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)

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)

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.

25th August 2010

Draycote Water
Little Gull x 1 juv (Birdguides)

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

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)

19th August 2010

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

Draycote Water
Little Gull (juv) (Birdguides)

18th August 2010

Lapworth
Peregrine over (Birdguides)

Coleshill
Peregrine over (Birdguides)

16th August 2010

Fishers Mill
Garganey (eclipse drake) (Birdguides)

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

15th August 2010

Bubbenhall Meadows
Whinchat
Hobby (Birdguides)

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

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)

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)

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)

6th August 2010

Fishers Mill
Ruff x4 (Birdguides)

5th August 2010

Whitacre Heath
Green Sandpiper (Jon Morgan)

4th August 2010

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

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)

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)