Sunday 27 July 2014

Sunday 27th July 2014

Middleton Lakes RSPB
**PACIFIC GOLDEN PLOVER** still present this afternoon from Jubilee Wetlands, best viewed from the east screen, also Garganey present
5x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Dunlin, 2x Common Sandpiper, 6x Snipe, 4x LRP, 2x Wigeon, 18x Teal, Ringed- necked Paraqeet over (info supplied by JH)

Pacific Golden Plover by Nigel Talbot

Blithfield Res (permit only)
6x Knot through Blithe bay this morning (GJM)
Turnstone, 3x Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP, 5x Oystercatcher, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, Ruddy Shelduck, Common Scoter, 2x Goldeneye, Little Egret, 2x YL Gull (RS)
Wood Sandpiper in Blithe Bay (JA)

Turnstone by Rob Swift

Branston Water Park
Great White Egret at 11:10 (DOu LOu)
Also 5x Little Egret & 14x Common Tern (JWo)
Great White Egret by Jon Woodcock

Branston Gravel Pits
2x Garganey (drake & female) on south pit also Red Kite flew over, 3x Ruff, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Green Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 14x Pochard, Water Rail (SCo)

Uttoxeter Quarry
Male Ruff, 4x Green Sandpiper, 7x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 21x Common Tern, Willow Tit, 2x Egyptian Geese, Kingfisher (RP)

Ruff by Richard Powell

Whitemoor Haye
4x Common Tern, Hobby, Peregrine, 15x Tree Sparrow, 4x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Little Egret (SC )

Doxey Marsh
Wood Sandpiper this evening, LRP, 3x Grasshopper Warbler, Water Rail

Westport Lake
Female Common Scoter on main lake this morning (CJW)
Common Scoter by Phil Jones