Sunday, 12 August 2018

Sunday 12th August 2018

Whitemoor Haye
80x Tree Sparrow along rough track, 2x Common Sandpiper, Snipe, Black-tailed Godwit thru, Goldeneye, Yellow Wagtail, Peregrine (alrewas birder)

Uttoxeter Quarry
Greenshank, 9x Ringed Plover, 7x Common Sandpiper, 6x Green Sandpiper, 2x Dunlin, 2x LR Plover, 2x Snipe, 20x Yellow Wagtail, Mandarin, 3x Little Egret, 7x Goosander, Hobby, (RPo, ABa)

Middleton Lakes
2x Wood Sandpiper still, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Common Sandpiper, 3x LR Plover, Dunlin, 3x Snipe (MPo)  -  Also 2x Whinchat, 4x Dunlin, 4x Avocet, Ringed Plover, Godwit species thru (Mercian Birding)

Berryhill
Tree Pipit, Wheatear, 3x Redstart, (RT, NDP)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Red Kite Blithe Bay at 15:20 (JAl)  -  Marsh Harrier, 7x Greenshank, 7x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Ruff, 2x Green Sandpiper, Curlew, 10x Snipe, 13x Little Egret, 40x Common Tern, Egyptian Goose, (ABa)  -  Also 26x Ringed Plover, 10x Dunlin, 4x LR Plover, YL Gull, 7x Yellow Wagtail (PCa, TKe)

Tucklesholme
Garganey still at 16:15 (RPo)

Croxden Quarry
4x LR Plover on old lagoon (ABa)

Penkridge
30x Yellow Wagtail 

Doxey Marsh
Great White Egret, Wood Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, 8x Yellow Wagtail, Peregrine, Cetti's Warbler, 16x Swift (MBo)

Branston GPs
21x Little Egret, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew, 20x Common Tern, (DSc)