Cleeve Hill Five RING OUZELS feeding on the common, going in and out of nearby gorse bushes. What3words location ///twitching.cocktail.qualified, looking toward the antenna masts. (David Douglas).
Cotswold Water Park West A WHITE STORK soared over Pit 201b at 1pm, possibly from the Knepp release scheme. (Jon Mercer). This evening a Grasshopper Warbler reeling at Pike Corner near Pit 41 just in the County border. Also a Garden Warbler near Pit 58 and a Cuckoo at Pike Corner. (David Creber).
WWT Slimbridge The SPOONBILL on the Tack Piece still, also a Reed Warbler from Robbie Garnett hide and lots of Sand Martins and Swallows. From Estuary Tower ten Common Crane, the DARK-BELLIED BRENT GOOSE, the Tundra Bean Goose, at least 14 Ringed Plovers, a Sanderling and eight Dunlins over high tide and very briefly two Whimbrels. A Common Sandpiper on South Lake. (Paul Clark/Slimbridge Sightings).
Frampton At the sailing lake early morning a Marsh Harrier, a Lesser Whitethroat, a Whitethroat, three Oystercatchers, 30+ Sand Martins, two Shelducks and a drake Mandarin. (Nick Goatman).
Rodley A Cuckoo and a Yellow Wagtail this morning. (Rachel Thomas).

Yellow Wagtail by Rachel Thomas
Coombe Hill Meadows This morning 4+ Mute Swans, a pair of Gadwalls, 30 Mallards, including a female with 12 very recently hatched ducklings, a pair of Shovelers, four Little Egrets, a Grey Heron, two Oystercatchers, six Lapwings, two Curlews, 4+ Redshanks, 12 Stock Doves, 10+ Skylarks, three Swallows, a male Wheatear, 3+ Redstarts, a Yellow Wagtail, a Cetti’s Warbler, 5+ Sedge Warblers, 5+ Whitethroats, a Lesser Whitethroat, 3+ Blackcaps, a Willow Warbler, 5+ Chiffchaffs and 49 Carrion Crows. (Mike Smart/Martin Price/Steve Pullen).
Sharpness From the picnic site to Berkeley Pill at high tide early morning. No sign of the Kumlien’s Gull. Five Teal, four Oystercatchers, three Redshanks, five Dunlins, three Common Sandpipers, a Peregrine, a Raven, a Reed Warbler, a Cetti’s Warbler, ten Sand Martins, four Swallows, a Wheatear and four Stonechats. (Andy Jordan/Ian Ralphs/MK).
Maisemore This afternoon three Tufted Ducks, 65 Mallards including 13 ducklings, six Canada Geese, two Egyptian Geese, three Greylags, six Moorhens, a Red-legged Partridge, two Jays, two Buzzards, a Kingfisher, six Chaffinches, five Chiffchaffs, two Swallows, a Greenfinch and seven Jackdaws. (John Fletcher).

Egyptian Geese by John Fletcher
Dowdeswell Reservoir Early morning six Common Sandpipers, a pair of Great Crested Grebes, two Canada Geese, two drake Mallards, a Moorhen, a Cormorant, a Grey Heron, at least two singing Reed Warblers, a Reed Bunting, two Swallows and a pair of Grey Wagtails. (Tom Mabbett).
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