Friday 9th September 2022

Middleton Lakes

Ruff, 3x Green Sandpiper, 4x Great Egret, 4x Garganey still, Barn Owl, (SPA)  -  Glossy Ibis this am, (HSk)  -  4x Ruff, Green Sandpiper, Little Egret, (MSc)

Blithfield Resv

Corncrake seen 3 times in flight between 10:15 and 10:30 in Blithe Bay from middle hide but not since, (MDJ, GJM)  -  The Shag still at the causeway, (GJM)  -  Bar-tailed Godwit, 10x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Common Sandpiper, 12x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, Redshank, 17x Ringed Plover, 5x Ruff, 2x Great Egret, 23x Little Egret, 2x Peregrine, 5x Whinchat, 2x Barnacle Geese, (SE, HF)

                                                              Shag by Steve Edwards

Tittesworth Water

2x Common Sandpiper, (MBr)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Little Stint near the spill weir with 8x Ringed Plover, ( Foz), also 7x Ruff, 3x Greenshank, 3x Common Sandpiper, 

Branston GPs (North pit)

8x Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint, 2x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, (DSc)

                                                 Curlew Sandpipers by Dave Scattergood

Furnace Grange farm Trescott

Greenshank still for its 4th day, (IMo, CVa)

Wombourne

Redstart at Pickerills Hill, (WN)