Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A great start to the day with my third self found Worcestershire Ring-necked Duck this morning at Clifton Pits. Presumably a returning drake. Hopefully he will stick around and start looking a bit more dapper. #WorcsBirds 0500
Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Thanks Rob. Might be able to have a look tomorrow morning. Fingers crossed! 110
Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 30/04/2026A male Lesser Spotted Woodpecker at a site in central #Worcestershire this morning where the species has not been recorded in 10+ years. I seem to be repeating myself year on year, but they're out there to be found! @worcswt.bsky.social @lesserspotnet.bsky.social #WorcsBirds 3663
Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 22/04/2026I think this is a black ring and likely one of the @westmidlandsrg.bsky.social birds? 110
Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 08/04/2026LITTLE TERN straight north through Grimley CLP at 08:25. Didn't even consider stopping #WorcsBirds 0421
Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Nice lunchbreak bonus at @birdersstore.bsky.social An Osprey high overhead 13:30 being mobbed by 4 Buzzards and large Gulls. #WorcsBirds 1372
Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 24/03/2026That certainly is the Richardsons Cackling Goose 120
Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 12/03/2026This wind blown adult Kittiwake made a brief stop at Grimley-CLP this morning. #WorcsBirds 0350
Reposted by Craig ReedMark Eaton @markaeaton.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Had a superb weekend in Kent courtesy of @lesserspotnet.bsky.social’s workshop, hearing of all the exciting developments in Lesser Spotted Woodpecker monitoring & research, topped by great views of the birds themselves 😍 - my first for a decade! 0394
Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Richardson's Cackling Goose on Grimley-Church Farm this morning, then flew towards riverside fields when flushed by a dog. 8 Pintail (5m,3f) was a good count for Grimley with Wigeons on riverside fields. Prob my highest count here #WorcsBirds 0160
Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Adult Kittiwake Chapter Meadows, Worcester, viewable from Slingpool Walk. It looks wrecked #Worcsbirds 1240
Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 29/12/2025I did think of all those Geese I saw on Texel only a few weeks ago! Thanks for sharing! 110
Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 28/12/2025UNBELIEVABLE! 9 Tundra Bean Goose, 74+ White-fronted Goose and Pink-footed Goose among hundreds of Geese south of Upton upon Severn!! Park in UoS, view only from PROW. #WorcsBirds 2683
Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Pretty cool right. Looking forward to seeing what Ian got. It was hovering right in front of him 😱 031
Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Would have been rude not to drop into Whites Wood, Baggeridge CP between jobs where the Firecrest was showing instantly on arrival thanks to IB. Feeding in a holly in front of us for ages, showing well, hovering all the time. Bonus Tawny Owl nearby :) @staffsbirdnews.bsky.social 1321
Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Adult Mediterranean Gull on floodwater at Chapter Meadows/King's Fields #WorcsBirds 0280
Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 11/11/2025PIGEONS! 5700+ NE over Grimley-CLP in 45 minutes this morning. Love Pigeon days. Drake Shelduck, a Yellowhammer over and 2 Goldeneyes still #WorcsBirds 0241
Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Nice one. On the left as you walk down? The bank above Frog Pool. Will take a look on my way into work tomorrow 000
Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Thanks Phil. The TBS one has a while to stay to beat that one then! 000
Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 29/10/2025I recall a similar 'greyish' bird at #UptonWarren in early/mid November one year. Not completely outlandish, but an odd one! 100
Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 29/10/2025I know right. Did cause a brief heart flutter when I first saw it, tail cocked upwards in Barred like way! 110
Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Well!! That wasn't what I expected to see today. A Garden Warbler at @birdersstore.bsky.social !! #WorcsBirds 1541
Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 28/10/2025An unexpected addition to the garden list in Bewdley this morning, when this FIRECREST popped out in a neighbours holly just as I was contemplating giving up on a quiet VigMig session. It spent about 10 minutes in the gardens, but hasn't reappeared. #WorcsBirds 0560
Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Great to hear a number of your Heron species are doing well the other side of the pond! Most of the Herons are on the up here also. 110
Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 25/09/2025The stars aligned this evening at #Grimley. And all six of the 'Heron Like' birds. Cattle, GW and Little Egrets throughout, Grey Herons, Glossy Ibis flying in at 19:05 and the Bittern flying to roost at 19:22. Fantastic! Ringed Plover and 5 Common Gull #WorcsBirds 0280
Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Hard to believe that you would see six 'Heron like' species at #Grimley in 12 hours just a few years ago. Glossy Ibis, Cattle Egret, GWE, Little Egret (8), Grey Heron (4) last night 24/9 and Bittern this morning 25/9. #WorcsBirds 2541
Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 17/09/2025It's been quite a while since the @birdersstore.bsky.social local sightings board has looked so full half way though the month 😱 #WorcsBirds 1290
Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Sorry Kay. The Phalarope was taken by a Hobby yesterday afternoon as reported on West Mids Birding #WorcsBirds 220
Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 10/09/2025A fairly quiet visit to Grimley this morning was enlivened massively when this juv Goshawk barreled though. I hear a Glossy Ibis has dropped in after I left #WorcsBirds 0361
Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 07/09/2025A very wet hour and a half at Trimpley Reservoir. Reminding me just how awful it is #WorcsBirds 2190
Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Rather amazingly, the juv Marsh Harrier was followed a few minutes later by an adult female. Fantastic! #westmidsalldayer #Grimley #WorcsBirds 0200
Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Marsh Harrier high over #Grimley just #WorcsBirds Number 93 for the day. 0100
Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 06/09/2025GREY PHALAROPE, Grimley--CLP. HIPPO POOL now #WorcsBirds 3443
Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 06/09/2025GLOSSY IBIS currently on Grimley--Church Farm!! #WorcsBirds 0362
Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Presume the Med is the same Hungarian bird that was at Sandwell Valley last month? 110
Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Great stuff Gert. If there is anything I can help with from a CR perspective. Let me know! 000
Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Osprey just gone over Dropping Well Farm Reserve (Blackstone) then south downriver #WorcsBirds 0270
Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 21/08/2025It'd probably already gone over by the time I was out looking 🤣 110
Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 21/08/2025There *could* be a mega in Worcestershire airspace right about now. Let's hope it's in this patch of sky right here in the next 30 mins or so... #WorcsBirds 2160
Craig Reed @midlandsbirder.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Love watching Hawthorn, Elder and Bramble scrub at this time of year. A pre work walk around #SwanbrookValley gave a decent 'drop' of Warblers: 10 Whitethroat, 10 Chiffchaff, 8 Blackcap, 2 Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Willow Warbler and a Tree Pipit! #WestMidsBirds 0161
Reposted by Craig ReedNick Skilbeck @birdingnick.bsky.social · 04/08/2025The Worcester & Malvern RSPB group is supporting and campaigning for this appeal. Two RSPB group members have each pledged up to £20,000 (10k each) of match funding. So every pound you give will be doubled. 142
