25th April 2010

Baddesley Ensor
Wood Warbler singing in wood at top of hill off waste lane (Dave Hutton)

Warwick
Red Kite over Guys Cliffe moving south mid-afternoon (Birdguides)

Draycote Water
Little Tern x 4 early morning
Great Northern Diver x 2
Whimbrel x 6
Bar-tailed Godwit x 6 (Birdguides)

Coombe Abbey CP
Whinchat x 1 (Birdguides)

24th April 2010

Garganey at Draycote Water by Dave Hutton

Draycote Water
Blue-headed Wagtail (m) with Yellow Wagtails on Farborough Bank
Garganey (drake) off Hensborough Bank
Garden Warbler
Black Tern x 1, Arctic Tern x 4
Little Gull x 15+ (Birdguides)

Kingsbury WP
Grasshopper Warbler reeling to left of path to Sita Hide early morning (Colin J Green)

Fishers Mill
Lesser Whitethroat (Colin J Green), Cuckoo, Little Egret x 2, Garden Warbler (TVB)

23rd April 2010

Ring Ouzel at Seeswood Pool by Dave Hutton

Draycote Water
Blue-headed Wagtail (male and possible female)
Garganey (drake)
Great Northern Diver x 2
Wheatear (male)
Little Gull (adult)
Common Sandpiper x 2
Yellow Wagtail x c12
Shelduck x 2
Sparrowhawk
Common Tern (Bob Hazell, Dave Hutton)

Seeswood Pool
Ring Ouzel (1st summer male) (Dave Hutton)

Ryton
Pied Flycatcher at Paget's Pool (Jon Vincent)

Earlswood Lakes
Arctic Tern x 2 over Engine Pool early evening (Birdguides)

Kenilworth
Whinchat x 1 behind Oaks Farm (Birdguides)

22nd April 2010

Draycote Water
Garganey (drake)
Great Northern Diver x 2
Golden Plover x 7 over
Dunlin x 3
Common Sandpiper x 4 (possibly 6)
Blue-headed Wagtail (male)
Yellow Wagtail x11
Common Tern x 2
Sedge Warbler
Wheatear (female) (Bob Hazell)

Brandon Marsh
Reed Warbler in Newlands (Birdguides)

Shustoke Reservoir
Lesser Whitethroat (Birdguides)

Coombe Abbey CP
Ring Ouzel
Whinchat
Wheatear (Birdguides)

21st April 2010

Draycote Water
Blue-headed Wagtail
Yellow Wagtail x 11 (at least)
Great Northern Diver
Common Sandpiper x 5 (possibly 7)
Redshank
White Wagtail x 2
Swift x 5 (Bob Hazell)
Wheatear x 2 between Inlet and Rainbow Corner (Alan Anscomb)

Coombe Abbey
Common Redstart (Birdguides)

20th April 2010

Draycote Water

Blue-headed Wagtail (Birdguides)

Coombe Country Park

Ring Ouzel, female (Birdguides)

Fishersmill

Greenshank (Birdguides)

19th April 2010

Nuneaton

Red Kite (Birdguides)

18th April

Draycote Water

Great Norther Diver

Little Gull x 3

Common Scoter (Birdguides)

Kingsbury Water Park

Common Redstart (Birdguides)

Brandon Marsh

Avocet

Common Tern (J.Wesson)

Shustoke Reservoir

Great White Egret (Birdguides)

17th Apr 2010

Draycote Water
Arctic Tern x 3 , Little Gull x 3 , G N Diver x 2,
Yellow Wagtail x 20 +, Curlew x 3 over ..........K Groocock, C Green.

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)