Author Archives: The Gloster Birder

Coombe Hill Meadows     Early morning the GLOSSY IBIS still and a GREAT WHITE EGRET. (Andy Lodge). Also two male Cuckoos. (Duncan Dine). A singing Redstart, a Hobby, a Whimbrel and a Little Ringed Plover still. (Mark Dowie). Hartpury     Dawn … Continue reading →

Sharpness     A dark phase ARCTIC SKUA N past SARA at 8:45am. Also a Cuckoo, a Hobby, a pair of Gadwall and Reed Warblers new in and a male (probable Greenland) Wheatear. (Andy Jordan). Pic by Andy. Coombe Hill Meadows    … Continue reading →

Coombe Hill Meadows     A GLOSSY IBIS at 5:45pm today. (Jonathan Angliss). Cleeve Hill     This morning a male Whinchat between the radio masts and Warden’s Wood, 1+ Garden Warbler singing at Warden’s Wood, a Tree Pipit near the footpath from … Continue reading →

Forest of Dean     Three singing Wood Warblers in the Crabtree Hill area. At least ten Crossbills at Yew Tree Brake. Also at Nagshead three Pied Flycatchers and at the Nursery Pool two singing Garden Warblers. At Woorgreens a male … Continue reading →

Cleeve Hill     At 6:45pm a ring-tailed HEN HARRIER hunting E of the radio masts. Also on Bill Smyllie Reserve a Cuckoo briefly seen and heard and two Kestrels hunting. (Mike Dobson). 17 Wheatears with 14 of them together just … Continue reading →

Frampton     A male PIED FLYCATCHER at 7am along the canal N of Splatt Bridge until 7:20am when it flew towards the car park and wasn’t seen again. Also a BITTERN flew into the reedbed N of Splatt Bridge at … Continue reading →

Brockworth     At Henley Bank Plantation a WOOD WARBLER calling from a mature oak at SO901171. (Terry Fenton). Coombe Hill Meadows     The GARGANEY pair still tonight. (Roy Shilham). Frampton     A GREAT WHITE EGRET with two Little Egrets and … Continue reading →

Perrott’s Brook     A singing WOOD WARBLER E of Perrott’s Brook in the L-shaped wood off of the Welsh Way at SP 03491 05895. (Jeremy Squire). Coombe Hill Meadows     A pair of Garganey still, also a Whimbrel, a Cuckoo, a … Continue reading →

Walmore Common     Two Grasshopper Warblers reeling this morning and a flock of seven Whimbrels and three Bar-tailed Godwits flew over N. (Andy Jayne). Frampton     Two WHINCHATS, a Wheatear, six Yellow Wagtails, a Hobby, two Whimbrels, a Common Sandpiper and … Continue reading →

Cotswold Water Park West     An OSPREY being mobbed by gulls over the Pit 43 area going W in the direction of Shorncote. 16 Arctic Terns on Pit 57 this morning. (Duncan Dine). WWT Slimbridge     An Arctic Tern on South … Continue reading →