Montagu’s Harrier across the Dumbles at WWT Slimbridge this morning, a great find by @coombehillbirding.bsky.social @wwtsightings.bsky.social #Glosbirds
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The Long-tailed Shrike showed well again this morning, with @GlosHobby ; also a Hobby through and a Wheatear near the car parking field #Glosbirds
Willow Emerald Damselfly at WWT Slimbridge this morning @britishdragonflies.bsky.social @wwtsightings.bsky.social #wwtslimbridgesightings
Long-tailed Shrike this morning at Eastleach Martin, much better and closer views than in the afternoon heat haze yesterday but that was my first opportunity after being out of the county and then on family duties #Glosbirds
Two Jersey Tigers and a Small Copper in my #Quedgeley garden early afternoon @savebutterflies.bsky.social
Clouded Yellow in front of the café just now @wwtsightings.bsky.social #wwtslimbridgesightings @savebutterflies.bsky.social
One of at least three Red-veined Darters around ’Estuary Shoreline’ in front of the café at Slimbridge this morning @wwtsightings.bsky.social @britishdragonflies.bsky.social
A very obliging Lesser Emperor at Lower Moor, Wilts, this morning allowing me to get my first photos of one perched, with @andybirding.bsky.social @britishdragonflies.bsky.social
An excursion to Pembrokeshire and great views of the Western Reef Heron at the Gann Eastuary, near Dale, feeding on the beach
Male Red-veined Darter at WWT Slimbridge today, on the ‘Estuary Shoreline’ pond near the Duck Hut this morning #WWTSlimbridgeSightings
Top New Piece @slimbridge_wild in the rain - seven Ringed Plovers, a Dunlin, 37 Gadwall, a Little Egret, three Redshanks and 20 Swifts, Rushy - Avocet chicks in parental shelter, GW Egret from Martin Smith #Glosbirds #wwtslimbridgesightings
Seven Ringed Plovers and a Dunlin currently on Top New Piece #Glosbirds #wwtslimbridgesightings @wwtsightings.bsky.social
Hummingbird Hawkmoth on the Catmint outside the restaurant at WWT Slimbridge @wwtsightings.bsky.social
Bittern showing well from Martin Smith hide a little earlier at Slimbridge @wwtsightings.bsky.social #Glosbirds
A couple of pics of the Bittern coming in to land in front of the Knott hide this morning. #wwtSlimbridgeSightings #GlosBirds with @pauldmasters.bsky.social
Wood Sandpiper on the @slimbridge_wild Tack Piece this morning, not wanting to stray from the wooden stump, and a Common Tern briefly on South Lake before flying off high and lost to view #glosbirds
Merlin on the Dumbles early afternoon @slimbridge-wild.bsky.social also six Yellow Wagtails, five Greenshanks, a Green Sandpiper, a Spoonbill and a Common Sandpiper on the Tack Piece, and a Cuckoo calling to the south from Knott hide #Glosbirds
Highlights @slimbridge-wild.bsky.social this am six Spoonbills dropped in, and three White Wags with Pieds, on Tack Piece; two Swallows from Knott hide; Willow Warbler & Treecreeper South Finger; 125 White-fronts Four Score; 15+ Sand Martins and 75+ Avocets South Lake #Glosbirds
Great morning at @gloswildlife.bsky.social Whelford Pools with @andybirding.bsky.social drake Lesser Scaup still and two adult Little Gulls the highlights #Glosbirds
The wintering Richard’s Pipit at Awre this morning, between the kissing gate and the bramble bush along the tracks near the sea wall around SO7198308719 #Glosbirds
Four Cattle Egrets with the Sheep in the first field on the right after Patch bridge approachingWWT @slimbridge-wild.bsky.social #glosbirds
FoD good birding despite the rain Cannop Ponds totals of 4 Goosanders, 29 Mandarins, 37 Mallards, 10 Coots, 6 Little Grebes, 21 Wigeon, 6 Tufted Ducks; at Parkend 7 Hawfinches & 24 Chaffinches from the car #Glosbirds
Bird of the day, one of two obliging Stock Doves on the edge of the green at Frampton opposite the car park, with @andybirding.bsky.social #Glosbirds
At least 14 Cattle Egrets NW of Rectory Farm SO7351704084 and Glossy Ibis in usual field next to WWT car park 08:45-08:50 @slimbridge-wild.bsky.social #Glosbirds
Green-winged Teal, Little Stint and Glossy Ibis all showing well in the sunshine @slimbridge-wild.bsky.social also of note were 197 Curlew roosting over high tide on the Dumbles edge, and a Marsh Harrier distant over the northern part of the reserve #Glosbirds
