Friday, 18 August 2023

Friday 18th August 2023

Belvide Resv

Adult Sabines Gull this morning until 11:20 when it flew off west, Black Tern in at 14:30, juv Caspian Gull briefly

Middleton Lakes

3x Curlew Sandpiper on JW north, (DCo), - 5x Wood Sandpiper on JW north (SPA, DCo), -  2x Garganey, 3x LRP, Ringed Plover, 18x Snipe, (SPA)

Branston GPs

16x Black Tern, juv Marsh Harrier, Redstart, 2x Greenshank, 10x Green Sandpiper, 6x Common Sandpiper, 9x Curlew, 120x Lapwing, 15x Little Egret, Goosander, 94x Pochard, 7x Shelduck, 34x Gadwall, 24x Shoveler, 44x Little Grebe, 46x Common Tern, 3x YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Hobby, 3x Yellow Wagtail, (JWo, CEc, Dean)

                                                          Black Tern by Jon Woodcock

Tucklesholme

Whinchat, (TWy)

Blithfield Resv

60 Ringed Plover, Black Tern still, (GJM)

Whitemoor Haye

4x Black Tern on back pit distantly from rough track, (TPe)

Tittesworth Water

Red Kite, Goosander, Common Sandpiper, (KBr)