Tuesday 7 August 2012

Tuesday 7th August 2012

Endon
Barn Owl over the cricket ground early morning...........DN.

Westport Lake
Common Sandpiper & Barnacle Goose still.................CJW.

Blithfield Res (permit only)
Osprey, Little Gull, Arctic Tern, 6x Shoveler, 2x Common Sandpiper, Little Egret & 8x Common Tern.................AM.

Uttoxeter Quarry
Greenshank, 5x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 5x Curlew, Oystercatcher, 17x Goosander, Yellow Wagtail & 2x Cape Shelduck.................AB.

Hanbury
Hobby mobbed by Swallows................JW.

Trent Washlands
Yellow Wagtail, c80 House Martin, c50 Sand Martin & c50 Swallow............AJ.

Croxden Quarry
Adult Med Gull from the viewpoint at 18.10...................AB.

Phone-scoped Med Gull this evening at Croxden by Andy Barker

Tittesworth Res
4x Great Crested Grebe (Inc 2x juv), Juv Cormorant, Willow Tit, Juv Spotted Flycatcher, 9x Pied Wagtail (Inc 7x juv) & 10x Black-headed Gull (Inc 8x juv).................AR.

Gailey Res
3x Yellow-legged Gull adult and 2x 1st summers) this afternoon........SR

Belvide Res (permit only)
Common Scoter female and Red-crested Pochard eclipse drake still........Birdguides

Rudyard Res
2x Common Tern...............JH.

Berryhill
Redstart in the long hedge................PAD.

Whitemoor Haye
Little Owl, 15x Tree Sparrow, 26x Linnet, 4 Whitethroat and a few hundred Swifts.......SC
Common Sandpiper.......JA

Croxall GPs
Common Sandpiper and 8x Snipe.......JA