Tuesday, 19 August 2025

Tuesday 19th August 2025

Berryhill

7x Wheatear (5 at the mound and 2 off Spedding Road), 2x Whinchat, 2x Stonechat, Redstart and at Botteslow Flash imm Shelduck, 5x Teal, (RTo)

Whitemoor Haye

Ruff, Hobby, 2x Swift, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, (TPe)

Middleton Lakes

2x Garganey still on west scrape, 3x Ruff, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x LRP, 6x Green Sandpiper, Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, (MSm)

Belvide Resv

2x juvenile Black Tern off the dam, 2x Lesser Scaup, Garganey, juv Knot, 7x Great Egret, 

Rudyard

Little Stint, 5x Ringed Plover, 5x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, 7x Teal, 3x Grey Wagtail, (SGi)  -  Red Kite over at 14:53, (Laxmi)

                                                        Little Stint by Steve Gibson

Branston GPs

2x Snipe, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Green Sandpiper, 4x Curlew, 2x Great Egret, 16x Little Egret, 2x Mandarin, 132x Pochard, 115x Gadwall, 62x Shoveler, 99x Teal, 7x Egyptian Geese, 111x Little Grebe, 4x Common Tern (2juv), YL Gull, 2x Green Woodpecker (1 juv), Peregrine, 2x Hobby, Lesser Whitethroat, Cetti's Warbler, 5x Swift, (JWo)

                                                       Mandarins by Jon Woodcock

Blithfield Resv

Ruddy Shelduck, Marsh Harrier, 5x YL Gull, 1s Caspian Gull, 12x Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, Sanderling, 3x Greenshank, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew, (SRi)