Monday 14th September 2026

WWT Slimbridge     An OSPREY from Middle Point heading SE at 9:30am. (Paul Rich). 20 Knot roosting on South Lake and 24 Sanderlings, 14 Curlew Sandpipers and two Little Stints on the Top New Piece from Zeiss hide. Seven Bar-tailed Godwits from Middle Point earlier. (Ian Ralphs).

Saul Warth     Between 10am-12:15pm over high tide a Spotted Redshank, very scarce here, 81 Avocets, five Curlews, 100 Dunlins, 100 Ringed Plovers, a Common Sandpiper, 235 Shelducks, a Hobby, six Little Egrets, five Cattle Egrets, the escaped Greater Flamingo, 32 Swallows, 13 Meadow Pipits and four Jays flew SW. Only six Ringed Plovers and a Dunlin roosted close in. (MK).

Spotted Redshank by Mike King

Greater Flamingo by Mike King

Cattle Egret by Mike King

Sharpness     From SARA two Common Terns and a Wheatear this morning. (Steve Rickard).

Cotswold Water Park West    At Pit 201B this morning three Great White Egrets and a Green Sandpiper. Two Common Terns at Pit 16 and two Sedge Warbler at Shorncote. (Duncan Dine).

Nailsworth     A late SWIFT over the Newmarket valley and a Hobby hawking insects today. (Jon Haw).

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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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