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Tuesday, 22 September 2026

Tuesday 22nd September 2026

Middleton Lakes

Pectoral Sandpiper still from riverside benches this am, 4x Ruff, 20x Snipe, 2x Great Egret, (MSm)  -  Pec Sand and 4x Ruff still mid morning, (JKl)  -  This evening JW north 49x Snipe, 3 to 4x Ruff, 2x Great Egret, (MB)

Blithfield Resv

Glossy Ibis briefly Blithe Bay at 12:05, (MPR, GJM)  -  This evening Blithe Bay Glossy Ibis still, 9x Great Egret, 8x Wigeon, sev YL Gull, 26x Ringed Plover, LRP, 6x Dunlin, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Curlew, 5x Ruff, 3x Wheatear, (SRi)

Rudyard

Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Snipe, Little Egret, 6x Common Gull, 103x Teal, Red Kite, (SSe)

                                                     Black-tailed Godwit by Steve Seal

Doxey Marsh

This pm - 15x Shoveler, 26x Gadwall, 7x Teal, c150 Lapwing, 8x Snipe, Cattle Egret, Great Egret, Hobby, GC Grebe, (CAFH)

Branston GPs

2x Little Stint, Dunlin, 3x Green Sandpiper, 6x Snipe, 2x Ringed Plover, 6x Lapwing, 16x Curlew, Marsh Harrier (juv), Hobby, 2x Water Rail, 2x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 6x Goosander, 195x Pochard, 160x Teal, 103x Shoveler, 162x Gadwall, 12x Wigeon, Shelduck, 57x Little Grebe, GBB Gull, 4x YL Gull, 2x Stonechat, 24x Linnet, 2x Willow Warbler, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 32x Clouded Yellow site record, Willow Emerald, Brimstone, Painted Lady, 2x Vapourer Moth, 8x Silver Y, 5x Common Blue butterfly, (JWo, BSt)