Maisemore     A large finch flock N of Maisemore near Longridge End c770 Chaffinches with 10+ Yellowhammers and one Brambling. Two Red Kites and 80 Stock Doves nearby. (Andy Jayne).

Slimbridge     At Shepherds Patch the GLOSSY IBIS again by the Dutch barn next to the canal at SO 72740 04303. Please park sensibly roadside or in the free car park before the bridge SO 72895 04128. Four Cattle Egrets on the right hand side of road fields before the pumping station. Another two Cattle Egrets in a field with two Little Egrets opposite the new car park before the pub. (Jonathan Bull/Sam Walker).

WWT Slimbridge    34 Knot with 100+ Black-tailed Godwits spooked by a MERLIN at Zeiss hide late morning. (Magnus Carter).

Highnam Woods     Birds today included a Coal Tit, a Marsh Tit, a Nuthatch, a Goldcrest, a Raven and a pair of Great Spotted Woodpeckers. (Rose Lennard).

Cheltenham     The drake Mandarin still on Park Campus pond today. (David Norman).

Stroud     A pair of Mandarins on the River Frome at Griffin Mills today. (Michael Barwick).

Dursley     A Dipper near the end of Water Street today. (Geoff Moyser).

Coombe Hill Meadows     c80 Pied Wagtails, a young male Goshawk, a Great White Egret and three Little Egrets today. (Ian Hull).

Slimbridge     At Shepherds Patch the GLOSSY IBIS again by the Dutch barn next to the canal at SO 72740 04303. Please park sensibly roadside or in the free car park before the bridge SO 72895 04128. (Jon Mercer). The two Egyptian Geese feeding along the hedgerow and in the ditches in the fields near the canal by the Patch this morning. (Neil Smart).

WWT Slimbridge     An adult SPOONBILL on the Tack Piece and 22 Knot. (Jon Mercer).

Cotswold Water Park West     Along the River Thames by Pit 57 two Cetti’s Warblers, four collybita Chiffchaffs and a cold grey bird showing good characteristics for a tristis bird. (Duncan Dine).

Tidenham    From Tidenham Church to Sturch Pill, no sign of the Water Pipit just two Meadow Pipits, but a MERLIN very active, also c60 Wigeon, two Teal, 22 Shelducks and three Snipe. (Paul Masters).

Coombe Hill Meadows     Birds today included 100+ Fieldfares over, four Bullfinches, 20+ Goldfinches, a Greenfinch, a Buzzard, three Little Egrets, a Snipe, two Skylarks and a Little Owl. (Dave Stone).

Forest of Dean     15 Goosanders (6m) at Woorgreens Lake, also 12+ Siskins with a Lesser Redpoll. A Wild Boar on the path to Lower Hide at Nagshead. Three male Bullfinches at Cannop Stoneworks/Cannop Wharf and 6+ Little Grebes at Upper Cannop. (Paul Clark).

Tresham     Mid morning the first singing Corn Bunting back on territory this morning and a Red Kite. (Paul Rich).

Wotton-Under-Edge    At Nind Lane five Siskins, a Little Egret, a Marsh Tit and a Sparrowhawk early morning. (Paul Rich).

Charlton Kings     At Pilley Bridge Reserve a female Sparrowhawk, a Bullfinch,
three Long-tailed Tits and a Song Thrush and a Blackcap both singing. From Highlands Road to Daisybank car park four Greenfinches, a male Bullfinch, a Stock Dove, two Jays, two Ravens, a Great Spotted Woodpecker drumming, a Nuthatch and two Coal Tits. (Steve Brown).

Lightpill     24 Siskins on the cycle track today. (Keith & Lyn Perkins).

Dowdeswell Reservoir     A Red Kite, two Buzzards, a Cormorant, a Treecreeper, four Long-tailed Tits and a Grey Heron. (Josh Adamms). Two Red Kites over together at 2:45pm. (Andy & Sue Gibbons).

Hawling     At midday two Red Kites separately and a Stonechat. (Andy & Sue Gibbons).

Hazleton     Early afternoon up to 50 Bramblings at the sharp right-hand bend before entering the village from the N. Two Red Kites seen from the A40, one at Hazleton, the other at Shipton. (Andy & Sue Gibbons).

Ford     A Red Kite at 3:50 pm over the B4077, approaching Ford from the E. (Andy & Sue Gibbons).

Ashleworth Ham     This afternoon 46 Snipe, a Little Grebe, eight Pintails, 85 Wigeon, 108 Teal, 27 Mallards, two Moorhens, five Lapwings, two Cormorants, a Grey Heron, three Mute Swans, two Goldcrests, a Chiffchaff, four Chaffinches, three Long-tailed Tits, ten Pied Wagtails and a Buzzard. (John Fletcher).

Pillhouse Rocks, Tidenham     A WATER PIPIT on the shoreline at Sturch Pill at ST 56745 95026 then flew over the hedge to a flooded field and feeding with Meadow Pipits today. Also two Rock Pipits. (Greg Mabbett).

Slimbridge     At Shepherds Patch the GLOSSY IBIS again by the Dutch barn next to the canal at SO 72740 04303. Please park sensibly roadside or in the free car park before the bridge SO 72895 04128. (Mike Davis).

WWT Slimbridge     An adult SPOONBILL on the Tack Piece and ten Knot. (Roberta Goodall).

Turkdean    At least 200 Bramblings feeding under the line of beech trees just outside the village this afternoon. (Tom Mabbett).

Frampton     Late morning/early afternoon, birds around the lakes included three Mandarins (2m, 1f), a large flock of Long-tailed Tits, three Cormorants together in a tree and the regular roosting Tawny Owl in Court field. On the A38 Fromebridge Mill roundabout, a male Kestrel hunting from a tree. (Nikki Smith).

Brimscombe/ Thrupp     At Park Wood a Treecreeper, a Jay and a Raven circling over. (Nikki Smith).

Forest of Dean   A Grey Wagtail and two Dippers just downstream of the bridge near Dean Forest Cycles. (Michael Tomkins).

Cheltenham     A drake Mandarin back again on Park Campus pond. (Jeremy Holland).

Dursley     A Red Kite over the High Street early afternoon. (Jonathan Bull).

Stonehouse     At Stanley Downton three Buzzards, a Raven, a Green Woodpecker and two Little Egrets. A Cormorant on the canal near St Cyr’s church and the Kingfisher at the Ocean bridge this morning. (Paul Sutton).

Little Egrets by Paul Sutton

Sharpness     An adult male Peregrine on the tower today. (Gord Avery).

Pillhouse Rocks, Tidenham     A WATER PIPIT 200 yards downriver from Sturch Pill at ST 56745 95026 again today. Also three Rock Pipits. (Richard Tyler).

Water Pipit by Richard Tyler

Frampton     From Splatt Bridge this morning 91 Curlews, five Redshanks, 14 Golden Plovers flew S, also two Stonechats, seven Mandarins flew up the canal and two Egyptian Geese flew over towards Court Lake. (Gordon Hodgson).

Fretherne to Arlingham     Along the Severn Way this morning two Peregrines on and around the tallest electricity pylons near Arlingham at SO 70740 09844, two Stonechats there, 50+ Curlews flying between the river mudflats and fields at SO 71234 09833 and a Common Sandpiper at SO 72127 09367. Also a Kingfisher flew along the Hock Ditch. (Jon Dexter).

Common Sandpiper by Jon Dexter

WWT Slimbridge     A Great White Egret and an adult SPOONBILL from Van de Bovenkamp hide this morning. Nine Avocets on South Lake.  (Dot Jones/Jeanne Vitkovskis/Mike Davis).

Cotswold Water Park East    On Pit 132 three Green Sandpipers, five Pintails, 400 Lapwings, 250 Golden Plovers and 80 Teal. (Ian Sherriffs). 105 Tufted Ducks and 19 Great Crested Grebes on Pit 125 and eight Goosanders on Pit 126. (Ian Ralphs).

Stanley Downton     Two Buzzards, a female Stonechat, a Kingfisher flushed from a water filled ditch near the sewage works, a Green Woodpecker, three Cormorants on pylons and a Cormorant on the canal near the Ocean bridge. (Paul Sutton).

Maisemore     Birds today at Court Lake included two Mallards, six Moorhens, a Coot, two Mute Swans and 36 Fieldfares. (John Fletcher).

Coombe Hill Meadows     Three Mute Swans, two Greylags, six Shelducks, 192 Wigeon, 300 Teal, a Gadwall, 30 Mallards, 11 Pintails, four Shovelers, two Tufted Ducks, a Great White Egret, a Little Egret, a Grey Heron, two Coots, a Great Spotted Woodpecker, two Meadow Pipits, a Skylark, two Fieldfares and at least three Reed Buntings. (Mike Smart).

Twyning     At Upham Meadows 35 Greylags, 135 Canada Geese, a Grey Heron, 30 Mallards, three Oystercatchers, 28 Carrion Crows and 60 Rooks feeding on the meadow. (Mike Smart).

Cheltenham    At Naunton Park garden male and female Siskins for 4 days (singing heard) and wintering male and female Blackcaps.  Nearby 2 Ravens seen at a traditional nest site and two others noisy and high N over Cheltenham. (David & Judy Anderson, Kim & Steve Brown). A Greenfinch singing at Leckhampton village hall. (Steve Brown).

Dursley     A Grey Wagtail at Water Street today. (Geoff Moyser).

Sapperton     At Park End Corner a Goshawk and at least 40 Bramblings with Yellowhammers and Chaffinches this morning. (Andrew Morrison & Tom Costello).

WWT Slimbridge     A SPOONBILL on the Tack Piece, the Dark-bellied Brent Goose, three PINK-FOOTED GEESE, three Snow Geese and the Ross’s Goose from Estuary Tower and two Egyptian Geese on South Lake. (Tim Jukes/Dot Jones).

Gloucester     The male BLACK REDSTART on the Cathedral and 1pm and two Peregrines flew away to the S. (Paul Clark).

Didmarton     140+ Stock Doves, 30+ Yellowhammers, 30+ Blue Tits and four Jays. (Terry Grant).

Stroud     At Fromebanks two Dippers, a Kingfisher and a Grey Wagtail this morning. (Mike Davis).

Churchend, Eastington     A Dipper on the River Frome at 3:35pm. (MK).

Maisemore     From Church Road, Court Lake and upstream from there birds included 250+ mixed Bramblings and Chaffinches at SO 815230, a Green Woodpecker, 12 Red-legged Partridges, 12 Fieldfares, four Redwings, a Mistle Thrush, two Long-tailed Tits, 11 Mallards, four Mute Swans, a Great Spotted Woodpecker drumming, two Buzzards and a Cormorant. (John Fletcher).

Ozleworth area     Seven Buzzards, two Red Kites, three Yellowhammers, several small flocks of Chaffinch one with c30 birds, 500+ Carrion Crows, c350 Woodpigeons, 60+ Redwings, a Raven, two Jays, a Red-legged Partridge and a female Sparrowhawk. (Paul Sutton).

Pillhouse Rocks, Tidenham     A WATER PIPIT in Sturch Pill at ST 56745 95026 again today. (Paul Rich).

Frampton     At Court Lake this afternoon two Little Egrets, ten Cormorants, 109+ Shovelers, 12 Wigeon, two Egyptian Geese right in front of Frampton Court and the regular roosting Tawny Owl. (Jonathan Bull/MK).

Egyptian Geese by Mike King

Tawny Owl by Mike King

Forest of Dean     A Hawfinch at Parkend today. (Terry Stevenson).

Tewkesbury     A male BLACK REDSTART still in private gardens in Northway.

Elmore     A Red Kite flew over today. (Nicki Barker).

Nailsworth     A Water Rail by the ponds at Ruskin Mill this morning. (Phil Pope).

Stinchcombe Hill     A male Brambling in the garden this morning. (James Robinson).

North Cerney     30+ Yellowhammers in a field near Cerney Gardens at SP009076 today. (Dave Soons).

Cotswolds     A Dipper at Rendcomb. c100 Bramblings still on the right hand bend before Hazleton village. 20 Corn Buntings in bushes opposite the Hawling junction at SP 07537 21951 and and 75 Golden Plovers in the field beyond (across the A436). (Roger Gillespie).

Roel     This afternoon, c20 Redwings, a pair of Stonechats, Skylarks singing, a Buzzard and a Red Kite. (Andrew & Gill Worthington).

Stroud     Two Dippers near the Waitrose footbridge at lunchtime. Also along Frome Banks a Coal Tit and a Goldcrest. (Richard Williams).

Chavenage Lane area     650+ Fieldfares, 200+ Chaffinches, 60+ Linnets, 30+ Stock Doves and a Stonechat. (Terry Grant).

Halmore     Three Song Thrushes singing from separate territories yesterday and today. Also four Ravens and a Goldcrest in the woods. (Chris Newton).

Pillhouse Rocks, Tidenham     A WATER PIPIT in Sturch Pill at ST 56745 95026 at 12:20pm then flew off long, calling, towards Severndale Farm. Also a Curlew, a Redshank, two Snipe and ten Lapwings. (MK).

Gloucester     At Horsebere Brook flood storage lake male and female Stonechat, a male Reed Bunting, a Little Egret, a pair of Mute Swans and a Buzzard over this morning. (Paul Sutton).

Stonechat by Paul Sutton

WWT Slimbridge    On the Tack Piece three PINK-FOOTED GEESE, three Greenland White-fronted Geese and three Snow Geese today. (Slimbridge Sightings).

Slimbridge     At least nine Little Egrets in the field over the canal near the Tudor Arms pub at Shepherd’s Patch. Also at least five Cattle Egrets in fields next to Slimbridge village near the pumping station. (Slimbridge Sightings).

Forest of Dean     A Hawfinch at Parkend today. (Paul Woolams).

Hawfinch by Paul Woolams

Fairford    Two Grey Partridges again today at Farhill Farm at SP1665102363. (Roy Kinchin/Roberta Goodall).

Brookthorpe     At Upton Lane orchards early evening birds included a Little Owl, a Tawny Owl calling, two Redwings, a Green Woodpecker and a Buzzard heard. (John Fletcher).

Coombe Hill Meadows     Three male drumming Great Spotted Woodpeckers, a Great White Egret, a Skylark in song, four Yellowhammers and 5+ Bullfinches, Greenfinch and Goldfinch along the canal and a Water Rail by the hide. (Ian Hull/Paul Clark).

Berkeley shore     Early morning two Rock Pipits, a Common Sandpiper, a Reed Bunting, a Stonechat, ten Dunlins and seven Redshanks. (Paul Rich).

Ashleworth Ham     Two Red Kites drifted over early afternoon. (Steve French).

Forest of Dean    1000’s of Chaffinches and Bramblings with a few Linnets in a crop field on the Meend side of Staunton at 11:30am. (Martin Green & Henry McGill).

Hazleton     100+ Bramblings, also a few Chaffinches and Yellowhammers and 20 Fieldfares by a 5-bar on the left on a right hand bend just before the village. (Chris Snook).

Bramblings by Chris Snook

Bramblings by Chris Snook

WWT Slimbridge     A pair of PINK-FOOTED GEESE with a juvenile and five Greenland White-fronted Geese on the Bottom New Piece. A Goshawk around the site, a Red Kite over the Dumbles, three Snow Geese and the Ross’s Goose on the Dumbles. The GLOSSY IBIS roosted on Long Ground overnight. Six Cattle Egrets on the field by the sharp bend after Slimbridge village. (Magnus Carter/Jonathan Bull).

Cheltenham    A Dipper on the River Chelt this morning off of Glenfall Way. (Tom Mabbett). At 3:30pm, a Red Kite circling slowly over Benhall, drifting slowly downwind. (David Norman). A Red Kite over Kidnappers Lane at 1pm being seen off by Crows. (Martin Harrison).

Swindon Village     A Red Kite at roof top height in Manor Road at 11am. (Selwyn Ballinger & Lisa Martin).

Saul Warth     A Dunlin,  a drake Wigeon, a male Stonechat, a Sparrowhawk and 20+ Fieldfares this afternoon. (MK).

Dunlin by Mike King

Chavenage Lane area     A Red Kite, four Stonechats and at nearby Barton End lay-by, two Grey Partridges, a Red Kite and 150+ Stock Doves. (Terry Grant).

Frampton     From the towpath N of Splatt Bridge a Buzzard, a Kestrel, c50 Curlews and two Little Egrets this morning. (Chris Newton).

Ashleworth Ham     This afternoon birds included 63 Snipe, 149 Lapwings, two Little Grebes, 116 Teal, 73 Wigeon, 98 Mallards, male and female  Shoveler, seven Greylags, two Mute Swans, two Moorhens, two Grey Herons, a Cormorant, two Pied Wagtails, a Song Thrush, a Chiffchaff, six Long-tailed Tits, a Great Spotted Woodpecker and a Tawny Owl heard hooting several times. (John Fletcher).

Sharpness     A male BLACK REDSTART at the end of Dock Road at 3:45pm then flew to the dry dock area. (Andy Jordan). From Coastguards to Berkeley Pill 40+ Wigeon, 30+ Teal, a Shelduck, 21 Mallards, a Curlew, 12 Redshanks, 12 Dunlins, 127+ Lapwings, 38 Snipe, 27 Cormorants, 20+ Meadow Pipits, two Rock Pipits, three Skylarks, three Reed Buntings and three Stonechats. Also a pair of Peregrines on the tower in the docks. (MK).

Dursley     A FIRECREST in the garden at Woodmancote today. (Peter Cranswick).

Firecrest by Peter Cranswick

Forest of Dean     A Goosander at Cannop Ponds Stoneworks briefly. (Bettie Sloane). This morning at Clearwell, in the Margery Lane area a Raven being mobbed by Crows, two Buzzards, six Linnets and 200/250 Redwings all in one field with sheep. (Alan Waterman). A Red Kite over Blakeney this morning. (Ted Harris).

WWT Slimbridge    A pair of Egyptian Geese still in the last field on the right approaching the Trust often out of sight in the ditch along the hedgerow at 3pm. (MK). On the Bottom New Piece from Kingfisher Hide a pair of PINK-FOOTED GEESE with a juvenile, a pair of adult Greenland White-fronted Geese and the Dark-bellied Brent Goose and the Ross’s Goose still. (Paul Rich/Richard Tyler). Three Water Rails feeding in the open at the Zeiss Hide and the Great White Egret  in front of the Van de Bovenkamp hide. (John Bromley).

Greenland White-fronted Geese by Richard Tyler

Egyptian Geese by Mike King

Great White Egret by John Bromley

Coombe Hill Meadows     This evening a Great White Egret, 65 Snipe and 80 Pied Wagtails on the scrapes and a Woodcock on the path near the car park. (Jeremy Squire).

Fairford    This afternoon at Farhill Farm in the scrub field at SP1655102375 two Grey Partridges again. Nearby at Coln St Aldwyn’s a Red Kite above the church being attacked by a Raven. (Alan Hooper/Alan Baxter).

Quedgeley     A Kingfisher between two white bridges at Sims Lane today. (Justin Collinge).

Kingfisher by Justin Collinge

Bourton-on-the-Water     The GREAT NORTHERN DIVER again at SP179200, on the south easternmost lake to the NE of the Rissington Road. It caught a fish then flew off southwards, but not to Santhill Lake. No sign after 2:30pm. (Fraser Morphew).

WWT Slimbridge     Three PINK-FOOTED GEESE (2 ads, 1 juv) again today on the Bottom New Piece. Also a Great White Egret. Two Egyptian Geese in the approach road fields. The Dark-bellied Brent Goose from Van de Bovenkamp hide. (Roberta Goodall/Tom & Greg Mabbett).

Leckhampton Hill     300+ Golden Plovers, two Yellowhammers, five Redwings and two Ravens today. (Eric Harris).

Forest of Dean     At Edgehill NR large numbers of Siskins and Goldfinches, a Nuthatch, a Treecreeper, a Stonechat and Crossbills. (Josh Adamms/Owen Follis).

Ashleworth Ham     58 Snipe, a Little Egret and two Little Grebes today. (Les Ditchburn).

Stanley Downton     Birds today included two Buzzards, a female Great Spotted Woodpecker, a Mistle Thrush, nine Meadow Pipits, 15 Linnets and 30+ Pied Wagtails. (Paul Sutton).

Wotton-Under-Edge    To Tyley Bottom and Goose Green a Kestrel, four Buzzards, a Red Kite, three Bramblings and c12 Skylarks singing along the higher ground up on Goose Green. (Mike Fisher).

Frampton     From Splatt Bridge this afternoon c50 Curlews, several Shelducks, three Cormorants, a Kestrel, a Little Egret and a Buzzard. At Court Lake birds included the regular roosting Tawny Owl, 16+ Cormorants, a pair of Great Crested Grebes, a Little Egret, a Grey Heron, a Great Spotted Woodpecker and five male Shovelers. (Paul Sutton).

Cormorant by Paul Sutton