Saturday 16 April 2022

Saturday 16th April 2022

Middleton Lakes

3x Med Gull flew towards NP, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 8x Avocet, 4x LRP, Ringed Plover, Snipe,  Pink-footed Goose, (MSm SPA,) -  Arctic Tern over NP and then JW at 12:15, (MPo)  -  Drayton Bassett Red Kite over south at 15:50 (MSm)

Churnet Valley

Red Kite, Pied Flycatcher, Dipper, Willow Tit, (DSc)

Wombourne - Lower Penn

3x Wheatear, 2x Yellow Wagtail in potato field, (AMP) - Whinchat (first Staffs 2022 record), 2x Wheatear on Pickles Hill, (DBa)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Whooper Swan to 07:30 only, Marsh Harrier thru 08:30, Garganey,   

Blithfield Resv

Osprey flew west at 12:00, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Oystercatcher, (RBe)  -  Osprey flew over at 14:00, Common Tern, 3x Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, (MGo)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Common Tern, 7x Oystercatcher, 4x LRP, Goldeneye, 12x Gadwall, 4x Shelduck, 2x Reed Warbler, 2x Sedge Warbler, Tree Sparrow, 8x Egyptian Geese, 2x Peregrine, (SCo)

Doxey Marsh

Reed Warbler, 2x Gropper, 4x Sedge Warbler, Willow Warbler, 6x Cetti's Warbler, 2x LRP, 4x Oystercatcher, 4x Shelduck, 4x Gadwall, Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, (GHa)

Cuckoo Bank

5x Whitethroat, 20x Willow Warbler, 4x Wheatear, Red Kite, (TMG)  -  Whinchat, (first Staffs 2022 record), 15x Wheatear, Curlew, 2x White Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail, 

North Staffs Moors

Migrating flock of 10x Ring Ouzel, also a Wheatear, (NMK)

Chatterley Whitfield CP

Groppers, Whitethroats, Sedge Warblers, (NHo)

Chasewater

Redshank, Curlew, 2x Shelduck, Swallow, (CMa)

Catholme

7x Whitethroat, 3x Willow Warbler, 8x Shelduck, (JWo)

Alrewas NMA

3x Goosander, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Sedge Warbler, 3x Willow Warbler, Green Woodpecker, Alrewas - Wychnor  3x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Branston GPs

2x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Ruff, Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Redshank, Ringed Plover, 2x Curlew, ad YL Gull, 2x Mandarin, 25x Shelduck, 250x Sand Martin, 4x Whitethroat, 3x Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, Yellowhammer, (DSc)  -  Lesser Whitethroat (Staffs first 2022 record), NJS)