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Monday, 27 April 2026

Monday 27th April 2026

Middleton Lakes

Wryneck on the Staffs/Warks border from bridge over river to Dosthill at 09:30 (RSt)  -  This am 4x Wood Sandpiper from JW west screen, also a Hobby, Greenshank, Black-tailed Godwit, Cuckoo, Gropper, Lesser Whitethroat, but no sign of the Wryneck from the River Tame bridge. (RPo)   -  This afternoon in addition 3x Yellow Wagtail, 10+ LRP, Bittern, 2x Common Sandpiper, - Wryneck reported again at 18:20, 

                                                           Wryneck by Richard Styles


Belvide Resv

2x Black-necked Grebe still, 2x Wood Sandpiper, 1s Med Gull, 2x Common Tern, sev LRPs, Garden Warbler, Mandarin, 

Sneyd Green

Swift this am, (JOa)

Blithfield Resv

Common Terns, Red Kite, 2x Ringed Plover, LRP, (RBe) - Cattle Egret, (JKl)

                                                         Common Tern by Rob Bendelow

Doxey Marsh

Garden Warbler, 5x Reed Warbler, 13x Sedge Warbler, 14x Blackcap, 2x Bullfinch, (RSt)

Branston GPs

Wheatear, Hobby, Cuckoo, 2x Curlew, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 14x Lapwing, 7x Oystercatcher, 5x Little Egret, 4x Water Rail, 7x Pochard, 3x Mandarin, 14x Teal, 19x Gadwall, 20x Shelduck, 14x Little Grebe, Red Kite, Gropper, 5x Lesser Whitethroat, 7x Garden Warbler, 8x Sedge Warbler, 14x Reed Warbler, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Grey Wagtail, (JWo, CEc, Dean, RPo)

Tucklesholme

Whinchat, 2x LRP, (MPa)

Biddulph Moor

15x Tree Sparrow, (ALo)

                                                            By Adam Longshaw