Sunday 1 September 2024

Sunday 1st September 2024

Blithfield Resv

Female type Marsh Harrier, White Stork again in Tad Bay, 11x Great Egret, (MJa)  -  Blithe Bay 2x juv Black Tern, 30x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, 2x Dunlin, Ruff, 4x Greenshank, Redshank, Curlew, Snipe, Imm Whinchat, 6x Great Egret, 2x Wigeon, Red Kite, ad Caspian Gull, (SRi)  

                                                     By Steve Edwards (Blue ring GBS4)

Belvide Resv

Juvenile Pectoral Sandpiper on north shore opp west end hide at 13:00,  Lesser Scaup still, 3x Garganey, Whimbrel, 2x Curlew, Golden Plover, 2x Dunlin, - Pec Sand still at 15:45 from Chappell hide,

Uttoxeter Quarry

2x Ruff, Green Sandpiper, 3x Great Egret, 10x Little Egret, 34x Shoveler, (RPo)

Stoke

Lordship Lane  Hobby, (RGi)

Berryhill

10x Wheatear, 4x Whinchat, 2x Redstart, 4x Stonechat, Tree Pipit, (RTo, IBu, RGi)  -  later counts 10x Whinchat, 14x Wheatear, 4x Redstart, 4x Stonechat, Tree Pipit, (RGi, IBu)

Stanley Pool

Wheatear, Common Sandpiper, Peregrine, 8x Chiffchaff, Green Woodpecker, (GBr)

Whitemoor Haye

Whimbrel thru, Ringed Plover, LRP, Redshank, Snipe, 3x Great Egret, 70x Lapwing, 6x Wigeon, Hobby, (ICW)

Tucklesholme

Ruddy Shelduck at wading pons, (TWy)

Tittesworth Water

37x Mandarin, 3x Shoveler, 24x Teal, Ringed Plover, 12x Lapwing, Common Gull, (JOa)

Branston GPs

Turnstone to 11:00, Greenshank, Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Curlew, 3x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, 2x Whinchat, Hobby, Wigeon, 60x Shoveler, 80x Gadwall, 26x Pochard, 17x Little Egret, 80x Little Grebe, Cetti's Warbler, Peregrine, ad GBB Gull, (DSc, JWo)