Friday, 21 April 2023

Friday 21st April 2023

Chasewater

59x Little Gull,  also the Shag, (CW)  -  60+ possibly 65x Little Gulls ( Staffs county record) at 09:45, (CMa, RF), - Little Gulls still this afternoon  2x Arctic Tern, 2x Common Tern, (CMa, RF, JAl)

Belvide Resv

2x Little Gull, Turnstone, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, Whimbrel, Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, 6x LRPs, 2x Black-necked Grebe, 2x Scaup, Pintail, 2x Black-necked Grebe, Cattle Egret, Yellow Wagtail, 

Blithfield Resv

17x (14 and 3) Bar-tailed Godwit SE this am, (MDJ, GJM)  -  8x Little Gull, Arctic Tern, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Swift, 9x Common Sandpiper, (MDJ)

Middleton Lakes

2x Little Gull, Arctic Tern, Bar-tailed Godwit, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, Redshank, Greenshank, 3x Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP, 2x Avocet, Snipe, 2x Groppers, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (SPA)

Tittesworth Water

36x Little Gull thru NE, also Arctic Tern, Common Sandpiper, 4x LRP,  (SGi)

Doxey Marsh

9x Little Gull on Creswell flash at 10:25, Arctic Tern, (AHa)  -  Great Egret, 2x LRP, 

Stanley Pool

3x Little Gull, Arctic Tern, (ALa)

                                                          Little Gull by Steve Seal

                                                           Arctic Tern by Steve Seal

Whitemoor Haye

2x Bar-tailed Godwit still on Bewicks pit, (SCo)

Baddeley Green 

Flooded field - LRP, Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, Green Woodpecker, (JOa)

Uttoxeter Quarry

3x Bar-tailed Godwit, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail, 177x Teal, 2x Mandarin, (RPo)

Branston GPs

3x Bar-tailed Godwit, 3x Curlew, 6x Redshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, Pintail, Pochard, 3x Goldeneye, 42x Shelduck, 56x Shoveler, 15x Gadwall, 3x Little Egret, Gropper, 3x Whitethroat, 2x Reed Warbler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Yellow Wagtail, 4x White Wagtail, (JWo, CEc)

                                                  Bar-tailed Godwit by Jon Woodcock

Staffs