Monday, 26 April 2021

Monday 26th April 2021

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

3x Black-necked Grebe, Bar-tailed Godwit, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Arctic Tern, Hobby

                                                Black-necked Grebes by Steve Edwards

Cuckoo Bank

3x Ring Ouzel, 4x Wheatear, Whinchat, 3x Whimbrel over NW, 15x Gropper,

Middleton Lakes

2x Greenshank still, Black-tailed Godwit, Ringed Plover, 5x LRP, 2x Snipe, 7x Redshank, 2x Avocet, 7x Common Tern, Cuckoo, 2x Swift, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)

Tittesworth Water

Bar-tailed Godwit still, Dunlin, Snipe, 2x Barnacle Geese, 2x Mandarin, (SGi)  - 6x Common Sandpiper, 12x LRP, (EWi)

Branston GPs

Bar-tailed Godwit still Ashy pit,  2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (CMa)  -  Wood Sandpiper still on Ashy pit this afternoon, (RPo)  -  Little Stint on North pit showing from bridleway, (JWo), - male Ring Ouzel (1st site record), (CEc, Dean, Stu), 7x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Curlew, 6x Redshank, 4x Ringed Plover, 2x Ruff, Dunlin, Snipe, 4x Mandarin, Pink-footed Goose, 3x Little Egret, Peregrine, Garden Warbler, (CEc, Dean, Stu, JWo)

                                                      Little Stint by Jon Woodcock

Blithfield Resv

Greenshank, 2x Arctic Tern, 20x Common Tern, 2x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, 7x Yellow Wagtail, (BPu)

Cannock Chase

Red Kite, 2x Brambling, 3x Cuckoo, 5x Tree Pipit, Redstart, Swift, (RSw)

Stafford Common

White Wagtail, (RJS)

Draycott in the Moors

Lesser Whitethroat, (AR)

Coombes Valley RSPB

Pied Flycatcher, Redstart, Grey Wagtail - and a Red Kite at Cheddleton, (RBe)

                                                   Pied Flycatcher by Rob Bendelow


Doxey Marsh

3x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, Gropper, 5x Swift. 5x Cetti' Warbler, Little Egret, (DBa)

Alvecote

Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 4x Yellow Wagtail, (MSc)

Hanchurch Woods

Cuckoo, (CBa)

Great Bridgeford

Cetti's Warbler at Tixall Wide moorings, (BBo)

Bobbington

11x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Wheatear off Leaton Lane, (WN)