Friday 6 September 2024

Friday 6th September 2024

Middleton Lakes

3x Pintail, 2x Ringed Plover, Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Snipe, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, 3x Great Egret, (MSm)

Belvide Resv

Pectoral Sandpiper, Lesser Scaup, 3x Common Scoter, Garganey, Osprey thru south at 17:20,

Berryhill

13x Whinchat (7 at the Lap Bunt paddock and 6 from the Palletstacks track), 11x Wheatear, 2x Redstart, 2x Snipe, (RTo)

                                                       Whinchat by Steve Edwards

Trentham Gardens

3x Little Egret, 3x Mandarin, Teal, 2x Reed Warbler, 8x Smooth Newt, (RGi)

Stanley Pool

Lesser Whitethroat, Whitethroat, Common Sandpiper, 6x Teal, (GBr)

Branston GPs

Turnstone, Ringed Plover, 4x Snipe, 3x Green Sandpiper, 6x Curlew, 38x Lapwing, Great Egret, 17x Little Egret, Pintail, 16x Wigeon, Shelduck, 30x Pochard, 119x Gadwall, 106x Shoveler, 139x Teal, 112x Little Grebe, YL Gull, Common Gull, Marsh Harrier (juv), Hobby, Peregrine, Water Rail, 5x Whinchat, Stonechat, Swift, Cetti's Warbler,  (JWo, DSc)

Radford Meadows Stafford

12x Snipe, 2x juv LRP, 106x Lapwing, 3x Pintail, 59x Teal, 7x Shoveler, 3x Little Egret, 2x Gadwall, Cetti's Warbler, (CDa)

Endon - Denford

Whinchat, Hobby, (DCo)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Marsh Harrier (ad m, cream crown), from rough track, (TPe)

Croxden Quarry

3x Ruff, (RPo)

Blithfield Resv

Blithe Bay 2x Little Stint, Turnstone, 35x Ringed Plover, 8x Dunlin, Ruff, Greenshank, 2x Redshank, 2x Great Egret, (PWa)  - White Stork still RBe)

                                                                 By Rob Bendelow

Alrewas

Greenshank over at 21:15, (SCo)

Gailey Resv

Black-necked Grebe at lower resv, also a Swift, (JIs)