Wednesday 17th August 2022

Cheddleton

Whimbrel over south calling at 10:10, (DSc)

Blithfield Resv

Sanderling, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Ruff, 2x Greenshank, Little Gull, Black Tern, Great Egret, (GWi)  -  also 9x Ringed Plover, 5x Common Sandpiper, Redshank, Curlew, (NDP)  -  Marsh Harrier Tad Bay this afternoon, 2x Black Tern feeding off Beech Tree point, (SCa)  -  additionally 3x Green Sandpiper, 2x Dunlin, 11x Little Egret, 9x LRP, 30x Yellow Wagtail, Peregrine, (SE, HF)  -  also 6x YL Gull, c50 Common Tern, Hobby this evening,  (SRi)

                                                         Sanderling by Steve Edwards

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Sanderling, 13x Common Sandpiper, 9x Ringed Plover, 8x LRP, Dunlin, 3x Greenshank, 7x Dunlin, 2x Snipe, 3x Arctic Tern thru, juv Black Tern, juv Cuckoo still, 2x Whinchat, 3x Stonechat, Hobby, 

Alvecote

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

Branston GPs (Ashy pit)

13x Black-necked Grebe, 6x Little Egret, (DSc)

Berryhill

Barn Owl hunting east of Tiddlers pool at 18:30, (IBu)  -  female Wheatear south side of Palletstacks,

i54 -  Pendeford Mill

4x Little Egret over, 

Leek - Rudyard

Red Kite over, (CAl)