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 Whinchats, a Lesser Whitethroat, 17 Whitethroats, five Sedge Warblers, four Reed Warblers, six Swifts and a House Martin. (Mark Hobson).

Cam     A Hobby over Jubilee playing fields this afternoon. (Seb Buckton).

Highnam Woods     4/5 Nightingales this evening. (Ashley Davies).

Frampton     On the scrapes N of Splatt Bridge a Whimbrel, a Little Ringed Plover, a Greenshank, a Redshank, two Ruff and two Little Egrets. At Court Lake three Hobbies. (Chris Moore).

Woodchester     At Woodchester Park today a pair of Grey Wagtails nest feeding five young, 13 Grey Herons nests in a heronry and a WOOD WARBLER. (Terry Grant). Pic by Terry.Ashley     10+ Swallows, two Goldcrests, two Bullfinches, six Blackcaps, four Swifts, two Pied Wagtails, four Chiffchaffs, a Willow Warbler, nine Buzzards, 8+ Skylarks, four Whitethroats, two House Martins, four Stock Doves, three Nuthatches, a Great Spotted Woodpecker, three Yellowhammers and a male Sparrowhawk today. (Mark Grieve).

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     This evening at least two RING OUZELS, one male and two Cuckoos just below the heather enclosure. (Ashley Davies).

Forest of Dean     At Wenchford a Garden Warbler, a Jay, a pair of Grey Wagtails feeding young, a pair of Long-tailed Tits, Chiffchaffs, Willow Warblers, Blackcaps, a Goldcrest and Song Thrushes. In the Cannop Ponds area a pair of Bullfinches, a pair of Willow Warblers, a Whitethroat, Blackcaps, Chiffchaffs, a pair of Pied Wagtails, Ravens, Buzzards, Song Thrushes, Stock Doves and a pair of Mistle Thrushes. (Chris & Phil Andrews).

Symonds Yat     From Yat Rock viewpoint the Peregrine pair, a Hobby, a Red Kite, two Sparrowhawks, a Kestrel, Buzzards, Ravens, a Marsh Tit, 12 Swifts, Swallows, House Martins, a Common Sandpiper, a Kingfisher, a Treecreeper and Stock Doves. (Chris & Phil Andrews).

Rodborough     A Red Kite, two Sparrowhawks, two Mistle Thrushes and 14 Swift over the Common this morning. Butterflies included Dingy Skipper, Small Heath, Brown Argus and Duke of Burgundy. (Duerden Cormack).

Stroud     Two Kingfishers and three Grey Wagtails on the Stroudwater Canal today. (Duerden Cormack).

Ashley     A Red Kite over the garden and a male Wheatear on the garden wall. (Mark Grieve).

Severn Hams     Along the River Severn from Haw Bridge to Chaceley Stock 2+ Curlews, four Whimbrels on a potato field, two Common Sandpipers on the edge of the river, a Great Spotted Woodpecker drumming, ten Sand Martins around the colony at Malthouse Farm, three Redstarts, three Sedge Warblers, two Lesser Whitethroats, three Whitethroats and two Reed Buntings. (Mike Smart).

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 today. (Andy Lewis). Pic by Andy.WWT Slimbridge     Four CATTLE EGRETS with cattle SW of the approach road c75m from the road, a passage of Swifts at Mid Point in groups of c30 birds at 5 minute intervals at noon, following the Severn northwards and a male Ruff on South Lake. (John Widgery).

Frampton     At the Sailing Lake two Common Terns, a Common Sandpiper, four Pochards, 100+ Swifts, 30+ House Martins, 100+ Sand Martins, 10+ Swallows, a male Mandarin, a Whitethroat and a Reed Warbler. (Nick Goatman). At Splatt Bridge a Cuckoo, a Common Sandpiper, a Wheatear and 50+ Swifts in 30 minutes heading over N this morning. (Gordon Hodgson).100+ Swift

Witcombe Reservoirs     This morning along the approach road a Whitethroat singing and two House Martins around the barns and farm house. (John Miles).

Hartpury     At Hartpury Orchard Centre this morning  at SO7856825395 a Kestrel, a Cetti’s Warbler singing, Reed Warblers singing, a returning pair of Swallows nesting, four Swifts, a Green Woodpecker, two families of Canada Geese with ten goslings between them, a pair of Mallards with five ducklings, a Grey Heron, three Goldfinches and a Moorhen. (Alan Hooper/Julia Eckley).

Gloucester     This morning around the Castlemeads (West) end of Port Ham towards the old Llanthony Lock (SO8218) two Lesser Whitethroats, a Cetti’s Warbler, a Sedge Warbler, a pair of Linnets and a Swift over. (Ian Elphick).

Forest of Dean     The first Swifts of the year seen over Coleford today. (Geoff Fawcett).

Bentham     A male Bullfinch in the car park at the country club this evening. (Simon Hart).

Cotswold Water Park West     At Pit 57 three BLACK TERNS this afternoon. (Dave Soons). Also at Pit 57 at least one ARCTIC TERN, Common Terns, two Hobbies and a Little Egret, at Pit 44 a Swift over and at Pit 41 two Hobbies and a Little Egret. (John Edwards/Andy & Sue Gibbons/Liz Smart).

Cleeve Hill     Three RING OUZELS (1m, 2f) and a Fieldfare 200m East of the heather enclosure along the ridge, a singing Tree Pipit and a male Stonechat. A Cuckoo here, also at Wontley Gate and West Down, probably the same bird. At Wontley farm a singing Redstart and a Wheatear, at Warden’s Wood two Garden Warblers. (Steve Brown).

Lower Slaughter     A Red Kite over today. (Richard Tyler). Pic by Richard. 
Ashley     14+Swallows, two Kestrels, 13+ Skylarks, 6+ Yellowhammers, three Whitethroats, 11 Blackcaps, three Wheatears (2f, 1m), a Swift N, four Buzzards, a Grey Heron, five Chiffchaffs, a male Yellow Wagtail, a Red Kite, two Stock Doves, a Mistle Thrush, a Raven, a Willow Warbler and a House Martin. (Mark Grieve).

Coombe Hill Meadows    A Pink-footed Goose (origin unknown), two Shelducks, two Wigeon and two Gadwalls, two Shovelers, two Oystercatchers, two Little Ringed Plovers, ten Lapwings, two Curlews, two Redshanks, a Great Spotted Woodpecker, a Grasshopper Warbler (reeling from southern meadows), 10+ Sedge Warblers, 3+ Lesser Whitethroats, 10+ Whitethroats, 5+ Willow Warblers, 3+ Chiffchaffs, 5+ Reed Buntings and two Yellowhammers. (Mike Smart).

WWT Slimbridge     From Knott hide four Reed Warblers. From Mid Point 133. Shelducks, two Bar-tailed Godwits, four Black-tailed Godwits, three Yellow Wagtails, two Whimbrels, a Peregrine, six Wheatears, four Cetti’s Warblers heard, nine Swifts and seven Swallows. (John Fletcher/Martin Greenish).

Cleeve Hill     Four RING OUZELS and a Fieldfare around the heather enclosure. Also three Buzzards and many Linnets. (Rose Lennard).

Guscar Rocks     Four Oystercatchers, four Ringed Plovers, 14 Whimbrels, three Curlews, two Bar-tailed Godwits, two Redshanks and a Yellow Wagtail today. (Andy Jayne).

Walmore Common     27 Whimbrels today. (Andy Jayne).

WWT Slimbridge    Three CATTLE EGRETS in fields with cattle along the approach road this morning. A LITTLE GULL on the Rushy still and three female/immature Marsh Harriers through today. (Andy Wiggins/Martin McGill).

Frampton     A summer-plumaged Spotted Redshank on the flashes N of Splatt Bridge this morning. (Roberta Goodall).

Saul Warth     Four Bar-tailed Godwits, five Knot, seven Dunlins, c10 Whimbrel, an Oystercatcher, a Common Sandpiper, two Lapwings, a Wheatear and a Yellow Wagtail at high tide this afternoon. (Mark Dowie/MK). Please don’t block the gate at Fretherne leading up to Hock Ditch/Saul Warth. The farmer is actively using this gate. Thank you.

Epney     Three Dunlins and two Ringed Plovers on the river S of the pub mid afternoon. (MK).

Highnam Woods     7+ Nightingales singing this morning. (Dave Owen).

Tewkesbury     A WOOD WARBLER singing at Mythe N.R. this morning. A SHORT-EARED OWL flew downriver at the weir. (Ian Hull). On Severn Ham four Curlews, a Grasshopper Warbler singing by the Mill Avon, at least seven Sedge Warblers singing along the Mill Avon and at least another five along the Severn and 2-3 Reed Buntings. (Mike Smart).

Coombe Hill Meadows    A Pink-footed Goose (origin unknown), two Shelducks, two Wigeon and two Gadwalls, two Shovelers, two Oystercatchers, two Little Ringed Plovers, ten Lapwings, two Curlews, two Redshanks, a Great Spotted Woodpecker, a Grasshopper Warbler (reeling from southern meadows), 10+ Sedge Warblers, 3+ Lesser Whitethroats, 10+ Whitethroats, 5+ Willow Warblers, 3+ Chiffchaffs, 5+ Reed Buntings and two Yellowhammers. (Mike Smart).

Sharpness     Two Avocets N past SARA lifeboat station at 11:45am a patch tick. (Andy Jordan).

Cherington     At Cherington Lake a Red Kite, four Marsh Tits, six Long-tailed Tits, two Buzzards, four Tufted Ducks, a Treecreeper and a Great Spotted Woodpecker today. (John Fletcher).

Rodley    A RICHARD’S PIPIT in the fields by the Severn at Lower Dumball at 10am today. Almost certainly the same one present both sides of the river since last autumn. (John & Viv Phillips). Also a Whinchat at Lower Dumball today SO7311. (Rob Curtis).

Cotswold Water Park East    At Pit 125 two adult BLACK TERNS early afternoon. (John Durell).

Cotswold Water Park West    At Pit 57 two BLACK TERNS this afternoon. (Dave Soons).

Sherborne     A GREAT WHITE EGRET at Sherborne brook from 12:20-1pm at least. (Duncan Dine).

Cleeve Hill     6+ RING OUZELS and a Fieldfare around the heather enclosure today. (Roger Gillespie).

Frampton     Two Common Terns on the Sailing Lake this morning, also the male Yellow Wagtail still. (MK). Also a Reed Bunting singing next to Court Lake, two Oystercatchers on Court field and a Lesser Whitethroat and a Sedge Warbler in willows next to the Sailing Club. In farmland next to the canal at least three Lesser Whitethroats, four Lapwings and at least four Cuckoos calling in woods next to canal and a Mandarin flew over. (Marie-Claire Chapman). Pic by Mike. Saul Warth     Before the tide this morning 13 Bar-tailed Godwits, four Knot, 12 Whimbrels, a Curlew and 120+ Shelducks. At high tide 15 Dunlins and a Sanderling. Also a Yellow Wagtail N, a Lesser Whitethroat and two male Wheatears. (MK).

WWT Slimbridge     A GRASSHOPPER WARBLER still today at Mid Point at 9am, a Hobby flew N there at 10:45am and a Cuckoo calling by the 50-Acre. (Geoff Moyser). On the Rushy at noon two Bar-tailed Godwits, two Oystercatchers, two Barnacle Geese and the hybrid male Wigeon with a female. Also two Cranes for a while at last year’s nesting site. From Mid Point, early afternoon, at least six Wheatears, three and later two Oystercatchers flying upriver and a fly-over Little Egret. (Andy & Sue Gibbons).

Ashleworth Ham     29 birds trapped today on a Constant Effort ringing session including nine Sedge Warblers, four Whitethroats, two Lesser Whitethroats, a Willow Warbler, a Redstart, two Reed Buntings and a Bullfinch. Around the reserve, a Teal, a Pintail and a Wigeon, a Shelduck, a Oystercatcher, two Lapwings, a Little Ringed Plover and two Curlews. (Mike Smart/Mervyn Greening).

Symonds Yat     In the Yat Rock area today the Peregrine pair, three Goshawk sightings, a Sparrowhawk, a Red Kite, Buzzards, Ravens, a Cuckoo calling, two Green Woodpeckers, Song Thrushes, Chiffchaffs, Blackcaps, a pair of Pied Wagtails, two Jays, a Tawny Owl calling, Sand Martins, House Martins, Swallows, three Swifts, a Kingfisher, a Grey Heron, three Goosanders, a female Mandarin, two Crossbills, a pair of Bullfinches, two Goldfinches, and a Willow Warbler. Other sightings included a Green-veined White, a Red Admiral, Holly Blue and Speckled Wood butterflies, a Rose Chafer, St Mark’s Flies, an Ashy Mining Bee and Green Longhorn Moths. (Chris & Phil Andrews). Pic by Phil.

Cleeve Hill    Five RING OUZELS, three pairs of Stonechats, 5+ Skylarks, 11+ Meadow Pipits, a Cuckoo, three Willow Warblers, 7+ Linnet, a Mistle Thrush, three Song Thrushes and three pairs of Yellowhammers. (Les Waring). Pic by Les.

Frampton    Five BLACK TERNS, a LITTLE GULL, 14 COMMON TERNS, two ARCTIC TERNS, a Common Sandpiper, two pairs of Pochards, two Yellow Wagtails, 30+ Sand Martins, a Cuckoo, a Sedge Warbler, a Reed Warbler and a Whitethroat at the Sailing Lake, tern numbers varying throughout the day.  (Nick Goatman/Shane Long/MK/Bill Church/Steve Curtis/Carol Rushton/Ian Hull).

WWT Slimbridge     An immature SPOONBILL around the grounds today and a BLACK TERN on South Lake. (Slimbridge Sightings/Darren Robson). Pics by Darren.

Berkeley shore     A CATTLE EGRET again briefly today. (Paul Taylor).

Forest of Dean     In the Crabtree Hill Area early morning two singing Wood Warblers. (Paul Rich).

Bourton-on-the-Water     A Cuckoo in a copse near Aston Mill today. (Andy Lewis).

Coombe Hill Meadows     A Cuckoo, three Sedge Warblers, two Reed Buntings and two Whitethroats today. (Paul Watkins). Pic by Paul.

Saul Warth     On a rising tide today two Avocets, two Oystercatchers, two Curlews, seven Whimbrels, two Redshanks, six Knot in red summer plumage, 14 Bar-tailed Godwits, a Sanderling, a mixed flock of c30 Dunlins and Ringed Plovers and a Common Tern. (Ian Hull).

Cotswold Water Park West     A Greenshank at Pit 87 Shorncote with two Common Sandpipers and two Little Ringed Plover, also a Hobby and a Yellow Wagtail. Two BLACK TERNS at Pit 16 this afternoon. (Jon Mercer). Pic by Jon.

Ashley     Ten Whitethroats, 17+ Skylarks, a Great Spotted Woodpecker, 23+ Yellowhammers, 9+ Swallows, a Lesser Whitethroat, five Stock Doves, five House Martins, three Kestrels, a Willow Warbler, two Grey Partridges, a Pied Wagtail, four Blackcaps, a male Yellow Wagtail, two Buzzards, two Chiffchaffs and a Green Woodpecker today. (Mark Grieve).

Edge     At Rudge Hill NNR mid afternoon four Meadow Pipits, two Buzzards, two Long-tailed Tits, three Willow Warblers, a Chiffchaff and four Swallows. Next to Alpaca field off the main road six Skylarks, two Swallows and two Pied Wagtails. (John Fletcher).

WWT Slimbridge    The redhead SMEW on the Rushy still today. (Slimbridge Sightings). Two LITTLE TERNS reported NE. (RBA). A SPOONBILL from Robbie Garnett hide. (Andy Jordan).

Sharpness     Six ARCTIC TERNS NE over Coastguards and a Red Kite between Sharpness and Purton. (Paul Taylor). 87 COMMON TERNS and ten BLACK TERNS NE past SARA. Also two adult Mediterranean Gulls. (Andy Jordan).

Frampton     60 COMMON TERNS, two ARCTIC TERNS and six BLACK TERNS on the Sailing Lake today. (Nick Goatman/Gordon Hodgson).

Cotswold Water Park West     An immature LITTLE GULL and 14 COMMON TERNS today. (Nigel Pleass). Later a BLACK TERN on Pit 57. (Dave Soons).

Berkeley shore     A Greenshank, three Ringed Plovers, three Whimbrels, a Curlew, 53 Dunlins, a Common Sandpiper and three Wheatears today. (Paul Taylor).

Saul Warth    Nine Bar-tailed Godwits, nine Sanderlings, eight Grey Plovers, nine Dunlins, eight Ring Plovers, four Greenshanks and a Whimbrel today. (Gordon Hodgson).

Forest of Dean     A FIRECREST singing at Nagshead and a Hobby over. (Dave Cleal).

Brockeridge     A Nightingale in Brockeridge Woods today. (Sarah Loaring).

Tewkesbury     A Red Kite over The Folly/ Park Farm/ Southwick Farm area S of Tewkesbury today. (Clive Baldwin). A Red Kite 2 miles south of junction 9/M5 at 11am. (Vanda Owen).

Cheltenham     A Red Kite seen overhead near the roundabout at the bottom of Sandy Lane at 2pm today. (Rose Lennard). A Red Kite drifted low over the car park behind Balti Walla on the Bath Road at 11:20 this morning. (David Norman). A Red Kite soaring over Pittville for at least 5 minutes at 11.30am, occasionally mobbed by gulls. (Mike Dobson).

Fairford     A Cuckoo in a copse by the Pitham Stream today. (Andy Lewis).

WWT Slimbridge    A redhead SMEW on the Rushy still today, also a first-summer and a second-summer Mediterranean Gull and a LITTLE GULL at lunchtime. Along the summer walkway three Wheatears, a Whinchat and two reeling Grasshopper Warblers again this morning. (Slimbridge Sightings/Mark Dowie).

Fretherne     Nine Whimbrels, a Bar-tailed Godwits and two Grey Plovers on the falling tide, Also Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail and eight Wheatears at Hock Ditch. (Mark Dowie).

Coombe Hill Meadows     A pair of Mute Swans, ten Canada Geese, six Shelducks, seven Teal, two Gadwalls, a Grey Heron, two Oystercatchers, ten Lapwings, 1+ Little Ringed Plover, 1+ Curlew, 1 + Redshank, a Great Spotted Woodpecker, 20 House Martins, two Redstarts singing, a Grasshopper Warbler singing off the reserve at the N end, 15+ Sedge Warblers, 15+ Whitethroats, two Lesser Whitethroats, 10+ Blackcaps, 5+ Willow Warblers, 3+ Chiffchaffs and 5+ Reed Buntings today. (Mike Smart).

Stroud     A Swift this evening over the town centre at 7:40pm. (Ken & Eve Holbrow).

Forest of Dean     At Wenchford three Dippers, two pairs of Grey Wagtails, Chiffchaffs, Blackcaps, Song Thrushes, Stock Doves, a Jay, a Great Spotted Woodpecker and Dor Beetles. (Chris & Phil Andrews).

Symonds Yat     From Yat Rock viewpoint the Peregrine pair, four Buzzards, a Sparrowhawk, a Goshawk, Chiffchaffs, Blackcaps and a Fallow Deer. (Chris & Phil Andrews).

Cotswold Water Park East     An Oystercatcher, a Dunlin, a Common Sandpiper and a pair of Little Ringed Plovers today. (Ian Ralphs).

Guscar Rocks     41 Whimbrels feeding in a newly ploughed field at Guscar Rocks and ten Bar-tailed Godwits on the foreshore. (Lewis Thomson).

Aylburton Warth     A male Ruff, a Greenshank, ten Bar-tailed Godwits, 41 Whimbrels, five Dunlins, a Common Sandpiper, 12 Wheatears, two Yellow Wagtails, seven White Wagtails, two Reed Warblers, four Whitethroats and c25 Shelducks this morning. (Lewis Thomson/Owen Follis).

Forest of Dean     A Wheatear and a Cuckoo at Crabtree Hill this morning. (Frank Williams). Four Tree Pipits, a male Stonechat and a Goshawk high over Haywood this afternoon. (Owen Follis).

Frampton     A second-summer LITTLE GULL on the Sailing Lake. (Nick Goatman).

Batsford     A singing male Redstart at Batsford Arboretum today. (Paul Masters).

WWT Slimbridge     A male Whinchat, three Wheatears, a Grasshopper Warbler (2 reported) and a Common Sandpiper at Mid Point this morning. Also the redhead SMEW on the Rushy and a LITTLE GULL on South Lake. (MK/Slimbridge Sightings). Pic by Mike. 

Cleeve Hill     Five RING OUZELS and a Fieldfare in the heather enclosure this morning. (Greg Mabbett). Later eight RING OUZELS at the opposite side of valley to heather enclosure at SO991254. (Paul Masters). At Prestbury Hill this afternoon a Tree Pipit singing from Bill Smyllie reserve, a Cuckoo calling from the beech hanger between 2 BC reserves and a male RING OUZEL feeding in an area cleared of gorse immediately W of the aerials. (Robert Homan).

Cotswold Water Park West    At Pit 43 at dawn this morning a Grasshopper Warbler, two Cuckoos, five Nightingales, a Sedge Warbler, two Garden Warblers, a Whitethroat and a Willow Warbler. (Simon Ashley). Also at Pit 43 five Common Terns over and in the scrub area to the N of it two Hobbies over. (Martine Fenn). At Shorncote a Little Egret, three pairs of Teal and a pair of Wigeon, three Red Crested Pochards, ten Lapwings, a Little Ringed Plover, a Snipe, two Common Sandpipers, four summer-plumaged Dunlins, a Green Woodpecker, two Yellow Wagtails, 40 Sand Martins, a Cuckoo, a Skylark, four Cetti’s Warblers, three Lesser Whitethroats, seven Whitethroats, a Garden Warbler, 5+ Blackcaps, 5+ Sedge Warblers, 10+ Reed Warblers, a Willow Warbler and 10+ Reed Buntings. (Jon Mercer).

Frampton     From Splatt Bridge two Ringed Plovers, a Dunlin and a Sparrowhawk. On the Sailing Lake two Common Sandpipers. (Keith & Lyn Perkins). An immature LITTLE GULL and a drake Mandarin on the Sailing Lake at 1pm (Martin McGill) and five Swifts over. (Nick Goatman).

Minchinhampton     At 4:15pm Red Kite over the Common. (Malcolm Balster).

Forest of Dean     In the Crabtree Hill area two House Martins, 12+ Tree Pipits, numerous Willow Warblers, five Wood Warblers, three Pied Flycatchers and a Firecrest today. (Arron Roberts).

Ashleworth Ham     Three male Redstarts singing in Stank Lane late morning. (Jon Mercer).