Monday, 13 April 2026

Monday 13th April 2026

Middleton Lakes

Barnacle Goose, 2x Wigeon, Pochard, 4x Shelduck, 23x Avocet, 10x LRP, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Snipe, 7x Redshank, 2x Bittern, Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, (MSm)

Aqualate

06:00 to 11:20 - Cuckoo, Male and female Garganey, Wheatear, Great Egret, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, Willow Warbler, House Martin, Sand Martin, (KHa)

Belvide Resv

Osprey high west at 11:50, 5x Oystercatcher, 4x Ringed Plover, 5x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, Avocet, 4x Wheatear, Reed Warbler, 7x Sedge Warbler, 2x Goldeneye 2x Egyptian Geese, Swallow, House Martin, Mistle Thrush, (CMa, RF)

Hamstall Ridware

Red Kite over at 12:55, (AGP)

Brindley Heath

Cuckoo heard this afternoon, (JTu)

Chasewater

Ring-necked Duck still on Jeffrey's Swag, 

Doxey Marsh

2x Shelduck, 3x Shoveler, 8x Gadwall, 9x Teal, Water Rail, 7x Lapwing, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x GC Grebe, 3x Skylark, Reed Warbler, 3x Blackcap, Stonechat, 2x Reed Bunting, (CAFH)  - Also 2x House Martin, 20x Sand Martin, Stonechat, (BAl per BGo)

Blithfield Resv

2x YL Gull, GBB Gull, Common Sandpiper, (RBe)  -  This evening 1st w Kittiwake still, Mandarin, Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 4x Common Sandpiper, 3x Yellow Wagtail, (SRi)

                                                   Common Sandpiper by Rob Bendelow

Cannock Chase

Cuckoo, Whitethroat, Reed Bunting, (MSt)

Branston GPs

Ruff, Curlew, Snipe, 2x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 3x Ringed Plover, 9x Lapwing, 4x Oystercatcher, 3x Little Egret, Goosander, 8x Goldeneye, 2x Pochard, 24x Gadwall, 25x Shoveler, 70x Teal, 14x Shelduck, 20x Little Grebe, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, 3x Red Kite, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 5x White Wagtail, 6x Willow Warbler, Sedge Warbler, 4x Reed Warbler, 9x Whitethroat, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 10x House Martin, 20x Swallow, 300x Sand Martin, 15x Linnet, (JWo, CEc, Dean, SHo, JHo)

WMI site

Late afternoon - 10x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, Shelduck, (SRi)

Whiston

Peregrine heard, (GSt)