Friday, 17 April 2026

Friday 17th April 2026

Branston GPs

Wheatear still in field by the car park, 2x Curlew, Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 8x Oystercatcher, 10x Lapwing, Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 4x Mandarin, 4x Pochard, 16x Shoveler, 18x Gadwall, 18x Teal, 16x Shelduck, 10x Egyptian Geese, 12x Little Grebe, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Red Kite, Peregrine, 2x Stonechat, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Swift, 15x House Martin, 50x Swallow, 500x Sand Martin, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 10x Willow Warbler, 4x Reed Warbler, 10x Whitethroat, (JWo, DSc, CEc, Dean, MCa)

Berryhill

14x Wheatear on both sides of the Palletstacks this am, (RTo)

Mow Cop

Ring Ouzel on the Staffs/Cheshire border this am, (SGi)

                                                                    By Steve Gibson

Branston Water Park

Lesser Whitethroat still along canal track, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Reed Warbler, (JWo)

Churnet Valley

2x Pied Flycatcher, (JLe)

Cheadle

2x Oystercatcher on grass verge in front of JCB factory on Leek Road at 10:30,  (GSt)

Gailey Resv

4x sum plum Cattle Egret on Heron island at 16:00, (SRi)

Elford

Corn Bunting, (TPe)  -  2x Corn Bunting (SCo)

Whitemoor Haye

Curlew, Dunlin, (TPe)  -  LRP, 2x Redshank, Curlew, 3x Wigeon, 4x Teal,(SCo)

Radford Meadows

2x Yellow Wagtail, Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, Oystercatcher, 9x Shelduck, 10x Gadwall, (RSw)

Smestow

3x Yellow Wagtail, 4x Wheatear, 2x singing Corn Bunting, Whitethroat, Yellowhammer, Skylarks Swallows, (CVa)