Friday, 8 August 2025

Friday 8th August 2025

Cannock Chase

7x Crossbill over the Whitehouse this afternoon also Garden Warbler, (AHa)

Blithfield Resv

Juv Med Gull, (GJM, MDJ)  -  Also Whinchat and a Clouded  Yellow sailing club area, (MDJ, GJM) -Turnstone Admaston Reach to 16:40 at least, (JAl)

                                                   Clouded Yellow by Rob Bendelow

Botteslow Flash

2x LRP, Grey Wagtail, and c70 House Sparrow around the old Botteslow farm area, Peregrine, (RTo)

Branston GPs

Marsh Harrier (juv), 2x Hobby, 2x Peregrine, 12x Curlew, Dunlin, 2x Green Sandpiper, 5x Common Sandpiper, 130x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher, 3x Great Egret, 14x Little Egret, 68x Pochard, 62x Gadwall, 8x Shoveler, 39x Teal, 2x Shelduck, 14x Egyptian Geese, 68x Little Grebe, 19x Common Tern (9 juv), YL Gull, 6x Swift, 4x Greenfinch, 3x Grey Wagtail, (JWo)

Middleton Lakes

This evening - 5x LRP, Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Green Sandpiper, 3x Snipe, 27x Little Egret with 3x Great Egret roosted riverside, (MB)

Alvecote

Spotted Flycatcher in Old Orchard, (TPe)  -  3x Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 24x Lapwing, 2x Common Tern, (MSc)

Churnet Valley

Peregrine, (GSt)