Sunday 23 August 2020

Sunday 23rd August 2020

Cuckoo Bank
GREENISH WARBLER in mixed Tit/Warbler flock late morning, (IWa), also 11x Spotted Flycatcher, 3x Redstart, 2x Tree Pipit, Hobby, 

Middleton Lakes
Wryneck again in canalside hedge near west screen, Garganey, Ruff, 3x Green Sandpiper, 8x Snipe, 3x Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)  -  3x Whinchat, Wheatear, 

                                                           By Steve Atkinson

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Juv Black-necked Grebe, juv Arctic Tern and 2x juv Black Tern,   -  also 3x Whinchat, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Green Sandpiper, Redshank, 11x Ringed Plover, 4x Dunlin, 16x Common Sandpiper, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, 35x Swift, (SE, HF)

                                                            Whinchat by Steve Edwards
Blithfield Resv
Juv Arctic Tern, (GJM)  -  2x Red Kite, 16x Ringed Plover, 2x Dunlin, Ruff, 
3x Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, (BAS, AMS)

Mere Lane
Wheatear on bales on south side, (MMo)

Berryhill
6x Wheatear, 6x Redstart, Whinchat, 2x Stonechat, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, Tree Pipit, Gropper, Peregrine, 2x Swift, (RTo, NDP)

Uttoxeter Quarry
2x Great Egret still, 2x Little Egret, 3x Dunlin, 7x Ringed Plover, 11x Common Sandpiper, 4x Green Sandpiper, (RPo)

River Sow Meadows
4x Ringed Plover, (RSw)

Radford Meadows
Little Egret, calling Redshank, 91x Lapwing, (CDa)

Branston GPs
Turnstone, Dunlin, 11x Ringed Plover, Curlew, Common Sandpiper, 3x Common Tern, 10x Little Egret, Wheatear, (DSc)

Little Aston STW
6x Grey Partridge, (PAn)

Croxden Quarry
One Knot (ABa)

Tittesworth Water
3x LRP, 2x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, 13x Mandarin, 2x Barnacle Geese, Green Woodpecker, (JOa, LH)

Doxey Marsh
Great Egret, Little Egret, 3x Common Sandpiper, Mandarin, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 10x Water Rail, 19x Snipe, Swift, 38x Gadwall, (MBo, WeBS team)

Whitemoor Haye
2x Little Egret, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 4x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Grey Partridge, 10x Tree Sparrow, Goldeneye, (SCo)