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Friday, 5 April 2019

Friday 5th April 2019

Middleton Lakes
Common Tern on JW (RSPB) - Grasshopper Warbler between the screens (SAt)  -  7x Little Gull, 4x Avocet, 3x Redshank, 2x Pink-footed Geese (KSa)

Chasewater
Lesser Whitethroat along railway

Blithfield Resv
Common Tern, Water Pipit off the dam but flighty, White Wagtail, (MPR,GJM)  -  Little Gull (MDJ)  - also Osprey fishing off Beech Tree Point, 2x Yellow Wagtail, drake Mandarin (RCB)

Uttoxeter Quarry
Yellow Wagtail, 9x White Wagtail, 2x House Martin, 2x Swallow, 9x Green Sandpiper, 10x Curlew, 2x Goldeneye (NDP)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Cattle Egret, Great White Egret, 3x Egyptian Geese

Doxey Marsh
Redstart near the main hide (GPr)  -  also 2x Cattle Egret, 4x Little Egret, LRP, Peregrine


By Steve Edwards

Radford Meadows
Male Ring Ouzel (RSw)

Berryhill
6x Wheatear (RTo, NDP)

Bignall Hill
Wheatear around the Wedgwood monument, Willow Warbler, (JMa)

Branston GPs
Long-tailed Duck, Avocet, 7x LRP, 3x Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, Curlew, 6x Redshank, 30x Lapwing, Little Egret, 39x Shelduck, 6x Mandarin, 38x Shoveler, 56x Gadwall, 70x Teal, 33x Little Grebe, 2x White Wagtail, 11x Swallow, Blackcap, Cetti's Warbler, 3x Green Woodpecker, 40x Linnet (JWo)

Six Ashes
Red Kite over  at mid day (KDa, VDa)