Friday 1 August 2014

Friday 1 August 2014

Middleton Lakes RSPB
Pacific Golden Plover still on Jubilee Wetlands also Garganey, 8x Dunlin, 3x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 3x Little Ringed Plover, Snipe, Little Egret, Grasshopper Warbler & 8x Teal (JH et el)

Blithfield Res (permits only)
Curlew, 8x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Snipe, 11x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, 19x Little Ringed Plover, 8x Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, Goosander, 6x Oystercatcher, Wheatear, Osprey, Ruddy Shelduck, 3x Yellow-legged Gull & Common Gull (SE, HF)

Trent Washlands
11x Little Egret, site record (AJ)

Branston Gravel Pits
Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Ruff, 7x Green Sandpiper, 8x Curlew, Redshank, 2x Little Egret, 10x Pochard, c12x Shelduck, insects: 5x Southern Hawker, Brimstone, Brown Argus – egg laying. Long-winged Conehead now very numerous. (JW)
 
Branston Water Park
Little Egret, 41x Common Tern. (JW)