Monday 16th August 2021

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Osprey thru NW, 2x Little Gull, 2x Black Tern,

Rudyard

Osprey, Green Sandpiper, 2x LRP, Dunlin, 45x Lapwing, 2x Little Egret, Gadwall, (SGi)

Tittesworth Water

7x LRP, Dunlin, Little Egret, 4x Mandarin, (SGi)

Blithfield Resv

Bar-tailed Godwit still at 12:00, (GJM)  -  also 50+ Ringed Plover, 9x Dunlin, 4x Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, 3x Little Egret, 6x Yellow Wagtail, 6x Tree Sparrow, Green Woodpecker, (DBa)  -  updated totals, Bar-tailed Godwit still, 61x Ringed Plover, 15x LRP, 23x Dunlin, 9x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 21x Yellow Wagtail, 6x Little Egret, (SE, HF)

                                                         Ringed Plover by Steve Edwards

Branston GPs

2x Garganey, 17x x Black-tailed Godwit, 10x Curlew, 5x Greenshank, Snipe, 2x Redshank, 9x Ringed Plover, 3x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 6x LRP, Dunlin, 3x Little Egret, 5x Common Tern, 2x Swift, Hobby, Peregrine, 2x Green Woodpecker, (CEc, CMa, RFe)  -  updated totals this evening, 8x Greenshank, 14x Curlew, 5x Green Sandpiper, 8x Common Sandpiper, 11x Ringed Plover, 148x Lapwing, 5x Snipe, 17x Little Egret, 4x Water Rail, 66x Pochard, 56x Gadwall, 34x Shoveler, 2x Wigeon, 76x Little Grebe, YL Gull, 18x Swift, 4x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Middleton Lakes

Garganey, 3x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 5x Common Tern, (GCl)  -  Hobby, (RBe)

                                                  Black-tailed Godwit by Rob Bendelow

Doxey Marsh

Female Garganey on Creswell Flash this evening, (RRa)

Alvecote

3x Little Egret, 3x Common Tern, (MSc)

Lightwood

Hobby over this afternoon, (IBr)

Gailey Resv

3x Common Tern, 5x Swift, (SRi)