Author Archives: The Gloster Birder

Cotswold Water Park East     At Pit 132 three Teal, four Red Crested Pochards, two Oystercatchers, 70 Lapwings, a juvenile Little Ringed Plover, two Common Sandpipers, eight Green Sandpipers, a Greenshank, a Great White Egret, nine Little Egrets, a Red … Continue reading →

Coombe Hill Meadows     This morning three Green Sandpipers, a Little Ringed Plover, a Teal, a House Martin, six Sand Martins, Swifts, a Great White Egret, two Little Egrets and a Cuckoo heard. (Eric Harris). In the afternoon the Great … Continue reading →

WWT Slimbridge    Two Wood Sandpipers showing well from Zeiss hide. (Helen Bojaniwska). No sign of the Bluethroat at Middle Point but a Grasshopper Warbler still and a Hobby. (Dot Jones/Paul Rich). Gloucester    At Horsbere Brook FSA this evening … Continue reading →

Tresham     Two QUAILS between Tresham and the A46, heard from an iron gate at ST804907 at 2:45pm, also a singing Corn Bunting. (Vic Polley). WWT Slimbridge     The white-spotted BLUETHROAT still at Middle Point early morning. (Ian Hull). Bentham  … Continue reading →

Saul Warth     78 Avocets this afternoon with seven Oystercatchers and eight Curlews. (Gordon Hodgson). Coombe Hill Meadows     This morning a QUAIL heard in the South meadows 100mtrs from the carpark to first footbridge. From Grundon hide four Little … Continue reading →

WWT Slimbridge    A HONEY BUZZARD, aged as a dark morph adult female, flew over the Tack Piece at 12:15pm and drifted SE towards Coaley Peak. (Colin Gittins per Terry Fenton). Coombe Hill Meadows     This morning two Great White … Continue reading →

WWT Slimbridge     The male Ruff still on South Lake, a female/eclipse male GARGANEY on the Top New Piece at the north end from the Zeiss hide late afternoon. A Great White Egret from Van de Bovenkamp hide late morning. … Continue reading →

WWT Slimbridge     The white-spotted BLUETHROAT was still at Middle Point this morning and sang showed very briefly early on. It continues to be very elusive and mornings seem to be the best chance, although there were no further reports … Continue reading →

WWT Slimbridge     A juvenile BLACK-NECKED GREBE all day on South Lake on the deep lake but sometimes in cover in the far left hand corner. (Martin McGill). No reports of the Bluethroat today in very windy conditions. Black-necked Grebe … Continue reading →

WWT Slimbridge     The white-spotted BLUETHROAT was still at Middle Point this morning and showed very briefly at 9:50am. It continues to be very elusive and mornings seem to be the best chance. (Ian Ralphs/Rich Baatsen). On South Lake a … Continue reading →