Wednesday, 17 April 2019

Wednesday 17th April 2019

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Tree Pipit over NW, Ring Ouzel briefly at 08;40, ad Little Gull, Lesser Whitethroat

Chasewater
2x ad Little Gull, 2x Whitethroat, Great White Egret

Berryhill
Short-eared Owl at 07:25, 15x Wheatear including a Greenland type, Ring Ouzel still (NDP, RTo)  - Botteslow Flash 2x Common Sandpiper, LRP, 3x Goosander (RTo)

By Trevor Dance


Tucklesholme
Ruff, Dunlin, White Wagtail (TPe)

Middleton Lakes
9x Avocet, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x LRP, 4x Redshank, Dunlin, 2x Wheatear, 4x Pink-footed Geese (DCo)

Hanchurch
Tree Pipit, 6x Crossbill,  (BCa)

Cannock Chase
Cuckoo at Coppice Hill, Tree Pipits Sherbrook Valley (DBa)

Shoal Hill
3x Ring Ouzel from Mansty Lane at 14:55 (IMo)

Tatenhill Airfield
Redstart, Garden Warbler along path to Scotch Hills (JWo)

Tittesworth Water
Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 5x Barnacle Geese, Mandarin, 2x Redstart Goosander, (JOa)

Whitemoor Haye
4x Wheatear, 22x Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, Green Sandpiper, Grey Partridge, (BirderAlrewas)

Branston GPs
2x Whimbrel, Curlew, 4x Redshank, Green Sandpiper, 2x Egyptian Geese, 2x Mandarin, Grasshopper Warbler, (DSc)

By Jon Woodcock

i54
2x LRP, 2x Yellowhammer, 2x Water Rail (JDu)