A couple of hours #birdingbybike this afternoon. Kingsbury Firing Range - 4x Common Redstart (3m,1f), 2x Nuthatch notable, Red Kite Bodymoor Heath Water - Common Sandpiper, Yellow-legged Gull HS2 - Sedge Warbler, 7x Whitethroat #warksbirds #lowcarbonbirding

Kingsbury Firing Range this evening - Whinchat, Spot Fly still, Cuckoo (m), 3x Kestrel, 200+ Corvid, 5x Reed Bunting, 6x RLP, Skylark, 36x Canada Geese, 50+ Wood Pigeon/Stock Dove #warksbirds #lowcarbonbirding #PWC2026 🪶

2 new ✅'s for the #PWC2026 3km patch list at lunchtime. Whinchat & Spotted Flycatcher - both at Kingsbury Firing Range. Both site firsts for me. Also this week - Common Redstart, and flushed a covey of 4+ Quail on Weds lunchtime. #warksbirds #lowcarbonbirding 🪶

Went looking for Nightjar on Cannock Chase this evening. Didn't manage any flight views but at least 4 birds churring away at dusk. 🪶

Productive hours walk at Kingsbury Firing Range this am. Marsh Harrier, Red Kite, Hobby,2x Kestrel, 4x Buzzard, 2x Mistle Thrush, 2x Chiffchaff, 30x Linnet, 9x RLP #warksbirds #lowcarbonbirding🪶

Decent morning #birdingbybike between Dosthill NR and Cliff Pool. Reaquained myself with Cliff Lakes, and called in at RSPB for a look at Jubilee. 2x Dunlin at the latter - new for my #PWC2026 10km list, Hobby over Cliff Pool, c20 Common Tern, c20 Sand Martin, 4x Swift #lowcarbonbirding 🪶

Spent the morning #birdingbybike around my 10km #PWC2026 patch Highlights: Kingsbury Range - 2x singing Quail, brief flight views of one bird Hurley - 2x Yellow Wag, 3x Y'hammer, Green Woodpecker Bodymoor Heath GP - 6x LRP, 12x Oyc, 12x Pied Wag, 60+ Lapwing, 50+ BHG #warksbirds #lowcarbonbirding 🪶

A singing Common Quail was a nice find this morning at Kingsbury Range. A Red Kite and a dozen or so displaying Skylarks also. Lea Marston Lakes had 100+ Swift, which has increased to 300+ this evening. Cliff Pool - Cuckoo still, 300+ BHG 🪶 #lowcarbonbirding #warksbirds #PWC2026

Marsh Harrier bothering Skylarks at Kingsbury Range at lunchtime. Nice to get some footage albeit distant. 2nd sighting in as many weeks. 2x Hobby, 2x Mistle Thrush also. #warksbirds #lowcarbonbirding #PWC2026

Out #birdingbybike again this morning around my #PWC2026 10km patch. 67sp noted. Highlights: KWP - Cuckoo, 6x Common Tern, Lesser Whitethroat Cuttle Mill/HS2 - Wheatear, Common Tern Whitacre Heath NR - LRP, Cuckoo Kingsbury Range - Red Kite, Yellow Wag, Hobby 🪶 #warksbirds #lowcarbonbirding

A Grey Plover was a nice find this morning whilst out #birdingbybike. Other notable bits on my #PWC2026 3/10km patches - 3x Cuckoo, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 3x LRP, c20 Swift, Lesser Whitethroat, 10+ Garden Warbler singing Lea Marston Lakes/K'bury South. 64sp #WarksBirds #WarksBirding #LowCarbonBirding

A few more shots from this week in Northumberland #NEBirding

This Spoonbill was nice to see at Budle Bay earlier this week. One of several in the north east recently #NEBirding

A couple of recently returned Little Tern at Low Newton filmed earlier this week. Watched these two fishing in the shallows of Football Hole before they parked up for a rest #NEBirding #LowCarbonBirding

2x Wood Sandpiper still 4pm #LadywalkNR from Bittern hide #warksbirding #PWC2026

A long walk around my #PWC2026 3km patch this morning was relatively quiet - 55sp. Highlight being 6x Wheatear (1x female, and later 5x male), which takes my spring tally for patch Wheatears to 25x across 6 different sites. #warksbirding #lowcarbonbirding

Not much change locally over the last few days. Found a few Yellow Wags, several White Wags, the odd Wheatear and a couple of Whitethroat. Sedge Warblers the most noticeable with 7 still holding territory in one 300m stretch of bramble. #warksbirding #lowcarbonbirding #PWC2026

A decent fall of migrants on the doorstep overnight. c1000 Sand Martin shared between Kingsbury South and Lea Marston Lakes. Mill Meadow - 7x Sedge Warbler, c40 Sand Martin, 4+ Swallow, 3x House Martin, 10+Blackcap, 5+Willow Warbler Knowle Hill - 11x Wheatear #lowcarbonbirding #warksbirding #PWC2026

Called in at a few local birding spots whilst out and about today. (AM) KWP - c300 Sand Martin, a few Swallow and House Martin Shustoke Res - same as KWP + 2x Common Tern (PM) Alvecote Pools - Hooded Merganser, Garganey Mancetter Hills - 2x Wheatear #ukbirding #PWC2026

First trip of the year to #middletonlakes this evening. Didn't disappoint bird wise. LSW showing well in the car park at 17:45, 17x Avocet, 4x White Wag, Yellow Wag, 9x Blackwit, 7+ LRP, 3x Redshank, Barnacle Goose #ukbirding #PWC2026

Late afternoon rain brought in 6x new Pied Wag, 2x White Wag and a Wheatear (f) to Mill Meadow, Kingsbury. The latter being my first record for the site. Also a Common Sand was nearby at Hemlingford Water at lunchtime, 60x Sand Martin, the odd Swallow and 2x Red Kite. #lowcarbonbirding #warksbirding

Pretty sure I've never been this close to a Wheatear before. Mancetter Hills, N.Warks this evening. Nothing else of note, Ring Ouzel seen yesterday so I was told by another birder #warksbirding #PWC2026

2x Common Redstart (m+f) - Kingsbury Firing Range, N.Warks at lunchtime #warksbirding #lowcarbonbirding #PWC2026 🪶

c60 Sand Martin this morning at Kingsbury WP turned into c300 by this evening. A few House Martin and Swallow in the mix also. A Willow Warbler by Hemlingford Water was my third in as many days locally. #lowcarbonbirding #warksbirding #PWC2026

Lovely few hours around Mancetter Hills and quarry this afternoon. Was half-hoping for some migrant action, but "Dave" has not brought any birds with him as yet. Peregrine, Red Kite, singing Mipits, and a few Sand Martin the best. #warksbiding

Big 36km ride around the #PWC2026 10km sq patch today. Explored some new routes, revisited places I've not been for a while. Took sarnies and everything🥪 Bird wise - 67sp. Willow Warbler, Red Kite and Marsh Harrier combo thru Shustoke Res the best. Cracking day👌 #lowcarbonbirding #warksbirding

Managed a brief view of the early arrival Sedge Warbler this lunchtime. Mill Meadow - Kingsbury #warksbirding #PWC2026 #lowcarbonbriding

A bizarre sight this morning watching a ⭐EURASIAN SPOONBILL⭐ circling Kingsbury South, then elegantly fly low up a stretch of the dirty AF River Tame. Would've made quite the photo. An hour later I was watching two quad bikes cause chaos to a nearby Lapwing and Skylark nesting site. #birding2026

2x distant Wheatear were the highlight of a cold and windy afternoon around the #localpatch today. #PWC2026 10km list creeps up to 94sp, 3km still on 91sp. #lowcarbonbirding #birdingbybike #warksbirding

Humes Warbler - Lea Marston 3pm