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Sunday, 14 April 2024

Sunday 14th April 2024

Returning Staffs 2024 arrival

Wetley Moor

Grasshopper Warbler, Willow Tit, Stonechat, Whitethroat, c30 Willow Warbler, 7x Linnet, (DCo)

Shoal Hill Common

6x Willow Warbler, 3x Blackcap and at Otherton  a Wheatear, (SRi)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Sandwich Tern, 2x Whimbrel flew west with 2x Curlew at 11:504x Common Sandpiper, Lesser Whitethroat, (RPo)

Stanley Pool

2x Common Sandpiper, (GBr)

Wombourne

White Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail and Wheatear in ploughed field opposite Garden village, (WN)

Trescott

Opposite Garden centre on Bridgenorth Road - Corn Bunting, Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, Whitethroat, (GCl)

Pendeford Hall Lane- i54

2x LRP, 2x Goosander, 2x Gadwall, Stonechat, Green Woodpecker, 7x Whitethroat, 6x Willow Warbler, (JDu)

WMI site near Calf Heath

9x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, White Wagtail, Whitethroat, 3x Gadwall,  (SRi)

Berryhill

11x Wheatear this am also 4x Whitethroat, 12x Willow Warbler, 2x Blackcap, 12-15x Skylark, 6x Greenfinch,  (RTo)

Dimmingsdale pool Lower Penn

5x Common Sandpiper, (per @Tricastgaz)

Belvide Resv

Lesser Whitethroat, 

River Sow Meadows Baswich-Milford

11x Little Egret on the floods, 6x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, 2x Shelduck, 4x Gadwall, Whitethroat, 5x Willow Warbler, Swallow, (RSw)

Doxey Marsh

Adjacent flood meadow 2x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, (NGr)  -  Common Sandpiper, Water Rail, Great Egret, Little Egret, 3x Sedge Warbler, Blackcap, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Willow Warbler, Swallows. (GHa)

Beacon Hill Stafford

Yellow Wagtail, (IWi)

Middleton Lakes

Osprey over North Pit, Green-winged Teal still, (TPe)

Branston GPs

Swift over North pit to 18:30 at least, Great Egret, Little Egret, female Marsh Harrier, Scaup, 16x Shelduck, 20x Teal, 5x Goldeneye, Goosander, Mandarin, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Ringed Plover, Curlew, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 2x White Wagtail, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Whitethroat, 4x Reed Warbler, 5x Cetti's Warbler, Peregrine, Redpoll. (DSc)

Tittesworth Water

2x Common Sandpiper, 7x Oystercatcher, 3x Goosander, 19x Swallow, (JOa)

Silverdale CP

Stonechat, Whitethroat, Blackcap, Linnet, (PCa)

Whitemoor Haye

Red Kite hunting fields towards Sittles farm at 15:45 then drifted towards Elford. (JAl)

Rudyard Lake

2x Dunlin this am, 5x Oystercatcher, 2x Redstart, (SSe)

                                                             Dunlin by Steve Seal

Weston Coyney - Cellerhead

Red Kite over Dalecrete quarry at 11:50, (SFe)

Loggerheads

Cuckoo at Bishops Wood, (CBa)

Cannock Chase

2x Tree Pipit, Redstart, (JMa)

Chatterley Whitfield

Cetti's Warbler, Whitethroat, 2x Blackcap, 3x Willow Warbler, Ford Green 8x Swallow, (CBo)

Chasewater

The Shag still, (CW)