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).

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