Friday 15 July 2022

Friday 15th July 2022

Middleton Lakes

5x Black-tailed Godwit, 12x Avocet, Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 12x Common Tern, (MSm)

Blithfield Resv

Whinchat in Blithe Bay along with the first Common Gull of the Autumn, (GJM, MDJ)  -  Sanderling, 23x Common Sandpiper, 6x Dunlin, 22x LRP, 3x Ringed Plover, 2x Redshank, 9x Oystercatcher, 2x juv Med Gull with yellow leg rings, Common Gull, 8x YL Gull, Hobby, Little Egret, (SE, HF)

                                                     Juv Med Gull by Steve Edwards

                                                         Sanderling by Steve Edwards

Berryhill

2x Hobby and a juv Whinchat this am, (RTo)

Chasewater

Drake Common Scoter, 4x Common Tern, 

Bramshall

Red Kite over west at 15:15, (JTu)

Alton

Red Kite, (TEy)

                                                                    By Terry Eyre

Burton

Ring necked Parakeet on Belvedere Road in Leylandii trees by old sports club, (SGa)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only

Juv Wheatear, 14x Common Sandpiper, Redshank, 14x LRP, Green Sandpiper, 7x Black-tailed Godwit at dusk,  3x Hobby, 3x Common Tern, Little Egret, fem Garganey, 

Ipstones

Red Kite, (SCh)

Grindley

Red Kite floating low over fields off the A518 at 18:30, (RSw)

Branston GPs

2x Dunlin, Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Common Sandpiper, 4x Green Sandpiper, 16x Curlew, 6x Oystercatcher, Ringed Plover, 7x Water Rail, 3x Little Egret, 96x Pochard, 28x Shelduck (23 juvs), 5x Common Tern, YL Gull, 5x Green Woodpecker, (JWo, JAl)