Wednesday 27 April 2022

Wednesday 27th April 2022

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Greenshank, 2x Ruff, Dunlin, 4x Common Sandpiper, 3x Yellow Wagtail, Channel Wagtail, Scaup, 2x Common Tern, 

                                                        Greenshank by Steve Edwards

                                                              Ruff by Steve Edwards

Berryhill

The Ring Ouzel still, Tawny Owl, (AFi)  -  Yellow Wagtail, 3x Wheatear, Lesser Whitethroats, (RTo, NDP), -  female Ring Ouzel still this evening, (IBu)  -  2x LRP Botteslow flash, (RTo)

                                                       Tawny Owl by Andrew Finch

Endon - Denford

Garden Warbler, Gropper, Green Woodpecker, (DCo)

Hixon Airfield

3x Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, LRP, (RCB)

Tittesworth Water

Pied Flycatcher, 3x Redstart, 2x Garden Warbler, Common Tern, 11x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 6x Oystercatcher, 2x Willow Tit, 2x Mandarin, Goosander, (SGi)

                                                              LRP by Steve Gibson

Trent Washlands

Cetti's Warbler, 2x Reed Warbler, 4x Swallow, 2x Little Egret, (SJT)

Tucklesholme

Whimbrel asleep on the spit, 2x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher,  2x Common Tern, Little Egret, 2x Shelduck, Goosander, Mandarin, 2x Gadwall, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 4x Reed Warbler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 10x Swallow, 20x Sand Martin, (JWo)

Middleton Lakes

15x Avocet, 5x LRP, Goosander, Pink-footed Goose, Barnacle Goose, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Garden Warbler, (PAn)

Cannock Chase

3x Cuckoo, Redstarts, 7x Stonechat, 5x Tree Pipit, 3x Mandarin, (DBa)

Blithfield Resv

22x Arctic Tern this evening, (GJM)

Aqualate

4x Hobby, Osprey, Red Kite, Common Sandpiper, 2x Mandarin, (PJor)

Alvecote

Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 4x Shelduck, 4x Swallow, House Martin, (MSc)

Alton

Cuckoo, 2x Swallow, (TEy)

Staffs location

2x Pied Flycatcher, 2x Redstart, Garden Warbler, (ISS)

                                                  Pied Flycatcher by Ian Stewart Smith

Blythe Bridge
Drake Mandarin at the Millpond, (AR)