Saturday 22nd April 2023

Chasewater

61x Little Gull, Brent Goose, Goldeneye, Shag, 3x Common Sandpiper, Sandwich Tern, Willow Tit, Green Woodpecker, Arctic Tern briefly, 

Belvide Resv

2x Bar-tailed Godwit, Whimbrel, Greenshank, 2x Dunlin, 3x LRP, Common Sandpiper, Little Gull, 2x Black-necked Grebe, 3x Scaup, Cattle Egret, 2x Common Tern, Yellow Wagtail, 

Stanley Pool

Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Huntington

4x Wheatear in large paddock along the B5012 just past Cocksparrow Lane, also Tree Pipit over,  (SRi)

Branston GPs

3x Bar-tailed Godwit, 18x Black-tailed Godwit, (CEc)  -  16:30 update, 3x Bar-tailed Godwit, 20x Black-tailed Godwit - one of the Blackwits had blue/yellow/black bands on left leg and red/ black/red bands on right leg,  Whimbrel, Curlew, 3x Oystercatcher, Ringed Plover, 2x Redshank, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper,  Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Sedge Warbler, 3x Whitethroat, 2x Reed Warbler, Pintail, 3x Goldeneye, 36x Shelduck, 17x Shoveler, 12x Gadwall, (DSc)

                                                        Whimbrel by Dave Scattergood

Gailey Resv

Whinchat in rapeseed field North of Gailey Lea Lane, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Sedge Warbler, (SRi, IMo)

River Sow Meadows (Baswich - Milford)

Green Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Shelduck, 2x Mandarin, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Gropper, 5x Sedge Warbler, (RSw)

Endon - Denford

Ring Ouzel, Gropper, Sedge Warbler, 2x Whitethroat, (DCo)

Gentleshaw Common

Cuckoo this morning, (S)

Whitemoor Haye

LRPs, Redshank, Oystercatcher, Green Sandpiper, 2x Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 5x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Tree Sparrow, 4x Whitethroat, Yellowhammers, Little Egret, 5x Gadwall, 2x Sedge Warbler, (SCo)

Doxey Marsh

Swift, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Sedge Warbler, 5x Cetti's Warbler, (DM)  -  2x Swift, Gropper, (KHa)  -  also 3x Common Sandpiper, Lesser Whitethroat, 5x Whitethroat, 2x Gropper, many Sedge Warblers, (MBo)

Middleton Lakes

Little Gull on JW, 4x Avocet, LRP, Gropper, (SWa)

Cuckoo Bank

Whinchat, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Wheatear, Gropper, Yellowhammers, 

Highgate Common

Cuckoo at 14:30, (CTi)

Himley Great pool

Common Sandpiper, Gadwall, Sedge Warbler, (CTi)

Radford Meadows

Great Egret, Little Egret, 10x Shelduck, 8x Gadwall, 55x Teal, (RSw)

Alrewas

NMA 2x Sedge Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, Goosander, Alrewas Canal 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Catholme Sedge Warbler, Green Lane 5x Yellowhammer, (JWo)

Bobbington

Mere Farm 2x Whinchat, Wheatear, 

Tuckkesholme

2x Common Sandpiper, Cetti's Warbler, 10x Linnet, (DSc)

Berryhill

2x Wheatear, Whitethroat, (IBu)