Hardwicke     A SPOONBILL flew over heading towards Quedgeley at midday. (Nigel Young).

Spoonbill by Nigel Young

Saul Warth     Between 5:45-8:30am no tide, a pair of Mandarins, 62 Shelducks and the first five ducklings, six Sanderlings, 116 Dunlins, 162 Ringed Plovers, five Avocets, a Whimbrel heard, two Curlews, six Oystercatchers, a Little Egret, a Goshawk, a Kestrel, four Swallows and three Reed Buntings. (MK).

Shelducks by Mike King

Forest of Dean     Early morning at Nagshead, a male and a female Pied Flycatcher, a male Redstart and a Garden Warbler. (Danny Sturgeon & Rosy Heywood). Later three Redstarts, 2 or 3 Pied Flycatchers, a Nuthatch visiting a nest box, five Garden Warblers, four Siskins and a Green Hairstreak. At Cannop Ponds 11 Mandarins, four Grey Wagtails including a juvenile, three Ravens and a Dipper. At Minsterworth a Hobby over the A48 at 8pm and further on a Sparrowhawk being mobbed. (Stephen Curtis & Carol Rushton). A male Hawfinch seen under yew trees near the cricket pitch at Parkend today. (Oliver Densumbe).

Higham Woods     Two Nightingales heard, two Green Woodpecker, two Great Spotted Woodpeckers and two Garden Warblers. (Stephen Curtis & Carol Rushton/Mark Hobson).

Norton/The Leigh Meadows     Along the meadows down to the river this morning 10+ Chiffchaffs, 20+ Sedge Warblers, 15+ Blackcaps, 12+ Reed Buntings, eight Whitethroats, eight Skylarks, six Redstarts, six Linnets, four Yellow Wagtails, two Grey Herons, a Little Egret, two Swallows, four Sand Martins and 20+ Mallards. (Shaun Curtis).

Kempley    A Cuckoo calling at Kempley Green between midday and 1pm today. On the Kempley to Dymock Road between New Rock and Dymock a Skylark singing and opposite Pitt House Green nine Red Kites and a Buzzard over a silage field being cut. (Steve Watts).

Calcot    A pair of Mute Swans with seven, day-old cygnets on the River Coln near Calcot. A Great White Egret downstream at Winson. Also an Otter. (Andy Lewis).

Gloucester     At Horsbere Brook F.S.A. this afternoon four Sedge Warblers, a Reed Bunting, five Coots, four Moorhens, four Mallards, three Swallows, a male Blackcap, a Grey Heron, five Lesser Black-backed Gulls, two Mute Swans, 11 Magpies and a Kestrel. (John Fletcher).

Sedge Warbler by John Fletcher