Friday 27 August 2021

Friday 27th August 2021

Middleton Lakes

Spoonbill on JW north, Spotted Redshank still, Wood Sandpiper, 5x Ruff, Dunlin, 15x Snipe, 3x Green Sandpiper,  Bittern, Black Tern, 3x Great Egret, 30x Little Egret, (MSm)  -  Ad Med Gull, Short-eared Owl, (ARa)

Blithfield Resv

Purple Sandpiper at the dam, (MDJ, SE, HF), (the last Blithfield  record was in 1998 source GJM),  -  also Greenshank, Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Ruff, 4x Dunlin, 12x Ringed Plover, Hobby, 6x Yellow Wagtail, (PDe, JTa)  -  updated counts  2x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Common Sandpiper, 7x Dunlin, 4x LRP, 22x Ringed Plover, 4x Ruff, Greenshank, 15x Little Egret, Pintail, 2x Redstart, Wheatear, Green Woodpecker, (SE, HF)

                                                      Purple Sandpiper by Steve Edwards

Hixon Airfield

5x Whinchat, 3x Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, 35x Linnet, 48x House Sparrow, (RSw)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

3x Avocet north shore, 2x Garganey,

Alvecote

Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 5x Wigeon, (MSc)

Branston GPs

6x Greenshank, Ruff, 17x Snipe, 16x Curlew, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, 9x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 109x Lapwing, 12x Little Egret, 6x Water Rail, Pintail, Wigeon, 2x YL Gull, Hobby, Peregrine, 3x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

                                                            Pintail by Jon Woodcock

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