Sunday, 3 May 2026

Sunday 3rd May 2026

Whitemoor Haye

Greenshank, Ruff, Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 5x Dunlin, (TPe)

Branston GPs

8x Sanderling, 18x Dunlin, Bar-tailed Godwit, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 25+ Ringed Plover,  2x Redshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, 7x Oystercatcher, 10x Lapwing, Snipe, Greenshank, Arctic Tern, 5x Common Tern, 1s Caspian Gull, 2x Little Egret, 3x Pochard, 8x Teal, 8x Shelduck, Red Kite, 3x Stonechat, (TPe, JWo, DSc, CEc, ASt, BSt, PAn, RPo)

                                     Sanderlings, Ringed Plovers, Godwits by Jon Woodcock

Blithfield Resv

6x Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 2x LRP Admaston Reach at 08:30, (MBr)  -  3x Common Scoter (one female) deep end, 11x Dunlin, 9x Ringed Plover, Redshank, Black-tailed Godwit, (GJM)  -  This afternoon 14x Cattle Egret in trees at top of Blithe Bay, (JAl)

Middleton Lakes

Early am - 2x Bar-tailed Godwit, Black-tailed Godwit, 11x Dunlin, 5x Ringed Plover, LRP, 3x Common Sandpiper, 4x probable Arctic Tern, 4x Common Tern, Bittern, 2x Cuckoo, Swifts, (GG)

Belvide Resv

Wood Sandpiper, Sanderling, 13x Dunlin, 8x Ringed Plover, 3x Greenshank, 

Astonfields Balancing Resv

Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Whitethroat, 2x Sedge Warbler, Blackcap, Greenfinch, Bullfinch, (RSt)

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Wheatear, 3x Green Woodpecker,3x  Stonechat, (JDu)

Tittesworth Water

Flock of 26x LRPs briefly then flew north, 8x Oystercatcher,  8x Common Sandpiper, 4x Lapwing, 2x Goosander, 3x Mandarin, Pochard, 2x Common Tern, 2x Redstart, 8+ Garden Warbler, Blackcaps, 2x Bullfinch, 2x House Martin, (JOa, LH, TE)

Alvecote

Male Garganey on Pretty Pigs, (TPe)

Lordship Lane

Wood Sandpiper, 3x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, (IBu)