A Cuckoo was a new Spring arrival
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Male Redstart this morning also 2x Wheatear, (Foz)
Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Ring Ouzel flew towards west end at 07:30, also drake Garganey north shore, Osprey thru north at 15:00, Reed Warbler,
Middleton Lakes
Med Gull on west scrape, 6x Avocet, Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Oystercatcher, Snipe, Dunlin, 2x LRP, 9x Redshank, 4x Common Sandpiper, Sedge Warbler, 8x Shelduck, 3x Goosander, (MSm, SPA)
Berryhill
Fem Ring Ouzel in paddocks above the Viewpoint but mobile also a Wheatear, (IBu) - Botteslow Common Sandpiper still and 2x LRP nearby, (IBu)
Radford Meadows
8x Pink-footed Geese, male Redstart, 2x Shelduck, Common Sandpiper, Cetti's Warbler, (RSw) - also 2x LRP, (DEv)
Tucklesholme
2x LRP, Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Redshank, 3x Oystercatcher, 2x Mandarin, (SCa)
Wombourne
2x Wheatear still by Billy Buns/School Road crossroads
Cuckoo Bank
Redstart, 2x Grey Partridge, 7x Golden Plover east
Enville
2x Redstart, 65x Fieldfare, (IWh)
Baddeley Green
4x LRP near the canal, (JOa)
Whitemoor Haye
2x Grey Partridge, Redstart, 16x Yellowhammer, Tree Sparrow, LRP, (PCo)
Branston GPs
7x Black-tailed Godwit, 8x Curlew, Ruff, Green Sandpiper, 6x Redshank, 5x Ringed Plover, 6x LRP, Snipe, 7x Pink-footed Geese, 30x Shelduck, Mandarin, 8x Goldeneye, Peregrine, 2x Water Rail, Yellow Wagtail, Sedge Warbler, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)
Drayton Bassett
Redstart this afternoon, (MSm)
Stone Downs Banks
6x Brambling, (MJa)
Tittesworth Water
Common Sandpiper, 6x LRP, 4x Oystercatcher, 3x Snipe, Curlew, Lapwing, 3x House Martin, 4x Goosander, 2x Mandarin, 2x Barnacle Geese, 3x Redpoll, Green Woodpecker, (SGi, IB, KH)
Upper Longdon
Cuckoo
Alvecote
Great Egret, 2x Goosander, Oystercatcher, 40x House Martin, (MSc)
Furnace Grange Road
Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, Wheatear, (MMo)
Dimmingsdale
Redstart, 50x Siskin, (TEy)
Blythe Bridge
Little Egret on river behind Uttoxeter Road, (AR)
Whitemoor Haye
2x Wheatear at 14:00, (MBr)