Monday, 3 June 2024

Monday 3rd June 2024

Whittington

Quail singing late morning, (BHa)

Westport Lake

Drake Common Scoter still at 11:20, (RGi)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Avocet, Yellow Wagtail, Peregrine, (PJT)

Leekbrook - Cheddleton

Red Kite over Leek Road at 12:30, (FCa)

Tucklesholme

3x White Storks circled over a nearby factory before crossing the county border and drifting past Drakelow NR, 16:15 to 16:25.  (TCo)

                                                                       By Tom Coe

North Staffs Moors

Red Grouse, 2x Cuckoo, Red Kite, Snipe, Grasshoper Warbler, (CMa, RF)

Branston GPs

2x ad Med Gull, 1s Little Gull, 12x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 2x Oystercatcher, Little Egret, 21x Pochard, Shoveler, 5x Teal, 78x Gadwall (12x ducklings), 25x Shelduck, 36x Little Grebe, 31x Common Tern, 2x Green Woodpecker, Hobby, Cuckoo, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Garden Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 100x Swift, (JWo)

                                                          Med Gulls by Jon Woodcock

WMI site near Calf Heath

3x Oystercatcher, 7x LRP, Redshank, Goosander, (SRi)

Belvide Resv

2x Tree Sparrow