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, 5x Whimbrel, Med Gull, Cuckoo, 2x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 3x Dunlin, 3x Ringed Plover, 3x Oystercatcher, 9x Lapwing, 2x Little Egret, Goldeneye, 4x Mandarin, 2x Pochard, 4x Shoveler, 12x Gadwall, 18x Teal, 14x Shelduck, 12x Little Grebe, Red Kite, Gropper, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, 5x Garden Warbler, 7x Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 150x Swift, 14x Linnet, (JWo, CEc, Dean, Bob)

                                                   Wood Sandpiper by Jon Woodcock

                                                       Whimbrels by Jon Woodcock

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)  -  This evening Great Egret, fem Marsh Harrier for 10 mins only, 1s Caspian Gull, 14x Black Tern till 19:20 at least, 6x Common Tern, sev LRP, Black-tailed Godwit over the causeway, (SRi)

Chasewater

4x Black Tern, (ICW)

Amington Moors

Cattle Egret flown towards Alvecote, (TPe)

Belvide Resv

4x Black Tern, 2x adult Little Gull this afternoon,

Whitemoor Haye

Bar-tailed Godwit from quarry entrance, Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, 2x Redshank, (SCo)  -  Early evening Bar-tailed Godwit, Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, 3x Redshank, Dunlin, 3x LRP, Wheatear, (TPe) - In addition Yellow Wagtail, (PAn)

Doxey Marsh

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

Tittesworth Water

Goosander, Shoveler, 8x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 8x Oystercatcher, 2x Grey Wagtail, 2x Willow Tit, 2x Mistle Thrush, 2x Garden Warbler, Blackcaps, Reed Bunting, House Martin, (JOa, LH)

Botteslow

LRP, (IBu)

North Staffs Moors

Cuckoo, 2x Ring Ouzel, 4x Wheatear, 2x Stonechat, (TEy)

Wetley Moor

2x Garden Warbler, 4x Willow Warbler, 4x Whitethroat, 4x Stonechat, (GWo)