Saturday 20th April 2024

Belvide Resv

Slavonian Grebe off Chappell hide, Marsh Harrier thru, 2x Brambling, 2x Goshawk, 2x Sedge Warbler, 2x Reed Warbler, 10x Goldeneye, Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP, Egyptian Geese, 

WMI site near Calf Heath

3x Wheatear, 6x LRP, Ringed Plover, Shelduck, (SRi)

Aqualate

Osprey thru NW at 10:00 , Cuckoo, 3x Grasshopper Warbler, Garden Warbler, Common Sandpiper, Snipe, Egyptian Goose, 4x Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, (KHa)

Berryhill

Ring Ouzel still, 7x Wheatear,  Curlew east over 20 foot pool at 06:36, (STu)  - Curlew over at  07:15, (PWi)  -  Green Woodpecker at 10:10, (IBu)

Sideway

Cetti's Warbler still, (RGi)

Uttoxeter Quarry

3x Whimbrel, 2x Common Sandpiper, Reed Warbler, 2x Sedge Warbler, 2x Grasshopper Warbler, Whitethroat, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Red Kite, (RPo)

Middleton Lakes

Drake Garganey on North pit, (PAn)

Gentleshaw Common

Cuckoo this morning, (Simon)

Chatterley Whitfield

Grasshopper Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Whitethroat, also a Whitethroat at Brindley Ford, (CBo)

Pickles Hill

Red Kite over at 10:50, (AJo)

Otherton

2x Wheatear east of disused  railway, nearby another Wheatear in paddock along the B5012 west of Shoal Hill Common, (SRi)

Whitemoor Haye

Wheatear, Ruddy Shelduck, 5x LRP, Corn Bunting, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, Grasshopper Warbler, Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)

Wombourne

Grasshopper Warbler, (WN)

Essington Pool area

Wheatear, (DBa)

Knypersley Resv

Oystercatcher, drake Mandarin, Water Rail, (GBr)

Coombes Valley

6x Pied Flycatcher, 3x Redstart, 8x Blackcap, 2x Red Kite, Green Woodpecker, 25x Siskin, (BHa)

Doxey Marsh

Drake Garganey, Lesser Whitethroat, 6x Sedge Warbler, Blackcap, Cetti's Warbler, Great Egret, (RRa, AHa, GHa, GPr)

Tittesworth Water

Pied Flycatcher, 3x Common Sandpiper, 15x Goosander, (SGi, IB, PS)

                                                      Pied Flycatcher by Steve Gibson

Radford Meadows Stafford

29x Little Egret, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 7x White Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail, 5x LRP, Oystercatcher, 6x House Martin, 140x Sand Martin,7x Blackcap, (RBr)

North Staffs Moors

Cuckoo this am, (PBu)

Rocester JCB

24x Barnacle Geese, 4x Oystercatcher, (JDr)

Alrewas NMA

Common Sandpiper, 2x Shelduck, (JWo)

Branston GPs

4x Little Egret, 28x Shelduck, 14x Pochard, Goldeneye, 2x Oystercatcher, Curlew, 3x Common Sandpiper, Wheatear, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Reed Warbler, Garden Warbler, 2x Redpoll, (DSc)