Monday 12 September 2022

Middleton Lakes List (Draft)

Below is a draft list of birds seen at Middleton Lakes/Drayton Bassett Pits. This does not include birds only seen at Dosthill Ski Pit, Middleton Hall Lake or Kingsbury North Pit (now filled in).

It includes birds fully verified (photographed, multiple observer) which largely (but not exclusively) follows what has been accepted by Warks/Staffs rarity committees.

Please let me know of any missing given criteria above.


1:- Great Northern Diver

2:- Little Grebe

3:- Great Crested Grebe

4:- Black-necked Grebe

5:- Northern Gannet

6:- Atlantic Gt Cormorant

7:- Bittern

8:- Cattle Egret

9:- Little Egret

10:- Great White Egret

11:- Grey Heron

12:- Glossy Ibis

13:- Spoonbill

14:- Mute Swan

15:- Bewick's Swan

16:- Whooper Swan

17:- Pink-footed Goose

18:- White-fronted Goose

19:- Greylag Goose

20:- Canada Goose

21:- Barnacle Goose

22:- Dark-bellied Brent Goose

23:- Egyptian Goose

24:- Shelduck

25:- Mandarin

26:- Eurasian Wigeon

27:- Gadwall

28:- Common Teal

29:- Green-winged Teal

30:- Mallard

31:- Northern Pintail

32:- Garganey

33:- Northern Shoveler

34:- Red-crested Pochard

35:- Northern Pochard

36:- Tufted Duck

37:- Greater Scaup

38:- Long-tailed Duck

39:- Common Scoter

40:- Goldeneye

41:- Smew

42:- Bufflehead

43:- Red-breasted Merganser

44:- Goosander

45:- Ruddy Duck

46:- Red Kite

47:- Pallid Harrier

48:- Marsh Harrier

49:- Hen Harrier

50:- Goshawk

51:- Sparrowhawk

52:- Common Buzzard

53:- Osprey

54:- Kestrel

55:- European Merlin

56:- Hobby

57:- Peregrine

58:- Red-legged Partridge

59:- Grey Partridge

60:- Common Quail

61:- Common Pheasant

62:- Water Rail

63:- Moorhen

64:- Coot

65:- Common Crane

66:- Oystercatcher

67:- Black-winged Stilt

68:- Pied Avocet

69:- Little Ringed Plover

70:- Ringed Plover

71:- Pacific Golden Plover

72:- Eurasian Golden Plover

73:- Grey Plover

74:- Lapwing

75:- Red Knot

76:- Sanderling

77:- Little Stint

78:- Temminck's Stint

79:- Least Sandpiper

80:- White-rumped Sandpiper

81:- Pectoral Sandpiper

82:- Curlew Sandpiper

83:- Dunlin

84:- Broad-billed Sandpiper

85:- Ruff

86:- Jack Snipe

87:- Common Snipe

88:- Woodcock

89:- Black-tailed Godwit

90:- Bar-tailed Godwit

91:- Whimbrel

92:- Common Curlew

93:- Spotted Redshank

94:- Common Redshank

95:- Greenshank

96:- Green Sandpiper

97:- Wood Sandpiper

98:- Common Sandpiper

99:- Ruddy Turnstone

100:- Red-necked Phalarope

101:- Grey Phalarope

102:- Mediterranean Gull

103:- Little Gull

104:- Black-headed Gull

105:- Common Gull

106:- Lesser Black-backed Gull

107:- Herring Gull

108:- Yellow-legged Gull

109:- Caspian Gull

110:- Iceland Gull

111:- Glaucous Gull

112:- Great Black-backed Gull

113:- Kittiwake

114:- Caspian Tern

115:- Sandwich Tern

116:- Common Tern

117:- Arctic Tern

118:- Little Tern

119:- Black Tern

120:- White-winged Black Tern

121:- Rock Dove

122:- Stock Dove

123:- Woodpigeon

124:- Collared Dove

125:- Turtle Dove

126:- Ring-necked Parakeet

127:- Common Cuckoo

128:- Barn Owl

129:- Little Owl

130:- Tawny Owl

131:- Long-eared Owl

132:- Short-eared Owl

133:- Common Swift

134:- Kingfisher

135:- Wryneck

136:- Green Woodpecker

137:- Great Spotted Woodpecker

138:- Lesser Spotted Woodpecker

139:- Skylark

140:- Sand Martin

141:- Barn Swallow

142:- House Martin

143:- Tree Pipit

144:- Meadow Pipit

145:- Rock Pipit

146:- Water Pipit

147:- Yellow Wagtail

148:- Grey Wagtail

149:- Pied Wagtail

150:- Bohemian Waxwing

151:- Wren

152:- Dunnock

153:- European Robin

154:- Common Redstart

155:- Whinchat

156:- Stonechat

157:- Northern Wheatear

158:- Ring Ouzel

159:- Blackbird

160:- Fieldfare

161:- Song Thrush

162:- Redwing

163:- Mistle Thrush

164:- Cetti's Warbler

165:- Grasshopper Warbler

166:- Sedge Warbler

167:- Blyth's Reed Warbler

168:- Reed Warbler

169:- Lesser Whitethroat

170:- Common Whitethroat

171:- Garden Warbler

172:- Blackcap

173:- Yellow-browed Warbler

174:- Common Chiffchaff

175:- Willow Warbler

176:- Goldcrest

177:- Firecrest

178:- Spotted Flycatcher

179:- Pied Flycatcher

180:- Bearded Tit

181:- Long-tailed Tit

182:- Marsh Tit

183:- Willow Tit

184:- Coal Tit

185:- Blue Tit

186:- Great Tit

187:- Nuthatch

188:- Common Treecreeper

189:- Northern Grey Shrike

190:- Eurasian Jay

191:- Magpie

192:- Western Jackdaw

193:- Rook

194:- Carrion Crow

195:- Common Raven

196:- Common Starling

197:- House Sparrow

198:- Tree Sparrow

199:- Chaffinch

200:- Brambling

201:- Greenfinch

202:- Goldfinch

203:- Siskin

204:- Linnet

205:- Lesser Redpoll

206:- Mealy Redpoll

207:- Common Crossbill

208:- Bullfinch

209:- Hawfinch

210:- Yellowhammer

211:- Reed Bunting

212:- Corn Bunting

213:- Red-Backed Shrike (29/06/23)

214:- Savi's Warbler (01/05/24)

(White-tailed Eagle - reintroduced bird)


The following have additionally been seen either on Ski Pit, Hall Lake, Kingsbury North Pit:

Red-Footed Falcon, Snow Bunting, Golden Oriole, Arctic Skua, Red-Throated Diver, Roseate Tern (observer of 2002 birds indicates these were seen on reserve pits), Red-Necked Grebe, Slavonian Grebe, Kentish Plover, Whiskered Tern, Shag

Tuesday 11 July 2017

6th July - Sightings

RSPB - report of 3 Black Tern flying south 1.05pm (per RSPB) Also Dunlin, 2 Black-Tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, Greenshank Jubilee Wetlands. Hobby, 5 Avocet Dosthill NR. Ringed Plover, 2 Green Sandpiper, 6 Oystercatcher Hall Lake (G Williams. S Atkinson et al)

5th July - Sightings

RSPB - 11 young Little Egret will fledge from 3 nests in heronry (per RSPB)

4th July - Sightings

RSPB - 2 Mediterranean Gull, 5 Avocet, 8 Redshank, Common Sandpiper Jubilee Wetlands (S Pick)
Ladywalk - 4 Peregrine (ad, 3 juv), Hobby (P Sofley et al)

3rd July - Sightings

Shustoke - Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, 50 Lapwing (P Forbes)
Kingsbury - 12 Black-Tailed Godwit Cliff Pool. Mediterranean Gull(ad) Canal Pool (S Cawthray)
RSPB - 1+ Garganey, Curlew, Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 17 Black-Tailed Godwit, 5 Avocet, 7 Redshank, 6 LRP, 2 Ringed Plover (S Cawthray)
Ladywalk - Hobby, Green Sandpiper, 37 Lapwing, 3 Little Egret, 2 Teal, 2 Peregrine, Ringed Plover, LRP (P Sofley et al)

2nd July - Sightings

RSPB - 10 Black-Tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper Jubilee Wetlands. Green Sandpiper Hall Lake (J Allen et al)

1st July - Sightings

RSPB - Black-Tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, 5 Avocet, 3 Broods Gadwall (8,8,1) Jubilee Wetlands. Avocet Hall Lake (TP et al)