Tuesday, August 31, 2010

31st August 2010

Earlswood Lakes
Little Gull juvenille left late afternoon heading NE (Matthew Griffiths)

Alvecote Pools
Ruff and Redshank on Mill Pool (Jon Morgan)

Draycote Water
Sanderling x 1 (Birdguides)

Monday, August 30, 2010

30th August 2010

Wormleighton Reservoir
Common Redstart nearby (Matt Griffiths & Jon Bowley)

Priors Hardwick
Common Redstart
Whinchat
Wheatear (Matt Griffiths & Jon Bowley)

Napton-on-the-Hill
Common Redstart (Birdguides)

Draycote Water
Sanderling x 1 on Hensborough Bank
Turnstone x 2
Yellow-legged Gull adult (Birdguides)

Saturday, August 28, 2010

28th Aug 2010

Morton Bagot
Greenshank x 3 this afternoon on second pool from the road also 2 x Green Sands
and Manadrin on third pool this evening..........Birdguides.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

25th August 2010

Draycote Water
Little Gull x 1 juv (Birdguides)

Sunday, August 22, 2010

22nd August 2010

Whitacre Heath
Greenshank x 2
Hobby
Spotted Flycatcher x 3
Green Sandpiper x 2 (Birdguides)

Draycote Water
Turnstone
Ringed Plover (Carl Day)


Photos by Carl Day

Friday, August 20, 2010

20th August 2010

Long Lawford
Red Kite between village and cement works over A428 at 1.45pm (Pete Hall & Bumbling Bears)

Draycote Water
Black Tern x 2 juveniles
Little Gull x 1 juvenile
Mediterranean Gull x1 juvenile
Yellow-legged Gull x 12. All in the roost this evening (Birdguides)

Thursday, August 19, 2010

19th August 2010

Waste Hill, Baddesley Common
Whinchat
Common Redstart x 2 (Birdguides)

Draycote Water
Little Gull (juv) (Birdguides)

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

18th August 2010

Lapworth
Peregrine over (Birdguides)

Coleshill
Peregrine over (Birdguides)

Monday, August 16, 2010

16th August 2010

Fishers Mill
Garganey (eclipse drake) (Birdguides)

Earlswood Lakes
Common Redstart in scrubland south of Windmill Pool
Hobby over Springbrook Lane (Birdguides)

Sunday, August 15, 2010

15th August 2010

Bubbenhall Meadows
Whinchat
Hobby (Birdguides)

Draycote Water
Knot on Toft Bank
Turnstone on Farborough Bank (Birdguides)

Friday, August 13, 2010

13th August 2010

Draycote Water
Little Egret
Yellow legged gull x1 ( juv)
Common sandpiper x5
Dunlin x 4
Little Ringed Plover x 1 (D.Ludlow)

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

10th August 2010

Kingsbury WP
Mandarin (f)
Common Sandpiper on Cliff Pool (Brian Jones)

Fishers Mill
Wood Sandpiper on back pool (Brian Jones)

Draycote Water
Osprey flew west
Ruff
Yellow-legged Gull x 3 (Birdguides)

Sunday, August 08, 2010

8th August 2010

Fishers Mill
Wood Sandpiper x1
Greenshank x 1
Marsh Harrier (fem/immature) flew north (Birdguides)

Middleton Lakes
Greenshank x2 on silt pool (Birdguides)

Kingsbury WP
Mandarin on cliff pool (Birdguides)

Draycote Water
Quail male singing in a field (Birdguides)

Friday, August 06, 2010

6th August 2010

Fishers Mill
Ruff x4 (Birdguides)

Thursday, August 05, 2010

5th August 2010

Whitacre Heath
Green Sandpiper (Jon Morgan)

Wednesday, August 04, 2010

4th August 2010

Draycote Water
Little-ringed Plover (juv)
Yellow-legged Gull x10 (Birdguides)

Monday, August 02, 2010

2nd August 2010

Polesworth
Quail singing behind South View, along the old Tamworth Road (Archie Archer)

Alvecote Pools

Redstart (male) on Laundry Lane past orchard (Jon Morgan)

Sunday, August 01, 2010

1st August 2010

Alvecote Pools
Garganey eclipse drake on Mill Pool
Common Redstart male along Laundry Lane (Birdguides)

Draycote Water
Sanderling on Toft Bank (Birdguides)