Thursday 14 April 2022

Thursday 14th April, 2022

The Cuckoos at at Highgate Common and Cannock Chase were possibly the first Staffs 2022 records although there was a unconfirmed report of a Cannock Chase bird a few days previously.

Whitemoor Haye

12x White Wagtail in ploughed field 8x Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear, (SCo, JAl)

Berryhill

Ring Ouzel still in paddocks below the mast but illusive, 2x Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, 4x Redstart, 2x Wheatear, 3x Swallow, (RTo, RGi, NDP)  -  Red Kite over SSW at 10:50, (RGi)  -  Osprey over at 12:30, (JEv)

Westport Lake

Osprey over north, (NJS)

Biddulph

Osprey over north at 07:00, (LH)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Whooper Swan, 2x Black-necked Grebe, 

Middleton Lakes

Pink-footed Goose, Whitethroats,

Highgate Common

Cuckoo this morning, (WN)  -  Tree Pipit, (MMo)

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Whitethroat, (Foz)

Churnet Valley

Male Pied Flycatcher, (DS)

Tittesworth Water

9x LRP, 6x Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, 3x Barnacle Geese, 3x Willow Warbler, 2x Blackcap, Green Woodpecker, Willow Tit, Sand Martin, (LH, JOa)

Cannock Chase

Cuckoo, Whitethroat, 4x Redstart, 4x Tree Pipit, (ABl)

Kings Bromley

6x Swallow, (AGP)

Branston GPs

Reed Warbler, 3x Sedge Warbler, 2x Whitethroat, 5x Willow Warbler, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Yellowhammer, 10x Ruff, 2x Dunlin, 7x Redshank, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Ringed Plover, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Curlew, 3x Oystercatcher,  2x Water Rail, Green Woodpecker, 150x Sand Martin, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 16x Shelduck, 7x Mandarin, 4x WigeonCetti's Warbler, YL Gull, 4x Fieldfare, (DSc, JWo, CEc, SCo, JAl)

                                                         Ruff by Dave Scattergood

Chasewater

Osprey over north at 16:50, 

Cuckoo Bank

Ring Ouzel, Redstart, Whitethroat, 6x Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, Golden Plover, 

Hanchurch Woods

3x Tree Pipit, Redstart, 10x Willow Warbler, Woodcock, (DKe)