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 . It has almost completed its moult and will probably not be around much longer.

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).

WWT Slimbridge     The GUILLEMOT drifted up on the tide near the far bank at 9am and back S past Middle Point at 12:30pm. (Ian Ralphs/Ian Hull). Also nine Spotted Redshanks on site and two Turnstones, two Little Stints and seven Curlew Sandpipers on the Top New Piece. (Martin McGill). A Hobby from the Rushy at 2:39pm. (Nick Devereux).

Saul Warth     At high tide late morning a GUILLEMOT, three Knot, three Turnstones, 100 each Ringed Plovers and Dunlins, 135 Curlews, two Common Sandpipers, a Greenshank, four Common Cranes, six Cattle Egrets, the escaped Greater Flamingo, two Wheatears, a Rock Pipit, a Lesser Whitethroat, a Willow Warbler, two Chiffchaffs, two Blackcaps, 40 Swallows, ten House Martins and a Sand Martin. Also at least five Clouded Yellow butterflies. (MK). Also a brief Curlew Sandpiper (Mark Hobson) and a Whinchat, right of Hock Ditch. (Mike Davis).

Guillemot by Mike King

Sharpness     From SARA a juvenile SHAG flew upriver at 12:18pm, the GUILLEMOT near Purton at 2pm. Also 3-4 Spotted Flycatchers, a Great Spotted Woodpecker and a Kingfisher. (Oliver Paisey). Also 4+ Common Sandpipers, three Oystercatchers, 14 Cormorants, 70+ Canada Geese and 6+ Clouded Yellow butterflies. (Terry Grant).

Shag by Oliver Paisey

Common Sandpiper by Terry Grant

Forest of Dean     An adult Spotted Flycatcher feeding two young at Cannop Ponds (N) in the NW corner. (Mark Hobson).