Author Archives: The Gloster Birder

Cotswold Water Park East    At Whelford Pools and adjacent  Conservation Lake a Garden Warbler, 11 Common Terns, three Ringed Plovers, a Common Sandpiper, two Sanderlings, two Oystercatchers, two Shelducks, a Cuckoo and six Great Crested Grebes today. (Chris Moore). Saul Warth   … Continue reading →

Sharpness    A Corn Bunting between Sharpness and Berkeley Pill this morning. (Andy Jordan). Also a late Rock Pipit at SARA Lifeboat Station this morning. (Paul Taylor). Berkeley shore     Early morning three Turnstones, 11 Grey Plovers, 68 Ringed Plovers, c100 Dunlins, … Continue reading →

WWT Slimbridge     Two LITTLE TERNS downriver off of New Grounds toward Purton at 7:42am. Also a BLACK TERN, a dark phase ARCTIC SKUA, six Common Terns, 210 Dunlins, 165 Ringed Plovers, 11 Sanderlings, two Grey Plovers, two Bar-tailed … Continue reading →

Cotswold Water Park West    An OSPREY again today seen over Ashton Keynes and Pit 43. It has a blue ring 6k. (Dave Soons). Pic by Dave. Frampton    A juvenile LITTLE GULL on the Sailing Lake again also a Common … Continue reading →

Cleeve Hill    This morning a male RING OUZEL and a very late Fieldfare above the heather enclosure, also four Wheatears and a Cuckoo. (Greg Mabbett). Frampton     A Short-eared Owl S of Splatt Bridge at 8pm. (Colin Greenfield). Forest of … Continue reading →

WWT Slimbridge     Five DARK-BELLIED BRENT GEESE from Holden Tower on the river, the Turnstone still on South Lake, two WOOD SANDPIPERS briefly on the Tack Piece and a Cuckoo singing in the Decoy Wood. (Slimbridge Sightings). Four CATTLE EGRETS feeding … Continue reading →

Saul Warth    Five DARK-BELLIED BRENT GEESE, 11 Grey Plovers and three Turnstones this morning. Later 13 Grey Plovers, 38 Dunlins, three Bar-tailed Godwits, three Whimbrels and a Knot off Hock Ditch at low tide. (Gordon Hodgson). WWT Slimbridge     Three WOOD SANDPIPERS … Continue reading →

WWT Slimbridge    A TURNSTONE on South Lake, a male GARGANEY on the Rushy and four CATTLE EGRETS around the grounds. (Roberta Goodall). Also a Hobby over the Rushy today. (Les Ditchburn). Hempsted     At Netheridge Farm this morning a pair of … Continue reading →

Frampton     At the Sailing Lake a BLACK TERN, two Common Terns, a Common Sandpiper, a Whinchat, a Nightingale, 100+ Swifts, 50+ Swallows, 300+ Sand Martins and a Cuckoo today. Five Hobbies hunting over Court Lake. (Nick Goatman). Cleeve Hill     … Continue reading →

Cotswold Water Park West     An OSPREY hunting and hovering over Pit 58 at 1:30pm then flew towards Ashton Keynes. (Dave Soons). Sherborne     The GREAT WHITE EGRET still at Sherborne Brook.  Also a Little Egret and a Grey Heron … Continue reading →