A cold 8 degree start at #MiddletonLakes this morning which turned into a pleasantly hot day with 4Ruff 3GreenSandpiper Common Sandpiper Black-tailed Godwit LRP 6Snipe 2GWE 3Common Tern 3Water Rail and a lot of juvenile warblers on their way south. 4Clouded Yellows Painted Lady & a Vestal Moth.

Willow Emerald Damselfly in my Old Arley garden. Beats me why there’s no Willow there but two days on the trot. #bdsdragonflies

6 Arctic Terns over the car park of all places at #middletonlakes at 5:50 this morning

Lovely morning at #middletonlakes 2Lesser Throats all the other warblers too inc 5Garden Peregrine Cuckoo 22Avocet 6+Redshank 8+LRP 6Dunlin and all the usual stuff plus a singing Redpoll!

Excellant morning at #Middletonlakes starting with 7Cattle Egrets GWE 14Avocet 6Redshank 2LRP 6singing Blackcap 24Chiffchaff 4Oystercatcher 2Shelduck Great Black-backed Gull White Wagtail and 3Pied Wagtail 2Skylark and the iffy Red-breasted Goose

Plenty to see at #middletonlakes this morning with 3GWE 7Redshank 5Avocet 2Little Ringed Plover 4+Oystercatchers Dunlin Marsh Harrier Sparrowhawk 3Buzzard Kestrel Stonechat Siskin galore and all the usual stuff I almost forgot the 4 Whooper Swans

Surprisingly good list at #Middletonlakes this morning 5GWE 4Dunlin Ringed Plover Singing Chiffchaff Singing Redwing all 3Woodpeckers 30Siskin Great Black-backed Gull and a Red-legged Partridge as well as all the usual stuff but in mild but horrible rain so the photos are rubbish

Good morning at #middletonlakes with 2Marsh Harriers 9Pochard (including one with an X6 nose bridge) 3Buzzard Kestrel Sparrowhawk 3Stonechat Grey Wagtail 8Egyptian Geese 3GWE plus Siskin Redpoll Mipits & Skylarks over

Much the same as yesterday at #middletonlakes but the floods have gone female Marsh Harrier still on NPit Ruff and Redshank on Jubilee 6Skylark over and 4Mipit Only at Lookout so maybe more

Warm damp morning at #middletonlskes brightened by first (for me) Redwing of the autumn plus a flick of 70+ Golden Plover which circled Jubilee for 10 - 15 minutes but did not land Also Ruff Stonechats and a big flick of Redpoll

Schitzophobic weather at #middletonlakes this morning with sun and cold mists alternating. Quiet except for one mad minute when with Marsh Harrier Buzzard Kestrel and Hobby one after the other also 4GWE Green Sand 2Goosander Kingfisher and 9Siskin Sparrowhawk and Barn Owl

Quiet cold start at #Middletonlakes today until the sun came out as did 2 of these little beauties on NPit

Red Kite over Old Arley this afternoon

Warm grey morning at #middletonlakes 12Blackwit 2Green Sand 1Common Sand 2Sparrowhawk Hobby Swufts and all 3hirundines only 2LRP in sight and loads of juveniles of many species

Another wet day at #middletonlakes 6Green Sand 4GWE 2Common Sand 8Common Tern 12LRP but NO Avocet 1Blackwit + plethora of hirundines and Swifts and young warblers everywhere Water levels well up on Jubilee but both scrapes and Canal Pool have plenty of exposed mud.