Fantastic to have Bar-wits back using the Severn flyway, a flock of 82 having a break and feeding off Saul Warth at lunchtime today, also 7 Ringed Plover, 2 Whimbrel and 2 Dunlin #Glosbirds
Bluethroat showed this morning briefly from the shepards hut at Middle point Slimbridge. #Glosbirds Slimbridge Sightings
Lovely morning at Splatt, highlight was Little Tern first picked up by Francis Steuck at Purton (distant video) 100+ Barwit on the estuary plus 20 high NE, 7 Curlew, 10 Dunlin, 4 Redshank, Yellow Wag, 4 Slimbridge Sightings Cranes and first 4 Swift #Glosbirds
Highnam wood 1 Nightingale singing a surprise flock of 15 Waxwing calling and flying out of their roost. #Glosbirds #recordshot
Surely one of the smartest ducks, Male Garganey on South Lake at WWT Slimbridge today Slimbridge Sightings #GlosBirds #BirdsSeenIn2024
CWP Pit 57. At least 6 Garden Warblers and 4 Common Terns. Plus good numbers of Reed, Sedge and Cettis. Cuckoo also heard. #Glosbirds
Siberian Chiffchaff calling outside Framilode church this afternoon. Seems like there’s loads about this year. #GlosBirds
Spent the morning in the familiar position of dipping the Bluethroat in good company at Middle Point Slimbridge Sightings. It may be in it's 4th year but it still hasn't developed a sense of responsibility to hopeful birders. I did have 2 showy Cuckoos✅ #GlosList 172 #GlosBirds
Be one with nature🌸
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OK, I have now learnt how to add images off my camera a lot easier. Sorry twitter, expect more dodgy photos and vids from now on. As an example here is the Nightingale at Highnam Woods on 20/04/24. Excuse the movement I kept knocking the camera with my cap!! #GlosBirds
Back on patch at Saul Warth at HT 6 Whimbrels, 16 Dunlins, 3 Oystercatchers, 8 Gadwalls, drake Shoveler, 1 Little Egret, 10 Sand Martins, 6 Swallows, 3 Whitethroats, 1 male Reed Bunting, a very late pair of Stonechats & a Peacock butterfly. #Glosbirds
Some cracking birding up the river between Epney and Longney tonight. Great Egret, 16 Whimbrel, 3 Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, drake Mandarin and 2 unseasonal Stonechat. The Whimbrel roosted on the small pool opposite Longney Crib. #GlosBirds
A few video grabs from this morning of the Bluethroat, didn’t have much time to get the focus and exposure right in a 30-40 second view 🤣 The bird is really true to form in its fourth visit to the Middle point reed bed !! Elusive 😤 #Glosbirds Slimbridge Sightings
Is this a flock ? Four Egyptian Geese feeding on the Tack Piece at Slimbridge on my way back from the Bluethroat. #Glosbirds Slimbridge Sightings
Last one, A pair of Redshank about to mate (I stopped filming before they did the deed)! Coombe Hill NR 28/4/24. #GlosBirds
Great to find this presumed arctica Dunlin ssp with Esther on the tack piece at Slimbridge yesterday. Cracking bird, textbook arctica and good to be able to compare it directly to schinzii.
Also Arctic Tern, Yellow wag & Barwit.
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The White Storks at CHMeadows , never close , I believe there from theWest Sussex reintroduction programme , always thru a barbed wire fence #GlosBirds
