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Sunday, 25 April 2021

Sunday 25th April 2021

A Osprey seen at Blithfield Resv on 22nd April 2021 was one of two chicks ringed at the Manton Bay nest at Rutland Water on 21st June 2017. The first sighting of this bird back in the UK after its first migration  was actually at Blithfield Resv on 28th August 2019. It was then seen back at Rutland Water for the first  time last year on the 14th June 2020. The bird has a blue ring on its right leg with a white inscription  2AM. If any further sightings of this bird are observed would you please forward to  www.roydennis.org  or email to tim@roydennis.org  mobile 07739314794.   With thanks to Bob Pugh for follow up action.


Middleton Lakes

Curlew Sandpiper on JW, Knot Greenshank, Ringed Plover, (MSm) - Cuckoo, Lesser Whitethroat, now 2x Greenshank, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x LRP, 2x Avocet, Yellow Wagtail, SPA)

Tittesworth Water

Bar-tailed Godwit still, Dunlin, (SGi)

Pool Hall area

Merlin, Gropper, Sedge Warbler, 

Cuckoo Bank

Ring Ouzel still, 

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Bar-tailed Godwit still, 5x Swift, Garden Warbler, 

New Landywood pool

4x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, (JJO)

Merelake

54x Fieldfare, Redstart, (MBa)

Knypers;ey Resv

Pied Flycatcher, Water Rail, 122x Fieldfare, 2x Mandarin, 3x Oystercatcher, also Whitethroat on Marshes Hill, (GBr)

Silverdale CP

2x Gropper, Sedge Warbler, Whitethroats, (PCa)

Branston GPs

Bar-tailed Godwit, Adult Little Gull, Ruff, 4x Redshank, 4x Ringed Plover, 3x Mandarin, Gropper, (JWo)  -  Wood Sandpiper still on Ashy pit at 15:00, (DDa)  -  7x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Curlew, Snipe, Dunlin, 2x Swift, (CEc), -  Little Stint on North pit 18: 52 to dusk also 3x Dunlin, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x House Martin, Garden Warbler, (DSc)

                                                            Little Gull by Jon Woodcock

                                                            Little Gull by Jon Woodcock

Doxey Marsh

LRP, Common Sandpiper, Garden Warbler, Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Gropper, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Stonechat, House Martin, (GHa)

                                                    Octagonal hide by Graham Halden

Aqualate

2x Hobby, (AM, EH)

Blithfield Resv

4x Arctic Tern, Greenshank, (MYa)

Shoal Hill Common - Littleton pit

2x Stonechat, House Martin, 4x Reed Warbler, 3x Whitethroat, (SRi)

Yoxall

Hobby over at 18:30, (TSl)

Hanchurch Woods

Cuckoo, 2x Tree Pipit, 5x Crossbill, Green Woodpecker, (RGi)

Trentham Gardens

Swift, 35x House Martin, Oystercatcher, 2x Goosander, 8x Mandarin, Little Egret, Reed Warbler, (RGi)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Med Gull, Corn Bunting, 6x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Common Tern, 4x Tree Sparrow, Pochard, 6x Sedge Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)