Sunday - EHF - 1 x Med Gull. PHF - 7 Curlew, 2 LRP, Broken Gate - 3 Reed Warblers.

4 Arctic Tern & Green-winged Tel. EHF - Ash

1 Green-winged Teal (EHF along side lane), 9 LRPs on PHF, 4 curlew on EHF - Martin

Green winged teal ehf - IB

Hobby back of PHF - JT

Cuckoo flew across the road at PHF chased by 2 corvids - IF, IB & CL.

Avocet still on Ehf - IB & CL

Cuckoo calling ..side lane/phf/ehf - Dennis

4 Egyptian Geese at Doddington Pool - Andy

Male Garganey showing well at @sandbachflashes.bsky.social today for #BirdsSeenIn2026

Cuckoo singing distantly at Pumphouse - Martyn

Garganey still on Handcocks at 09:10 - PC

Avocet back on EHF now - Howard

Avocet: EHF, Sandbach - JT

Garganey on PHF - Dennis

PHF - 2 broods of shelduck (5+6), and 4 or 5 painted ladies flying through - Rob B

Sandbach PHF Garganey still present at 12:30 - Rob B

Spotted Flycatcher: Quakers Coppice, Crewe - JT

Congleton - Hobby over a34 Astbury care home headed towards mere 8:23am - MS

EHF - 1 Ringed Plover & 1 Hobby - IM & CL Rode Heat - 2 Egyptian geese on ploughed field across from Poolside - DW

Hobby and 2 Swifts EHF - AG

17 Common Ringed Plover, 1 Dunlin and 1 Sanderling in at 8.33, didn't land due to gulls I think, circled 4 times, left NW - AG

EHF Sandbach 1 wood sand briefly IM,AG

PHF - 1 Common Sand & 1 Pink-footed goose - Rob B

Two Swift over Doddington plus three Mandarin - Andrew

Egyptian Goose on EHF no3 spit - MT, AG

Bar-tailed Godwit still on EHF - AG

2 Wheatears on ploughed field at junction of Hall Lane / Crabmill Lane - Dennis

EHF/PHF: 5 Common & 1 Green Sand, 1 Bl T Godwits,1 LRP, 1 Dunlin. 1 Great Egret,1 GBBG - AG

2 Common Sands and a summer plumage Dunlin on PHF - AG

Bar tailed godwit still on EHF - IM

MGT: 2 Wheatears (one a classic Greenland), 10 Linnets. RFno2: 1 Common Sand. EHF: 1 x 2nd S GBBGull. Late news from 16/4: 1 Common Sand EHF. 15/4: 1 m Yellow Wag @ EHF - AG

Bar-tailed still on EHF for 2nd day - AG

Bar-tailed Godwit with a Black-tailed no3 spit EHF - AG

The Cloud: A single Crossbill heard whilst walking thru top wood - MS

EHF: 3 Green & 1 Common Sand. PHF: 1 Pinky, 3 LRP. Crabmill Flash footpath: 9 Tufted Duck, 3 Wheatear and a Yellow Wag in a ploughed field near the river - AG

5 Wheatear MGT tip top - AG

EHF: 4 Green Sands together, 3 Bl T gods, 3 LRP(PHF), 1 Redpoll again over viewpoint (had one yday as well), 1 Willow Warbler (Rosemary's) - AG

EHF: 3 Bl T gods, 3 Green Sands, 1x 2nd S GBBG. PHF: 2 LRP - AG

Willow warbler singing PHF, Sedge Warbler singing WLF courseway behind green bin - AG

4 Wheatear in Dotterel field off Congleton bypass- Rob B

EHF - 72 Teal, 13 Shovelor, 13 Wigeon, 47 Shelduck, 2 Green & 1 Common Sand, 6 LRP, 3 Bl T gods - AG

PHF - 2 LPR's Hancock’s - 2 Oystercatcher - Rob B

My first Little Ringed Plover of the year. Here three of the four seen at @sandbachflashes.bsky.social at lunchtime today for #BirdsSeenIn2026

Early morning at the flashes: EHF: 3 Bl T Godwits, 2 Green Sands, 3 f Goosanders, 1 Kingfisher, 2 singing Blackcaps. WLF: 1 singing Blackcap. TLF: 1 Great Egret. Warmingham Flash: Kingfisher reported by fishermen - AG

Rode Heath/Scholar Green Ruddy Shelduck in the same field reported recently junc of poolside and Townsend lane opposite the pool - MS

Blackcap Field Farm Flash by railway - CL & DR Egyptian Goose x 2; Newsbank Pool, Newsbank, Congleton - GH

Astbury mere - 3 swallows, 1 House Martin & 1 Sand Martin - DW

EHF: 2 Little Egrets, 3 Bl T gods, 1 Green Sand, 1 Raven, Mistle Thrush singing, 8 Crossbills over SE calling at 8.15am, 1 Swallow, 2 Sand Martins. WLF : 1 Swallow, 2 Sand Martins - AG

8 Crossbills over EHF flying SE at around 8.15 am - AG