Sunday 29 August 2021

Sunday 29th August 2021

Middleton Lakes

Spoonbill still, Wood Sandpiper, 4x Green Sandpiper, 17x Snipe, 3x Great Egret, Pintail, 6x Wigeon, (MSm)

Blithfield Resv

Black Tern Blithe Bay, (GJM, MPR)  -  3x Ruff, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, 6x Snipe, 4x Dunlin, 3x Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, Pintail, 5x Little Egret, Wheatear, (RPo)  -  updated counts 6x Common Sandpiper, 9x Dunlin, 3x Greenshank, 23x Ringed Plover, 5x Common Tern, 16x Little Egret, 6x Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, (SE, HF)

                                                         Wheatear by Steve Edwards

Doxey Marsh

Bearded Tit at Boundary Flash reedbed from Warren's Lane, (MBo)

Gailey Resv

Tree Pipit, Hobby, Yellow Wagtail 3x Spotted Flycatcher and at Otherton Redstart, Wheatear, (SRi)

Cuckoo Bank

Nightjar flew across heath at 12:05, Pied Flycatcher, 4x Redstart, Tree Pipit, Spotted Flycatcher, 

Uttoxeter Quarry

6x Green Sandpiper, 3x LRP, 28x Wigeon, 9x Pochard, 2x Willow Tit, Peregrine, Swift, (RPo)

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Barn Owl, Hobby, Water Rail, Swift, (MFo)

Branston GPs

Ruff, 8x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Greenshank, 4x Green Sandpiper, 2x Dunlin, 14x Curlew, 6x Snipe, Wheatear, 12x Little Egret, Wigeon, 70x Linnet, (CEc)  -  additional - Male Marsh Harrier roosted at Sandy pit this evening, 3x Pintail, 10x Mandarin, 2x Wigeon, 80x Pochard, 20x Snipe, Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Gull, ad YL Gull, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Peregrine, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Tittesworth Water

2x Little Egret, 2x LRP, 13x Mandarin, 4x Goosander, Common Gull, 102x Lapwing, (JOa, RJH)

Rudyard Lake

2x Little Egret, 4x Snipe, Grey Wagtail, 43x Lapwing, (JOa)

Barton under Needwood

Peregrine over north , (JWo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

3x Garganey, juv Cuckoo,