Saturday, 31 July 2021

Saturday 31st July 2021

Whitemoor Haye

4x Corn Bunting (3 juvs), Great Egret, Goldeneye, 6x Tree Sparrow, 5x Yellow Wagtail, (SCo)

Blithfield Resv

Pectoral Sandpiper in Tad Bay, (MPR),  -  Whimbrel in Blithe Bay for 20 mins then flew NW, (GJM),  -  3x Greenshank, 8x Ringed Plover, 12x Dunlin, 5x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 3x Little Egret, Osprey,  (MJa)  -  also Sanderling, Redshank, (GWi)  - also 20x Common Tern, (DSc)

                                                       Pectoral Sandpiper by GJ Mant

Middleton Lakes

Bittern at Dosthill NR opposite first screen, Great Egret, Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, Goosander, (MSm)  -  9x Black-tailed Godwit, 

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Wood Sandpiper, Garganey still, Black Tern,  -   also 6x Common Sandpiper, 4x LRP, juv Med Gull, 

Tittesworth Water

4x Redshank, 7x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, 5x Mandarin, 2x Goosander, Willow Tit, Redstart, 2x Swift, (SGi, IB)

Moor Green LNR

Hobby, (IMo)

Cuckoo Bank

Green Sandpiper, 

Doxey Marsh, 

Great Egret, Little Egret, 

Alvecote

14x Common Tern, 3x Little Egret, (MSc)

Branston GPs

Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 12x Curlew, Ad Med Gull, 5x Common Tern, Water Rail, (DSc)  -  Ruff and a Pied Flycatcher which is a site tick.

Catholme (from the footpath)

2x Green Sandpiper, 4x Little Egret, (JWo)

Alrewas NMA

Little Egret, 4x Common Tern, (JWo)