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Tuesday 11 October 2016

10th October - Sightings

Alvecote - 3 Great-White Egret Mill Pool. One of these flew South at 1.10pm. Also 10 Pintail, 3 Stonechat (R Smith)
Ladywalk - Stonechat, 8 Skylark, 6 Grey Wagtail, 3 Goosander, Pintail, Peregrine (P Sofley)

9th October - Sightings

Kingsbury - Willow Tit Broomey Croft (P Sofley) Short-Eared Owl, Barn Owl, Great-White Egret, 5 Water Rail along canal in evening (S Cawthray)
Alvecote - 2 Great-White Egret, 11 Pintail (A Archer)
RSPB - Great-White Egret Dosthill NR. 4 Stonechat Jubilee Wetlands (S Atkinson et al)

8th October - Sightings

RSPB - Brambling Feeders (S Pick et al) Wood Sandpiper reported (per RBA)
Kingsbury - Wryneck reported Broomey Croft cottages (J Whitehurst, C Moore)
Alvecote - 2 Great-White Egret, 7 Pintail, 7 Common Gull, 4 Stonechat (R Smith)

7th October - Sightings

RSPB - Rock Pipit flew West 8.30am. Also plenty of Redwing, Siskin and Lesser Redpoll. Water Rail Feeders. Great-White Egret, 300+ Wigeon on site. Short-Eared Owl North Pit (K Thorpe et al)
Shustoke - Common Sandpiper, 117 Cormorant, 53 Shoveler, 3 Pochard, Stonechat, Rock Pipit over (D Hutton)

6th October - Sightings

RSPB - Great-White Egret North Pit (M Whalley, S Wood)
Drayton Bassett - 5 Grey Partridge Portleys Lane (S Wood)

5th October - Sightings

Alvecote - 2 Great-White Egret, 7 Pintail, 4 Stonechat Mill Pool (R Smith)
Shustoke - Rock Pipit (colour ringed - possibly Norwegian) (S Haynes)
Ladywalk - Hobby, 10+ Chiffchaff (P Sofley)

4th October - Sightings

Alvecote - 2 Stonechat, 2 Great-White Egret, 8 Pintail, 2 Common Gull Mill/Teal Pools (J Morgan, R Smith)
Ladywalk - Rock Pipit over towards Shustoke 3.40pm. Also 20 Redwing, Siskin, Redpoll, 3 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Goosander (P Sofley)
RSPB - Short-Eared Owl (per K Thorpe)

3rd October - Sightings

RSPB - Great-White Egret, 42 Little Egret, Redwings over, 20+ Golden Plover (K Thorpe)
Ladywalk - Willow Tit, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper (P Lichfield)

2nd October - Sightings

Coton - Willow Tit by embankment by A4097 (D Hutton)
Ladywalk - Common Sandpiper (P Lichfield)
RSPB - Great-White Egret roosted. Also 48 Little Egret - 43 Roosted by River and 5 flew South. 5 Pintail Jubilee Wetlands (S Pick)

1st October - Sightings

Alvecote - Great-White Egret, 9 Pintail, Black-Tailed Godwit, 10 Snipe Mill Pool (A Archer)