I've not been to Slimbridge for a while so it was nice to pay a return visit in some late summer sunshine. At the first hide I visited I saw a great white egret, and at the second I had some excellent close views of a spoonbill. The spoonbills I'd seen in Lancashire were all roosting at a distance but this one was 'spooning' vigorously in the hope of a meal. I also found a rather belated first common sandpiper of the year.
I walked down the summer walkway to the estuary where a reserve warden pointed out a black dot in the middle of the Severn estuary which apparently was a common scoter!!
At the Discovery Hide I was confronted with not one, but eleven cattle egrets, including one splendid looking bird in breeding plumage , something I don't think I've seen before. I also saw one little egret flying which made up the set of three egrets in one day.
Other birds of note included ruff, spotted redshank, black tailed godwits, a solitary curlew, and green sandpiper.
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