Friday, 2 October 2026

Friday 2nd October 2026

Middleton Lakes

Pectoral Sandpiper still on JW north, (GG)  -  Pec Sand still this afternoon, (GLy)  -  Tonight Pectoral Sandpiper, 5x Ruff, Bittern, 3x Ringed-necked- Parakeet thru, riverside roost 9x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, (MB)

Blithfield Resv

2x Black Tern, (GJM)  -  Little Stint still this am, 13x Dunlin, 6x Ruff, 2x Curlew, 2x Black Tern, 4x Great Egret, Hobby, Peregrine (juv), (KayD)

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4x Swallow thru, (Foz)

Tittesworth Water

Common Tern, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Goosander, 8x Teal, 3x Wigeon, 4x Mandarin, Little Egret, Raven, (IFe)

Bentilee

Hobby over at 13:10 flying towards Berryhill, (PCa)

Blackbank

17x Redwing thru this am, 

Consall (Churnet Valley)

Redwing this am, (SFe)

Doxey Marsh

16:15 to 17:15 - Marsh Harrier, Water Rail (juv), Great Egret, Little Grebe, 10x Snipe, 40x Lapwing, 4x Wigeon, Shoveler, Teal, Gadwall, Kestrel, Chiffchaff, (JKe, AKe)

Alrewas

Cattle Egret in field with Cattle, (SCo)

Branston GPs

Wheatear (f), 4x Swallow, 5x Stonechat, Red Kite, 3x Peregrine, 10x Curlew, 5x Snipe, 4x Green Sandpiper, 52x Lapwing, 5x Great Egret, 7x Little Egret, Shelduck, 66x Wigeon, 86x Shoveler, 66x Gadwall, 182x Pochard, 350x Teal, 52x Little Grebe, 150x Linnet, 600x Starling, 2x Willow Emerald, 9x Clouded Yellow, (JWo, DSc, CEc, Dean)