Wednesday, 30 September 2020

Wednesday 30th September 2020

Middleton Lakes

4x Golden Plover briefly, Ruff, Redshank, Ringed Plover, 6x Snipe, 2x Great Egret and a brief possible Marsh Harrier, Jack Snipe on new reedbed pool, (MSm)

Uttoxeter Quarry

5x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, Peregrine, 2x Goosander, (NDP)

Branston GPs

2x Rock Pipit on Ashy Pit late morning,  (CEc)  -  7x Curlew, 2x Common Sandpiper, Snipe, 50x Lapwing, Goldeneye, Pintail, 38x Wigeon, 6x Pochard, 24x Gadwall, 68x Teal, 38x Shoveler, Shelduck, 54x Little Grebe, YL Gull, Common Gull, 2x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Blithfield Resv

Merlin, 2x Ringed Plover, 6x Dunlin, 3x Green Sandpiper, 7x Curlew, 5x Wheatear, (SE, HF)

                                                           Merlin by Steve Edwards

Doxey Marsh

Cattle Egret and Little Egret from Octagonal hide, (MJL)