Monday, 25 August 2025

Monday 25th August 2025

Stanley Pool

Little Stint still on east side, juv Hobby, Red Kite, (GBr)

Middleton Lakes

2x Garganey, 3x Ruff, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, 3-6x mobile Green Sandpiper, 8x LRP, 23x Snipe, Ringed Plover, Swift, Great Egret, (SPA)

Berryhill

Black Redstart from the Palletstacks track on the mast side, (HF,SE)  -  Also present 07:00 to 09:00 were 4x Redstart, 2x Wheatear, 2x Whinchat, Lesser Whitethroat. Little Egret, (RTo)

                                                               Redstart by Clive Wood

Blithfield Resv

06:30 to 11:30 Great Egret, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, 2x Red Kite, 2x Hobby, Peregrine, 1st sum Caspian Gull, 5x YL Gull, 2x Ringed Plover, 7x LRP, 2x Dunlin, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, 10x Ruff, 4x Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, fem Redstart, Reed Warbler, (SRi)  -  In addition 8x Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew, Wheatear on Admaston Reach, (MBr)

Radford Meadows Stafford

40x Swift, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 8x Lapwing, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (RSw)

Parkhall CP

Spotted Flycatcher by Bolton Gate pool,  (SFe)

Seisdon

Imm Marsh Harrier circling before flying westwards at 12:45, (KCl)

Branston GPs

Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 120x Pochard, 4x Goosander, 11x Mandarin, Peregrine, 2x Hobby, 100x Lapwing, 2x Curlew, 2x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Greenshank, ad YL Gull, 2x Common Tern, Yellow Wagtail, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)  -  Osprey, Red Kite, Peregrine, Hobby, Whimbrel, 2x Curlew, 3x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 6x Snipe, 4x LRP, 2x Ringed Plover, 136x Lapwing, 2x Water Rail, Great Egret, 19x Little Egret, 92x Pochard, 191x Gadwall, 34x Shoveler, 121x Teal, Red-breasted Goose, 9x Egyptian Geese, 83x Little Grebe, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, RLP, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, (JWo, CEc, Dean)

                                                           Osprey by Jon Woodcock

Staffs