Thursday 30th April 2026

Saul Warth    Early morning at high tide, three Mandarins, seven Teal, two Turnstones, seven Avocets, five Curlews, four Whimbrels, 35 Bar-tailed Godwits, five Grey Plovers, 20 Ringed Plovers, five Sanderlings, 40 Dunlins, eight Oystercatchers, five Little Egrets, a Common Sandpiper, a Lesser Whitethroat, five Swallows and a Yellow Wagtail. (MK).

Mandarins by Mike King

Turnstones by Mike King

Frampton     From Splatt Bridge three Hobbies, 1 possibly 2 Great White Egrets and at the nearby North Reedbed 4+ Reed Warblers. At the sailing lake a Common Tern and at Court Lake, a Hobby. (Terry Grant).

Epney     50+ Sand Martins and five Buzzards. (Terry Grant).

WWT Slimbridge     The DARK-BELLIED BRENT GOOSE on the Dumbles, also ten Common Cranes and a Peregrine. A Greenshank and Bar-tailed Godwit on the Top New Piece from Zeiss hide. (Roberta Goodall). A Little Ringed Plover and a Common Sandpiper on South Lake this afternoon. (Steve Pullen).

Stinchcombe Hill    A Whinchat and Yellow Wagtail over this morning. (James Robinson).

Gloucester     A Sedge Warbler singing from the bushes next to Gloucester railway station this morning. (Steve Pullen).

Haresfield     This morning, four Yellow Wagtails, four Yellowhammers, six Whitethroats a Great Spotted Woodpecker and a Red Kite. (Steve Pullen).

Yellow Wagtail by Terry Stevenson

Charlton Kings     A Tree Pipit at the E end of Ravensgate Common this morning. (Ian Ralphs).

Prestbury Hill     A Tree Pipit on the reserve at 8am. (Steve Rickard).

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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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