Monday 18 July 2022

Monday 18th July 2022

The juvenile Med Gull pictured on the blog by Steve Edwards on 15 July had travelled 613 miles in 32 days from Saxony in Germany. When tagged on the 13 June, it was a chick and unable to fly.

Stanley Pool

4x Little Egret, 4x Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, 200+ Swallows/Martins mainly Swallows, (GBr)  -  additionally 2x Common Sandpiper later, (DCo)

                                                          Tawny Owl by Dominic Collins

Yoxall

Red Kite over at 12:10, (BCG)

Blithfield Resv

Red Kite over fields to the NE of Resv, (JTu)

Tittesworth Water

Green Sandpiper, Snipe, 3x Oystercatcher, 10x Common Sandpiper, 105x Lapwing, Peregrine, 4x Mandarin, Goosander, (SGi)

Whiston

2x Red Kite circling around at 14:30, (GSt)

Belvide Resv WMBC members only)

Fem Garganey still, Green Sandpiper,