Sunday 9th October 2022

Alrewas

Hobby over, Redwing, (SCo)

Blithfield Resv

2x Grey Plover to 09:15 only, Rock Pipit over north, Little Stint still, 14x Ringed Plover, 30x Dunlin, Bar-tailed Godwit, Curlew, 4x Ruff, Swallow, 3x Stonechat, c200 Linnet, (SRi)  -  additional Ruddy Shelduck, (SE, HF)

                                                         Little Stint by Steve Edwards

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

4x Little Stint, fem Merlin, 46x Golden Plover, 4x Snipe, 7x Swallow, 

Berryhill

6x Stonechat from the end of Mossfield Road, 20x Song Thrush, Fieldfares, Redwing, (ALa)

Trentham Gardens

11x Little Egret, 2x Goosander, (PBi)

Rudyard Lake

28x Snipe, 84x Lapwing, (JOa, LH)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, Pochard, 2x Goosander, (Blu)

Furnace Grange farm Trescott

3cy YL Gull, Brambling over SE, Goosander, Little Egret, (IMo, GCl, CVa)

Alvecote

3x Pintail, (MSc)

Middleton Lakes

Osprey over at 11:15, 2x Whooper Swan, 2x Pintail, Common Sandpiper, Great Egret, 3x Goosander, 2x Stonechat, Snipe, (R)  -  Cattle Egret roosted riverside along with 40x Little Egret and 8x Great Egret, Whooper Swan still on JW at dusk, (Mercian Birding)

Branston GPs

3x Ruff, 3x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 14x Curlew, 8x Snipe, 80x Little Grebe, 5x Little Egret, 3x Shelduck, 3x Pintail, 50x Pochard, Goldeneye, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Stonechat, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)  -  additional on SMP 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x YL Gull, 4x GBB Gull, AP Stonechat, (JWo)