Saul Warth      At high tide at 6am 60 Shelducks, three Turnstones, a Greenshank, a Grey Plover, 14 Oystercatchers, a Whimbrel, 15 Curlews, a Ringed Plover, four Sanderlings, a Little Egret, seven Swallows, a Jay, scarce here, ten Long-tailed Tits, two Lesser Whitethroats and three Whitethroats. Also two Roe Deer and a Painted Lady. (MK).

Roe Deer by Mike King

Upper Coscombe & Farmcote area     A male Redstart, a Tree Pipit and a Spotted Flycatcher along the escarpment near Coscombe Corner. Numerous Blackcaps, Skylarks, Chiffchaffs and a Mistle Thrush. Butterflies included Painted Lady, Small Copper, Small Heath, Red Admiral and Holly Blue. (Ali Clifton Barnard).

Cheltenham     At Park Campus lake this morning an aberrant Moorhen chick, a Great Tit visiting a nest in a hollow branch and a Grey Heron trying to steal goose eggs. (David Norman).

Aberrant Moorhen chick by David Norman

Clanna Country Park     On garden feeders today two Chaffinches, two Greenfinches, two Siskins, four Goldfinches, and a Bullfinch. (Paul Woolams).

Tewkesbury     Two Skylarks on Severn Ham this morning. (Rebecca Stanley).