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

Bourton-on-the-Water     At 11:20am a GREAT NORTHERN DIVER at SP179200, on the south easternmost lake to the NE of the Rissington Road. Park in the muddy layby just to the NW of bridge over the River Dikler but avoid parking in front of the Thames Water treatment building. (Fraser Morphew).

WWT Slimbridge    Three PINK-FOOTED GEESE (2 ads, 1 juv) today initially from Van de Bovenkamp hide and later from Zeiss hide. On the Dumbles three Snow Geese, the Ross’s Goose and ten Common Cranes, one unringed. An Oystercatcher on the Rushy. Three Greenland White-fronted Geese and a Great White Egret on the Tack Piece. Four Avocets, a female Goldeneye and a female Marsh Harrier on a kill on South Lake. (Dot Jones/Helen Bojaniwska/Jeanne Vitkovskis/Jon Dexter/MK).

Snow Geese by Mike King

Common Cranes by Mike King

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. (Dot Jones). The Peregrine on Slimbridge church again today at 11am and 4pm. (Jon Dexter).

Sharpness     A female/immature BLACK REDSTART at the Dockers Club this afternoon. (Andy Jordan).

Gloucester     A male BLACK REDSTART on the Cathedral again today. (Colin Edwards).

Down Hatherley     In a crop field minimum counts of 300 Linnets, 50 Chaffinches, 60 Yellowhammers, 12 Reed Buntings, four Snipe and a female Sparrowhawk hunting. Also an immature Goshawk nearby in Barrow Wood. (Andy Jayne).

Coombe Hill Meadows     Five WHOOPER SWANS flushed by walkers and flew off S. Also a Little Egret. (David Benton). Also a pair of Shelducks, an Oystercatcher and Great White Egret early morning. (Ian Ralphs). Also today two Mute Swans, 40 Greylags, two Canada Geese, 470 Wigeon, 350 Teal, 35 Mallards, 15 Pintails, 18 Shovelers, five Tufted Ducks, three Grey Herons, two Coots, 26 Lapwings, a Snipe, two Great Black-backed Gulls, two Lesser Black-backed Gulls, three Common Gulls, 95 Black-headed Gulls, 35 Pied Wagtails, a pair of Stonechats, 40 Fieldfares, 40 Redwings, three Song Thrushes singing and five Bullfinches. (Mike Smart).

Forest of Dean    At Cannop Upper Pond 12 Wigeon this morning, also eight Tufted Ducks, four Little Grebes and at the bird table two Marsh Tits and a Nuthatch. (Chris Keeling). Eight Goosanders on Woorgreens lake today. (Terry Stevenson).

Hazleton     50+ Bramblings feeding on grain along the lane to Hazleton where the bend in road is at 90 degrees. Several Chaffinches, Great Tits and Goldfinches amongst them. Nearby a Stonechat at Hawling and several Red Kites in the area. (Alan McIlquham).

Aylburton    This afternoon along Sandford Road a male Goshawk, 60-70 Bramblings and a Stock Dove. (Jonny Gentle).

Alvington    A Red Kite drifted over Clanna Country Park early afternoon heading W. (Paul Woolams).

Southam     A Buzzard and ten Magpies coming to a chicken carcass in the garden. (Graham Ruffles).

Buzzard & Magpies by Graham Ruffles

Edge     At Rudge Hill N.N.R. this afternoon birds included two Bullfinches, two Nuthatches, a Chiffchaff, five Chaffinches, three Long-tailed Tits, nine Great Tits and two Buzzards. (John Fletcher).

Frampton     Male and female Bullfinch at the Sailing Lake today. (Justin Collinge).

Male Bullfinch by Justin Collinge

Female Bullfinch by Justin Collinge

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. (Neil Smart).

Frampton     A drake Goldeneye at Court Lake today. (Nigel Young).

Goldeneye by Nigel Young

Chavenage Lane area     Two Red Kites, 450+ Fieldfares and four Stonechats today. (Terry Grant).

Red Kite by Terry Grant

Forest of Dean     At Brierley/Serridge Green area quite a few Siskin groups, a Hawfinch and ten Crossbills. At Nagshead a LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER on the short trail. At Speech House Lake a male and two female Goosanders and a Kingfisher. (Ken Heron).

Stonehouse    The regular Kingfisher at the Ocean again today at SO 79791 05049. Park beside St Cyr’s church in Church Lane and walk W through the church grounds a couple of 100 yards to the bridge. Also a Buzzard. (Paul Sutton).

Kingfisher by Paul Sutton

Buzzard by Paul Sutton

WWT Slimbridge     On the Tack Piece three Snow Geese, the SPOONBILL and a Great White Egret and a female Marsh Harrier on the Tack Piece. Male and female Goldeneye on South Lake. An Egyptian Goose and the Ross’s Goose on the Dumbles. Two Treecreepers at the Kingfisher hide. (Dot Jones/Martin Price/Tim Jukes/Alan Waterman).

Aylburton Common    Still 100’s of Bramblings in the area, including 120 in one tree. (Martin Vaisey).

Winchcombe     A Ring-necked Parakeet on garden feeders. (per Pete Rodgers).

Purton     From Purton to Sharpness SARA 15+ Lapwings, four Redshanks, 20+ Wigeon, three Little Grebes, a Kingfisher and a pair of Bullfinches. (Mike Davis).

Purton (FoD side)     A wintering Common Sandpiper still at Purton near Etloe this afternoon. Two there on 08/12/21. (Andy Jayne).

Forest of Dean     Two Goshawks from New Fancy Viewpoint early afternoon. (Andy Jayne).

Farmcote     This afternoon, a Buzzard in a field with a male Pheasant as prey, two more Buzzards nearby and six Red Kites overhead. (Andrew & Gill Worthington).

Taddington     A mixed flock of c100 finches wheeling over a field with seed heads. Also groups of 7, 7, and 4 Bramblings in trees. (Andrew & Gill Worthington).

Gloucester    A Peregrine circling the Cathedral tower at 3pm today. (Nikki Smith).

Cowley     A Red Kite over the A417 at Granny’s Pumps (the layby near Cowley Roundabout) at SO9579112145 at 9:45am. (Ian Elphick).

Longney     Late afternoon birds included two Cormorants, 21 Mallards, three Moorhens, 250 Starlings, two Green Woodpeckers, two Great Spotted Woodpeckers, one drumming, four Fieldfares and five Chaffinches at SO 762 41176. (John Fletcher).

Aylburton Common     Two Firecrests today along New Road at lunchtime. (Wendy Kennison).

Firecrest by Martin Vaisey

Firecrest by Martin Vaisey

Kempsford     Two Siberian Chiffchaffs with numerous nominate Chiffchaffs at the Sewage Works today. (Richard Tyler).

Siberian Chiffchaff by Richard Tyler

Fairford    12 Grey Partridges at Farhill Farm at SP16651 02363 , a covey of five in one stubble field and covey of seven in the adjacent stubble field. Also 250 Lapwings flew over. (Ewan Urquhart/Les Ditchburn).

Saul Warth    At Saul Warth and Hock Ditch this morning, a Marsh Harrier seen over the flashes, a Buzzard, a female Kestrel chasing the Buzzard, several Curlews calling, a Greenfinch, c20 Redwings/Fieldfares and c8 Meadow Pipits. (Chris Newton).

WWT Slimbridge     A BITTERN from Zeiss hide, a Merlin from Kingfisher hide) and an Egyptian Goose from the Van de Bovenkamp hide. Several Cattle Egrets in the roadside field on the sharp right bend after Slimbridge village. (Martin Price).

Forest of Dean     A Wild Boar just off the track to the Lower hide today. (Rob Daw). c6 Hawfinches, a Jay, six Nuthatches, four Treecreepers, two Goosanders, three Great Spotted Woodpeckers, Coal Tits, a Marsh Tit and 11 Mandarins at Parkend and Cannop ponds. (Paul Sutton).

Wild Boar by Rob Daw

Goosander by Paul Sutton

Nailsworth     A Red Kite over the A46 at The Tipputs Inn early afternoon. (Jamie Warren).

Minchinhampton     c50 Golden Plovers on the Common this morning by the Reservoir off of Culver Hill. (Jamie Warren).

Coombe Hill Meadows     A Great Spotted Woodpecker drumming until disturbed by Buzzard, a Great White Egret briefly and two Little Owls in same tree. (Paul Clark).