Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Sept 30th,

Draycote Water.
Common Scoter (drake)
Shag x2
Y L Gull adult
Pintail x2
Goosander x3
Common Sandpiper x2
Wheatear (J Oates).

Monday, September 29, 2008

Sept 29th.

Draycote Water.
Common Scoter drake (Birdguides)
Rock Pipit
Shag (S Seal, D Hutton).

Draycote Gull Roost.
Kittiwake 1w
Med Gull 1w
Y L Gull 2w (R Mays).

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Sept 28th.

Napton on the Hill.
Spotted Flycatcher x4 (R Mays, D Cox)


Brandon Marsh.
Black-tailed Godwit
Siskin x20 (R Mays, D Cox)

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Sept 27th.

Draycote Water.
Shag x2
Rock Pipit x2
Buzzard x5
Raven x2
Goosander x3
Wheatear x2 (S Seal, D Hutton, R Dawkins, R Mays).

Friday, September 26, 2008

Sept 26th.

Rock Pipit....Draycote Water.


Rugby.
Common Crane over heading east @ 18-55 (M Phillips).

Draycote Water.
Rock Pipit x2 (possibly x3)
Shag x2
Raven x2
Goosander x3
Wheatear (S Seal, J Judge, B Hazel).

Rugby
Osprey over heading south @14-10 (D Hall).

Napton.
Blackcap x1
Chiffchaff x6
Meadow Pipit x23 south
Peregrine
Raven x3 (T Marlow).

Napton Res.
Gadwall x2
Shoveler x4
Wigeon x6
Redpoll x2
Raven x3 (T Marlow).

Brandon Marsh.
Red Kite over @ 12-30 (M Silverman).

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Sept 25th.

Draycote Water.
Honey Buzzard dark phase south at 15-00
Raven
Shag x2
Goosander x3
Rock Pipit (R Mays, K Grewcock).

Flecknoe
Rock Pipit
Jack Snipe (R Mays).


Middelton Hall.
Hen Harrier ringtail 12-20 (J Harris).

Brandon Marsh.
Common Snipe x55
Siskin x50
Wigeon x10
Green Sandpiper (A Johnson).

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Sept 24th.

Draycote Water.
Goosander x3
Common Sandpiper
Yellow Wagtail
Wheatear (L Johnson).
Shag x2
Redshank
Med Gull (1st w)
Y L Gull (R Mays).

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Sept 23rd.

River Leam
Bar-tailed Godwit x3
Little Egret x2 (R Mays).

Draycote Water.
Shag x2 imms
Common Sandpiper x2
Ringed Plover x2
Goosander x3 (R Mays).

Nearby Reports Sept 23rd.

Sandwell Valley W. Mids.
Yellow Browed Warbler

Drayton Bassett Pits Staffs.
Sandwich Tern x2
Little Stint
Black-necked Grebe
Little Egret x5

Switherland Res Liecs.
Red-necked Grebe

Eyebrook Res Leics.
Slavonian Grebe

Upton Warren Worcs.
Little Stint

News taken from Birdguides @
http://www.birdguides.com/
Phone reports to 0800 0431003
or email to sightings@birdguides.com

Steve Seal

Sept 22nd.

Leam Valley.
Little Egret x2 east of Draycote, (T Marlow, J Judge).

Draycote Water.
Shag x2 imm (J Judge).

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Sept 21st.

Guys Cliffe.
Honey Buzzard x4 over @ mid-day (C Stubbs)

Draycote Water.
Honey Buzzard over south @ 11-00
Shag x2 (Birdguides)
Little Gull (A Pickering)

Exhall Bedworth.
Honey Buzzard south est @ 13-05 (Birdguides).

Long Lawford.
Honey Buzzard (juv dark morph) south @ 17-45 (J Judge).

Friday, September 19, 2008

Sept 20th.

Cliff Pool Kingsbury
Ruff x2 (T Perrins).

Draycote Water.
Common Crane flew over south @ 11-20
Goosander x5
Shag x2
Common Sandpiper (R Mays).

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Sept 19th.

Bentley Woods.
Honey Buzzard flew south west @14-45 (B Duckhouse).

Prior's Hardwick
Blackcap 1
Chiff Chaff 6
Yellow Wagtail 1
M.Pipit 14
Redpoll 1 (T Marlow)

Napton
Blackcap 1
Chiff Chaff 4
Spotted Flycatcher 2
M.Pipit 16
Siskin 1
Raven 2
Hobby 1 (T Marlow)

Grandborough
Whinchat 1 imm
Wheatear 1 (T Marlow)

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Sept 18th.

Priors Hardwick.
Crossbill x2 flew south. (T Marlow).

Napton.
Raven x2
Hobby x2
Spotted Flycatcher
Chiffchaff x3 (T Marlow).

Grandborough Valley.
Meadow Pipit x17 flew south
Siskin x2 flew south
Cormorant x7 flew south
Whinchat (imm)
Stonechat (fem) (T Marlow)

Draycote Water.
Golden Plover x11 flew south
Y L Gull x1 3rd yr, x1 2nd yr. (T Marlow).

Binley Woods.
Buzzard x15 together over housing est. (J Judge, S Seal).

Seeswood Pool.
Spotted Flycatcher
Chiffchaff x20 (D Hutton).

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Sept 16th.

Redstart... Rugby Garden ...photo by R Mays.

Bentley Woods.
Siskin x20 (B Duckhouse).

Draycote Water.
Common Scoter fem
Yellow Wagtail x10
Common Sandpiper
Hobby
Shag x2 (R Mays, M Phillips).
Little Gull 1st winter
Siskin x9
Y L Gull x3 (L Johnson).

Rugby Garden
Redstart (R Mays).

Seeswood Pool.
Redstart
Spotted Flycatcher (D Hutton).

Monday, September 15, 2008

Sept 15th.

Shustoke Res.
Osprey in field south of pool this morning (P Forbes).
Curlew Sandpiper briefly (L Johnson).

Draycote Water.
Osprey
Common Scoter fem
Black Tern
Y L Gull x3 adults (R Mays).
Little Gull x2 (P Hyde G Giles)

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Sept 14th.

Long Lawford.
Osprey over south
Shag x2 over south (J Judge).

Shustoke.
Osprey west @ 3-40 (K Wimbush).

Wishaw.
Buzzard x8
Peregrine
Hobby (T Perrins).

Draycote Water.
Greenshank
Common Scoter fem
Common Sandpiper x2
Hobby
Siskin
Little Egret
Shag x4
Yellow Wagtail
Wheatear x2
Common Tern
Goosander x5 (L Johnson, R Mays, et al).

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Sept 13th.

Draycote Water.
Osprey (7-00)
Black Tern x6
Common Scoter fem (Birdguiges).

Shustoke Res.
Osprey west at 11-00 (S Seal).

Seeswood Pool.
Spotted Flycatcher x5 (D Hutton).

Friday, September 12, 2008

Sept 12th.

Draycoye Water.
Grey Phalarope (B Hazel)
Common Scoter fem
Osprey (T Marlow)
Black Tern x3
Common Sandpiper
Shag x4
Yellow Wagtail x11
Redstart
Spotted Flycatcher
Wheatear x5 (R Mays).

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Sept 11th.

Grey Phalarope...Shustoke Res...photo by S Seal.

Shustoke Res.
Grey Phalarope
Black Tern x4
Arctic Tern
Common Tern x3
Siskin x3 f/o (S Seal, D Hutton, L Johnson).

Draycote Water.
Shag x4
Black Tern x3
Goosander x5
Common Tern x3
Yellow Wagtail x2
Hobby x2
Common Scoter fem (R Mays, T Southgate).

Alvecote Pools.
Redstart x2
Hobby (R Smith).

Canal Pool Kingsbury.
Arctic Tern juv (Birdguides).

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Sept 10th.

Shustoke Res.
Grey Phalarope
Osprey (11-25)
Arctic Tern
Wheatear fem (L Johnson, R Eyres).

Seeswood Pool.
Spotted Flycatcher x5 (D Hutton).

Brandon Marsh.
Hobby x2
Green Sandpiper x2 (M Silverman).

Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Sept 9th.

Shustoke Res.
Grey Phalarope
Black Tern x4
Common Tern x5 (L Johnson).

Monday, September 08, 2008

Sept 8th.

Shustoke Res
Grey Phalarope
Little Gull 1st winter
Yellow Wagtail x5
Hobby (S Seal, L Johnson, D Hutton).

Seeswood Pool.
Green Sandpiper (D Hutton).

Draycote Water.
Osprey (reported)
Black Tern x5
Goosander x5
Common Tern x2
Shag x5
Yellow Wagtail (M Silverman).

Sunday, September 07, 2008

Sept 7th.

Grey Phalarope ...Shustoke...photo by S Seal..

Shustoke Res
Grey Phalarope
Black Tern x2
Arctic Tern
Little Gull 2x 1st winters
Common Scoter (M Scott)
Peregrine
Hobby
Common Sandpiper
Yellow Wagtail (S Seal, D Hutton, et al).

Draycote Water.
Great Skua (RBA).
Shag x4 juvs
Arctic Tern
Wheatear x4
Yellow Wagtail x2 (K Donaghy).
Yellow Wagtail x30
Wheatear x10
Osprey
Crossbill x3
Black Tern x5 (R Mays).

Fishers Mill
Little Egret x6
Hobby
Black Tern (J Oates).

Saturday, September 06, 2008

Sept 6th.

Shustoke Res.
Osprey
Grey Phalarope
Arctic Tern x12
Black Tern x2
Common Tern x56
Hobby
Common Sandpiper (L Johnson, S Seal, D Hutton, T Perrins, S Cawthray et al).

Draycote Water.
Common Scoter drake
Shag x4
Whimbrel
Black Tern (M Doughty).
Arctic Tern x4
Little Tern
Yellow Wagtails x10
Wheatear
Common Tern x8 (R Mays).

Bodymoor Heath Water Kingsbury.
Arctic Tern x3
Common Tern x10 (T Perrins).

Priors Hardwick.
Redstart male (Birdguides).

Friday, September 05, 2008

Nearby Reports Sept 5th.

These weather conditions have brought a mixture of birds into nearby counties.
White Winged Black Tern Blithfield Staffs.
Sabines Gull x2 (morning only) Clifford Hill GPs Northants.
Sandwich Tern x2 Belvide Staffs.
Grey Phalarope Chasewater Staffs.
Black Tern x3 Westwood Pool Worcs.
Black Tern x6 Cropston Res Liecs.
Shag Hollowell Res Northants.
Shag Clifford Hill GPs Northants.

News taken from Birdguides @
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Phone reports to 0800 0431003
or email to sightings@birdguides.com

Steve Seal

Sept 5th.

Grey Phalarope...Shustoke Res...photo by S Seal..

Shustoke Res.
Grey Phalarope (P Softly)
Hobby x2
Arctic Tern x5 (S Seal, L Johnson, T Perrins ,et al).

Draycote Water.
Black Tern x59
Shag x3
Wheatear
Yellow Wagtail
Y L Gull
Hobby
Common Sandpiper
Spotted Flycatcher (R Mays, J Judge, L Johnson).

Thursday, September 04, 2008

Sept 4th.

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

Cliff Pool Kingsbury.
Little Egret (Birdguides).

Mill Pool Kingsbury.
Little Gull (juv)
Black Tern (juv)
Hobby (S Seal, D Hutton).

Lea Marston Lake.
Red Crested Pochard fem (Birdguides).

Priors Hardwick.
Short-eared Owl
Redstart male (Birdguides).

Draycote Water.
Shag x8
Arctic Tern x1
Goosander x5
Y L Gull adult
Yellow Wagtail x11
Wheatear fem (R Mays).

Flecknoe.
Raven x4
Wheatear
Redstart male (R Mays).

Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Sept 3rd.

Seeswood Pool.
Whinchat
Spotted Flycatcher x3
Yellow Wagtail (D Hutton).

Mill Pool Kingsbury WP.
Black Tern juv
Little Gull juv (A Dean).

Lea Marston Lake.
Red Crested Pochard (Birdguides).

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Sept 2nd

Seeswood Pool.
Spotted Flycatcher x3
Hobby (D Hutton).

Shustoke Res.
Common Sandpiper
Hobby
Little Owl x2 (S Seal).

Brandon Marsh.
Little Egret x3 (A Johnson).
Hobby
Buzzard x2 (M Silverman).

Coleshill GPs.
Greenshank x2
Green Sandpiper x3
Hobby x3 (R Dryden)

Draycote Water.
Black Tern x2 juv
Arctic Tern x1 juv
Shag x2
Yellow Wagtail
Wheatear x2
Common Sandpiper x2 (L Johnson)
Turnstone x9
Redstart fem (R Mays).

Monday, September 01, 2008

Sept 1st.

Shustoke Res.
Black-tailed Godwit x5 flew through east at 10-20.
Hobby
Common Sandpiper (S Seal, L Johnson).

Draycote Water.
Knot
Turnstone
Sanderling x2
Dunlin x8
Shag x5
Y L Gull x6
Common Sandpiper x2
Goosander x3 (R Mays).