Thursday, 23 April 2026

Thursday 23rd April 2026

Middleton Lakes

9x Whimbrel JW south at 07:00 also 2x Common Tern, (JKl)  -  Greenshank, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, Cuckoo,  Cuckoo, Swifts, (GG)

Branston GPs

Wood Sandpiper on Ashy pit, 2x Whimbrel in Cherry wood cattle field, also Gropper at Ashy pit, (JWo)

Aqualate

05:40 to 09:45, 2x Marsh Harrier (m & f), Whimbrel thru NE at 08:00, 3x Great Egret, Cuckoo, 2x Stonechat, Gropper, Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Whitethroat, (KHa)

Blithfield Resv

14x Black Tern off Beech Tree Point, Bar-tailed Godwit, (GJM)

Chasewater

4x Black Tern, (ICW)

Amington Moors

Cattle Egret flown towards Alvecote, (TPe)

Belvide Resv

2x Black Tern, 2x adult Little Gull this afternoon,

Whitemoor Haye

Bar-tailed Godwit from quarry entrance, Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, 2x Redshank, (SCo)

Doxey Marsh

House Martin, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, Lapwing, LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, Greenfinch, GC Grebe, (BGo)