Sunday 31st May 2026

Hampton Fields     A QUAIL calling this afternoon at 5pm until 5:25pm at least at https://what3words.com/freshest.dominate.adopt. (Simon Ashley).

Cotswold Water Park East     An OSPREY hunting over Pit 114 at 9am. (James Robinson).

Coombe Hill Meadows     A pair of Little Ringed Plovers, a pair of Oystercatchers with three young, three Egyptian Geese, a Yellow Wagtail and a Red Kite over. (Paul Masters).

Saul Warth     From 6:30am to high tide 88 Shelducks including six ducklings, a Grey Plover, seven Oystercatchers, ten Curlews, two Redshanks, two Little Egrets, two Kestrels, eight Swallows including at least three juveniles, a Lesser Whitethroat, three Whitethroats, a Chiffchaff, a Reed Warbler, a pair of Grey Wagtails feeding unseen young and a male Reed Bunting. (MK).

Swallows by Mike King

Grey Plover by Mike King

Purton     A BITTERN dropped into north side of the timber ponds at 8:10am. It flew out again at 9:08am towards WWT. Then it returned again at 9:30am. (Andy Jordan).

Frampton     Around the pools today a Goshawk, a second summer Mediterranean Gull, five Common Terns, two Spotted Flycatcher, a Cuckoo, 16 Swifts, a Hobby, a Nuthatch feeding four young and a juvenile Grey Heron. An Oystercatcher feeding with gulls on the Green at 7am. (David Ashbee).

Leckhampton     At 7am an Oystercatcher calling while circling high then flying W, a garden tick. (Steve Brown).

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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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