Friday, 25 September 2026

Friday 25th September 2026

Cheddleton Heath

3x Red Kite over at 07:00, (PCa)

Belvide Resv

Juv Curlew Sandpiper from 13:10, 

Doxey Marsh

Male Marsh Harrier over Creswell Flash and flew off towards railway, (CAFH)  -  16:00 to 17:00 at Creswell Flash - Little Stint, Marsh Harrier flying west, Water Rail, 3x Snipe, Mandarin, Great Egret, Lapwings, Shovelers, 2x Stonechat,  (JKe)

Middleton Lakes

Pectoral Sandpiper still on JW north, 4x Ruff, 4x Ringed Plover, 41x Snipe, (JKl)  -  This evening Pectoral Sandpiper still, 4x Ruff, 4x Ringed Plover, (MB)

Blithfield Resv

Ruddy Shelduck, 5x Curlew, 6x Dunlin, 28x Ringed Plover, 10x Ruff, Snipe, 15x Great Egret, 12x Little Egret, Peregrine, 3x Red Kite, 3x Stonechat, 2x Wheatear, 36x Wigeon, (SE, HF)

Branston GPs

Little Stint (juv), Dunlin, 3x Ringed Plover, 52x Lapwing, 3x Green Sandpiper, Snipe, 12x Curlew, 5x Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 4x Pintail, 143x Pochard, 48x Wigeon, 155x Gadwall, 105x Shoveler, 280x Teal, 55x Little Grebe, YL Gull, Peregrine, 2x Hobby, 3x RL Partridge, Stonechat, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 110x Linnet, Clouded Yellow, (JWo, CEc, Dean) - The Great White Egret pictured below was ringed at Shapwick in April 2025. Since then it has seen at Slimbridge, Belvide, Middleton Lakes and Ladywalk.

                                                                  By Jon Woodcock