Monday 4 April 2022

Monday 4th April 2022

Middleton Lakes

2x Sandwich Tern (first Staffs 2022 record), on JW south at 08:45 to 10:40 only, Spotted Redshank still on East scrape, Snipe, 6x Redshank, 2x Oystercatcher, 6x Shelduck, 2x Pochard, (MSm) - also 2x Swallow, LRP, (PAn)  -  Little Gull thru at 16:20, (SPA)

Berryhill

Black Redstart still from the top end of the Palletstacks track also 3x Wheatear, (HF,SE)

                                                        Black Redstart by Steve Edwards

                                                           Wheatear by Steve Edwards

Branston GPs

Knot on Ashy pit this afternoon, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 7x Ruff, 12x Redshank, 8x Ringed Plover, 4x Green Sandpiper, 11x Snipe, 7x Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Wheatear, 12x Swallow, 80x Sand Martin, 7x Goldeneye, 16x Mandarin, 27x Shelduck, YL Gull, 14x Fieldfare, 6x Brambling, 86x Linnet, Cetti's Warbler, 3x Green Woodpecker, (JWo, CEc,Dean, JAl)

Westport Lake

Brambling at 11:15, (KSt)

Wombourne

Ring Ouzel still off Billy Buns lane at16:45, (AMP, CVa)

Whitemoor Haye

Wheatear, White Wagtail, Merlin, Peregrine from the rough track, (TPe)

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Green Sandpiper still, (Foz)

Tucklesholme

2x Mandarin, (APa)

                                                          Skylark by Alan Pauline

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