Forest of Dean     At Nagshead two SPOTTED FLYCATCHERS, three Pied Flycatchers and Redstarts heard. At Cannop ponds a Dipper, a Mandarin and a pair of Grey Wagtails. (Sarah Townsend). Around the Crabtree Hill area Crossbills, five Garden Warblers, two Tree Pipits, two Redstarts, three Wood Warblers, several Willow Warblers and at least three pairs of Stonechats. (Steve Rickard).

Pied Flycatcher by Sarah Townsend

Grey Wagtail by Sarah Townsend

Broadoak     A Ring-necked Parakeet still this morning. (Steve Rickard).

WWT Slimbridge     Three Mediterranean Gulls on the Rushy. A Bittern dropped into the reedbed in front of Knott hide early afternoon. (Slimbridge Sightings/Paul Clark/Steve Pullen).

Frampton     This morning three Common Terns and a pair of Mandarins on the sailing lake and a Cuckoo calling. (Steve Rickard/Mike Davis). Two Cuckoos from Splatt Bridge this morning. (Steve Rickard). Mid morning three Hobbies over the 100-Acre viewed from Splatt Bridge. (Steve Pullen).

Saul Warth     From 6:15am for the high tide, fogged out 7-9am, a Ross’s Goose, two Barnacle Geese, six Whimbrels, four Grey Plovers, 57 Dunlins, nine Ringed Plovers, four Curlews, three Oystercatchers, a Little Egret, two Common Cranes, a distant Cuckoo calling, four Swallows, a Lesser Whitethroat, a Meadow Pipit, very scarce here this spring, a Yellow Wagtail and a Roebuck. (MK).

Roe Deer by Mike King

Sudgrove     A Siskin in song, three Redstarts and a Goshawk today. (Chris Furley).

Haresfield     This afternoon two Yellow Wagtails, two Yellowhammers and three Whitethroats opposite the garden centre. (Paul Masters).

Edge     This morning at Rudge Hill NR a Garden Warbler singing alongside Chiffchaffs, Willow Warblers, male and female Blackcap, Linnets, a Greenfinch and Skylarks. Also five Duke of Burgundy butterflies, three Green Hairstreaks and a Tiger Beetle. (Jon Dexter).

Stonehouse     A Swift over the town as the rain arrived this afternoon. (Jon Dexter).

Halmore     In the fields off Halmore Lane, three Red Kites, two Buzzards, a Green Woodpecker, a Garden Warbler, a Willow Warbler, two Skylarks, four Whitethroats, and many Chiffchaffs and Blackcaps. (Chris Newton).

Red Kite by Chris Newton

Horsley     A Cuckoo calling in the woods at ST 838977 at 11am. (Maggie Beggs per David Bullock).

Tewkesbury     On Severn Ham today eight Cormorants, a Grey Heron, a Herring Gull and a Common Tern. (Chris Vowles).

Common Tern by Chris Vowles