps, three Cetti’s Warblers, six Redwings, five Skylarks and a Redpoll. (MK).

Blackcap by Mike King

Common Cranes by Mike King

Nailsworth    This afternoon 3:30-3:45pm the female MERLIN again at Barton End layby. (Roger Gillespie).

Leigh Meadows     At dawn 76 Wigeon, two Gadwalls, five Little Egrets, 14 Mallards, ten  Grey Herons, six Curlews, six Shelducks, four Coots, two Moorhens, two Mute Swans, two Canada Geese, 16 Skylarks, ten Fieldfares, six Redwings, six Reed Buntings, two Chiffchaffs, two Bullfinches and a Buzzard. (Shaun Curtis).

Maisemore     Along Three Choirs Way to the pond 117 Fieldfares, six Chaffinches, two Dunnocks, two Long-tailed Tits, a Chiffchaff, 26 Stock Doves, 90 Black-headed Gulls, two Cormorants, eight Canada Geese, a Greylag, seven Mallards, six Coots, four Moorhens, a Buzzard, a Mute Swan and three Roe Deer. (John Fletcher).