Friday 23rd April 2021

                             Lesser Whitethroat was a new Spring arrival this morning

Middleton Lakes

3x Bar-tailed Godwit dropped in at 08:10 and flew off after 10mins, Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Avocet, 6x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 3x Snipe, 8x Redshank, Ringed Plover, 2x Common Tern, 5x Groppers, Wheatear, (SPA, MSm)

                                                             Gropper by Rob Bendelow

Berryhill

Botteslow Flash - 2x Green Sandpiper, Redstart, 2x Whitethroat, (RTo)  -   Lesser Whitethroat between Palletstacks and the cemetery, Reed Warbler, Whinchat, 2x LRP, (RGi), - 2x Wheatear, 

Cuckoo Bank

2x Cuckoo, Ring Ouzel still, 8x Wheatear, Tree Pipit, 5x Gropper, 

Bishops Wood, 

Cuckoo, 5x Garden Warbler, 19x Crossbill, 2x Tree Pipit, (HLl)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Bar-tailed Godwit, Whimbrel, 2x Black-necked Grebe still, (RPo)

Branston GPs

5x Knot 08:30 to 08:48,  3x Ruff, 5x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, 1w Little Gull, Pink-footed Goose, Gropper, Lesser Whitethroat, 4x Reed Warbler,  DSc)  - also  still one Knot on Ashy pit at mid day, 4x Redshank, 7x Ringed Plover, 3x Curlew, 2x Snipe,  Common Tern, 2x Green Woodpecker, Goldeneye, 8x Pochard, 4x Mandarin, 4x Sedge Warbler, Peregrine, (JWo)

                                             Knot and Common Tern by Jon Woodcock

                                                         Little Gull by Jon Woodcock

                                              Lesser Whitethroat by Jon Woodcock

Doxey Marsh

Greenshank, Ringed Plover, 2x Reed Warbler, 2x Whitethroat, (DM)

Gailey Resv

9x Yellow Wagtail, (SRi)

Hanchurch

2x Wheatear at fishing pool area, (SHi)

                                                                    By Sylvia Hill

Bignall Hill

2x Wheatear, Curlew, (SJT)

Tittensor Chase

2x Garden Warbler, 2x Whitethroat, Yellowhammer, (AR)

Baswich

Whitethroat, (GHa)