10th Sept 2010

Earlswood Lakes
Black Tern x 2 (Birdguides)

Kingsbury WP
Spotted Redshank juvenile flew north from beach by car park at Hemlingford Water this morning (Birdguides)

9th Sept 2010

Brandon Marsh
Garganey eclipse drake on East Marsh (Birdguides)

Ladywalk NR
Little Stint x 3 over (Birdguides)

Earlswood Lakes
Black Tern x 2 (adult & juv) on Windmill Pool (Birdguides)

Draycote Water
Red-necked Phalarope no sign
Black Tern x 4
Little Gull x 1 (Birdguides)

8th Sept 2010

Shustoke Reservoir
Grey Plover flew SE this morning (Birdguides)

Kingsbury Water
Black Tern x 1 on Hemlingford Water this afternoon and Cliff Pool this morning
Little Egret x 4 (Birdguides)

Draycote Water
Red-necked Phalarope juv off Hensborough Bank, still distant
Little Tern
Black Tern x 3
Little Gull

Wyken
Swift x 2 over Honiton Road/Clovelly Road (Jon Vincent)

Images of recent Curlew Sandpiper at Draycote
and Little Stint at Shustoke
Thanks to Dave Hutton http://davehutton.fotopic.net/

7th Sept 2010

Draycote Water
Red-necked Phalarope off Hensborough Bank, though distant
Black Tern x 6
Little Gull juv
Sandwich Tern x 1
Yellow-legged Gull juv
Arctic Tern over
Grey Plover over (Birdguides)

Kingsbury WP
Black Tern x 1 on Cliffe Pool (Birdguides)

6th Sept 2010

Brandon Marsh
Whinchat x 1 (Birdguides)

Napton Reservoir
Firecrest
Whinchat (Birdguides)

Shustoke Reservoir
Little Stint
Sanderling
Little Egret x 2 (Birdguides)

5th Sept 2010

Draycote Water
Curlew Sandpiper juv
Little Stint x 4 early morning only
Little Gull x 3
Black Tern x 7 (Birdguides)

Shustoke Reservoir
Mediterranean Gull (Birdguides)

4th Sept 2010

Priors Hardwick
Common Redstart
Whinchat
Mandarin on nearby pond (Birdguides)

Draycote Water
Curlew Sandpiper juv
Black Tern x 1 (Birdguides)

3rd Sept 2010

Alvecote Pools
Pintail x 3 on Mill Pool (Jon Morgan)

Wormleighton Reservoir
Little Stint x 1
Greenshank x 2 (Birdguides)

Draycote Water
Curlew Sandpiper
Sanderling
Ruff
Yellow-legged Gull x 2 (Birdguides)

Shustoke Reservoir
Meditteranean Gull this evening (Birdguides)

2nd Sept 2010

Draycote Water
Curlew Sandpiper x 4 on Hensborough Bank
Garganey juv off Hensborough Bank, drifted towards inlet
Sanderling
Yellow-legged Gull x 2 (Birdguides)

Waste Hill, Baddesley Common
Common Redstart x 1 (Birdguides)

1st September 2010

Draycote Water
Curlew Sandpiper x 4 (adult and 3 juvs) on Hensborough Bank this afternoon
Ruff
Sanderling
Yellow-legged Gull x 4 (2 adults, 2 juvs), Mediterranean Gull and Caspian Gull in roost (Birdguides)

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)