Kingsbury Water Park - Little Gull (fitted with a tracking device), Red-Necked Phalarope, YL-Gull (Bodymoor Heath Water Kingsbury Firing Range - 9x Chiffchaff, 2x Goldcrest, Blackcap, Red Kite , 14x RLP, 7x Buzzard, 2x Raven #warksbirds #lowcarbonbirding 🪶
Phalarope still showing today at Kingsbury- attached is just with phone #warksbirds
Tree Sparrow currently at east scrape #middletonlakes @staffsbirdnews.bsky.social @mercianbirding.bsky.social
Western Reef Heron Canaerfon this morning #ukbirding #walesbirding
Spotted Sandpiper at Earlswood this evening #warksbirds
Sanderling at Whitemoor Haye yesterday- my 22nd species of wader there this year #staffsbirds
Two cool waders at RSPB Middleton this morning. A couple of Sanderling showing on Jubilee wetlands when a smart Little Stint walked into view! Also Common Ringed Plover, Bittern and lots of Avocet chicks 👍 @westmidbirdclub.bsky.social @staffsbirdnews.bsky.social - worth getting a soaking for! ☺️👍🌧️
Grey Plover Lea Marston found by @mattp1975.bsky.social #WarksBirds
A nice day out in Cambs/Lincs with Nightingale, Red-footed Falcon and this Crane family as highlights #ukbirds
A showy Jack at Whitacre Heath NR #Warksbirds yesterday along exposed edge as levels drop, not the hoped for Wood Sand but an extra 2 points for #PWC2026 Lesser Whitethroat rattling from car park. Call from @benjeaton.bsky.social and caught up with 4 Arctic+1 Common Tern, Swift at Shustoke Res
Whitemoor Haye so far 2 Black-tailed Godwit still, no sign of Whimbrel. 1 Slavonian Grebe, 1 Wheatear, 2 Redshank, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Yellow Wagtail, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Channel Wagtail. 12 Swift. @staffsbirdnews.bsky.social @westmidbirdclub.bsky.social Full list later
Just returned from a break in North Yorkshire, straight to Whitemoor Haye and from quarry entrance 1 Bar-tailed and 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Greenshank and 2 Redshank @staffsbirdnews.bsky.social @westmidbirdclub.bsky.social
Hooded Merganser (fem) at Alvecote Pools, Warwickshire today. Fully-winged, wary and scoffing voraciously all day. It also doesn’t appear to carry any leg rings. #peakybirders #patchbirding #localpatch #ukbirding 🪶
A relatively quiet morning at Waxham, with the exception of a side-by-side view of the Glaucous and Iceland Gulls off Waxham Sands Campsite. A single White Wagtail was also of note on the campsite turf.
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
Can't decide on this gull at Middleton Lakes this afternoon #staffsbirds
2 Common Scoter at Whitemoor Haye this morning #staffsbirds @staffsbirdnews.bsky.social
Hume’s warbler was found on Saturday 17th January. Over a month of visits I obtained many call recordings (which I compared to sonographs of Hume’s) video and a few decent pictures of it (this isn’t one of them) so that I could send it of to the BBRC. Lovely experience of a tricky warbler.
Patch mega! HUME’S! 2nd patch record for the 3k @patchbirding.bsky.social #PWC2026 Strip of woodland between main reserve at #LadywalkNR and Lea Marston Church( now been gifted to manage as part of main reserve) Brief views but very vocal/flighty. Another top find @northwarksbirder.bsky.social
Elford to Fisherwick 8 Bean Geese at midday but flew off at 12.05. 4 Whooper Swans still. Whitemoor Haye. At least 1 Slavonian Grebe 5 Oystercatcher @staffsbirdnews.bsky.social @westmidbirdclub.bsky.social
Elford to Fisherwick. 9 Bean Geese 4 Whooper Swan 13 Shelduck @staffsbirdnews.bsky.social @westmidbirdclub.bsky.social
3 Barnacle, 60 White-fronted Goose, 4 Whooper in field at Elford this morning. @mercianbirding.bsky.social @staffsbirdnews.bsky.social
Amazing flock of c60 White-fronted Geese and 3 Barnacle at Elford, Staffordshire #staffsbirds.
