Elmore Court rewilding area this morning, 4 Gadwall including a female with 6 ducklings, 2 Lapwings, a Grey Heron, a Cuckoo heard, a Buzzard, a Sedge Warbler, 2 Reed Warblers, 3 Lesser Whitethroats, 3 Whitethroats, 2 Reed Buntings, 8 Skylarks and 12 Linnets. #GlosBirds
Highnam wood 1 Nightingale singing a surprise flock of 15 Waxwing calling and flying out of their roost. #Glosbirds #recordshot
Nice to see 70+ Swift at Frampton pools also 1 Common Sandpiper 10 Common Tern 30+ Sand Martin 12 Swallow 6 House Martin 1 Red Kite 2 male Mandarin 4 Shelduck 1 Kingfisher #GlosBirds
A great quick visit today to Slimbridge and a walk out to Middle point. Bluethroat showed as well as it does, but star performer was a Short eared Owl which quartered up and down the sea wall and reed beds. A flock of 6 DB Brent’s on the Dumbles and 3 Whimbrel over. #Glosbirds
After a night of spectacular Aurora, a morning with the dawn chorus at Highnam Woods #Glosbirds . Fantastic!
Checked up on the local Dipper spot by the River Cam, just the one seen but spent so much time with a cute Grey Wagtail fledgling! Still getting fed by a *very* overworked parent but can't be long for them! #GlosBirds
Bluethroat showing well this morning to the left of the reed bed Slimbridge Sightings Glos Bird News
Popped along to Frampton pools this afternoon in the hope of seeing my first Hobbys of the year, was not disappointed as 4+ was over the sailing lake, also 6+ Common Terns, 3 Swifts and a Great Crested Grebe with its dinner. Also a Peregrine Falcon over Splatt flashes. #GlosBirds
#GlosBirds Slimbridge Sightings From my visit today, The White Spotted Bluethroat showing occasionally and a distant Short Eared Owl at Mid-Point, 7 Dark Bellied Brent Geese and a Greenshank on the Dumbles. Also unfortunately witnessed a Carrion Crow raid an Avocet nest on the Rushy.
#GlosBirds Family walk around Alney Island nature reserve this morning highlights was a Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Common Whitethroats, 4+ Reed Warblers, 3 Sedge Warblers, a Coot, 8 Mallards and 2 Canada Geese, plus lots of Blackcaps and Thrushes singing and a Red Fox.
There are very few breeding waders left in the Cotswolds so we are trying to do all we can to help those still hanging on-electric fencing curlew, locating/marking lapwing nests so farmers can avoid them when drilling and monitoring oystercatchers Keith Jennings #glosbirds
CHM this morning - 2 LR Plover, 4 Avocet, 3 Curlew, 4 Oystercatcher, 3 Redshank, 4 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Cattle Egret and 8+ Greenshank @Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust #GlosBirds
Osprey reported by Rob Ward at WGL at 6pm mobbed by gulls and left in a southerly direction.... maybe worth checking other Mallards, Speech House Lake and Cannop
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This pm I did the fields in the Sapperton area. Bags of potential in an underwatched area, unsurprisingly no lingering Pallid Harrier. 5+ Corn Buntings, 12+ Skylarks, 2 Garden Warblers, m Stonechat, 1 Whitethroat, 5 Buzzards, m Kestrel, m Yellowhammer & Silver Y moth #GlosBirds
#GlosBirds Slimbridge Sightings I was very pleased to hear and then actually see my first ever Grasshopper Warbler at Mid-Piont today. It looked like 2 of them having a reel-off!, even the Bluethroat made a breif appearance. Also Reed Buntings, Sedge/Reed Warblers singing away.
