Friday, 29 April 2022

Friday 29th April 2022

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

2x Scaup, 2x Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, 4x LRP, Common Tern, Mandarin, 7x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Whinchat, 

Middleton Lakes

17x Avocet, 5x LRP, 5x Redshank, Common Sandpiper, 

Berryhill

Short-eared Owl over west at 10:00, (ALa)  -  Whinchat in bush down from the viewpoint towards Tiddlers pool at 10:53, LRP at Botteslow Flash this pm, (RTo)  -  Whinchat still at 17:35 also fem Redstart, House Martin, (IBu)

                                             Distant shot of the Whinchat by Russell Toon

                                                                  LRP by Russell Toon

South Hanford farm - Sideway

Redstart, Garden Warbler, Gropper, (RGi)

Whitmore Bent Lane

Whinchat along fence line from double metal gates also 2x Yellow Wagtail, (NDP)  -  also Wheatear, 5x Yellow Wagtail, Red Kite showing continuously over freshly manured field, (BCa)

                                                         Whinchat by Nick Pomiankowski

                                                        Yellow Wagtail by Phil Jones

Whitemoor Haye

5x Wheatear, 5x LRP, 4x Oystercatcher, 3x Common Tern, 3x Yellow Wagtail, Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler, Mandarin, Goldeneye, Garden Warbler, (SCo)

Biddulph

18x Swift and 4x House Martin over, (PMo)

Cannock Chase

Cuckoo, Redstart, Garden Warbler, (DBa)

Blithfield Resv

Whinchat, Wheatear, 20x Common Tern, 60x Swallow, Lesser Whitethroat, (RCB)

Chasewater

3x Common Tern, Common Sandpiper, 2x Swift, 

Hanchurch

2x Tree Pipit, (BCa)

Drayton Bassett

Fem Ring Ouzel briefly, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)

Otherton

Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail and 9x House Martin over Huntington, (SRi)

Tucklesholme

2x Common Tern, (JTu)

Sandon - Burston pool

Male Whinchat, Stonechat, 4x Swallow, (RSw)

Branston GPs

2x Common Sandpiper, 3x Dunlin, Ruff, 2x Redshank, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Curlew, 7x Oystercatcher, Little Egret, 12x Pochard, 48x Shelduck, Peregrine, Green Woodpecker, Stonechat, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Garden Warbler, 3x Reed Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, 5x Lesser Whitethroat, 20x Swallow, (JWo, CEc, Dean, JAl, DSc)

Doxey Marsh

Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Little Egret, (DB)