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 . (Ian Ralphs).
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 Ian Ralphs
Saul Warth At 6am low tide 89 Curlews, a Whimbrel, 14 Black-tailed Godwits, 15 Avocets, three Oystercatchers, six Ringed Plovers, two Dunlins, a Turnstone, a Great White Egret, three Little Egrets, the escaped Greater Flamingo, two Common Terns, a Peregrine, an unseasonal Rock Pipit, six Swallows, a Skylark, a Lesser Whitethroat, two Whitethroats, two Chiffchaffs and a pair of Greenfinches scarce here. (MK).

Greenfinch & Lesser Whitethroat by Mike King
WWT Slimbridge The Wood Sandpiper still on the Tack Piece today. (Terry Stevenson).
Frampton pools Around the pools today 67 Chiffchaffs, two Willow Warblers, 15 Blackcaps, seven Whitethroats, 20 Swifts, 45 Sand Martins, four House Martins, eight Swallows, two Spotted Flycatchers, 93 Mallards, a Teal, 212 Coots, a Little Grebe, eight Great Crested Grebes with five young, a Great White Egret, two Sparrowhawks, five Buzzards, a Yellow-legged Gull and five Common Terns. (Nick Goatman).
Cotswold Water Park West A Red Crested Pochard and three ducklings on Pit 32 today. (John Holland).
Nailsworth Two Swifts, a Sparrowhawk family and a Jersey Tiger moth today. (Terry Grant).

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