Thursday 1 August 2013

Thursday 1 August 2013

Belvide Res (permit only)
Quail still singing in wheat field by West Lane also Wood Warbler between ringing station and Gazebo hide.

Middleton Lakes RSPB
Fem/imm Marsh Harrier over Jubilee wetlands this afternoon also Little Egret (JH)

Blithfield Res (permit only)
Little Gull, 2x YL Gull, Greenshank, Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Dunlin, 11x LR Plover, 3x Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, c50 Common Tern, 3x Goosander, Kingfisher, 3x juv Shelduck. (SE. HF)
2nd sum Caspian Gull still this morning in Tad Bay (RCB)

Branston GPs
8x Little Egret, 6x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Snipe, 11x Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, c80 Lapwing, 2x Common Tern, Hobby, Water Rail, 4x Green Woodpecker (family). (AJ)

Cannock Chase
Hobby - Slow Worm, Common Lizard, 4 Bog Bush Crickets, Emperor Dragonfly, 4 Common Hawker, c20 Black Darter (Womere), numerous Common Darter, Brown Hawker, Southern Hawker, Emerald Damselfly, Tachina Grossa (JW)