Wednesday, 8 May 2024

Wednesday 8th May 2024

Belvide Resv

Common Crane this am to 11:17 only, 

Whitemore Haye

7x Whimbrel still, (SCo)

Middleton Lakes

Greenshank, 3x Redshank, 5x LRP, 5x Common Tern, Great Egret, Cuckoo, Hobby, (MSm)

Stanley Pool

3x Little Egret at 05:50, Peregrine over at 07:10, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Berryhill Botteslow Flash

Whinchat on the marsh/scrub between the flash and the Causley brook (first Botteslow record), 2x Ring-necked Parakeet, 3x Garden Warbler, Little Egret, (RTo)

Radford Meadows Stafford

3x Little Gull, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Hobby, (RBr)

Doxey Marsh

Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Shelduck, (CAFH)

Blithfield Resv

Turnstone briefly on the causeway, (GJM)

                                                             Turnstone by GJ Mant

Downs Banks

Redstart, 6x Garden Warbler, 2x Yellowhammer, (CBo)

Wombourne

Ring-necked Parakeet

Draycott in the Moors

Yellowhammer along Old Road, (AR)

Cannock Chase

3x Cuckoo, 4x Garden Warbler, 3x Tree Pipit, (DBa)  -  2x Cuckoo, 2x Redstart, 4x Tree Pipit, Green Woodpecker, (PWo, KWo)

Tucklesholme

Cuckoo, Red Kite, 2x Grasshopper Warbler, 6x Cetti's Warbler, 5x Sedge Warbler, 6x Reed Warbler, 3x LRP, 2x Little Egret, 6x Common Tern, 5x Shelduck, 9x Gadwall, 9x Egyptian Geese, 10x GC Grebe, (JWo)

Berryhill

Female Wheatear in "Lap Bunt" paddock this evening, (IBu)

Boon Hill

Wheatear at 18:45, (MJW)

Branston GPs

Sanderling, Greenshank, 4x Dunlin, 6x Ringed Plover, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Little Egret, 6x Common Tern, 8x Pochard, 19x Gadwall, 6x Shoveler, 19x Shelduck, Mandarin, 24x GC Grebe, 38x Little GrebeHobby, Cuckoo, Green Woodpecker, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 4x Garden Warbler, (JWo)

                                                       Sanderling by Jon Woodcock