Saturday 4th April 2026

Cotswold Water Park West     A YELLOW WAGTAIL at Shorncote Reedbeds today. (Jon Mercer).

WWT Slimbridge     A Greenshank on South Lake, a Green Sandpiper on the Rushy and a Dark-bellied Brent Goose on the  Dumbles. A SPOONBILL, two Great White Egrets and a Sand Martin on the Tack Piece. (Duncan Dine/Paul Clark/Paul Masters).

Saul Warth     At high tide 132 Avocets, 90 Curlews, a Bar-tailed Godwit, 11 Redshanks, six Ringed Plovers, six Oystercatchers, a WHIMBREL heard 3 times over the river but not seen, a male Marsh Harrier hunting the Awre bank, four Skylarks, the first patch Swallow and a Chiffchaff. (MK).

Calmsden     Five Grey Partridges today. (Alan Hooper).

Grey Partridges by Alan Hooper

Grey Partridge by Alan Hooper

Forest of Dean     A Swallow at Woorgreens Lake today. (Garry Webb).

Walmore Common     A juvenile female Peregrine killed a Woodpigeon and then mobbed by a Red Kite. Also a Great White Egret, three Lapwings, four Little Egrets and five Chiffchaffs. (Dan Watson).

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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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