Friday 28th April 2023

Middleton Lakes

Wood Sandpiper, 12x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP and 2x Common Tern on JW north, (MSm)  -  2x Whimbrel dropped on JW north, 26x Dunlin thru, Greenshank flew west from north pit, 2x Common Sandpiper,  4x Yellow Wagtail, (SPA)  -  Arctic Tern, 5x Common Tern early evening, (TPe)

Berryhill

Whimbrel in paddock in south side of the Palletstacks track at 07:25, 6x Wheatear, (RTo)  -  Botteslow Flash 2x Common Sandpiper, LRP, Dunlin, (RTo)

Seisdon area

3x Whimbrel over dropping down towards Clive, Ring Ouzel off bridleway, Common Sandpiper,  Commic Tern heading towards Pool Hall, (GCl)

Stoke

Lordship Lane - 18x Dunlin, 2x Shelduck, (RGi)

i54 floods

Pendeford Mill Lane floods - Greenshank, 4x Common Sandpiper, Gadwall, (IMo)

Cuckoo Bank

10x Wheatear, Whinchat, Gropper, 

Blithfield Resv

3x Black Tern still Blithe Bay, (SE, HF)  -  17x Dunlin (9 thru), Whimbrel north, 3x Black Tern still,  Whooper Swan, White Wagtail, (MDJ)

                                                     Whooper Swan by Steve Edwards

                                                         Whooper Swan by GJ Mant

Radford Meadows

The White Stork again this am flew low out behind Windsor Road towards Silkmore (MnA)  -  Common Sandpiper, Cetti's Warbler. (R)  -  9x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 2x Wheatear, Cetti's Warbler, 12x Shelduck, (RSw)

Rudyard Lake

8x Oystercatcher, 3x Common Sandpiper, LRP, Mandarin, Common Tern, (SSe)

Tucklesholme

Whinchat, Gropper, 3x Reed Warbler, 8x Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 7x Common Tern, 3x Little Egret, Goosander, 2x Pochard, (BHa)  -  updated counts  Arctic Tern, 9x Common Tern, 3x Pochard, (DSc, JWo)  -  2x Gropper, (RCB)

                                                       Arctic Tern by Jon Woodcock

Alvecote

Common Sandpiper, Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, Whitethroat, Little Egret, (MSc)

Whitemoor Haye

Whimbrel, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 12x LRP, Wheatear, (SCo)

Trentham

2x Whinchat in horse fields near the canal, (LSt)

Branston GPs

21x Dunlin, 12x Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, Arctic Tern, 9x Common Tern, 10x Pochard, 40x Shelduck, Mandarin, Yellowhammer, 9x Yellow Wagtail, 3x White Wagtail, 2x Greenfinch, Green Woodpecker, (DSc, JWo)

Chasewater

Shag, Common Tern, Swift, (CW)