Saturday 23 April 2022

Saturday 23rd April 2022

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

31x Little Gull by 15:30, 2x Sanderling, 2x Whimbrel, 2x Dunlin, Arctic Tern, Osprey over at 13:25, 

Middleton Lakes

Bar-tailed Godwit, 14x Avocet, 6x Redshank, 3x LRP, 

Branston GPs

1w Little Gull still, Bar-tailed Godwit, Ruff, 3x Redshank, 3x Curlew, 2x Ringed Plover, Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, 38x Shelduck, Lesser Whitethroat, Reed Warbler, 50x Swallow, 10x House Martin, 200x Sand Martin, 2x Little Egret, (JWo)  -  additional 2x Sanderling, 2x Ruff, 2x Oystercatcher, Dunlin, 6x Mandarin, 7x Pochard, (DSc)

                                                         Little Gull by Jon Woodcock

Chasewater

6x Little Gull still 

Berryhill

Ring Ouzel at top end of the palletstacks by the pool, Redstart, (RGi)  -  3x Lesser Whitethroat, Wheatear, Willow Tit,  -  Botteslow Flash Green Sandpiper flew along Causley brook also Shoveler, 

Uttoxeter Quarry

4x Sanderling, 2x C, (GBr)urlew, 2x Common Sandpiper, Reed Warbler, 4x House Martin, 4x Goosander, (RPo)

Ford Green NR

Cetti's War, (GBr)

Endon - Denford

2x Gropper, Willow Tit, 3x Green Woodpecker, Mandarin, (DCo)

Tittesworth Water

9x Little Gull, Pied Flycatcher, Redstart, 2x Red Kite, 2x Common Sandpiper, LRP, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Willow Tit, 2x Mandarin, (SGi, IB)

   
                                                   Pied Flycatcher by Steve Gibson

Aqualate

Pied Flycatcher  in the bluebell wood just before the turn to the hide, (RPo)  -  2x Black-necked Grebe at the far end, 5x Little Gull, 3x Arctic Tern (IGr)

Halfpenny Green

Whinchat at the airport, Red Kite over, (MMo)

Bhylls Pool

2x Dunlin, Wheatear, (GCl)

Seisdon Quarry

Red-crested Pochard, LRP, 2x Little Egret, (GCl)

Doxey Marsh

Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, LRP, (RRa)

Silverdale CP

Gropper, Snipe, (PCa)

Cuckoo Bank

Wheatear, 15x Swallow, Lesser Whitethroat,