Saturday, 2 May 2026

Saturday 2nd May 2026

Blithfield Resv

Early am - 3x Whimbrel at Admaston Reach then flew to deep end, (SRi), - Wood Sandpiper, Ruff, Dunlin, Wheatear, Caspian Gull, 

Middleton Lakes

Bar-tailed Godwit, Black-tailed Godwit, Wood Sandpiper, (MB)

Whitemoor Haye (All Dayer total 65)

Cuckoo, Hobby, 3x Redshank, 5x LRP, Ruff, Wigeon, 2x Pochard, 6x Shelduck, Yellow Wagtail, 4x Garden Warbler, Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, (SCo)

Dimmingsdale

Cuckoo, Garden Warbler, (TEy)

Doxey Marsh

3x Arctic Tern, 3x LRP, Common Sandpiper, Lesser Whitethroat, numerous Reed Warblers,  Sedge Warblers, Blackcaps, Cetti's Warblers, 10x Swift, (GPr, KLe)

Freehay

9x male Mandarin on garden pond this am, (FCa)

Furnace Grange Smestow Valley

Cattle Egret at 16:08,  Grey Partridge, Hobby, (GSl)

Belvide ResvSiskin, Redpoll, 

2x Wood Sandpiper, 2x adult Med Gull

Branston GPs (All Dayer total 101)

2x Bar-tailed Godwit, Whimbrel, Curlew, 2x Redshank, 7x Dunlin, 4x Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 12x Lapwing, 6x Oystercatcher, 2x Little Egret, Water Rail, 5x Goosander, 14x Pochard, 10x Teal, 12x Shelduck, 4x Mandarin, 16x Gadwall, 26x Little Grebe, 5x Common Tern, YL Gull, 3x Red Kite, Peregrine, Hobby, Barn Owl, Cuckoo, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x RL Partridge, Stonechat, Mistle Thrush, 6x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Grey Wagtail, Gropper, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 8x Garden Warbler, 8x Lesser Whitethroat, 7x Sedge Warbler, 14x Reed Warbler, 6x Linnet, 7x Swift, (JWo, DSc, CEc, Dean, PFo)

Fisherwick - Elford

Corn Bunting singing on the road at 18:30 on top of a Oak, (MBr)