Thursday 2 August 2018

Thursday 2nd August 2018

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Great White Egret feeding along the Blithe, 17x Little Egret, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff, 7x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Curlew, LR Plover, 21x Common Tern, 6x YL Gull (ABa)  -  23x Little Egret counted which is a site record (GJM)

Belvide Resv (WMNC members only)
Bittern flew along reed bed in front of Scott hide, 6x Little Egret, 5x Black-tailed Godwit

Doxey Marsh
2x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 4x Little Egret, Common Gull, 2x Water Rail (PDe, JTa)

Berryhill
Male Redstart and Willow Tit still (NDP)

Middleton Lakes
2x Greenshank, 5x Avocet, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 5x Black-tailed Godwit

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Grasshopper Warbler (JDu)

Branston GPs
2x Presumed American Wigeon still, 35x Little Egret, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, 13x Curlew, 2x Snipe, LR Plover, 17x Goosander, 2x Mandarin, 36x Gadwall, 22x Shoveler, 51x Teal, 54x Little Grebe, 44x Common Tern, YL Gull, escaped Bufflehead still,  (JWo)

Presumed American Wigeon by Jon Woodcock

Bobbington
Green Sandpiper and Common Sandpiper still at The Mere (ALl)