Wednesday, 24 April 2024

Wednesday 24th April 2024

Returning Staffs 2024 arrival

Middleton Lakes

Spotted Redshank, Wood Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, 2x Garganey, LRP, 3x Snipe, Common Sandpiper, (MSm)  -  Common Tern, 7x Swift, 3x Redshank, Garden Warbler, (SPA)

Berryhill

3x Whinchat by the Palletstacks mound, 10x Wheatear, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Stonechat, (RTo)  -  Sedge Warbler, House Martin, (IBu)  -  2-3x Whinchat and 8x Wheatear still at 17:35, (IBu)

Endon - Denford

2x Shelduck, Wheatear, Lesser Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, Green Woodpecker, Mandarin, (DCo)

Pool Hall

2x Wheatear this am, (GCl)

Belvide Resv

Bar-tailed Godwit, 3x Arctic Tern, Common Tern, Garden Warbler, 

Doxey Marsh

Osprey thru at 13:20, (RRa)

Hem Heath Wood - Newstead STW

2x Gadwall, 2x Little Grebe, Grasshopper Warbler, House Martin, (RGi)

Whitemoor Haye

10x Whimbrel still, (TPe)  -  also Yellow Wagtail, Sedge Warbler, (PAn)

Shoal Hill Common

2x Garden Warbler, (SRi)

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Garden Warbler, (JDu)

Branston GPs

2x Dunlin, Curlew, 2x Common Sandpiper, 9x Ringed Plover, 5x Oystercatcher, 5x Little Egret, Scaup, Goldeneye, 14x Shoveler, 22x Gadwall, 36x Teal, 26x Shelduck, 20x Little Grebe, 2x Common Gull,  YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, 2x Wheatear, 5x Yellow Wagtail, 4x White Wagtail, 5x Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Garden Warbler, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 17x Swift, 8x Linnet, (JWo, SBl, CEc, Dean)

                                                     Cetti's Warbler by Jon Woodcock

Radford Meadows Stafford

Early evening 8x Little Egret, Great Egret, 18x Shelduck, 12x Gadwall, Goosander, Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 2x Wheatear, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Yellow Wagtail, (RSw)  -  early afternoon Redshank, 2x Dunlin, (DEv)

Lower Penn

2x Hobby this afternoon,

Whitemoor Haye

Female Ring Ouzel at 06:20 this am, (GBr)