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Saturday, 23 March 2024

Saturday 23rd March 2024

Tittesworth Water

2x Whooper Swan at 06:30, Red Kite, Woodcock, 9x Oystercatcher, Curlew, 34x Common Gull, 3x Goosander, (SGi, IB),

Whitemoor Haye (please respect the farmer/landowners request to keep off the field when watching the Grebe)

Slavonian Grebe still, view from the verge on Barley Green Lane just before the rough track, 11x Goldeneye, 49x Shoveler, 8x Gadwall, 2x Oystercatcher, 4x Little Grebe, GC Grebe, 2x Willow Warbler, Cetti's Warbler,  (SCo)

Middleton Lakes

Green-winged Teal, Mandarin, 4x Shelduck, 3x Pochard, 5x Goldeneye, 4x Oystercatcher, LRP, 3x Snipe, Redshank, Sand Martin, RB Goose of unknown origin still, (MSm)

Doxey Marsh

2x Oystercatcher, 9x Sand Martin, 3x Pochard, 3x Shelduck, 6x Goosander, 5x Chiffchaff, (GPr, RRa)

Belvide Resv

Wheatear, 3x LRP, 2x Curlew, Ringed Plover, 8x Oystercatcher, 4x Sand Martin, 15x Chiffchaff, Blackcap, 3x Yellowhammer, Red Kite, Peregrine, (RSw)  -  Goshawk, Merlin, Peregrine, 

Radford Meadows Stafford

Garganey still this afternoon, Sand Martins, (RBr)  -  Knot, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Oystercatcher, 24x Shelduck, 24x Gadwall, 6x Pintail, 30x Sand Martin, 2x Cetti's Warbler and the Garganey still early pm, (RSw)

Branston GPs

Bar-tailed Godwit, (BSt, ASt), Merlin Scaup, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Redshank, 19x Curlew, 10x LRP, 2x Ringed Plover, 3x Little Egret, 32x Goldeneye, 10x Pochard, 25x Shelduck, 16x Gadwall, 30x Shoveler, 30x Little Grebe, 2x Green Woodpecker, Water Rail, Red Kite, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 350x Sand Martin, Swallow, Blackcap, (JWo, DSc, BSt, ASt, PAn, PJo, GJM, MYa, Kay)

                                                 Bar-tailed Godwit by Jon Woodcock

Blithfield Resv

4x Oystercatcher, Goosander, 3x Goldeneye, 5x Shelduck, 22x Wigeon, Mandarin, 5x Shoveler, Red Kite, Chiffchaff, 30x Sand Martin, (MJa)

Tucklesholme

2x LRP, 31x Snipe, 2x Oystercatcher, 6x Wigeon, 2x Chiffchaff this evening, (BHa)

Stafford

7x Little Egret on the bank of the Sow flooding across from the Riverway link, (JWi)