Nearby Reports Apr 25th.

Green Winged Teal (drake) Eyebrook Res Leics.

Arctic Tern x2 Uttoxeter Quarry Staffs.
Arctic Tern x1 Kinsham Pit Worcs.
Arctic Tern x2 Long Eaton GPs Derbys.

Ring Ouzel x3 Bredon Hill Worcs.
Ring Ouzel x1 Chaddesden Derbys.

Sanderling Drayton Bassett Pits Staffs.

Garganey Rutland Water Leics.

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Apr 25th.

Garganey.........Brandon Marsh.......Photo by (S Seal).


Brandon Marsh.
Grasshopper Warbler x2
Cuckoo
Garganey x pair (S Seal).

Draycote Water.
Common Tern x3
Arctic Tern
Little Gull adult
Yellow Wagtail x7 (R Mays, D Cox).

Cliff Pool Kingsbury.
Greenshank (Birdguides).

Nearby Reports Apr 24th.

Grimley New Workings Worcs.
Little Tern

Bartley Res W.Mids.
Sandwich Tern

Westwood Pool Worcs.
Little Gull

Rutland Water Leics.
Arctic Tern x10

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Apr 24th.

Draycote Water.
Arctic Tern x10 (Birdguides).

Brandon Marsh.
Garganey x2
Grasshopper Warblers x2
Whitethroat
Cettis Warbler x5 (D Hutton, S Seal).

Haunch Lane Floods.
Common Sandpiper
L R Plover (T Perrins).

Dosthill Lake.
Arctic Tern x1 (Birdguides).

Nearby Reports Apr 23rd.

Arctic Tern x 216 Hoveringham GPs Notts.
Arctic Tern x 60 Pitsford Res Northants.
Arctic Tern x 55 Summer Leys NR Northants.
Arctic Tern x 10 Kilvington Notts.
Arctic Tern x 3 Groby Pool Leics.
Arctic Tern x 2 Upper Bittell Res Worcs.

Black Tern x1 Thrapston GPs Nothants.
Black Tern x1 Upper Bittell Res Worcs.

Little Tern Stanwick GPs Northants.

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Apr 23rd.

Little Gull....Kingsbury WP.....Photo by (S Seal).


Black Tern ....Seeswood Pool ....Photo,s by (S Seal).

Bodymoor Heath Water Kingsbury.
Arctic Tern x40+
Little Gull x3 adults. (T Perrins, S Seal, B,Duckhouse, D Hutton).

Shustoke Res.
Osprey (Birdguides).

Seeswood Pool.
Black Tern (D Hutton).

Alvecote Pools.
Little Gull x1 adult
Whimbrel x7 (A Archer).

Ladywalk.
Jack Snipe x2.(S Cawthray).

Draycote Water.
Arctic Tern x277
Black Tern
Little Gull x9 (8 adults)
Whimbrel x4
Wheatear (male)
Med Gull 2 in roost but no "frank" (R Mays).

Brandon Marsh.
Garganey x2
Hobby
Grasshopper Warbler x2 (M Silverman).

Cliff Pool Kingsbury.
Greenshank
Grasshopper Warbler (J Harris).

Nearby Reports 22nd.

Black Tern Blithfield Staffs.
Black Tern Upper Bittel Res Worcs.
Black Tern x4 Rutland Water Leics.

Sandwich Tern Hoveringham GPs Notts.

Arctic Tern x20 Attenborough NR Notts.
Arctic Tern x6 Blithfield Staffs.
Arctic Tern x66 Rutland Water Leics.

Little Gull x3 Upton Warren Worcs.
Little Gull x2 Blithfield Staffs.
Little Gull x2 Rutland Water Leics.

Grey Plover Clifford Hill Gps Northants.
Grey Plover Summer Leys NR Northants.

Ring Ouzel x3 Beacon Hill Leics.
Ring Ouzel x1 Ditchford GPs Northants.
Ring Ouzel x1 Croft Leics.

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Apr 22nd.

Mandarin (drake) ...Seeswood Pool......Photo by (D Hutton).

Draycote Water.
Arctic Tern x14, Little Gull x6 (5 adults), Whimbrel x3. (B Duckhouse).

Flecknoe
Cuckoo (J Judge)

Kingsbury WP.
Wheatear x2 (J Harris).

Seeswood Pool.
Mandarin (drake), Yellow Wagtail x2 (D Hutton, R Dawkins).

Coton.
Hobby (G Williams).

Brandon Marsh.
Grasshopper Warbler
Garganey x2. (B Duckhouse).

Fishers Mill.
Reed Warbler x2 , Cuckoo, (J Harris).

Nearby Reports Apr 21st.

Black Tern Rutland Water Leics.
Black Tern Netherfield Lagoons Notts.
Black Tern Blithfield Staffs.
Black Tern Upton Warren Worcs.

Grey Plover Branston GPs Staffs.
Grey Plover Summer Leys NR Northants.

Arctic Tern x14 Long Eaton Derbys.
Arctic Tern Sandwell Valley RSPB W.Mids.

Curlew Sandpiper Upton Warren Worcs.

Little Gull Chasewater Staffs.
Little Gull x2 Upton Warren Worcs.

Yellow Wagtails x25 Whitemoor Haye Staffs.

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Apr 21st.

Franklins Gull .....Draycote Water....Photo,s by (J Judge).

Draycote Water.
Franklins Gull (2nd summer) in at 18-40.
Little Gull (3 x adult + 1st summer)
Med Gull (adult)
3 Whimbrel
16 Yellow Wagtail
2 Common Tern
2 Common Sand
Wheatear (R Mays J Judge)

Earlswood Lakes.
Black Kite (poss)one reported northeast through the bottom end of Windmill Pool over woods by the Reservoir Pub ,(Birdguides).

Coton.
Black Tern x1 (S Cawthray).

Cliff Pool Kingsbury.
Dunlin x2 (S Payne).

Fishers Mill GPs.
Whitethroat, Cuckoo, Green Sand,
Sedge Warblers x2 (S Payne).

Alvecote Pools.
Red Kite this evening (A Archer).
L R Plover x2

Nuneaton.
Grasshopper Warbler, (J Galletly).

Bedworth Slough.
Bearded Tit (L Berry).

Nearby Reports Apr 20th.

Ring Ouzel x5 Bredon Hill Worcs.
Ring Ouzel x2 Stourbridge W.Mids.
Ring Ouzel x1 Beacon Hill Leics.
Ring Ouzel x2 Clifton Notts.
Ring Ouzel x Tilton on the Hill Leics.

Arctic Tern x19 Blithfield Staffs.
Arctic Tern x1 Chasewater Staffs.
Arctic Tern x12 Groby Pools Leics.
Arctic Tern x14 Carsington Water Derbys.
Arctic Tern x2 Belvide Staffs.
Arctic Tern x2 Boddington Res Northants.

Black Tern x1 Upton Warren Worcs.
Black Tern x1 Groby Pools Leics.

Little Gull x4 Thornton Res Leics.

Grey Plover Marsh Lane W.Mids.


Other News
Black Lark (male) Winterton Dunes Norfolk.


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Apr 20th.

Napton on the Hill.
Ring Ouzel x3 (K Donaghy).

Brandon Marsh.
Garganey x2 (Birdguides).
Nightingale (T Marlow)

Nuneaton.
Grasshopper Warbler (D Hutton).

Draycote Water.
Franklins Gull (left roost at 6-50 this morning)
Franklins Gull (back into roost at 19-10 this evening)
Bar-tailed Godwit
Turnstone
Common Tern x7
Arctic Tern
Little Gull x4 (3adults)
Med Gull (adult)
Yellow Wagtail x8
Brambling x2
(R Mays, T Marlow).

Cliff Pool Kingsbury.
Whimbrel x5
Wheatear
Dunlin (WJE).

Nearby Reports Apr 19th.

Holme Pierrepont Notts.
Fulmar

Ashton on Trent Derbys.
Fulmar

Ring Ouzel x21 Crowden Derbys.
Ring Ouzel x3 Stourbridge W.Mids.
Ring Ouzel x1 Borough Hill Northants.
Ring Ouzel x2 Wassell Grove Worcs.
Ring Ouzel x1 Eakring Flash Notts.
Ring Ouzel x14 Cleeve Hill Glos.

Pied Flycatcher Nottingham Notts.
Pied Flycatcher Upton Warren Worcs.

Sandwell Valley RSPB W.Mids.
Whimbrel

Upton Warren Worcs.
Little Gull

Kemerton Lake NR Worcs.
Garganey x2

Kilvington Notts.
Blue Headed Wagtail

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Apr 19th.

Napton on the Hill.
Ring Ouzel x4 in the Quarry
Jack Snipe x1 (B Duckhouse).

Coleshill GPs.
Whinchat (male)
White Wagtail x3
Wheatear x2
Yellow Wagtail x10
Green Sand x2 (T Perrins, J Allen, B Kington).

Flecknoe.
Ring Ouzel x2
Common Redstart (R Mays).

Draycote Water
Franklin's Gull (18-30).
Med Gull
Common Tern
Brambling 4 males
Common Swift (R Mays, K Grewcock etc all)

April 18th

Garganey....Brandon Marsh.........Photo by (J Galletly)

Lea Marston Lake old quarry site
Cuckoo 2, Curlew over (J Harris)

Haunch Lane floods
Shelduck, Yellow Wagtail (J Harris)

KWP Bodymoor Heath water
Common Tern 6, Yellow Wagtail (J Harris)

Broomy Croft Kingsbury.
Firecrest x2 (Birdguides).

Brandon Marsh.
Garganey x2 (Birdguides).

April 18th Draycote Water

Black-necked Grebes......Draycote.......(Midland Bird Images).

Franklin's Gull second summer left the roost at 0600 and returned at 1920 also in roost one adult Med Gull. Two summer plumage Black-necked Grebe's in toft bay, Osprey fishing 1300, Yellow Wagtail 40+ and Two little Gulls this morning.

Richard

Nearby Reports Apr 17th.

Ring Ouzel x3 Bredon Hill Worcs.
Ring Ouzel x3 Clent Hills Worcs.
Ring Ouzel x1 Walton Hill NT Worcs.
Ring Ouzel x1 Wassell Grove Worcs.
Ring Ouzel x2 Baggeridge CP Staffs.
Ring Ouzel x2 Warren Hills Leics.
Ring Ouzel x1 Cotgrave CP Notts.

Redstart x3 Belvide Staffs.
Redstart x1 Sandwell Valley RSPB W.Mids.
Redstart x1 West Bromwich W.Mids.
Redstart x1 Higham on the Hill Leics.

Little Gull Upton Warren Worcs.

Garganey Gailey Res Staffs.

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Apr 17th.

Draycote Water.
Franklins Gull (19-20).
Med Gull (P Hyde, S Whitehouse).

Canal Pool Kingsbury.
Sandwich Tern (J Oates).

Bodymoor Heath Water Kingsbury.
Common Tern x30
Arctic Tern (T Perrins).

Alvecote Pools.
Kittiwake
Common Redstart (Birdguides).

Shustoke Res.
Yellow Wagtails x6
White Wagtail (L Johnson, S Seal, D Hutton).

Nearby Reports Apr 16th.

Thrapston Northants.
Black Kite

Upton Warren Worcs.
Little Gull x2 (adult)

Belvide Staffs.
Common Redstart

Blithfield Staffs.
Yellow Wagtail x18
White Wagtail x23

Ring Ouzel Corby Northants.
Ring Ouzel Long Eaton GPs Derbys.
Ring Ouzel x2 Baggeridge CP Northants.
Ring Ouzel Wassell Grove Worcs.

Marsh Lane.
Yellow Wagtail x9
White Wagtail x2
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker

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Apr 16th C, Sand info

The Common Sandpiper photographed by Dave Hutton on Seeswood Pool Nuneaton yesterday was rung in Derby's!! NW11666, ringed as a juvenile, 44.5 g, wing 104 mm (so not fully grown), still with down on nape. 10 July 2002, 19.30 hrs BST, W side of Ladybower Res (N arm) at about SK182885.Seen subsequently at N end of Derwent Reservoir, c. SK170922, 19/6/04, 26/6/05, 14/5/07.
S Seal.

Apr 16th.

Brandon Marsh.
Franklins Gull (adult)
Med Gull (adult)

Napton on the Hill.
Ring Ouzel male (R Mays)

Grandborough Fields
Cuckoo (R Mays)

Draycote Water.
Franklins Gull (R Harbird, J Judge, R Mays, D Cox). @ 19-40.....
Common Redstart (J Wesson)
Med Gull (adult)

Kingsbury Water Park.
Yellow Wagtail x4
Dunlin x5
Grasshopper Warbler
Whitethroat (S Cawthray)

Ladywalk NR.
White Wagtail
Cettis Warbler
Goosander (male)
Oystercatcher x2
Willow Tit x1 (J Harris)

Whitacre Heath.
Little Egret by railway line (J Harris)

Shuntings Nuneaton.
Brambling x3 (D Hutton)

Shustoke.
Common Sandpiper x2 (S Seal, D Hutton)

Apr 16th. Franklins Gull

Today at Brandon an adult Franklins Gull was present for a short time on east marsh, it was in company with an adult Med Gull. (T Brindley, B Duckhouse).
It was also picked up late evening at Draycote in the Gull roost (R Harbird, J Judge, R Mays, D Cox).

This is the second bird for Draycote the last being a bird that spent several night's roosting at nearby Stanford Reservoir before roosting at Draycote for just one night on November 6th 2002.

Nearby Reports Apr 15th.

Redditch Worcs.
Osprey
one roosting in a wood by the A441 just north of Redditch this afternoon. This bird, a female, has been tracked by satellite transmitter as featured on the BBC programme World on the Move .


Marsh Lane W.Mids.
Lesser Spotted Woody (fem) by the car park.
Oystercatchers x7

Rutland Water Leics.
Little Gull
Black-tailed Godwits x42

Upton Warren Worcs.
Little Gull x3 (2 adults & 1w)

Eyebrook Res Leics.
Green-winged Teal (drake)

Westwood Pool Worcs.
Osprey (permit only)

Other News
Exminster Marsh RSPB Devon
Little Crake (male)

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Apr 15th.

Common Sand.....Seeswood Pool.......Photo by (D Hutton).

Cliff Pool Kingsbury.
Yellow Wagtail x1, LRP x1, Oystercatcher x1, Common Tern x6, and 2 Goldeneye. (L Johnson).

Wishaw.
Yellow Wagtail x2 blind pit lane ( Robin D).

Seeswood Pool.
2 Willow Warbler, 3 Swallow, 4 Sand Martin, Curlew over calling, 2 Common Sandpiper, 5 Buzzard,(D Hutton).

Shuntings Whittleford Nuneaton.
2x Brambling (D Hutton).

Napton Res.
Yellow Wagtail, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, Cettis Warbler and Common Tern over, (R Mays).

Nearby Reports Apr 14th.

Belvide Res Staffs.
Avocet x2
Common Redstart
Hobby

Sheepwash Urban Park W.Mids.
Kittiwake

Warren Hills Leics.
Ring Ouzel

Bredon Hill Worcs.
Osprey over
Common Redstart x5

Priorslee Lake Shrops.
Osprey

Other News
Exminster Marsh RSPB Devon
Little Crake (male)

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Apr 14th.

Blind Pit Lane Wishaw.
2 Male Yellow Wagtail + White Wagtail ,(J Galletly).

Draycote Water.
Yellow Wagtail x10
Common Tern x2 (J Judge, R Mays, B Duckhouse).

Hartshill Hayes.
Raven over (J Harris).

Brandon Marsh.
Barn Owl x2(Late evening from Carlton),
Sedge Warbler(2), Common Sandpiper,
Redshank(3), Ringed Plover(2), (A.Johnson).

Ladywalk NR
Marsh Harrier this evening (S Cawthray).

Apr 14 Osprey @Packington

A Osprey drifted low over the A45 towards Packington Est at 16-10, it was later found on the estate by (N Barlow ) over one of the pools. It was watched for a period of time before drifting off low north at around 17-55. It was looked for around the Coleshill, Shustoke and Coton area, but no further sign possibly due to the bad weather in the area. (S Seal, D Hutton).

Nearby Reports Apr 13th.

Blithfield Staffs.
Osprey

Uttoxeter Staffs.
Osprey

Branston GPs Staffs.
Ruff x4

Drayton Bassett Pits Staffs.
Garganey x (pair)
Whimbrel x2

Ashton-on Trent GPs Derbys.
Ruff x4

Warren Hills Leics.
Ring Ouzel

Belvide Staffs.
Ring Ouzel

Stourbridge W.Mids.
Pied Flycatcher (male)


Other News
Exminster Marsh RSPB Devon
Little Crake (male)

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