Monday, 24 April 2023

Monday 24th April 2023

Middleton Lakes

Whimbrel early morning, Whinchat by canal pool, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, 2x Avocet, Snipe, 2x Garden Warbler, Common Tern, Peregrine, (MSm)  -  Oystercatcher, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Little Egret, Whitethroat, Shelduck, (MSc)

Stanley pool

2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Branston GPs

Whimbrel, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew, 2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Redshank, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Oystercatcher, 16x Gadwall, 38x Shoveler, 54x Shelduck, 12x Little Grebe, Redstart, Wheatear, Lesser Whitethroat, 5x Whitethroat, 2x Reed Warbler, 8x Swift, White Wagtail, Green Woodpecker, (JWo, CEc)

                                                       Whimbrel by Jon Woodcock

i54 (floods)

2x Greenshank, 3x LRP, Common Sandpiper, Wheatear, 2x Gadwall, (Foz, IMo, GCl)

River Sow Meadows (Baswich - Milford)

Green Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, Gropper, 2x Goosander, 2x Shelduck, Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, (RSw)

Endon - Denford

Redstart, Lesser Whitethroat, Gropper, 4x Whitethroat, Green Woodpecker, (DCo)

Wetley Moor

Whinchat, 4x Wheatear, Gropper, Whitethroat, (ALa)

Highgate Common

Garden Warbler, Tree Pipit, (DBa)  -  Cuckoo, 6x Redpoll, (CTi)

Cuckoo Bank, 

Cuckoo, Garden Warbler, Gropper, Tree Pipit, Peregrine, (JLa)

Berryhill

Whinchat in "Lapbunt" paddock also 10x Wheatear, Whitethroat, (RTo)  -  Redstart from the viewpoint, (HF,SE)

Tittesworth Water 

Common Tern, (SGi)

North Staffs Moors

Cuckoo, Tree Pipit, (SGi)

Little Aston

Yellow Wagtail, 4x Whitethroat, 9x Yellowhammer, (SWa)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Whimbrel by Whitemoor House, 2x Ringed Plover, 10x LRP, 2x White Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail, (JAl)

Rudyard Lake

2x Common Sandpiper, Common Tern, (SSe)

Himley Great pool

Common Sandpiper, (CTi)

Tucklesholme

4x Whinchat still, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Whitethroat, Reed Warbler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Goosander, Little Egret, (BHa)

Belvide Resv

7x Whimbrel, 10x Common Sandpiper, 2x Greenshank, Curlew, 3x Scaup, Yellow Wagtail, Pintail, Common Tern, 2x Wheatear, White Wagtails,

Mere Farm

Ring Ouzel viewed from Staffs way, (MMo)