Tuesday 4 September 2012

Tuesday 4 September 2012

Branston Gravel Pits
3x Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff, 2x Common Sandpiper, 10x Green Sandpiper, 14x Curlew, 4x Ringed Plover, 5x Snipe, Yellow Wagtail, Hobby, 5x Buzzard (including a mostly white bird – see record picts), 100+ LBBG, Little Egret, 21x Little Grebe, 10x Pochard, 5x Shoveler.....JW
 

The White Buzzard at BGP's by JW
Berryhill
4x Dunlin briefly this morning........RT. KH.

Belvide Res (permit only)
Black-necked Grebe at west end, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker near woodland feeding station at 5pm............Belvide Blog

Westport Lake
Juv Shelduck briefly at 08-10hrs.....NJS

Gailey Res
Cuckoo juvenile flew onto Herony Island, 3x Gadwell, 29x Little Grebe (13 juvs) , Kingfisher, Sand Martin.......IM

Trent Washlands
Hobby, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 5x Sand Martin, Kingfisher & 2x Green Woodpecker...AJ

Alton Farmland
1x Hobby,  2x Buzzard, 3x Raven , 2x Green Woodpecker...........TE

Cheadle
1x Yellow Wagtail over JCB Landpower, Cheadle this afternoon.....AB

Tittensor Chase
Goldcrest, 2x Nuthatch, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Buzzard......ARa.
6x Speckled Wood at the entrance to Winghouse Lane......ARa.
Canary-shouldered Thorn in a Stoke-on-Trent garden. Picture by BC