Author Archives: The Gloster Birder

Sharpness/Berkeley shore     A pair of EIDERS, first found by Matt Hobbs and Oscar Dewhurst off of Severn Beach, South Glos, arriving off of Sharpness at 11am and remaining in the Sharpness/Berkeley area until 1:35pm. (Andy Jordan/Paul Taylor). Eider pair … Continue reading →

Walmore Common     A Great White Egret today. (Andy Jayne). Coombe Hill Meadows    This morning a Whimbrel and a Cuckoo. (Jeremy Squire). The WOOD SANDPIPER still today. (Les Ditchburn). WWT Slimbridge     The immature SPOONBILL on the Top New … Continue reading →

Stratton    Tonight at 10pm a reeling Grasshopper Warbler on Bathurst Estate farmland. (Ken Cservenka). Frampton    Two Common Sandpipers, two Common Terns and a Cuckoo this morning. (David Smith). WWT Slimbridge     The immature SPOONBILL from Zeiss hide, a … Continue reading →

WWT Slimbridge    45+ KITTIWAKES from Middle Point this morning. Also a LITTLE TERN, a LITTLE GULL, a Mediterranean Gull, two Ruff, five Whimbrels, c30 Bar-tailed Godwits, a Common Sandpiper, a Spotted Redshank, two Turnstones, a SPOONBILL and a Cuckoo. … Continue reading →

Berkeley shore    Two ARCTIC SKUAS (1 pale phase) past Berkeley Power Station at 10:57am. (Paul Taylor). Purton    Two LITTLE GULLS (ad and 2cy) flew N and five SANDWICH TERNS flew S early morning. (Francis Steuck). WWT Slimbridge    … Continue reading →

Westonbirt Arboretum     A male FIRECREST singing in full view in Silkwood today. (Megan Adamou). Berkeley     A CORN BUNTING just N of the Pill briefly this morning and a Whinchat. Over 1000 hirundines N, five Mediterranean Gulls, four Bar-tailed … Continue reading →

Berkeley shore    Two DARK-BELLIED BRENT GEESE flew S past the shore at 6:46am. (Paul Taylor). Cotswold Water Park West     A BLACK TERN on Pit 41. (Jon Mercer). Lydney    Three Commic Terns and a LITTLE TERN flew down … Continue reading →

Frampton     A SANDWICH TERN over the village this afternoon; seemed to be flying from Sailing Lake to Hock Ditch area. (Gordon Kirk). A Blackcap in a Vicarage Lane garden and a Kingfisher perched at the Sailing Lake. (Sue Spurr). … Continue reading →

Dymock    Belated news of a sighting of a HOOPOE on the 27th April 11am at Brooms Green, Dymock, just in Gloucestershire. It was heard only the day before in an adjacent wood just in Herefordshire (Andrew and Janet Perry … Continue reading →

WWT Slimbridge    From the Estuary Tower a WOOD SANDPIPER dropped in to the pool at 9:40am for less than a minute before departing N, 138 Swallows, 38 House Martins and eight Sand Martins. A Cuckoo over South Finger reedbed … Continue reading →