The first Swifts of the Spring arrived today
Branston GPs
Wood Sandpiper on Ashy pit to 10:40 at least, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Curlew, Redshanks, Common Tern, (SRi) - Bar-tailed Godwit on Ashy pit to 14:15 at least, 3x Gropper, (JWo) - 12x Little Gull dropped in at 14:15, Wood Sandpiper still, 5x Ringed Plover, 3x Ruff, 4x Redshank, 3x Curlew, (DSc)
Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Bar-tailed Godwit, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, Little Stint, Dunlin, 2x Swift. 21x Barnacle Geese thru at 10:44,
Cuckoo Bank
2x Ring Ouzel in paddock, 21x Barnacle Geese east at 11:05,
Doxey Marsh
Ring Ouzel briefly, also a Swift, (DM, MBo)
Whitemoor Haye
Common Tern, Lesser Whitethroat, 6x Yellow Wagtail, Pink-footed Goose, Redshank, 4x Oystercatcher, Peregrine, (SCo)
Blithfield Resv
Great Egret Tad Bay, Red Kite over 11:35, (SRi) - Whimbrel briefly this afternoon, Channel Wagtail, 7x Yellow Wagtail, (JAl)
Aqualate
Cuckoo, Gropper, Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, 4x Mandarin, (KHa)
Tittesworth Water
Bar-tailed Godwit, 6x Common Sandpiper, 8x LRP, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Redstart, White Wagtail, Garden Warbler, 2x Barnacle Geese, (SGi, IB)
Berryhill
Botteslow Flash Egyptian Goose briefly at 07:15, (DWa), - LNR/paddocks, 4x Wheatear, Green Woodpecker, 3x Sedge Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat,
Lower Foxley
13x Wheatear, 7x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Yellowhammer, (MBa)
Chatterley Whitfield
Large influx of Whitethroat also Willow Tit, 2x Sedge Warbler, (PMo)
Stoke on Trent - Carmountside scrape
Wheatear, White Wagtail, LRP, (COs)
Knypersley Resv
Pied Flycatcher, Common Sandpiper, Water Rail, 20x Fieldfare, (GBr)
Ford Green
Egyptian Goose at 08:30, Gropper, Sedge Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, (JJo)
Cannock Chase
Cuckoo, 6x Crossbill, (KBa)
Alrewas NMA
Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, Gropper, 2x Goosander, 22x Fieldfare, (SCo)
Huntington
4x House Martin over, (SRi)
Pool Hall area - Ebstree
Gropper, Redstart, Whitethroat, 3x Wheatear, 4x Yellow Wagtail, (GCl, CVa, IMo) - this evening Short-eared Owl, Cuckoo, 3x Groppers,
Apedale
Red Kite over(ABu)
Catholme (from footpath)
Common Tern, (JWo)
Croxall - NMA
2x Common Tern, 2x Goosander, LRP, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)
Alrewas - Wychnor
2x Common Tern, (JWo)
Tucklesholme
White Wagtail, 5x Yellow Wagtail on spit, (TPe)
Elford - Fisherwick
Presumed Channel Wagtail with 10x Yellow Wagtail, (TPe)
Draycott in the Clay
Hobby this evening, (IBu)