Author Archives: The Gloster Birder

WWT Slimbridge    A WILLOW WARBLER singing in the NE corner of the Tack Piece at 10:20am. (Martin McGill). On the Dumbles at high tide six Bar-tailed Godwits, a Little Ringed Plover and a Ringed Plover. Still 196 White-fronted Geese … Continue reading →

WWT Slimbridge     A drake GREEN-WINGED TEAL mostly on the Knott hide pool, but occasionally mobile between hides. (Scott Petrek). Also five Mediterranean Gulls on South Lake and a drake Mandarin on the pool by the entrance boardwalk. (Neil Smart/Geoff … Continue reading →

Twyning     The second-winter ICELAND GULL on the Great Hay Meadow again from 9:15-9:30am viewed from Dock Lane picnic site, Bredon (Worcs) but always quite distant. (Les Ditchburn). It returned at 1:31pm to the gull roost but only for an … Continue reading →

Twyning     An ICELAND GULL on the Great Hay Meadow early afternoon (for the 2nd day) ⁦then drifted N. Also two Mediterranean Gulls, an adult and a second summer. (Francis Peplow). Frampton pools     A FIRECREST at 7:45am at the … Continue reading →

Chavenage Lane area     A male Wheatear on a drystone wall at Barton End, also 38 Golden Plovers, a Red Kite and a large ongoing northerly movement of several thousand Woodpigeons. (Terry Grant). Nailsworth     A HOUSE MARTIN flew N … Continue reading →

Stinchcombe Hill     This morning a male WHEATEAR, three Stonechats, a singing Chiffchaff, a Blackcap, 13 Meadow Pipits, a few Linnets, a Peregrine and a steady movement of Woodpigeons over N. (James Robinson). Awre    This morning the RICHARD’S PIPIT … Continue reading →

WWT Slimbridge     A pair of LITTLE RINGED PLOVERS on the Tack Piece from Robbie Garnett hide this afternoon. (Nick Skilbeck). A CATTLE EGRET coming into breeding plumage on South Lake today. (Jeremy Holland). A MERLIN on the Bottom New … Continue reading →

Forest of Dean     At Cannop Ponds this morning two Dippers, five Grey Wagtails, two Pied Wagtails, ten Wigeon, five Tufted Ducks, four Greylags, five Song Thrushes, a Mistle Thrush, three Treecreepers, a Siskin on the feeders and a Water … Continue reading →

Awre    Early afternoon the RICHARD’S PIPIT still at SO7205908775 feeding in tractor tracks between the obvious lone bush and the shoreline reedbed. Two Great Crested Grebes and two female Goosanders on the river. (Jeremy Holland). Park at the church … Continue reading →

Frampton     Two SAND MARTINS over the Sailing Lake at 8am in strong winds. Also a Cetti’s Warbler singing near the Sailing Club and a Kingfisher. (MK). Later on five Sand Martins, a juvenile male Goldeneye, a pair of Mandarins, … Continue reading →