Monday 7th September 2026

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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About The Gloster Birder

My name is Mike King and have lived all my life in Gloucestershire. I am happiest birding around Frampton but I especially love Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. I have birded all over Europe, in the U.S.A. and Canada, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Costa Rica, Belize, Madeira, Mexico, Grand Cayman, Dominican Republic, The Gambia, the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana, Tanzania, Trinidad & Tobago, Turkey and most recently Thailand.
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