Sunday 30th April 2023

Blithfield Resv

Black winged Stilt Admaston Reach, 2x Arctic Tern in Blithe Bay, (GJM)  -  4x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Common Sandpiper, 30x Common Tern, 10x Swift, (BHa).  -  The Black winged Stilt flew off high NW at 13:50, (SSe)  -  also YL Gull, Red Kite,  (JWo)

                                                                   By GJ Mant

                                                                     By Steve Seal

                                                                 By Jon Woodcock

Stafford

Hobby heading east over MOD, (RSt)

Stanley Pool

Garden Warbler, Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Radford Meadows

2x Avocet, 7x Shelduck, 8x Gadwall, LRP, Garden Warbler, Whitethroat, 11x Swift, (RSw)

Silverdale CP

Cuckoo, Gropper, (PCa)

Uttoxeter Quarry

24x Whimbrel still, (RPo)

Little Aston

Red Kite over, Grey Partridge, Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat,  (SWa)

Tittesworth Water

Common Tern, 4x LRP, 5x Oystercatcher, 6x Common Sandpiper, 2x Mandarin, Red Kite, Dipper, (LH, JOa)

Dunston

2x Yellow Wagtail, 

Acton Trussell 

Green Sandpiper at the canal, (IWi)

Werrington

Hoopoe on Meigh road bowling green to 16:40 at least, (per Dave Blakeman)

                                                                  By Steve Gibson

i54 floods

Greenshank, 3x LRP, (Foz)

Middleton Lakes

4x Black-tailed Godwit, Avocet, 2x LRP, 4x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, 50x Swift, (MSm)

Trentham Gardens

12x Swift, Reed Warbler, (NMk)

Branston GPs

24x Black-tailed Godwit briefly, 2x Oystercatcher, 36x Shelduck, 10x Pochard, 30x Swift, Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear, 7x Garden Warbler, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, Peregrine, 40x Stock Dove, (DSc)

Belvide Resv

Female Marsh Harrier, Whinchat, 

Outwoods

4x Wood Sandpiper on Park Farm floods, (ABe)