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Monday, 1 May 2023

Monday 1st May 2023

Hatherton Resv

Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, Reed Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, (SB) 

Westport Lake

LRP, Common Sandpiper, 2x Ring-necked Parakeet, (NJS)  -  2x Reed Warbler, 4x Swift, (AR)

Whitemoor Haye

6x Oystercatcher, 8x LRP, Ringed Plover, 4x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Curlew,  2x Shelduck, 4x Gadwall, Great Egret, Swifts, 4x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Common Tern, 2x Tree Sparrow, (SCo) - Hobby (IWh)  -  additional this evening fem Merlin, 5x Wheatear, 4x Common Tern, (TPe)

Croxall

3x Whimbrel over at 07:15, 2x Common Tern, Cuckoo, Garden Warbler, (IWh)

Tittesworth Water

Cuckoo, 2x Common Tern, Dipper, 8x Common Sandpiper, Mandarin, 7x Redpoll, (SGi, PS, KH)

Gentleshaw Common

2x Cuckoo, (GSt)

Uttoxeter Quarry

18x Whimbrel still, Curlew, Little Egret, 6x Goosander, (RPo)  -  also 3x Oystercatcher, 5x Shelduck, c1000x House Martin (MKe, JKe)

Hanchurch Woods

2x Cuckoo, 5x Tree Pipit, 9x Garden Warbler, Swift, (RGi)

Cuckoo Bank

10x Wheatear, Tree Pipit, Whinchat, Hobby, 2x White Wagtail, Cuckoo, 4x Gropper, 3x Garden Warbler

Tucklesholme

26x Common Tern, 3x Reed Warbler, Greenfinch, 3x Oystercatcher, Cetti's Warbler, 32x House Martin, (MKe, JKe)

Belvide Resv

5x Whimbrel, 10x Dunlin thru, 6x Common Sandpiper, Scaup, 10x Common Tern, 100+ Swift, 4x Garden Warbler, 

Berryhill

10x Wheatear, Curlew, Little Egret, LRP, (RTo, PBi)

Butterton

Osprey circling over from Ipstones direction and after landing briefly flew north, (PCa)

i54 Floods

Greenshank, 2x LRP, Gadwall, Goosander, (Foz)

Branston GPs

Black winged Stilt (first site record), on Ashy pit at 20:43 also 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, 2x Redshank, 3x Oystercatcher, 36x Shelduck, 3x Mandarin, 9x Pochard, c150 Swift, Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, 4x Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)