Sunday, 8 September 2024

Sunday 8th September 2024

Uttoxeter Quarry

Little Stint, 12x Ringed Plover, 7x Dunlin until 10:45 when the flock flew off. Also 2x Snipe, Ruff, Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, (RPo) - this evening Juv Curlew Sandpiper (Andy Barker),  Little Stint still, 24x Ringed Plover, 7x Dunlin, Whinchat, (RPo)

Radford Meadows Stafford

32x Wigeon, 4x Gadwall, 14x Shoveler, 80x Teal, 44x Snipe, 30x Lapwing, Cetti's Warbler, Little Egret, (RSw)

Whitemoor Haye

Marsh Harrier at 07:50, 2x Great Egret, Greenshank thru, Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, 17x Wigeon, (ICW)

Blithfield Resv

Black-necked Grebe still, 4x Black Tern, (RPo)   -  White Stork still, (JTu)

Belvide Resv

Pectoral Sandpiper, Lesser Scaup, Garganey, Great Egret, 

Littletons

2x Tree Pipit, (SRi)

Alvecote

Redstart at Old Orchard, (TPe)

Tittesworth Water

35x Mandarin, 11x Wigeon, 7x Teal, 12x Lapwing, (JOa, LH, TE)  -  2x Common Sandpiper, 14x Lapwing, 3x Goosander, 15x Teal, (SGi)

Branston GPs

Great Egret, 15x Little Egret, 60x Lapwing, 2x Green Sandpiper, 9x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, Spotted Flycatcher (1st here this year), Shelduck, 100x Shoveler, 50x Pochard, YL Gull, 3x Whinchat, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Wychnor

Cattle Egret in fields next to canal, (JWo)

                                                                 By Jon Woodcock