Saul Warth     800+ Dunlins late afternoon, 46 Shelducks and a Teal, also a Rock Pipit, two WATER PIPITS, four Pied Wagtails, a Grey Wagtail and two Stonechats all feeding in Hock Ditch and four Chiffchaffs at the sewage works. (Gordon Hodgson).

Frampton pools     A Green Sandpiper, 18 Snipe, two Golden Plovers, 350 Lapwings, two Stonechats, seven Pochards, 35 Mallards, 125 Tufted Ducks, 60 Gadwalls, 45 Shovelers, 36 Teal, 22 Wigeon, a male Goldeneye, a Brambling and 30 Reed Buntings today. (Nick Goatman).

Newnham-on-Severn     Late morning a Red Kite, 11 Golden Plovers and 55 Lapwings, all heading S. (Lewis Thomson).

Chavenage Road area     1+ Red Kites, 180+ Redwings, 75+ Fieldfares, 90+ Stock Doves feeding in a ploughed field and 60+ Golden Plovers feeding in another field nearby. Additionally, a hard weather movement of 250+ Lapwings and 30+ Golden Plovers flying S in several small flocks. (Terry Grant).

Stonehouse/Eastington     In fields below the canal near Beards Mill three Little Egrets, a Grey Heron, three Buzzards over together, three Snipe, a Goldcrest, a Green Sandpiper flew off high SW and a pair of Dippers along the paleo channel and along to Bond’s Mill. (Paul Sutton). From Eastington to the Sewage Works along the River Frome a Dipper, two Grey Wagtails, four Chiffchaffs, a pair of Stonechats, a Meadow Pipit, a Cormorant and a flock of Lapwings. A Dipper at Beard’s Mill. (Bob Hindle).

Halmore     A Lesser Redpoll  today, a garden first. Other birds included male and female Greenfinch, male and female Great Spotted Woodpecker and eight Long-tailed Tits. (Chris Newton).

Lesser Redpoll by Chris Newton

Cheltenham     Two drake Mandarins at Park Campus lake today. A Kingfisher and a Grey Wagtail at Pittville Park lake. (Alan McIlquham).

Mandarin by Alan McIlquham

Kingfisher by Alan McIlquham

Daglingworth     60+ Lapwings on pasture this afternoon. Also two Bramblings, two Lesser Redpolls and four Siskins in the finch flock. (Andrew Morrison).

Coombe Hill Meadows     Only approachable from the northern (Apperley) side. Birds included a Mute Swan, three Canada Geese, 300 Wigeon, six Gadwalls, 125 Teal, 20 Mallards, 130+ Pintails, 40 Shovelers, five Tufted Ducks, 35 Coots, 130 Lapwings, three Snipe, five Black-headed Gulls, five Meadow Pipits, 75 Redwings and 50 Fieldfares. (Andrew Gooden/Mike Smart).

Ashleworth Ham     Approached from the high ground above Colway’s Farm to the west. Birds included 110 Greylags, 120 Canada Geese, 40 Wigeon, four Gadwalls, 225 Teal, 50 Mallards, 56+ Pintails and two Lapwings. (Mike Smart).

Stratton     Two Red Kites over today. (Ken Cservenka).

Forest of Dean    Five male and two female Mandarins on Cannop Upper pond today, also a Song Thrush. (Chris Keeling).

Ampney Crucis    A Kestrel, a Red Kite, 20 Redwings, 12 Starlings and 12 Goldfinches today. (Liz & Colin Kilpatrick).

Frampton     Around the pools three Golden Plovers, 194 Lapwings, a male Goldeneye, 104 Tufted Ducks, 71 Gadwalls, 22 Shovelers, 45 Teal, three Wigeon, 37 Cormorants, 25 Reed Buntings, 300+ Starlings, 56 Fieldfares, 105 Redwings and 21 Little Egrets and eight CATTLE EGRETS roosted on Court Lake this evening. (Nick Goatman). From Splatt Bridge today 77 Curlews feeding in the thawed areas including one Slimbridge head-started bird, a sinensis Cormorant flew S, a Little Grebe and a female Shoveler on the canal. (Gordon Hodgson).

Stonehouse     A pair of Dippers by the weir at Beard’s Mill at dusk. (Paul Sutton).

Leddington     A Barn Owl hunting this afternoon. (Eden Tanner).

Barn Owl by Eden Tanner

Salperton    This morning 500+ Red-legged Partridges, 60 Redwings, two drumming Great Spotted Woodpeckers, six Red Kites, four Ravens, five Buzzards and two Mistle Thrushes today. (Dave Clarke).

Cheltenham     Several visits to the garden in Benhall each day from a Mistle Thrush to feed off  pyracanthas berries. (David Norman).

Mistle Thrush by David Norman

Stroud     At Frome Hall Mill Pond at lunchtime a Water Rail and 20 Siskins high in Alders. (Simon Ashley).

Cirencester     A Brambling in Cirencester Park today. (Chris Snook).

Brambling by Chris Snook

Nailsworth     A Tawny Owl flew across the road at Nailsworth garden centre on the Avening road this evening. (Paul Sutton).

Ampney Crucis    Two Yellowhammers, a male Bullfinch, a Great Spotted Woodpecker and a Kestrel today. (Liz & Colin Kilpatrick).

Alvington     A male Siskin on the feeders today, with up to five Siskins visiting daily. Also up to 22 Goldfinches. (Paul Woolams).

Siskin by Paul Woolams

Chavenage Lane     A female MERLIN and two Red Kites. (Terry Grant).

Winchcombe    Two Red Kites over Langley Hill this afternoon. (Phil Cull).

Red Kites by Phil Cull

Cotswold Water Park East     Two Oystercatchers at Pit 127 this afternoon. (John Durell).

Cirencester     A Kingfisher, a Grey Wagtail and two Goldcrests at the Mill Pond this morning. (Chris Snook).

Kingfisher by Chris Snook

Grey Wagtail by Chris Snook

Kingswood    A Buzzard in the garden again today. (Tom McCarthy).

Cheltenham     At Naunton Park, seven Common Gulls on the playing field, c6 Redwings and a Blackcap. (Steve Brown).

Frampton    From Splatt Bridge this morning a MARSH HARRIER, a Peregrine, a MERLIN, two single White-fronted Geese flew N 10 minutes apart, 16 Golden Plovers flew N, nine Snipe in the reed bed, and one flew high N, 55 Lapwings in the Snipe field and three Little Grebes on the canal. (Gordon Hodgson).

Cherington    A Barn Owl seen flying low along hedgerows and buildings today at Lowesmoor Farm, near Cherington at 3:30pm. (Jude Smith).

Nailsworth     A male MERLIN sat preening on a wall, seen from the lay-by on the A46 just past Barton End. (Terry Grant). A Blackcap singing well along Northfield Road today. (Roy Bircher).

Forest of Dean     Two LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKERS drumming within the same woodland near Littledean. (Dan Watson). A Red Kite at midday today drifting NE over Clanna Woods. Also a Buzzard over the garden. (Paul Woolams).

Buzzard by Paul Woolams

Lower Rea/Netheridge     Eight roosting Cormorants including two sinensis-type, 27+ Teal with many males displaying, a drake Shoveler, a pair of Gadwalls and three Snipe today. (MK).

Gadwall by Mike King

Sinensis-type Cormorant by Mike King

Cotswold Water Park East   On Pit 114 this afternoon, 40 Canada Geese, 40 Greylags, 50 Wigeon, 50 Teal, five Goldeneyes, four Gadwalls, 20 Mallards, five Snipe, two Oystercatchers, a Grey Heron, six Cormorants, ten Redwings and Fieldfares and 50 Black-headed Gulls today. (Bruce Kettle).

Ampney Crucis     A male Yellowhammer and 12 Fieldfares today. (Liz & Colin Kilpatrick).

Walmore Common     A male Goosander briefly late morning was just the second ever here and the first for 40 years. (Andy Jayne).

Lower Rea     Adult and juvenile WHOOPER SWANS still on Corn Ham/Minsterworth Ham viewed from the benches at Lower Rea across the river at SO 80412 15648, also ten Mute Swans, c100 Pintails, c50 Wigeon, three Shelducks, a Bar-headed Goose, a Buzzard and two Ravens. (Paul Masters). A pair of Wigeon and four Coots on Hempsted floods and 100+ Lapwings across the river. (MK).

Tewkesbury     Along the Severn Way a GREAT WHITE EGRET, a pair of Oystercatchers, a pair of Wigeon, a Buzzard, a Cormorant and Fieldfares. (Les Ditchburn).

Winchcombe    At Hayle’s Fruit Farm this morning 300+ Fieldfares, ten Redwings, 20 Chaffinches, four Bramblings, six Long-tailed Tits, a Yellowhammer and a Jay. (Dave Clarke).

Cotswold Water Park East    12 Dunlins on flooded arable fields near Kempsford this morning. (Duncan Dine).

Gloucester    At 1:35 pm, an adult female Sparrowhawk perched briefly on a house chimney in Millers Green Courtyard next to the Cathedral. (Nikki Smith). At Lansdown Road this morning eight Lesser Redpolls feeding on silver birch. (Laurence Lucas).

Cheltenham     A drake Mandarin still on Park Campus lake today. (Ken & Jenny Heron). A Grey Wagtail visiting two ponds in the garden throughout January up to today. (Philip Hasler).

Grey Wagtail by Philip Hasler

Prestbury    At lunchtime a female Stonechat along the footpath at the bottom (west) of Noverton Farm in the new horse paddocks. (Ken Heron).

Southam     Two Ravens on the ground in the garden feeding off mackerel scraps this afternoon. (Graham Ruffles).

Kingswood    45-50 Redwings in Loxley solicitors field today. 16+ Goldfinches, a male Bullfinch and a Kingfisher through the garden. (Tom McCarthy).

Lower Chedworth     This morning a pair of Ravens, a pair of Buzzards, two Red Kites and a pair of Bullfinches. (Harvey Sherwood).

Stonehouse/Eastington   A Little Egret at Millend Lane and three Grey Herons nearby. Three Grey Wagtails and a Kingfisher at Pike Lock/Bridge. A Fieldfare with 20 Redwings at Cress Green. A Raven on a pylon near the Sewage Works. From Eastington to the Sewage Works along the River Frome a Dipper, a Grey Wagtail, two Chiffchaffs, a Cormorant and a Bullfinch. At Bonds Mill a Little Egret, five Grey Herons, a Grey Wagtail,  two Dippers and c50 Siskins over in two groups. At the Ocean a Treecreeper and seven Long-tailed Tits together. (Nigel Birch/Bob Hindle/Josh Adamms/Paul Sutton).

Chalford     Along the canal two Kingfishers and three Goldcrests today. (Josh Adamms).

Goldcrest by Josh Adamms

Chavenage Lane     A pair of Peregrines hunting. The male took a kill, probably Fieldfare, onto overhead wires where it balanced in the wind to eat it. Also a female MERLIN, 250+ Redwings and 250+ Fieldfares. (Terry Grant).

Peregrine by Terry Grant

Peregrine by Terry Grant

South Cerney     c20 Golden Plovers opposite South Cerney camp with a flock of Lapwings today. (Gill & Chris Snook).

Golden Plover by Chris Snook

Golden Plover by Chris Snook

Cotswold Water Park West    At Shorncote this afternoon 16 Little Egrets and 100+ Lapwings. On Pit 85a a GREAT WHITE EGRET, a Snipe, a Little Grebe, c12 Tufted Ducks, four Gadwalls, several Coots and Mallards. Also a Kestrel, small groups of Redwings and Fieldfare in the hedges and six Long-tailed Tits. (Bruce Kettle).

Frampton to Slimbridge    From Splatt Bridge to Slimbridge along the canal two Kingfishers, 100+ Lapwings and Dunlins, three Golden Plovers, two Common Cranes, 50+ Curlews and a MARSH HARRIER hunting over the 100-Acre. (Martin Price).

Lower Rea     A pair of Ravens, 12 Goldfinches, seven roosting Cormorants, 30 Dunlins high S over Riversmead Farm at 1pm and five Teal (2m, 3f). 100+ Pintails, seven Mute Swans and a Bar-headed Goose this morning on Corn Ham, Minsterworth viewed from the benches at Lower Rea across the river at SO 80412 15648. Also today three Brown Hares and three Roe Deer (1m, 2f). (MK).

Dursley     A Raven strutting around the centre of the town opposite Sainsbury’s this morning. (Roy Bircher).

Edge     This afternoon around S0847089 12 Redwings, two Chaffinches, two Ravens heard, 17 Jackdaws and a Buzzard. (John Fletcher).

Redwing by John Fletcher

Gloucester    The FIRECREST again at the bottom of Rendcomb Close, Abbeymead along the River Twyver this afternoon. (Sam Walker). A female/immature MERLIN hunting near Abbott’s Lodge, Sandhurst at midday. (Andy Jayne).

Toadsmoor Valley    At Toadsmoor Pools a FIRECREST and two Marsh Tits today. (Simon Ashley).

Stonehouse    Grey Wagtails at Newtown Lock, Pike Bridge and Millend Row. Dippers at Pike Bridge, Millend Row and Beard’s Mill. A Raven over the Sewage Works. (Nigel Birch). In fields below Bond’s Mill a Little Egret, five Grey Herons, tw0 Buzzards, c50 Siskins over, a male Sparrowhawk, two juvenile Cormorants, a Grey Wagtail and several Pied Wagtails. (Paul Sutton).

Dipper by Nigel Birch

Cheltenham     Two drake Mandarins at the Park Campus lake this morning. Also at least three Goldcrests. (Martin Harrison).

Chipping Campden     A pair of Bullfinches in a finch flock in bushes E of Blind Lane today. (Julian Bennett).

Forest of Dean     Two Buzzards circling together over Mitcheldean today. (Chris Keeling).

Hewelsfield    25 Buzzards in a field next to Church Lane today including an almost white bird. (Claire Morse).

Ampney Crucis     A male Yellowhammer and a Buzzard today. (Liz & Colin Kilpatrick).

Ampney St Mary     A Green Woodpecker, 20 Starlings and six Yellowhammers today. (Liz & Colin Kilpatrick).

Woolaston     A GLAUCOUS GULL in a field today. The land owner says it has been there all week. (Martin Vaisey).

Glaucous Gull by Martin Vaisey

Lower Rea     An adult and a juvenile WHOOPER SWAN still this morning on Corn Ham, Minsterworth viewed from the benches at Lower Rea across the river at SO 80412 15648. (Paul Masters).

Gloucester    Part of the Starling murmuration going to roost on Sudmeadow this evening between 5-5:30pm. Viewed from the Oxlease, adjacent to the All Blues rugby ground. Also 1+ Sparrowhawk and 1+ Peregrine trying their luck. (Ian Elphick).

Starlings by Ian Elphick

Starlings by Ian Elphick

A FIRECREST again in Abbeymead at 1pm. Also a Grey Wagtail, a Great Spotted Woodpecker and a Goldcrest. (Keith Colcombe). At Horsebere Brook Flood storage lake this morning a Snipe, two Teal, a Reed Bunting, and three different Water Rails calling in the same area of the wetland (northeast corner) at the same time. (Rob Crofton/Andy Langley).

Tresham area     A female MERLIN late afternoon initially seen flying and then relocated perched on a dry stone wall. (Paul Rich).

Horsley     A Barn Owl at midday in a field near the church in the field just S of the road at ST83484 98114. (Dave Abrams & Hannah Willoughby).

Frampton pools     Two JACK SNIPE, 17 Snipe. a male Goldeneye, 19 Little Egrets, 141 Tufted Ducks, 22 Gadwalls, two Shovelers, eight Teal, 25 Mallards, 52 Robins, 21 Song Thrushes, four Mistle Thrushes, 33 Blackbirds, 24 Redwings, a Fieldfare, a male Stonechat, 19 Reed Buntings and the first singing Skylark of the year. (Nick Goatman).

Chavenage Lane     450+ Fieldfares and 130+ Golden Plovers disturbed by a male Peregrine today. Also four Stonechats. (Terry Grant). In fields between Chavenage and Ledgemore Bottom, 11 Skylarks, several large mixed finch flocks of Bramblings, Goldfinches and Chaffinches, a Lapwing and a Sparrowhawk mobbed by a pair of Buzzards. (Mike Kom).

Winchcombe     At Roel Gare Corn Buntings and Skylarks singing and 100+ Golden Plovers high in the sky wheeling and calling. (Steve Owen).

Halmore     This morning c60 Redwings, c40 Meadow Pipits and a male and female Kestrel. Tonight at 5:45pm at least four Ravens roosting in an oak wood and a male Tawny Owl calling. (Chris Newton).

Stonehouse    From Stonehouse bridge to Bonds Mill a male Kingfisher, a Treecreeper with a Goldcrest and a small mixed tit flock, 45+ Siskins, 30+ Goldfinches, another Goldcrest, a male and female Great Spotted Woodpecker, a Green Woodpecker heard, 25+ Chaffinches and a female Kestrel. (Paul Sutton).

Quedgeley    Along the canal between Rea Bridge and Sellars Bridge this afternoon, two Great Spotted Woodpeckers, three Song Thrushes, a Mistle Thrush, 20 Fieldfares and 30 Redwings, a Cormorant, six Moorhens, eight Pheasants, two Jays, three Buzzards and a Little Grebe briefly near Sellars Bridge. (Steve Pullen).

Stratton    A few Bramblings in amongst 100’s of finches that are feeding on the field margins viewed from Barn Way behind the Stratton House Hotel. (Livvy Drake).

Frampton     A GREAT WHITE EGRET at Splatt flashes today, also a WATER PIPIT, five Redshanks, a pair of Stonechats, 2+ Water Rails and a Snipe. (Gordon Hodgson). The regular Tawny Owl roosting at Frampton Court today. (Josh Adamms).

Tawny Owl by Josh Adamms

Cheltenham     At Naunton Park at 7:10am a Tawny Owl  flew low over rooftops apparently into the grounds of Cheltenham College junior school. Blackcaps daily in the garden, with  a high count of four on Sunday (2m, 2f). At the University of Gloucestershire Park Campus a Mandarin, two Nuthatches, a Jay, a Goldcrest and a Common Gull. (Steve Brown). At Northfield Reservoir 5+ Redwings, at Northfield Farm two Ravens, two Red Kites and four Buzzards and at Hewletts Reservoir a female Kestrel. (Howard Smith).

May Hill   A flock of hundreds of Linnets in the windmill field, sown with set-aside crops, in the village. (Rob & Gillian Guest).

Cambridge   A Treecreeper in Rosie’s Wood today, also a Goldcrest and two Buzzards. (Dave Abrams & Hannah Willoughby).

Forest of Dean    Two male Tufted Ducks on Cannop ponds today. (Martin Green).

Stanley Downton    A Cetti’s Warbler calling along the Stroudwater Canal at SO805044. (Nigel Birch/Martin Wright).

Gloucester     At Robinswood Hill today on the SE side this afternoon three Buzzards, five Chaffinches, male and female Blackcap, a Green Woodpecker, three Song Thrushes, five Long-tailed Tits and a 100+ Woodpigeons. (John Fletcher).

Elmstone Hardwicke/Boddington     A Woodcock flushed from under a hedge near Junction 10a today. (Jeremy Squire).

Roel     c150 Golden Plovers circling over fields, three Skylarks together singing, and many more heard, a male Stonechat, a Yellowhammer, four Bullfinches, a Song Thrush heard and two Buzzards. (Andrew & Gill Worthington).

Ampney St Peter     Four Yellowhammers, a Reed Bunting, a Song Thrush and a Skylark today. (Liz & Colin Kilpatrick).

Ampney Crucis     Ten Starlings, a male Yellowhammer, 30 Redwings and 15 Fieldfares today. (Liz & Colin Kilpatrick).

Saul Warth     Late morning a WATER PIPIT to the left of Hock Ditch briefly. Also 19 Shelducks, 20+ Wigeon, 25+ Pintails and two female Stonechats. (Eric Palmer/MK).

Saul     12 Little Egrets in the furthest paddock from the Arlingham Road and difficult to view. Later a CATTLE EGRET there. (Eric Palmer/MK).

Gloucester     At Horsebere Brook Flood Storage Lake two Water Rails, one seen and another calling at the same time, two Coots, a Moorhen, male and female Stonechat and a female Sparrowhawk female hunting low in the reeds. (Alan Hooper/Alan Baxter).

Stonechat by Alan Hooper

Stonehouse     A Kingfisher at Rover’s Bridge (Newtown Bridge) and also again near Bond’s Mill. Also a Water Rail at Bond’s Mill. (Jimmy Fletcher).

Kingfisher by Jimmy Fletcher

Water Rail by Jimmy Fletcher

Chalford     Along the canal today two Kingfishers, a Goldcrest, two Greenfinches and a Grey Wagtail. (Josh Adamms).

Lower Rea    Two Buzzards, a pair Peregrines on one of the pylons and a pair of Ravens today. (Gord Avery).

Nailsworth Four Roe Deer, two bucks, two does, in the garden today. (Terry Grant).

Roe Deer by Terry Grant