Friday, 16 September 2022

Friday 16th September 2022

Middleton Lakes

Avocet, 3x Ruff, Green Sandpiper, 5x Snipe, 3x Great Egret, Goldeneye, 2x Goosander, (SPA, MSm)

Rudyard Lake

54x Pink-footed Geese over, 4x Ruff, LRP, 4x Snipe, 52x Lapwing, Little Egret, (SGi, PBe)

Blithfield Resv

Spotted Redshank at the deep end, (GJM, MDJ).  -  Bar- tailed Godwit, Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, 2x Curlew, 9x Ringed Plover, 6x Ruff, 6x Great Egret, 15x Little Egret, 3x Wheatear, Peregrine, Yellow Wagtail, (SE, HF)

                                                       Great Egret by Steve Edwards

Basford

Pink-footed Geese over low heading towards Keele, (BCa)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint, 8x Ringed Plover, 4x Dunlin, 4x Ruff, 2x Greenshank, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, Snipe, 3x Common Sandpiper, Goshawk, Red Kite, Whinchat, 12x Egyptian Geese, 

Doxey Marsh

2x Cattle Egret, 2x Great Egret, Little Egret at Creswell Flash, (JJH, SJH, DR)

Branston GPs

Spotted Redshank, Ruff, 3x Curlew Sandpiper, 17x Curlew, 3x Ringed Plover, 6x Green Sandpiper, 5x Common Sandpiper, 3x Dunlin, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Snipe, 93x Lapwing, Great Egret, 19x Little Egret, 3x Pintail, 233x Pochard, 67x Gadwall, 72x Shoveler, 8x Wigeon, 87x Little Grebe, 4x YL Gull, 3x Green Woodpecker, (JWo, CEc, Dean)

Mere Farm

2x Golden Plover, (MMo)