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Saturday, 5 May 2012

05 May 2012

Sideway
Stonechat & Kingfisher..............................AS.

Drayton Bassett Pits
2x Black-necked Grebe at north pits, also Grey Plover still........................Birdguides.

Berryhill
Male Ring Ouzel still, also a Redstart.........................Birdguides.

Uttoxeter Quarry
4x Little Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, 3x Oystercatcher, 3x Shelduck, Common Tern & 3x Whitethroat..........................AM.
Lesser Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, Willow Warbler, 2x Blackcap, 2x Chiffchaff, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 9x Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, 3x Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Curlew, 4x Shelduck, 4x Goosander, 2x Mandarin Duck & 32x Little Ringed Plover.....................AB.

Cannock Chase
Whitethroat & Redstart.....................DA.
6x Tree Pipit & 2x Cuckoo.............................JCW.

Churnet Valley/Oakamoor
3x Pied Flycatcher, Cuckoo, 12x Blackcap & 2x Dipper......................TE.

Silverdale CP.
Blackcap, Whitethroat, Swift, 4x Wheatear, plus a Grasshopper Warbler hears at the Victory Pool Plantation............................PC.
18x Willow Warbler, 17x Whitethroat, 9x Blackcap, 5x Chiffchaff, 2x Grasshopper Warbler, Reed Warbler & a Cormorant over this morning............................JH.

Doxey Marsh
Hobby, 5x Shelduck, Oystercatcher, Dunlin & Common Sandpiper........................RS.

Blithfield Res (permits only)
3x Common Scoter off St Stephen's Bay this afternoon............................Birdguides.

Belvide Res (permits only)
2x Red-breasted Merganser, also 2x Whinchat & a Whimbrel over north this morning.......................Birdguides.

Whitemoor Hayes
Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Whitethroat, 18x Common Tern, 40+ Tree Sparrow, 2x Common Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover, 2x Redshank, Yellow Wagtail, 3x Corn Bunting, Little Owl, 2x Arctic Tern, 100's of Hirundines & 2x Grey Partridge.........................SC.

Branston Gravel Pits
Whitethroat, 100's of Hirundines, Mandarin Duck, Common Sandpiper, 29x Shelduck, 2x Little Ringed Plover, 23x Teal & Redshank.........................SC.