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Friday, 19 April 2019

Friday 19th April 2019

Shoal Hill
4x Wheatear, 2x  Ring Ouzel, Cuckoo, Garden Warbler, (SRi)

Gailey
4x Wheatear off Fullmoor Lane, Reed Warbler, 2x Common Sandpiper, Wheatear, (SRi)

Middleton Lakes
14x Black-tailed Godwit, 8x Avocet, 6x Redshank, Ruff, 3x Dunlin, 2x LRP, 6x Ringed Plover, 2x Common Tern, (MercianBirding)  -Great White Egret over JW (RSPB)

Berryhill
2x male Ring Ouzel still from track below the mast, 25x Golden Plover over at 07:10, 13x Wheatear, 2x Whitethroat (RGi)  - also Yellow Wagtail, (NDP)  - Botteslow 2x Gadwall, 

Fenton
6x House Martin (RGi)

I54
4x Wheatear, 2x Green Woodpecker, 2x Grey Wagtail, (JDu)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Whimbrel still, fem Marsh Harrier 09:30 - 09:40 only, Greenshank, 5x Wheatear, Cattle Egret

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Fem Marsh Harrier over the dam (GJM, MPR)

Trentham Gardens
Pied Flycatcher on island, 6x Little Egret (HFo)

Hanchurch
Cuckoo (GSa)

Swineholes Wood
3x Crossbill, 2x Curlew, 20x Willow Warbler (RPo)

Branston GPs
Long-tailed Duck, Red-crested Pochard, 3x Mandarin, 2x Avocet, 4x Green Sandpiper, 3x Ruff, 2x Dunlin, 6x LRP, Curlew, 6x Redshank, 12x Whitethroat, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Reed Warbler, 2x Sedge Warbler, Gropper, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Whimbrels by Jon Woodcock

Cuckoo Bank
10x Groppers, Hobby, 5x Whitethroat, Garden Warblers,

Uttoxeter Quarry
Whimbrel, 3x Dunlin, 4x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, Whitethroat, (RPo)

Consall
2x Redstart, Pied Flycatcher (SFe)

Alvecote
Drake Garganey still (ARa)

Audley Meadows
Whinchat, Gropper, Wheatear, 2x Whitethroat (PDo)

Apedale
Cuckoo (CBa)

Aqualate
Hobby early afternoon (PJor)  -  Cuckoo at 19:10, Gropper at 20:00 (KHa)

Thorswood
2x Whitethroat (TEy)

Biddulph Moor
Wheatear top road (SSe)

Chasewater
1s Little Gull, 2x Common Tern, 2x Common Sandpiper