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Sunday, 18 April 2021

Sunday 18th April 2021

Middleton Lakes

2x Whimbrel on JW, Curlew, 4x Avocet, 4x Oystercatcher, 3x Black-tailed Godwit,  6x LRP, 2x Ringed Plover, 6x Snipe, 8x Redshank, Groppers, Mandarin briefly, MSm)

Whitemoor Haye

Whimbrel flew north from main lake, 6x Oystercatcher, 6x Snipe, 4x Redshank, Wheatear, 5x Yellow Wagtail, Goldeneye, Sedge Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)

Lower Foxley

5x Yellow Wagtail, 5x Wheatear, 2x Snipe, (NDP, MBa)

Endon STW

2x Barn Owl, Wheatear, Fieldfare, (GBr)

Bishops Wood

54x Crossbill, Redstart, (HLl)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Gropper, Whitethroat, Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 8x Goosander, Goldeneye, (RPo)

Cuckoo Bank

Ring Ouzel at north end, 2x Gropper, 2x Whitethroat, 8x Brambling,

Catholme (from footpath)

6x Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, 2x Green Sandpiper, 6x LRP, 2x Goldeneye, JWo)

                                                    Whitethroat by Jon Woodcock

Baswich 

Whitethroat off Cornwall Drive, (GHa)

Doxey Marsh

Gropper at Creswell copse, (DM)

Cannock Chase

Cuckoo, Redstarts, Yellowhammer,

Little Aston

7x Whitethroat, Yellow Wagtail, Yellowhammers, (KWh)

Stoke on Trent - Carmountside scrape

Green Sandpiper, 2x LRP, (COs)

Blithfield Resv

Bar-tailed Godwit in Ten Acre bay, 3x Common Sandpiper, LRPs, 4x Yellow Wagtail, 2x White Wagtail, 2x Wheatear, 2x Common Tern, YL Gull, Mandarin, (MYa, Kay)  -  also Great Egret, 10x Oystercatcher,  Curlew, 2x Snipe, 3x Wheatear, 10x Yellow Wagtail, 4x White Wagtail, 3x Mandarin, (SE, HF)  -  Osprey thru, (AG)

                                                     Bar-tailed Godwit by Steve Edwards

Coombes Valley RSPB

6x Pied Flycatcher, Redstart, (EWi)

Tittesworth Water

12x LRP, 3x Common Sandpiper, 7x Snipe, 8x Oystercatcher, Redstart, 2x Barnacle Geese, (SGi)

Barton under Needwood

Curlew, 2x Green Sandpiper, Peregrine, (JWo)

Brankley Pastures

11x Yellowhammer, 2x Green Woodpecker, (JDr)

Woodhouses

12x Yellowhammer, (JWo)

North Staffs Moors

2x migrating Ring Ouzels, 3x Wheatear, also 60x Golden Plover over, (TMe)

Ebstree

5x Yellow Wagtail,