Eastleach Downs     The first-summer LONG-TAILED SHRIKE still present today along the minor road near https://maps.app.goo.gl/2DtRwdBHmTe3Wio89?g_st=iw and showing well.

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).

Forest of Dean     At Woorgreens a Green Sandpiper and a Black Darter. (Andy Jayne). Two Red Kites flew down Lydbrook valley at 11:15am. A Clouded Yellow butterfly at Forge Hill in Lydbrook. (Chris Sullivan).

Walmore Common     A Hobby, a Peregrine and a Red Kite soaring together today. Also a Wheatear, two Yellow Wagtails and a Tree Pipit heard overhead. (Andy Jayne).

Saul Warth     Early morning 120 Curlews, a Black-tailed Godwit, 11 Avocets, 120 Dunlins, 100 Ringed Plovers, three Little Egrets, five Grey Herons, the escaped Greater Flamingo, two Lesser Whitethroats, four Whitethroats, three Blackcaps, five Chiffchaffs, 31 Swallows, a juvenile Green Woodpecker, a Rock Pipit and two Yellow Wagtails. (MK).

Lesser Whitethroat by Mike King

Coombe Hill Meadows     This morning two Red Kites, 4+ Buzzards, a Kestrel, two Ravens, two Whitethroats, 6+ Chiffchaffs, a Redstart and a Green Woodpecker. Lots of Green-veined Whites and Clouded Yellow butterflies, a Brown Hawker, three Southern Migrant Hawkers and 10+ Migrant Hawkers. (Paul Clark). Also a Spotted Flycatcher today. (Ian Hull).

Minchinhampton    At Hampton Fields this morning birds included 40+ Common Gulls, ten Red-legged Partridges, 50+ Pheasants, four Ravens, 30 Canada Geese and 15+ Stock Doves all down in the stubble. Also two Corn Buntings, five Yellowhammers, a Sparrowhawk and a Weasel. (Steve Pullen).

Frampton pools     This evening three Swifts, a Green Sandpiper, 45 Gadwalls, 26 Mallards, two Shovelers, six Teal, three Cattle Egrets, 18 Swallows, eight House Martins and 23 Cormorants. (Nick Goatman).

Aston Magna     Seven Spotted Flycatchers in the garden today. (Jamie Brown).