Saturday, 11 August 2018

Saturday 11th August 2018

Knypersley Resv
5x Bar-tailed Godwit over flying north, fem Scaup, 5x Spotted Flycatcher, Hobby (GBr)

Whitemoor Haye
2x Common Tern, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Common Sandpiper,  Snipe, Goldeneye, (alrewas birder)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Sum plum Knot, 4x Greenshank, Wood Sandpiper, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Dunlin, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, 8x Snipe, Ruff,  4x Little Egret, 10x Goosander, Common Terns  (MJa)  -  Imm Marsh Harrier 14:30 (JAl)  - 2x Marsh Harrier over Duckleys plantation, (RPo)  -  From Admaston Reach 32x Dunlin, 19x Ringed Plover, 8x LR Plover, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Greenshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, Ruff, 5x Snipe, YL Gull, Wheatear (SRi)  -  Red Kite (ABa)

Gailey Resv
Ruddy Shelduck, 10x Goosander thru, Hobby, Common Sandpiper, 12x Yellow Wagtail, Swifts, Mandarin still, also just north at Otherton 2x Hobby (SRi)

Middleton Lakes
3x Wood Sandpiper, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Avocet, 3x Dunlin, 3x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, LR Plover, Garganey, Yellow Wagtail, (TPe)

Tucklesholme
Garganey, Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, Whinchat, 3x Little Egret, Hobby, 4x Yellow Wagtail,  (Kay)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Crossbill over, Tree Pipit

Berryhill
Wheatear, 3x Redstart, Whinchat, c640 Goldfinch,  2x Willow Tit, (etal.)  -  Little Egret at Botteslow Flash

Uttoxeter Quarry
6x Little Egret, Greenshank, Bar-headed Goose (RPo)

Chasewater
2x Hobby, Peregrine, Redstart, 4x Tree Pipit

Alrewas
Wood Sandpiper on pit opp the Arboretum, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, Hobby, Little Egret (Kay)

Cannock Chase
Crossbill near the stepping stones (JWo)

Branston GPs
24x Little Egret, eclipse male Garganey, Hobby, Peregrine, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Dunlin, 3x Green Sandpiper, Redshank, Curlew, Common Sandpiper, 28x Common Tern, Wheatear (DSc)