Sunday 6th August 2023

Blithfield Resv

Spoonbill still at 07:30, 2x Great Egret, (NJS)  -  Spoonbill, 2x Dunlin, 2x Green Sandpiper, 11x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, 6x LRP, 4x Ringed Plover, 6x Oystercatcher, 2x Great Egret, 35x Little Egret, c30 Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear, Hobby, 2x YL Gull, Mandarin, Goosander, (RSw)  -  also Redstart (SE, HF)  - Little Stint Tad Bay late afternoon, 

                                                         Redstart by Steve Edwards

                                                          Spoonbill by Jean Tuck

Radford Meadows

Adult Med Gull, 3x juv Yellow Wagtail, Little Egret, 5x Shoveler, (CDa)

Seisdon

16x adult Kittiwake went up the valley

Penkridge

3x Kittiwake west over Teddesley Park at 12:34.

Uttoxeter Quarry

2x Ruff, 2x Dunlin, Ringed Plover, LRP, 3x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Little Egret, (RPo)

Knypersley Resv

Muntjac at top of Judgefield Lane at 04:15 with thermal imager, 5x Tawny Owl, (GBr)

Belvide Resv

2x Turnstone, 11x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 2x Dunlin, 12x Common Sandpiper, 

Middleton Lakes

2x Garganey, Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 2x Hobby, 4x Common Tern, 2x Oystercatcher, Redshank, Water Rail, (SWa)

Tittesworth Water

9x Mandarin, Goosander, 2x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, Spotted Flycatcher, (JOa, LH, KH)

Branston GPs

Red-crested Pochard still Ashy pit, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Ruff, 2x Greenshank, 2x Green Sandpiper, 4x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 11x Curlew, 6x YL Gull, juv Common Gull, 20x Common Tern, 2x Green Sandpiper, (DSc)