Sunday, 16 April 2023

Sunday 16th April 2023

Stanley Pool

2x Yellow Wagtail, (GBr)

Endon STW

Barn Owl, (GBr)

Branston GPs

Common Swift (first Staffs 2023 recordwith c150 Hirundines at Ashy pit at 09:30, Yellow Wagtail thru, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Curlew, 3x Redshank, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, Common Gull, 5x Egyptian Geese, 3x Goldeneye, 40x Shelduck, 3x Mandarin, 36x Shoveler, 32x Gadwall, 7x Pochard, 20x Little Grebe, Wheatear, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Reed Warbler, (DSc)  -  SMP only - 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 3x White Wagtail, 2x Greenfinch, Peregrine, 100x Sand Martin,  (JWo)

Trentham Gardens (dawn chorus event)

Male Ring Ouzel north over the lake at 07:23, Barn Owl, Sedge Warbler, 8x Mandarin, 2x Gadwall, 2x Oystercatcher, (RGi)

Chasewater

Sandwich Tern on buoy viewed from south shore to 08:38 only also the Shag still, (@Ochruros)

Doxey Marsh

White Stork circling above the M6 Jnc 14 having just flown over Boundary Flash, (GPr)

Middleton Lakes

Med Gull over Dosthill NR, Reed Warblers, Whitethroats, 2x LRP, 2x Avocet, Snipe, (SPA)

Whitemoor Haye

4x White Wagtail, Green Sandpiper, Peregrine, (TPe)  -  2x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Redshank, 3x LRP, 20x Linnet, Shelduck, (MBr)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Female Marsh Harrier thru at 08:45, Reed Warbler, Redpoll, (RPo)  -  3x Green Sandpiper, (AM)

Belvide Resv

Common Tern, 2x Whimbrel thru NE at 10:30, 3x Scaup, Pintail, Cattle Egret, 6x LRP, Wheatear, 7x Yellow Wagtail, Red Kite, 

Westport Lake

Common Sandpiper, 4x Goosander, House Martin, (NJS)

Waterhouses

Red Kite Brown End quarry, (K)

Gailey Resv

Cattle Egret again on sailing lake island, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x White Wagtail, 2x Yellow Wagtail and nearby a Wheatear in paddock along the A5012 just after the turning  to Cocksparrow Lane, (SRi)  -  2x Little Egret, Oystercatcher, House Martin, (PAn)

Cannock Chase

2x Cuckoo, 2x Redstart, 3x Tree Pipit, Yellowhammer, 2x Green Woodpecker, (DEl)

Silverdale CP

Wheatear, (PCa)

Blithfield Resv

Osprey, LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail, (NMk)

Tittesworth Water

3x LRP, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Willow Tit, 2x Mandarin, 7x Redpoll, (JOa, LH)

Manifold Valley

Cuckoo, Peregrine, (K)

Mere Farm

Redstart in wide hedgerow and Alpacca field viewed from Staffs way, (WN)