Tuesday 28th July 2026

Eastleach Downs     The first-summer LONG-TAILED SHRIKE present again today again along the minor road near https://maps.app.goo.gl/2DtRwdBHmTe3Wio89?g_st=iw . (Paul Masters/Mike Smart).

Please do not park on verges, block gates or roads at this busy harvest time. Park in the car park at https://maps.app.goo.gl/iUUEaCKtkdimNaMRA?g_st=iw The car park will be open 5am to 8pm tomorrow, £5 for charity in the collection box, which will be inside the car park on the left attached to a wooden post. (MK).

Long-tailed Shrike by Paul Masters

WWT Slimbridge     On the Rushy a SPOONBILL, two Common Terns, three Spotted Redshanks, a Greenshank, 72 Black-tailed Godwit and two Ruff. On the Tack Piece a WOOD SANDPIPER, six Green Sandpipers and three Little Ringed Plovers. (Dot Jones/Merv Carlyon/Terry Stevenson).

Common Terns by Merv Carlyon

Wood Sandpiper by Merv Carlyon

Saul Warth     On a low high tide from 6:15am 23 Avocets, 114 Curlews, a Common Sandpiper, two Oystercatchers and 50 Dunlins and two Turnstones distant on the Noose, two Little Egrets, three Kestrels, two Ravens, two Mistle Thrushes, two Grey Wagtails, a Lesser Whitethroat, a Whitethroat, a Chiffchaff and a Blackcap. (MK).

Coombe Hill Meadows    Plenty of Emperor dragonflies, 4+ Southern Migrant Hawkers, two Southern Hawkers, a Migrant Hawker, two Brown Hawkers, a Kestrel and a family of four Sedge Warblers today. (Paul Clark).

Southern Migrant Hawker by Paul Clark
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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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