Monday, 2 September 2013

Monday 2nd September 2013

Branston GP's
Juv/1st winter Mediterranean Gull, 3x Yellow-legged Gulls with c200 LBBG's, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Ruff, 10x Snipe, 6x Green Sandpiper, 12x Curlew, 15x Shoveler, Gadwall, 2x Little Egret, 37x Little Grebe (JW)

Belvide Resv (permit only)
2x female Garganey where at the west end, also 3x Pintail, 5x Wigeon, 143x Teal, 1x Pochard and 35x Shelduck where counted, the juvenile Whinchat was showing well 100 yards west of the West End hide, 3x Dunlin flew through also 3x Common Sandpiper where present, 2x Hobby were noted (Belvide Blog)
Whinchat at Belvide by Steve Nuttall 

Uttoxeter Quarry 
Greenshank x4, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper x2, Goosander x26, Teal x30 & Wigeon (ABa)
Greenshank by Andy Barker