Saturday, 21 April 2018

Saturday 21st April 2018

Middleton Lakes
5x Avocet, Cuckoo, 2x Ruff, Tree Pipit briefly, 2x Common Tern, 2x LR Plover, 5x Redshank, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Little Egret, many Sedge Warblers all on JW, (@atkinson_steve)

Berryhill
Male Ring Ouzel still (for 4th day), Garden Warbler, 4x Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Sedge Warbler, Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear, 2x Whitethroat


By Dennis Vickers

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Bar-tailed Godwit still, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 4x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 12x Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
2x Black Tern off Beech Tree Point (GJM)  -  Also Whimbrel still, Common Tern (@tonyjac_tony)

River Sow Meadows
5x Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Little Egret, 2x Gadwall (@RobSwift5)

Aqualate
Whimbrel thru NE (@Ian_m_grant)  -  Cuckoo this evening (@mwyre)

Tucklesholme
4x LR Plover, Common Sandpiper, Common Tern, 5x Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat (@Ochruros)

Branston GPs
Garden Warbler, Grasshopper Warbler, 8x Whitethroat, 7x Lesser Whitethroat, 4x Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, 8x LR Plover, 4x Redshank, 2x Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, 6x Yellow Wagtail, 30x Little Grebe,  (DSc)

Cuckoo Bank
Whinchat, Cuckoo, 4x Lesser Whitethroat (@GrantHames)  -  Ad Kittiwake and 2x Common Tern thru, 2s YL Gull

Chasewater
Osprey over north over Fair Lady Coppice at 10:25

Ford Green NR
Cetti's Warbler still, Grasshopper Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Common Sandpiper (JJo)

Hanford - Trentham
2x Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, Garden Warbler, Grasshopper Warbler, (LS)

Highgate Common
2x Tree Pipit, Garden Warbler, Whitethroat, Cuckoo (@HughieKing)

Silverdale CP
Wheatear on the Void, 2x Common Sandpiper (GSa)

Pendeford Hall Lane
6x Wheatear (@chrisvagela)

Cannock Chase
Pied Flycatcher, 2x Redstart, Whitethroat, Tree Pipit, Cuckoo, Mandarin, Stonechat (GWe, CWe)

Whitemoor Haye
3x Yellow Wagtail, 3x White Wagtail, Wheatear, 2x Sedge Warbler, Corn Bunting, 3x Redshank, 2x LR Plover, 2x Little Egret (@BirderAlrewas)

Kinver Edge
Cuckoo, Lesser Whitethroat, Common Whitethroat (@JohnMathers1)

Hanchurch Hills
Cuckoo calling, Tree Pipit (@GeoffSales1)

Tittesworth Water
Pied Flycatcher, 2x Redstart, Lesser Whitethroat, Common Tern, (@stephengibson42)

Upper Elkstone
2x Redstart, Cuckoo (@domhall)

Hawksmoor
Wood Warbler , Tree Pipit (ABa)

Croxden
4x White Wagtail still (ABa)