Friday 24 August 2012

Berryhill
2x Whinchat (but mobile), 5x Redstart, 3x Tree Pipit, 3x Wheatear, Lesser Whitethroat, 1-2 Hobbies and 12x Swift.......RT.NP.PAD.KH.

Lark Pool Great White Pelican
Confirmation has now been received that this bird is as suspected a escape from Blackbrook.

Doxey
Water Rail, Kingfisher, 9x Snipe, 8x Swift.......RS

Westport Lake
1x Pochard, 12x Swift, 2x House Martin, 2x Willow Tit, 2x Bullfinch.....AR

Gailey
1x Yellow-legged Gull (3rd Sum), 27x Little Grebe (13 juvs), 5x Gadwall, 5+ Swift.....................IM

Branston Gravel Pits

17x Black-tailed Godwit, 13x Green Sandpiper, 5x Common Sandpiper, 15x Curlew, Water Rail, Sparrowhawk, 2x Buzzard, 12x Pochard, Shelduck, 7x Shoveler, Green Woodpecker, GS Woodpecker, Insects and Others: 2x Southern Hawker (see Picture), 2x Brown Hawker, Migrant Hawker, 15+ Common Darter, 30+ Peacock Butterfly, 5+ Tortoiseshell, 4x Red Admiral, Common Toad.....JW also 2x Yellow Wagtail on sandy pit & c60 Teal..............DS.

Southern Hawker by John Woodcock

Belvide Resv (permit only)
ring-tailed Hen Harrier over north at 11-00hrs......BW

Dimmingsdale
24x Mistle Thrush in fields on the edge of Dimmingsdale also Green Woodpecker, Kestrel and 2x Buzzard.......TE

Stoke (Fletcher Rd)
5x Buzzard circling BC

Uttoxeter Quarry

1x Turnstone, 1x Greenshank, 6x Green Sandpiper, 7x Common Sandpiper, 2x Goosander, 14x Teal, 5x Common Tern, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 1x Tree Pipit............AB

Aqualate Mere
Fem Marsh Harrier this evening. Also 6x Egyptian Geese, 2x Reed Warbler, 2x Swift, 100x Swallow........JJH & SJH