Monday, 20 April 2026

Monday 20th April 2026

Blithfield Resv

Whimbrel briefly Blithe Bay, (GJM) 

Branston GPs

2x Wheatear, Curlew, 2x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 2x Redshank, 2x Ringed Plover, 6x Oystercatcher, 4x Lapwing, 2x Little Egret, Water Rail, 4x Pochard, 14x Shelduck, 8x Shoveler, 24x Gadwall, 34x Teal, 14x Egyptian Geese, 16x Little Grebe, Green Woodpecker, Lesser Whitethroat, 12x Whitethroat, 4x Reed Warbler, 6x Willow Warbler, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 10x Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, Swift, 30x House Martin, 80x Sand Martin, 40+ Swallow, 8x Skylark, (JWo, CEc, Dean, SBi, ASt, BSt, TDa)

Doxey Marsh

Male Whinchat back right of Creswell Flash on top of the Bullrushes, (GPr, RRa) - 5x Willow Warbler, 10x Cetti's Warbler, 11x Chiffchaff, 11x Blackcap, 12x Sedge Warbler, 7x Reed Warbler, 2x House Martin, 8x Sand Martin, Treecreeper, (GPr)  -  Whinchat, 2x Little Egret, 2x LRP, 6x Swift, 3x Gropper, Sedge Warblers, (SRi)

Cannock Chase

Cuckoo near the stepping stones, (PBe)

Middleton Lakes

2x Lesser Whitethroat, 5x Garden Warbler, Peregrine, Cuckoo, 22x Avocet, 6+ Redshank, 8+ LRP, 6x Dunlin, Redpoll, (DCo)  -  6x White Wagtail, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 6x Dunlin, 21x Avocet, 6x LRP, 6x Snipe, 6x Redshank,  Cuckoo, Garden Warbler, 2x Bittern, 6x Shelduck, Pochard, Wigeon, feral RB Goose, (SPA)

Tittesworth Water

Redstart, Garden Warbler, Whitethroat, 6x Shelduck, 6x LRP, 6x Common Sandpiper, 8x Oystercatcher, 2x Willow Tit, (SGi)

Cuckoo Bank

5+ Grasshopper Warbler, Tree Pipit, (CMa, RF)  -  Cuckoo reported

River Churnet

Dipper, Grey Wagtail, (TMe)

                                                          Dipper by Tammy Mellor

Otherton

Lesser Whitethroat, (SRi)

Whitemoor Haye

Whimbrel, Avocet, 2x Dunlin, Wheatear, (TPe)

Belvide Resv

Redstart, 7x Wheatear,