Friday, 4 August 2023

Friday 4th August 2023

Middleton Lakes

2x Redshank, LRP, Great Egret, 2x Common Tern, Peregrine, Wigeon, (SPA)

Blithfield Resv

Spoonbill still, 3x Redshank, 3x Ringed Plover, Common Gull, juv Cuckoo, Redstart, (MDJ)  -  Spoonbill, 5x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, 7x Dunlin, 11x LRP, 3x Redshank, 3x Ringed Plover, 2x Great Egret, 36x Little Egret, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, (SE, HF)

                         Spotted Flycatcher by Steve Edwards

Belvide Resv

Drake Common Scoter, Sanderling, Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff, 17x Little Egret, 

Croxden Quarry

Juv Med Gull this evening also ad YL Gull, (RPo)

Branston GPs

Red-crested Pochard still, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Redshank, Ringed Plover, 14x Curlew, 2x Green Sandpiper, 10x Common Sandpiper, 60x Lapwing, 2x Oystercatcher, 20x Little Egret, 60x Pochard, 31x Gadwall, 28x Common Tern, 3x YL Gull, 2x Green Woodpecker, 6x Greenfinch, (JWo)  -  additionally this evening 8x Oystercatcher, 110x Lapwing, 7x Egyptian Geese, 13x Mandarin, (DSc)

Wootton (near Weaver Hills)

Red Kite at 16:00, (DSc)