Friday, 3 May 2024

Friday 3rd May 2024

Middleton Lakes

Whimbrel, Curlew, Garganey, 4x Avocet, Cuckoo, (MSm)  -  Redshank, 2x LRP, Garden Warblers, (DCo)

Belvide Resv

2x Whimbrel, Turnstone thru at 11:40, Osprey thru north at 13:00, drake Scaup still, 12x Arctic Tern, 3x Common Tern, 

Whitemoor Haye

2x Avocet on pit by traffic lights, (ICW)

Rudyard Lake

12x Garden Warbler, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, Common Tern, (SSe)

Berryhill Botteslow Flash

2x Shelduck early am, YL Gull, (RTo)

Pendeford Hall Lane

2x LRP, (JDu)

Calf Heath

Hobby from A449 towards i54 and STW at 16:49, (Hoppy)

Radford Meadows Stafford

14x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, 2x Dunlin, Whimbrel, 18x Shelduck, 20x Gadwall, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (RSw)

Branston GPs

5x Common Tern, 4x Dunlin, 6x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, Scaup (m), 20x Pochard, 2x Mandarin, 12x Shoveler, 14x Gadwall, 32x Shelduck, 5x Egyptian Geese, 2x Little Egret, 28x GC Grebe, 28x Little Grebe, YL Gull, 2x Green Woodpecker, Yellow Wagtail, 100x Swift, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, 5x Garden Warbler, 2x Greenfinch, (JWo, DSc, CEc)

                                                            Mandarin by Jon Woodcock