Monday 13 May 2013

Monday 13 May 2013

Doxey Marsh
Wood Sandpiper one from the metal hide also Whimbrel, 10x Dunlin, Redshank, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x LR Plover (SEd  HFo)

Whimbrel by Heather Forbes


Wood Sandpiper by Steve Edwards

Wood Sandpiper by Kevin Skidmore 

Blithfield Res (permit only)
Little Stint one over Dairy House Reach at 09:00 also 4x Whimbrel, Sanderling, 2nd summer Yellow-legged Gull, 4x LR Plover, 10x Ringed Plover, 2x Arctic Tern, 7x Common Tern, 2x Hobby, Goosander, Peregrine, Wheatear (GJM MPR)
Additional -  6x Dunlin, 16x Common Tern (HDe)

Uttoxeter Quarry
Whimbrel, 4x Common Sandpiper, 6x LR Plover, 6x Oystercatcher, Ruddy Shelduck, Cape Shelduck, Goldeneye, Goosander, Yellow Wagtail (SEd  HFo)

Branston Gravel Pits
2x Turnstone (farside of the South Pit), 3x Whimbrel (Sandy Pit then flew north), 2x LRP, 10x Redshank, 2x Oystercatcher, 26x Shelduck, 3x Gadwall, 2x Wigeon, Green Woodpecker (JWo)

Whitemoor Haye
Med Gull adult, Arctic Tern and Common Tern through, 9x Ringed Plover, 6x Dunlin, 5x Redshank, 2x Corn Bunting, Yellow Wagtail (TPe)

Radial Park
2x Willow Warbler , 1x Grasshopper Warbler  , 1x M 1x F Wheatear , 2x Whitethroat & 6x Lapwing (MFe)