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Wednesday, 1 August 2012

Wednesday 1 August 2012

Dimmingsdale
6x Spotted Flycatcher along the track to Hares Lane.......AB

Blake Hall fisheries
3x Common Tern also one over the park......AB

Trentham Gardens
2x Common Tern, 7x Mandarin, Hobby, Green Woodpecker and a Kingfisher......RT

Belvide Resv
Fem Common Scoter off the dam. Ecl drk Red-crested Pochard stilll.............Birdguides

Blithfield Resv
4x Common Sandpiper (mobile), 1x Shelduck (juv), 30+ Common Tern, Osprey over causeway & then in dead tree, 3 x Green Woodpecker............RBe

Uttoxeter Quarry
1x Spotted Flycatcher, 10x Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, 1x Oystercatcher, 7x Common Tern........AB

Armitage
Hobby one being mobbed by c50x House Martins over New Road this am.......AJ

Croxden Quarry
Med Gull adult from the viewpoint at 19:30........AB

Hillcote Farm, Eccleshall
6x Raven, 25+ Swallow, 1x Hobby, 9x Swift, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, 2x Buzzard.....GH

Gentleshaw Common
Hobby, 4x Stonechat (2 Juv), Green Woodpecker.
Insects and Others 2x Common Lizard (1 hiding under a sign. See picture), Giant Tachinid Fly (Tachina grossa), 10+ Oak Eggar Moths, 100’s of Bog Asphodel, Cranberry, Round-leaved Sundew (some flowering).......JW
Common Lizard seen today on Gentleshaw Common by JW