Tuesday 13 May 2014

Tuesday 13 May 2014

Whitemoor Haye
2x Whimbrel - may have flown up from river bank, circled for 5 mins and then headed towards Croxall
2x LRP, Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, 4x Redshank, Oystercatcher, 8x Tree Sparrow, 6x Yellowhamer, Yellow Wagtail, Lesser Whitethroat, Common Tern (SCo)

Yellowhammer by Stuart Collins

Belvide Res (permit only)
1s female Velvet Scoter still also Arctic Tern

Drayton Bassett - Middleton Lakes RSPB
Jubilee Wetlands 2x Arctic Tern on the island also Black-tailed Godwit, Turnstone, 3x Dunlin, 14x Ringed Plover, 4x LR Plover, Redshank,
North pit 6x Dunlin, 4x Ringed Plover, 4x LRPlover, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Redshank, 2xTeal (info supplied by JH)

Branston GPs
Cuckoo singing near the south pit, 4x LRP, Ringed Plover, 6x Redshank, Oystercatcher, 47x Shelduck, 18x Gadwall, Cetti’s Warbler, 2x Azure Damselfly (1st this year), Large Red Damselfly, Burying Beetle (Nicrophorus vespilloides) see picture below, Small Copper (JW)

By Jon Woodcock
 
Ford Green NR
Green Woodpecker, 2x Lesser Whitethroat (JJ)

Wetley Moor
Grasshopper Warbler at 19:00 (BB)

Doxey Marsh
7x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 4x Common Tern, 4x Reed Warbler, 6x Sedge Warbler, Cormorant, 6x Greenfinch (DG)
 
Barlaston Downs
Redstart (MJ)

Blackbank
2x Oystercatcher (PT)

Berryhill
17x Wheatear (RT)