Friday, 26 April 2024

Friday 26th April 2024

Middleton Lakes

Garganey, Whimbrel on JW north, 2x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, LRP, Redshank, 2x Snipe, 4x Shelduck, (SPA), 

Burntwood

Female Redstart in gardens, (MCl)

Rocester North Lake

5x Pochard, 6x GC Grebe, 4x Oystercatcher, 23x Barnacle Geese, (JDr)

Branston

Cuckoo by the Trent near the Riverside hotel, (ASt)

Cannock Chase

Early am Tree Pipit, Redstart, Lesser Whitethroat, (KHa)  -  in addition 2x Cuckoo, (ABe)

Shareshill

Approx one mile west of Shareshill a White Stork drifting north at 13:55, (per ICr)

Botteslow Flash

2x Yellow Wagtail this am, (RTo)

Otherton

Yellow Wagtail, (SRi)

Branston GPs

2x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 9x Oystercatcher, 6x Little Egret, Scaup (m), Goldeneye, 4x Mandarin, 28x Shelduck, 19x Gadwall, 16x Shoveler, 16x Teal, 8x Egyptian Geese, 25x GC Grebe, 34x Little Grebe, Common Gull, 300x Sand Martin, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Sedge Warbler, 4x Reed Warbler, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 14x Redpoll, Greenfinch, Peregrine, (JWo, CEc Dean George, SCo)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Peregrine, 5x Sedge Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Garden Warbler, 3x LRP, 2x Grey Partridge, (SCo)