Wednesday, 30 July 2025

Wednesday 30th July 2025

Stanley Pool

Drake Common Scoter, 4x Redshank, 2x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, (GBr)

                                                     Common Scoter by Phil Jones

Belvide Resv

5x Common Scoter off the dam, 

Branston GPs

Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 6x Egyptian Geese, 30x Pochard, Oystercatcher, Green Sandpiper, 22x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Gropper, Crossbill thru south at 09:55, (heard only), (DSc)  -  2x Crossbill flew from Newbold pit towards Tucklesholme, (JWo)

Claymills

Hobby, (DSc)

Tucklesholme

Ruddy Shelduck, 5x Egyptian Geese, 6x Little Egret, Hobby, 2x Oystercatcher, 4x LRP, 6x Common Tern, 2x Linnet, (DSc, JWo)  -  2x Crossbill flew east over the footbridge at 17:30, (JWo)

Middleton Lakes

5x Green Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, 3x Redshank, 3x Bittern, 3x Great Egret, 8x Common Tern, (SPA)

Blithfield Resv

Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, 7x Dunlin, 8x Common Sandpiper, 32x Oystercatcher, 4x Ringed Plover, Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 31x Yellow Wagtail, 4x Spotted Flycatcher, Caspian Gull, (SE, HF)  -  This evening juv Med Gull in Blithe Bay, (RPo, MPR)

Tittesworth Water

LRP, 2x Dunlin, 11x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher, Curlew, (SGi)

Rudyard

4x LRP, Dunlin, Curlew, 2x Common Tern, 2x Grey Wagtail, (SGi)