Monday 12th September 2022

Middleton Lakes

Glossy Ibis still on Canal pool, Ruff, 5x Snipe, 3x Great Egret, (MSm)

Branston GPs

Female Marsh Harrier over Ashy pit at 11:20, Little Stint at 11:15, 8x Curlew Sandpiper still on Sandy pit 12:30, Greenshank, Ruff, Redshank, 3x Green Sandpiper, 15x Curlew, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, (PAn)  -  additionally Sanderling, 3x Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, 6x Common Sandpiper, 8x Green Sandpiper, 8x Ringed Plover, 21x Snipe, 93x Lapwing, 13x Little Egret, 4x Water Rail, 3x Pintail, 242x Pochard, 14x Wigeon, 74x Gadwall, 78x Shoveler, 69x Little Grebe, Common Gull, 5x YL Gull, Peregrine, 2x Green Woodpecker, Lesser Whitethroat, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (JWo)

                                                     YL Gull by Jon Woodcock

                                                 Curlew Sandpipers by Jon Woodcock

Rudyard Lake

11x Ruff still, 2x Dunlin, LRP, (SSe)

                                                               Ruff by Steve Seal

Blithfield Resv

Black-tailed Godwit, (RGo)  -  4x Common Sandpiper, 9x Dunlin, 8x Ringed Plover, 3x Ruff, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, Shag, 3x Great Egret, 21x Little Egret, 2x Wheatear, 15x Yellow Wagtail, 6x Egyptian Geese, (SE, HF)  -  additional 5x YL Gull, Osprey, (PAn)  -  4x Great Egret this evening which is a new site record. (MPR, GJM)

                                              Black-tailed Godwit by Rosemary Godwin

                                                   Black-tailed Godwit by Steve Edwards

Doxey Marsh

2x Cattle Egret still, (JTu)  -  also 3x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Water Rail, (RRa)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Little Stint, Curlew Sandpiper, 3x Dunlin, 9x Ringed Plover, 2x Ruff, 2x Greenshank, Garganey, 

Enville

Red Kite, Peregrine at The Mere, (DBa)