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Tuesday, 6 August 2013

Tuesday 6 August 2013


Branston GPs
2x Wood Sandpiper, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, 12 Green Sandpiper, 12x Curlew, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Redshank, Snipe, 2x Oystercatcher, 3x LR Plover, 11x Little Egret, juv Med Gull on Sandy pit, 4x Shelduck, 4x Common Tern, 12x Shelduck (JW)
Fem/imm Redstart (DSc) - 3x Small Copper, 10x Common Blue (JW)

Wood Sandpiper by Jon Woodcock

Redstart by Jon Woodcock

Blithfield Res (permit only)
2x Greenshank Tad Bay, 5x Dunlin Blithe Bay (HMi)
2nd sum Caspian Gull, 13x LR Plover, 7 Dunlin, 2x Greenshank, 236x GC Grebe, 114x Common Tern 2x YL Gull, 12x Shelduck, 14x Goosander, 36x Teal, Pochard, (RCB)

North Staffs Moors
10x Stonechat (6 juvs) - Gradbach Area - 3x Crossbill, 2x Redstart, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, Tree Pipit, Wheatear, 8x Redpoll, 4x Red Grouse - Knotbury area - 2x Whinchat, 12x Wheatear (8 juvs), c170 Linnets, 5x Red Grouse - Roaches area - juv Cuckoo being fed by Meadow Pipit, 3x Redstart, Little Owl  (RT& NP)

Belvide Res
Quail still in wheat field by West Lane.

Rudyard Res
3x Oystercatcher (SFe)

Whitemoor Haye
11x Common Tern, 2x Common Sandpiper, LR Plover, 18x Shelduck (15 juvs) (SC)