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 (Tanya Allen). 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 A GREY PHALAROPE feeding on the mud mid-river from Estuary Tower and later Middle Point. At midday two GREY PHALAROPES briefly before one flew off. (Martin McGill/Ian Hull).
Saul Warth Early morning at high tide 60 Avocets, 151 Curlews, a Greenshank, two Ringed Plovers, three Little Egrets, 14 Grey Herons, a Wheatear, two Chiffchaffs, two Blackcaps, two Kestrels, a Raven, a Yellow Wagtail and two Meadow Pipits. (MK).
Cotswold Water Park West On Pit 201b a Knot, three Little Ringed Plovers, two Green Sandpipers, a Hobby and ten Great White Egrets. (Nige Sluman).
Coombe Hill Meadows This afternoon a Buzzard, a Red Kite, two Ravens, a Green Woodpecker, a Whinchat, two Bullfinches, a Blackcap, 8+ Long-tailed Tits, 6+ Chiffchaffs and a Redstart. Also 25+ Clouded Yellow butterflies, 10+ Migrant Hawkers and 5+ Willow Emerald Damselflies. (Paul Clark).
Walmore Common An adult and juvenile Hobby again today, also two Gadwalls, a Cormorant, a Sparrowhawk, five Lapwings, two Snipe, a Sedge Warbler, five Whinchats and a Wheatear. Also the first Willow Emerald Damselfly for the site. (Andy Jayne).
Nailsworth A steady southward movement of hirundines with 520+ House Martins, 120+ Swallows and four Swifts together, also 14+ Ravens and 12 + Buzzards. (Terry Grant).
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