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We had an enjoyable morning at the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust centre at Slimbridge visiting the hides which look north out on to the Severn Estuary and taking the “summer walk” down to the edges of the estuary. However, other than shelduck and 3 curlew there wasn’t much to see on the estuary except for the lovely views.

The beautiful meadows and reed beds on the edges of the Severn Estuary

A distant curlew

On the pools we had close up views of mainly shelduck, greylag geese, avocet, gadwall and black-headed gulls but there was a common crane, a pied wagtail with two juveniles, a couple of bathing linnets, an oystercatcher and, in the far distance, a little ringed plover.

Adult pied wagtail

Juvenile pied wagtail

Linnet

Oystercatcher

Avocet

Shelduck with  ducklings

Shelduck

Common crane

Barnacle geese

Greylag goose

Mute swan

Gadwall