16th Apr 2010

Brandon Marsh
Avocet still on river pool this morning.......Birdguides.

Draycote Water

Great Northern Diver

Yellow Wagtail x 10

Sparrowhawk (Bob Hazell)

15th April 2010

Brandon Marsh

Avocet onEast Marsh pool

Grasshopper Warbler (J.Wesson).

Alvecote Pools

Garganey pair on Railway Pool this morning.......Birdguides.

Draycote Water

Great Northern Diver

Little Gull x 4

Yellow Wagtail x 20

Oystercatcher x 2 (Bob Hazell)

Ladywalk

Goosander , Green Sand , Shelduck pair.............B Jones.

14th April 2010

Draycote Water

Little Gull x 10+

Whinchat (Female)

Yellow Wagtail x 19

Great Northern Diver

Redshank (Bob Hazell)

13th April 2010

Draycote Water

Little Gull x 4 (Birdguides)

Marsh Lane
Hobby x 2
Ruff x 7 (Birdguides)

12th April2010

Draycote Water
Great Northern Diver
Little Gull
Oystercatcher
Yellow Wagtail x 3 (Bob Hazell)

Shustoke
Common Sandpiper (TVB)

Ladywalk
Green Sandpiper (TVB)

Brandon Marsh

Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (J.Rankin)

11th April 2010

Kingsbury WP
Mediterranean Gull x 2 2nd summer on Cliff Pool (Birdguides)

Draycote Water
Great Northern Diver x 2
Little Gull
White Wagtail (Birdguides)

Maxstoke Priory
Hobby (TVB)

Also just over the border

A45 (Pinketts Booth junction) Red Kite (J.Wesson)

10th April 2010

Packwood
Cuckoo heard at noon (BT Beesley)

Bubbenhall (Paget's Lane)
Green Sandpiper x 1
White Wagtail x 1 (D Ludlow)

Brandon Marsh
Ringed Plover x 1
Snipe x 12
Willow Warbler x 6
Sedge Warbler x 1 (D Ludlow)

9th April 2010

Draycote Water
Great Northern Diver x 2
Little Gull
Yellow Wagtail x 6 (Bob Hazell)
Redstart between village and the Reservoir (Chris Godding & Nev Weston)

Kingsbury WP
Redstart male in hedge on path to SITA hide
Common Sandpiper Cliff Pool (TVB)

8th April 2010

Draycote Water
Great Northern Diver x 2
Rock Pipit
Wheatear (male)
Yellow Wagtail x 11
Goldeneye x 3 (female) (Bob Hazell)

Kingsbury WP
Common Sandpiper on Cliff Pool (John Harris)

7th Apr 2010

Shustoke Res
Little Gull (adult) (Birdguides)
White Wagtail (TVB)

Kingsbury WP
Little Egret on Heron Pool (B Jones)

Draycote Water
Great Northern Diver x 2
Yellow Wagtail x 4 along Farnborough Bank (Birdguides)

Kingsbury WP
Common Sandpiper x 3 on Cliff Pool (TVB)

6th Apr 2010

Avocet......Kingsbury WP.....D Hutton

Kingsbury WP
Avocet x 2 on Cliff Pool this afternoon
Sandwich Tern over Broomey Croft @ 16-10.........Birdguides

Draycote Water
Oystercatcher x 2
Yellow Wagtail x 4 .....Bob Hazell

Brandon Marsh
Red Kite over west marsh @ 2pm ,
Sedge Warbler from steetley hide also Yellow Wagtail.....K Yates.

Shustoke Res
Wheatear fem.......L Johnson.

Lea Marston
Little Egret..........J Allen.

5th Apr 2010

Earlswood Lake
Common Tern x 2 this morning..........Birdguides.

Kingsbury WP
Common Tern bodymoor heath water this morning....TP , DH.
Sandwich Tern heading south over Broomey Croft.

Whitacre Heath
Green Sandpiper
Little Egret.....J.Wesson

Brandon Marsh
Lesser-spotted Woodpecker.......Brandon Birding

Alvecote Pools
Kittiwake adult over Mill Pool this evening
Jack Snipe ........Birdguides.

Dosthill Lake
Wheatear (male)
Yellow Wagtail

3rd April 2010

Shustoke
Wheatear (fem)
White Wagtail
House Martin
Little Ringed Plover over (TVB)

Kingsbury WP
Sandwich Tern reported 12.30 (per TVB)

Dosthill Lake
Wheatear x 2 (m+f)
White Wagtail x 4 (male)

Middleton Hall
Willow Warbler x 2 singing

Earlswood Lakes
Common Tern x 2 (Birdguides)

Burton Dasset CP
Black Redstart opposite the toilet block (Birdguides)

Draycote Water
Great Northern Diver x 1 (Birdguides)

Brandon Marsh
Swallow x 3
Sand Martin (dozens)
Willow Warbler x 2
Oystercatcher x 3
Little Ringed Plover x 1
Ringed Plover x 2
Lesser Redpoll x 20 (Colin Green)
Redshank x 3 (Brandon Birding)

Whitacre Heath
Jack Snipe (TVB)

Wedgnock
Red Kite reported near A46 bridge at 11.40am flying south west (Andy Evans)

2nd April 2010

Shustoke
Yellow Wagtail
White Wagtail
Wheatear (TVB)

Lea Marston
Green Sandpiper
Little Egret from railway bridge (TVB)

Bubbenhall
Green Sandpiper x 2 at Pagets Lane (D.Ludlow)

1st April 2010

Shustoke
Red Kite reported 1.15pm
House Martin x 2
Willow Warbler

Middleton
Willow Warbler in Mill Plantation

Ladywalk
Willow Warbler
Goosander x 12
Swallow x 12

Dosthill Pit
Wheatear x 2 males
White Wagtail x 1 male
Swallow x 4

Draycote Water
Great Northern Diver
Sparrowhawk x 2
Swallow x c150 .......Bob Hazell
Common Scoter
Wheatear
Yellow Wagtail x 2......S Batt

31st March 2010

Shustoke Reservoir
Yellow Wagtail
White Wagtail x 2
House Martin x 2
Swallow x 100
Sand Martin x 300 (TVB)

Dosthill
House Martin x 2
Sand Martin x 60
Wheatear x 2

Brandon Marsh
Black-tailed Godwit x 7 (Brandon Birding)
Yellow-legged Gull x 2 (Birdguides)

Earlswood Lakes
Common Tern x 1 from Malthouse Lane causeway. Still present 4:40pm (Matt Griffiths)

Draycote Water @ 7.00pm
Meditteranean Gull (adult)
Swallow (several)
Great Northern Diver x 1 (M.Spirito)

30th Mar 2010

Earlswood Lake
Swallow x 10, Sand Martin x 2 (Birdguides)

Middleton Hall
Swallow
Little Egret x 3

29thMarch 2010

Fisher's Mill
Black-Tailed Godwit x 16 flew South (Birdguides)

Ladywalk
House Martin
Swallow x 20
Sand Martin x 50
Green Sandpiper
Golden Plover x 13 over (TVB)

28th March 2010

Brandon Marsh
Golden Plover x 1 East Marsh Pool at 8.45am (Keith Yates)

27th Mar 2010.

Brandon Marsh
Sedge Warbler (early record)...behind Wright Hide.....K Yates.

26th March 2010

Nuneaton

Red Kite ... over Camp Hill (R. Dawkins)

Baginton Airfield

Wheatear x 2 by fuel tanks, also two Curlew.......D Ludlow.

Bubbenhall

Green Sandpiper x 2 @ Pagets.........D Ludlow.

Coleshill

Golden Plover x 30 in fields by river Blythe........TVB.

Brandon Marsh

Bittern this afternoon............Birdguides.

25th March 2010

Brandon Marsh

Willow Warbler (K.Yates)

L R Plover east marsh

Chiffchaff x 7 .............(C Green)

Draycote Water

Great Northern Diver x 2

Common Scoter (drake)

Wheatear x 2

Kingfisher

Willow Warbler x 4 .....Bob Hazell

24th Mar 2010.

Fenny Compton
Black Redstart...........between pasture field and playing field for its second day...........Birdguides.

Coton
Wheatear from hide this morning.

Ladywalk
Brambling (fem) still on feeders........TVB.

Hams Hall
Wheatear on Faraday Ave.............TVB.

23rd Mar 2010.

Draycote Water
Great Skua
Firecrest
Great Northern Diver x 2
Snipe x 2
Ringed Plover over calling
Sparrowhawk..............R Mays, B Hazell

Haunch Lane
Wheatear (male)............JG.

Ladywalk
Brambling (female)
Willow Tit x 2 on feeders............JG.

22nd Mar 2010.

Earlswood Lakes
Swallow x 2
Sand Martin x 2.........M Griffiths.

Ladywalk
Brambling , Willow Tit , 15 x Goosander..........TVB.

Lea Marston
Little Egret...........TVB.

Middelton
Little Egret x 4 ...........TVB.

Draycote Water
No sign of yesterdays Firecrest.......
Wheatear on farnborough bank
Chiffchaff x 7
Sand Martin x 9.............S Batt.

21st Mar 2010

Napton-on the-Hill
Firecrest .......in small dell to the right of 2nd kissing gate.........Birdguides

Ladywalk
Brambling (fem)....on feeding station...........T Perrins.

Wishaw
Wheatear (male)....Blind Pit Lane............T Perrins.

Morton Baggot
Wheatear x 3 (male), Green Sandpiper , L R Plover x 3 .......JY / RH

Alcester
Wheatear at Kinwarton Dovecote
Black Redstart female still off Tything Road on Arden Forest Industrial Estate this afternoon...Birdguides

Draycote Water
Firecrest
Great Northern Diver x 2
Swallow
Sand Martin x 6 ...............Draycote Birding
Common Scoter drake........Birdguides

20th Mar 2010

Brandon Marsh
Little Ringed Plover x 2
Redshank x 4
Oystercatcher x 2
Snipe x 45
Cettis Warbler x 5
Water Rail x 2.....................K Yates.

Ladywalk
Sand Martin x2 , Green Sandpiper,
Brambling ( feeding station), Little Egret,
Peregrine x 2 ...................TVB.

19th March 2010

Draycote Water
Great Northern Diver
Common Scoter (drake)
Sand Martin
Chiffchaff x 8 (Bob Hazell)

Alcester
Black Redstart female on warehouse roof by Blisshome Ltd off Tything Road on Arden Forest Industrial Estate (Birdguides)

Marsh Farm Quarry
Green Sandpiper no general access (Birdguides)

Ladywalk
Brambling...................TVB.

Shustoke Res
Sand Martin x 4 ................TVB.

Coleshill
Wheatear nr Packington Landfill site..........TVB.

Brandon Marsh
Little Ringed Plover x 3 .............R Mays.