Friday 15 April 2022

Friday 15th April 2022

Middleton Lakes

Cuckoo, Common Tern, ad Med Gull, 12x Avocet, 6x Redshank, Ringed Plover, LRP, 4x Oystercatcher, 

Endon - Denford

Gropper, Whitethroat, Willow Tit, (DCo)

Highgate Common

2x Tree Pipit, (DBa)

River Sow Meadows Baswich - Milford

Osprey over NNE at 10:00, 2x Green Sandpiper, Cetti's Warbler, (RSw)

Berryhill

18x Willow Warbler, 3x Whitethroat, 3x Blackcap, Wheatear, (IBu)  -  Red Kite thru low this afternoon, (AJo)

Doxey Marsh

2x Whitethroat, 2x Oystercatcher, 5x Cetti's Warbler, (NGr)

Silverdale CP

2x Swallow, Whitethroats, Blackcap, Willow Warbler, (PCa)

Cannock Chase

Cuckoo, Gropper, Tree Pipit, Whitethroat, Willow Warblers, (CDa)

Freehay

Blackcap, (FCa)

Blithfield Resv

Osprey at 14:55, (GCl)

Fenton

YL Gull on Marl Pit, (SJT)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

5x Wheatear, 

Cuckoo Bank

10x Wheatear, Gropper, Sedge Warbler, Whitethroat,

Ashwood

Yellow Wagtail, 2x White Wagtail, (TWo)

Churnet Valley

3x Redstart, 2x Willow Warbler, 2x Blackcap, (TEy)

                                                              Redstart by Terry Eyre

Cheddleton Heath

Red Kite over at 19:55 harassed by three Crows, (PCal)

Ipstones Edge

2x Curlew, 7x Willow Warbler, Swallow, Redpoll, (SCh)

Branston GPs

Female Marsh Harrier roosted on Sandy pit,  4x Ruff, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, 7x Curlew, 11x Redshank, 2x Dunlin, 2x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 6x Oystercatcher, 3x Goldeneye, 16x Pochard, 2x Wigeon, 28x Gadwall, 14x Shoveler, 19x Shelduck, 12x Mandarin, Water Rail,  ad YL Gull, Wheatear, 3x Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, 3x Whitethroat, 3x Cetti's Warbler,150x Sand Martin, 3x Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, 3x Cetti's Warbler,  (JWo, DSc,  CEc, Dean)

                                                       Marsh Harrier by Jon Woodcock 

Doxey Marsh

3x Whitethroat, Willow Warbler, 12x Cetti's Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Yellow Wagtail, Stonechat, Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 2x LRP, Redshank, (RSt)

Yarnfield

2x Willow Tit, (RRa)

Stafford

Red Kite above Wildwood drifting thru NE, (CBu)