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Saturday, 7 September 2024

Saturday 7th September 2024

Blithfield Resv  -  All Dayer 104 species

2x Little Stint Admaston Reach at 06:50, 2x Black Tern, 8x Avocet Blithe Bay, Black-necked Grebe still(SRi)  -  Team Blithfield  40x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 8x Dunlin, Ruff, Redshank, 3x Snipe, 3x Greenshank, Black-tailed Godwit, Caspian Gull, sev YL Gull, sev Yellow Wagtail, Whinchat, Wheatear, Great Egrets, 

Whitemoor Haye  -  All Dayer 67 species

Marsh Harrier hunting over Bewicks pool, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Wheatear, Stonechat, 6x Great Egret, 20x Wigeon, 3x Hobby, Peregrine, Cetti's Warbler, Common Gull, (SCo) 

Uttoxeter Quarry

Little Stint, Sanderling, Greenshank, 2x Ruff, 9x Ringed Plover, 5x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Great Egret, 10x Little Egret, 2x Pintail, 2x Wigeon, (RPo)

Belvide Resv  -  All Dayer 98 species

Pectoral Sandpiper, 3x Turnstone, Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, Dunlin, Lesser Scaup, Great Egret, Garganey, 3x Whinchat, 2x Stonechat, Spotted Flycatcher, Lesser Whitethroat, 

Smestow Valley area

3x Common Scoter, (GCl)  -  12x Stonechat, (CVa)

Tucklesholme-Branston Leas  -  All Dayer 60 species

4x Whinchat, (TWy)

Stafford

Probable Red-backed Shrike flew west over the M6 near Junction 14 towards nearby paddocks at 10:08, (BHa)

Berryhill

6x Whinchat, 12x Wheatear, 6x Stonechat, 3x Tree Pipit, Redstart, (RGi, IBu, RTo)  -  also 2x Little Egret at Botteslow Flash, (RTo)

Stanley Pool

Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, drake Gadwall, fem Wigeon, (GBr)

Aqualate  -  All Dayer 72 species

3x Common Scoter (2 male and a female),  imm Marsh Harrier, (IGr)

Cuckoo Bank

Pied Flycatcher, Spotted Flycatcher, Redstart, (GHa)

Chasewater  -  All Dayer  67 species (inc Cuckoo Bank)

Whinchat, Shag still, 2x Snipe, Common Sandpiper, 2x Pochard, (CMa, LRM)

Stoke

Lordship Lane 32x Lapwing, (RGi)

Tittesworth Water

Barn Owl, Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 17x Lapwing, 13x Mandarin, 7x Teal, (SGi, IB)

Croxden Quarry

Knot 17:05 to 17:09 then taken by a Peregrine, 3x Ruff still, (RPo)

Branston GPs  -  All Dayer 98 species

Turnstone, 2x Greenshank, Dunlin, 9x Ringed Plover, 3x Green Sandpiper, Marsh Harrier, Mandarin, 4x Goosander, Shelduck, Barn Owl, GBB Gull, 2x YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Yellow Wagtail, Whinchat, 2x Peregrine, (DSc, JWo, CEc, Dean, PFo, Bob)

Doxey Marsh  -  All Dayer 83 species

Pied Flycatcher, Spotted Flycatcher, Redstart, Wheatear, Pintail, Redshank, Ringed Plover, (RRa, GPr, MBo, PDy, DTo, AHa)