Saturday, 30 March 2024

Saturday 30th March 2024

                                    Returning Staffs 2024 arrival                                     

Whitemoor Haye

3x Med Gull thru this am, Slavonian Grebe still, 4x LRP, (SCo)

Branston GPs

1w Little Gull, briefly at 12:15 then flew south, 2x Red Kite, 24x Shelduck, 20x Shoveler, 20x Goldeneye, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Redshank, 2x Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 6x Oystercatcher, 18x Curlew, Swallow, 10x Sand Martin, 6x Blackcap, 80x Fieldfare, Redpoll, (DSc, GJM, BSt, ASt, PFo, GWi)  - Whimbrel heard over  SMP2 heading north at 17:20, (JWo)

Amerton Meadows flood (east of Stafford)

4x Curlew, Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, Snipe, 2x Oystercatcher, 23x Lapwing, Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, 3x Shelduck, 23x Shoveler, (RSw)

Knypersley Resv

Wheatear, 28x singing Chiffchaff, Water Rail, Willow Tit,, Oystercatcher, 3x Roe Deer, (GBr)

Chasewater

Shag, Great Northern Diver, 22x Sand Martin, House Martin, Blackcap, (CMa).

Tixall Canal Wide (west of Great Haywood)

Sedge Warbler singing, (VEm)

Stowe by Chartley

Red Kite near the castle at 13:30, (GHa)

Belvide Resv

9x LRP, 4x Red Kite, 38x Chiffchaff, 2x Mandarin, 8x Blackcap,