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Tuesday, 24 April 2012

24 April 2012

Berryhill
Stone Curlew flying around the mast area this morning 07:30 to 07:45 and dropped in Lap Bunt paddock also on the Ouzel mound, but no further sign by 08:30.............................RT.
2x Grasshopper Warblers..........................BB.
Red Kite over the mast at 12:55........AM
Sedge Warbler...........KH

Westport Lake
Little Ringed Plover & Whitethroat .......................NJS.

Radial Park/Sideway
Male Redstart, 3x Grasshopper Warbler, 2x Sedge Warbler, Garden Warbler & 3x Whitethroat..............................RG.

Silverdale CP.
Grasshopper Warbler, 19x Willow Warbler, 6x Chiffchaff & 5x Blackcap..........................JH.

Branston Water Park
Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, 3x Willow Warbler, 8x Blackcap & 2x Common Tern.............................JW.
Branston Gravel Pits
5x Ruff, 4x Little Ringed Plover, 4x Ringed Plover, 2x Green Sandpiper, 8x Common Tern, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, Whitethroat & 3x Mandarin Duck.......................JW.

Croxall
Short-eared Owl (on the east side viewed from the arboretum side of the river), 5x Common Tern, Reed Warbler & Sedge Warbler.......................JW.

Whitemoor Haye
Little Owl, c30 Tree Sparrow, Whitethroat, 2x Redshank, 3x Common Tern, 2x Willow Warbler & Blackcap.......................JW.

Radford Meadows
Common Crane still off the end of Rickerscote Avenue this morning.........PP

Cannock Chase
Cuckoo in Sherbrook Valley.........PP

Blithfield Res (permit only)
Green-winged Teal drake under willows in Blithe Bay at 17:03........Birdguides

Himley Hall
Arctic Tern flew through at 15.30............................DC.

Cannock Chase area
4x Redstart, 2x Pied Flycatcher, 2x Tree Pipit, 2x Brambling, 3x Crossbill & Cuckoo.......................JT.

Clay Mills
7x Goosander, 2x Common Sandpiper, Redshank, Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, 3x Willow Warbler, 20x Sand Martin, 5x Swallow & Kingfisher......................AJ.

Essington Quarry Pool
2x Ring Ouzel flew towards the paddocks this evening........Birdguides