Tuesday 12th May 2026

Belvide Resv

Bonaparte's Gull still, drake Scaup still, 

Trentham Gardens

8x Cattle Egret still, 4x Little Egret, Mandarin, 50+ Swift, 2x Oystercatcher, 6x Reed Warbler, 2x Garden Warbler, (RGi)

Branston GPs

8x Cattle Egret flew SW over SMP1 at 11:27 (site record count), ad Kittiwake, Arctic Tern, 8x Common Tern, 3x Sanderling, 2x Dunlin, Whimbrel, Curlew, 3x Common Sandpiper, 14x Ringed Plover, 18x Lapwing, 6x Oystercatcher, Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, Mandarin, 11x Pochard, 32x Gadwall, 3x Teal, 29x Shelduck, 23x Egyptian Geese, 15x Little Grebe, Cuckoo, Hobby, Peregrine, 400x Swift, 3x Stonechat, 14x Linnet, Mistle Thrush, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 7x Reed Warbler, 5x Sedge Warbler, 6x Garden Warbler,   (JWo)

                                                      Cattle Egrets by Jon Woodcock

Doxey Marsh

Egyptian Goose, Shelduck, 3x Shoveler, 20x Gadwall, 5x Teal, c40x Swift, Oystercatcher, LRP, 8x Lapwing, 3x GC Grebe, 8x Little Egret, Hobby, c70 House Martin, Sedge Warblers, Reed Warblers, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (CAFH)

Freehay

19x Mandarin in the garden, (FCa)

Whitemoor Haye

Quail this evening still audible from bend in rough track, (PAn)