Sunday, 16 June 2024

Sunday 16th June 2024

Claymills

4x Cattle Egret this am with c100 cattle in field adjacent to River Dove. Just Staffs side of the River border with the Derbyshire Highbridge Gravel pits complex, also nearby 2x Little Egret, Oystercatcher, 5x Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, (DSc)

                                                       Cattle Egrets by Dave Scattergood

Belvide Resv

Little Gull this morning, 

Whitemoor Haye

Green Sandpiper, 2x Redshank, 2x Ringed Plover thru, Pochard, 100x Swift, (ICW)

Tittesworth Water

2+ Common Tern 2x Common Sandpiper, 9x Oystercatcher, 7x Mandarin, Willow Tit, Cuckoo, (JOa, LH)

WMI site near Calf Heath

2x Egyptian Geese, Oystercatcher, 6x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, (SRi)

Stanley Pool

Red Kite west at 15:50, Hobby at south end at 17:00, 3x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Hopwas Woods and Fazeley Canal

Hobby, Great Egret, Green Woodpecker, 50x Swift, (BHa)

Branston GPs

Female Marsh Harrier, 1s Little Gull, 2s Med Gull, Mandarin, 6x Shelduck, 7x Shoveler, 6x Teal, 38x Gadwall, 25x Pochard, 2x Little Egret, Ringed Plover, 2x Dunlin, 5x Oystercatcher, 15x Common Tern, 40x Swift, 4x Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)