Saturday, 1 May 2021

Saturday 1st May 2021

Branston GPs  -  (All Dayer count 103)

6x Whimbrel, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, 2x Ruff, 4x Common Tern, Whinchat, 4x Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Yellowhammer, Pink-footed Goose, 6x Mandarin, 2x Hobby, 

Middleton Lakes  -  (All Dayer count 101)

4x Whimbrel to 07:45 only2x Sanderling,  3x Avocet, 3x Ringed Plover, 6x LRP, Curlew, 2x Snipe, Common Sandpiper, Great Egret, 2x Hobby, 11x Yellow Wagtail, Peregrine, 

Cuckoo Bank

Ring Ouzel still, 

Whitemoor Haye  -  (All Dayer count 75)

Corn Bunting, Grey Partridge, Channel Wagtail, Hobby, Peregrine, Common Sandpiper, (SCo), 4x Whimbrel, LRP,  Pink-footed Goose, (MYa, Kay)

Berryhill

Male Ring Ouzel in top paddocks between mast and Palletstacks, (PMo) - 3x Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Swift, 5x Wheatear still, (IBu)  -  3x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, Snipe, Grey Wagtail at Botteslow, (RTo)

Uttoxeter Quarry

2x Whimbrel, 2x Common Tern, Swift, (RPo)

Chasewater  -  (All dayer count 91)

Great Egret, 6x Common Sandpiper, 3x Common Tern, Garden Warbler, Reed Warbler, (CMa)

Tittesworth Water

2x Whimbrel, 10x LRP,  6x Common Sandpiper, 6x Snipe, 5x Curlew, 6x Mandarin, 4x Garden Warbler, Willow Tit, Yellow Wagtail, Common Tern, Redstart, (SGi, IB)

                                                        Whimbrel by Steve Gibson

Blithfield Resv

Arctic Tern 2x Greenshank, Dunlin, 7x Common Sandpiper, Whinchat, Wheatear, YLG, 2x Hobby, Garden Warbler, (Kay, MYa)  -  Whinchat, Channel Wagtail, (SE,HF)

                                                        Whinchat by Steve Edwards
                                                     Channel Wagtail by Steve Edwards

Doxey Marsh  -  (All Dayer count 76)

Wood Warbler briefly, (PDy, DTo)  -  Jack Snipe, (AHa)  -  Gropper, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Goosander, 2x LRP, Snipe, 2x Common Sandpiper, Garden Warbler, (RRa, MBo, DM, BMa), also 2x Grey Wagtail, 4x Swift, Reed Warbler, (ABe)

Smestow Valley

Corn Bunting, Gropper, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (IM)

Aqualate

Common Sandpiper, Garden Warbler, Green Woodpecker, 6x Cetti's Warbler, (KHa)

Silverdale CP

Gropper at waste farm pools, also Reed Warbler nearby, DSa)

Chatterley Whitfield

2x Gropper, (SHi)

Alvecote

2x Great Egret, Little Egret, (MSc)