Sam Walker

[Sam Walker @SamWalker22]

@slimbridge_wild 150+ golden plover heading south over the Dumbles

[Sam Walker @SamWalker22]

@MagnusCarter1 @slimbridge_wild The bittern was indeed by dragonfly pool - 12:30 it took off, circled at treetop height twice and headed towards Kingfisher hide #glosbirds

[Sam Walker @SamWalker22]

3 greenshank and 9 green sandpiper Tack Piece from Robbie Garnett @slimbridge_wild #glosbirds

[Sam Walker @SamWalker22]

@PaulDMasters Same aircraft over Rudge Hill yesterday afternoon

[Sam Walker @SamWalker22]

Flocks of 20+ screaming swifts seen over both Upton St Leonard's and Hucclecote this morning. At King George V playing field, they were regularly flying low enough overhead you could hear their wingbeats 🪽🪽 #GlosBirds

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

This is so disgusting. Imagine the mindset that made this. People are dying. Afraid. Exploited and desperate. The Tories now chasing Reform to the very hard right and it’s sickening. Just when you think they couldn’t sink any lower …

[Sam Walker @SamWalker22]

Coombe hill, 2 ringed plover on flood to north of canal 09:30. Also 1 LRP, 8 avocet, 2 oystercatcher, 2 redshank, red kite, peregrine, pair shoveler, great egret, 3 yellow wagtail #GlosBirds

[Sam Walker @SamWalker22]

@KaneBrides @WWTLondon @Dan_Gornall @andy_scott95 Kane was this from around 11am yesterday? (8th) 10+ birders on site unanimously called it as whimbrel..I had a quick look through bins it was short billed but had SAV leg flags on 🤦‍♂️ oops. Many had cameras - there will be pics out there.

[Sam Walker @SamWalker22]

It's #NoMowMay but April has been bloomin' marvellous already

[Sam Walker @SamWalker22]

At Coombe Hill this evening, 52 shelduck, cuckoo heard, 2 avocet, 6 oystercatcher, 2 redshank, 2 greenshank, 1 ruff, 1 curlew, 1 little gull, 2 cattle egret, 1 GWE, 1 red kite, pair redstart, 2 flyover yellow wag.

4 lapwing chicks, 1 whimbrel on fields to south #glosbirds

[Sam Walker @SamWalker22]

2nd hand report from a birder in the Grundon hide at Coombe hill this evening - 2 wood sandpipers were present this afternoon and flew off at 4pm #GlosBirds

[Sam Walker @SamWalker22]

Little grebe with 2 chicks from Knott hide @slimbridge_wild #glosbirds

[Sam Walker @SamWalker22]

@markhipkin1 A bird I'd love to see! How has your life changed now?

[Sam Walker @SamWalker22]

3 Med gulls - 2 adults and a 1w bird on south lake @slimbridge_wild. Tack piece and Dumbles heaving with sand martins, a few swallow and house Martin too. #glosbirds

[Sam Walker @SamWalker22]

@Westburyjayner Brilliant, Andy. Any idea when last record of LRP there was?

[Sam Walker @SamWalker22]

Male wheatear buzzing around the golf course at Painswick beacon #GlosBirds

[Sam Walker @SamWalker22]

Coombe Hill around midday from Wigeon Hide, 3 dunlin, 6 curlew, 4 black-tailed godwit, 2 oystercatcher, 2 redshank, 1 red kite, many lapwing and duck #GlosBirds

[Dave Throup @DaveThroup]

Short 🧵 on February’s deluge.

It was exceptionally wet across England.

In fact, the 4th wettest February since 1871 with 225% of average rainfall. Fenland in East Anglia saw 350%!

But that’s only half the story. It’s been very wet for a long time.

[Sam Walker @SamWalker22]

Spoonbill currently feeding on Tack Piece flood from Robbie Garnett @slimbridge_wild #glosbirds

[Sam Walker @SamWalker22]

Drake goosander on the Stroudwater navigation somewhere between Bowbridge and Thrupp #birdsseenfromthetrain #glosbirds