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

Also 2x Swallow c30 Sand Martin, Kingfisher
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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

Spent a few hours #birdingbybike around the #localpatch this afternoon. Highlights - Sand Martin again (KWP), 18x Meadow Pipit, 2x Yellowhammer (Whitacre Fields), Peregrine (Hams Hall), Humes Warbler (Lea Marston) #warksbirding #lowcarbonbirding

c20x Sand Martin - Hemlingford Water, Kingsbury Water Park - 1pm #warksbirding #localpatch #lowcarbonbirding

Wallflower

Spring Crokus

A walk from Kingsbury Meadow LNR up to Hurley STW and back this morning produced a few firsts for the year - Blackcap (male in subsong), 5x Golden Plover, 2x Snipe - also 60x Skylark, 18x Lapwing, 2x Meadow Pipit, 4x Pied Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, 15x Linnet, 2x Reed Bunting. 45 sp. #warksbirding

A lunch hour trip to Lea Marston was in order today after news of ⭐Hume's Leaf Warbler⭐ broke late yesterday evening. Managed 3 decent, but brief views of the bird, also called occasionally. Just outside my 3km #localpatch boundary, but a solid addition to my #PWC2026 10km list #warksbirding

2 different #birdingbybike routes around my #PWC2026 #localpatch this weekend. 66 sp. seen across the two days.
Highlights - Siberian Chiffchaff, 6x Chiffchaff, Common Gull, 3x GWE, 21x Little Egret, 7x Bullfinch, 9x Goldeneye, 70x Pochard, 2x Redpoll, 60x Siskin #warksbirding #lowcarbonbirding

Accidental (Grey) Partridge

A potter around the patch this afternoon #birdingbybike.
Highlights - 9x Grey Partridge, 2x Stonechat, 2x Raven, 30+ Skylark, 3x Meadow Pipit, 7x Little Egret, 2 GWE, Bullfinch #PWC2026 #patchbirding #warksbirding #lowcarbonbirding

Lovely to see a group of 4 Grey Partridge RSPB Middleton Lakes today, after not seeing any for a couple of years. @rspb.bsky.social
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#ukbirding

Yellow-browed Warbler - Hurley, 10/01/2026

Common Chiffchaff - Hurley, 10/01/2026

No real change on the #localpatch over the last week. YBW and 3x Barnacle Geese still. Other bits 3x Chiffchaff, 12x Pied Wagtail, Green Woodpecker, 2x Bullfinch, 2x GWE, 7x Meadow Pipit, 4x Yellowhammer, 3x Reed Bunting #PWC2026 #lowcarbonbirding #warksbirding

Lovely crisp sunny morning on the #localpatch
42 sp. noted, Highlights: YBW, 2x Jack Snipe, 2x Snipe, c10 Yellowhammer, c50 Linnet, 2x Chiffchaff, 6x Reed Bunting, 4x Meadow Pipit, c20 Skylark, 2x Stonechat, 3x Siskin, 4x Barnacle Geese #warksbirding #lowcarbonbirding #patchbirding #PWC2026

2/2 As well as the YB Warbler, Hurley also gave great views of Stonechat, Chiffchaff & Siberian Chiffchaff. Great to see a Yellowhammer too, my first in long time.
Finished the day at Kingsbury watching Fieldfare & Redwing feeding along the canal.
#ukbirding #warksbirding

1/2 Started the day with a 1st visit to Whitemoor Haye, to see the 3 Slav Grebes & 2 RC Pochard. Then down to Hurley where the YB Warbler gave some great views.
@westmidbirdclub.bsky.social
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3x Barnacle Geese again this afternoon - Mill Meadow, Kingsbury South. Also 2x Common Gull and a Yellow-legged Gull across the river on Hemlingford Water, KWP
#warksbirding #lowcarbonbirding #localpatch #patchbirding #PWC2026

Yellow-browed Warbler at Hurley,Warks 2/1/26 showed well today to a small smiling crowd.... #ukbirding #warksbirding

Solid start to the #PWC2026 #patchbirding year list.
📊60 species on the board

Highlights:
✅Yellow-browed Warbler (Hurley STW)
✅Siberian Chiffchaff (Hurley STW)
✅Red-breasted Merganser (Lea Marston Lakes)
✅Pintail (Lea Marston Lakes)

#lowcarbonbirding #warksbirding #localpatch

Last #birdingbybike ride for the year produced 60 sp. Highlights: ✅2x WF Geese - relocated by @tamebirding.bsky.social (by the canal at Bodymoor Heath/KWP), Cattle Egret (RSPB access road), Green Sandpiper (Cuttle Mill ditch), 3x Stonechat (Seeney Lane)
#warksbirding 📊130 sp. #lowcarbonbirding

Warks patch sightings map - 10km radius

📊 Just crunched my BirdTrack stats for the year…

🦅 129 sp. recorded on my #warksbirding county list across 29 sites
🏡 128 on my 10km #localpatch
📍 Furthest: Mancetter Quarry (9.6km)

🔥 Top spots:
Kingsbury Water Park (94)
Kingsbury Firing Range (88)
Lea Marston Lakes (65)

🇬🇧
UK total 2025 : 169

A few hours this around the #localpatch again this morning - Hurley STW: Yellow-browed Warbler, 3x Chiffchaff, Siberian Chiffchaff, Stonechat, Grey Wagtail, 3x Reed Bunting, 15x Linnet, 2x Meadow Pipit
Kingsbury Meadow LNR - 15x Siskin, 2x Raven #warksbirding #lowcarbonbirding

Seeney Lane, Marston this afternoon - Grey Partridge calling from HS2/Lea Marston Fisheries public footpath. 33x Chaffinch also notable.
Cuttle Mill/HS2 bridleway- 6x Common Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 6x Skylark, 4x Meadow Pipit. #warksbirding #localpatch #lowcarbonbirding

As #localpatch finds go, this one was up there🤘🔥
Yellow-browed Warbler - Kingsbury Firing Range/Hurley Treatment works - 26/12 #lowcarbonbirding #warksbirding #ukbirding

First big flood of the season put KWP off limits today. Across the road at Kingsbury Range was accessible though. Highlights bird wise - Merlin, 40+ Skylark, 60+ Fieldfare, 5x Redwing, c10 Meadow Pipit, 2x Wigeon, 5x Shoveler, c50 Starling, c35 Linnet #lowcarbonbirding #warksbirding

Slow circuit around the accessible part of Lea Marston Lakes (Coton Pools in old money) this afternoon. 51 sp. noted, 10+ Chiffchaff, 6x Greenfinch, 2x Bullfinch, Great Egret, 12x Redwing, 5x Goldcrest, 2x Grey Wagtail the highlights #warksbirding #lowcarbonbirding

Back on the #localpatch after a week away in Northumberland.
A few winter thrushes about c40x Fieldfare, c5x Redwing at Kingsbury Firing Range. Other bits - 2x Stonechat, 9x Red-legged Partridge, c50x Meadow Pipit, c50x Skylark, c35 Linnet, 8x Greenfinch, Reed Bunting #warksbirding #lowcarbonbirding

An extended #localpatch walk this morning from Kingsbury Firing Range to Kingsbury Wood in search of Stonechat.
Found a pair along the dried out ditch that runs through the site - sp #89 for the site list. Other birds of note - c50 Skylark, c75 Linnet, c50 Mipit
#lowcarbonbirding #warksbirding

A long sought after site ✅ came today, by way of a Common Redstart in the public footpath hedge at Kingsbury Firing Range.
Personal site list now up to 87 species.
Other birds of note - 20+ Skylark, 100+ Linnet, Treecreeper, Meadow Pipit
#localpatch #warksbirding #lowcarbonbirding

Shustoke Reservoir this morning - Dunlin & Ruff - both at the west end. Quiet otherwise #warksbirding #localpatch

Nice to be back out on the #localpatch this pm after 3 days stuck indoors painting. All change bird wise - last few Common Terns gone, along with the steady passage of hirundines from K'bury South. Green Sand replaces the lingering Common Sand.
K'bury Range - 60+ Mipit, 70+ Linnet new #warksbirding