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)

31st July 2010

Draycote Water
Sanderling x1 on Toft Bank this morning (Birdguides)

30th July 2010

Middleton Lakes
Red-crested Pochard x2 (Birdguides)

28th July 2010

Draycote Water
Little Gull 1st-summer
Yellow-legged Gull x25 in roost (Birdguides)

27th July 2010

Draycote Water
Sabine's Gull adult from 10:36 to 10:50 when it flew north
Sanderling
Yellow-legged Gull x20+ in roost
Little Gull x 2 (adult & 1st-summer) (Birdguides)

26th July 2010

Shustoke Reservoir
Common Tern x25 this morning (Birdguides)

Lea Marston & Coton Lakes
Little Egret x1 (Birdguides)

25th July 2010

Draycote Water
Little Gull (juv)
Common Sandpiper x 3
Lesser Whitethroat x 10+ (Pete Hall & Bumbling Bears)
Meditteranean Gull (adult)
Egyption Goose
Yellow-legged Gull x14 (Birdguides)

Long Lawford
Hobby (Pete Hall)

Brandon Marsh NR
Black-tailed Godwit x1
Green Sandpiper x4
Little Egret x3 (Birdguides)

24th July 2010

Rugby
Red Kite circling over Sainsbury's at 10:15am (John Moore)

23rd July 2010

Bilton, Rugby
Hobby over Bawnmore Road at 1:15pm (Pete Hall)

Draycote Water
Mediterranean Gull (juv)
Yellow-legged Gull x 3 adults (Birdguides)

21st July 2010

Dunchurch
Hobby x 2 over A45 near Onley (Pete Hall)

Draycote Water
Little Egret x2
Egyption Goose (Birdguides)

18th July 2010

Draycote Water
Yellow-legged Gull +5
Little Egret (Birdguides)

10th July 2010

Ladywalk
Goosander x 1
Oystercatcher x 3
Little Ringed Plover x 3
Black-tailed Godwit x 1
Green Sandpiper x 1

Whitacre Heath
Green Sandpiper x 3

Wishaw
Quail calling at Blindpit Lane
Yellow Wagtail x 3

Draycote Water
Wood Sandpiper x 2
Little Egret x 3
Egyption Goose
Ringed Plover (Alan Horsley)

Earlswood Lakes
Mandarin Duck eclipse drake on Windmill Pool (Birdguides)

9th July 2010

Draycote Water
Little Egret x 2
Egyption Goose (Birdguides)

4th July 2010

Camp Hill
Common Crossbill x 7 NE this morning (Birdguides)

2nd July 2010

Dunchurch
Red Kite over A45 south of Dunchurch, heading east towards Onley (Pete Hall)