Sunday 28th August 2022

Rudyard Lake

2x Common Sandpiper, LRP, Yellow Wagtail, fem Goldeneye, 2x Goosander, (GBr)

Cuckoo Bank

Marsh Harrier over at 17:05, 5x Spotted Flycatcher, 5x Tree Pipit, 8x Wheatear, 3x Redstart, 3x Whinchat, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Hobby, 

Whitemoor Haye

3x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, Green Sandpiper, Snipe over, 5x Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, 20-30x Greenfinch, 3x Tree Sparrow, Garden Warbler, Yellow Wagtail, (SCo)

Blithfield Resv

2x Redstart behind dam, Whinchat, 3x Wheatear by boat paddock at deep end, (AMa)  -  Male Osprey this afternoon with a blue 2AM ring hatched Manton Bay Rutland in 2017, (SSe) also Marsh Harrier over, 3x Greenshank, Ruff, 3x Dunlin, 13x Little Egret. Peregrine, (SSe)  -  3x Whinchat, 5x Wheatear, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Common Sandpiper, 2x Curlew, 6x Dunlin, 3x Green Sandpiper, 3x Greenshank, 6x LRP, 22x Ringed Plover, Ruff, 3x Egyptian Geese, Great Egret, 24x Little Egret, Mandarin, Marsh Harrier, 4x Red Kite, Peregrine, 25x Yellow Wagtail, (SE, HF)  -  32x juv Goosander dropped into Admaston Reach at 18:20 and flew off south at 19:30, also juv Merlin, (PWa)                            

 

                                                        Whinchat by Steve Edwards

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Wood Warbler in Tit flock, Osprey thru south at 09:10, Wood Sandpiper still, 36x Goosander, 4x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Tree Pipit, Whinchat, 5x Greenshank, 11x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, 3x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 

Uttoxeter Quarry

Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 3x Little Egret, 3x Pochard, Shelduck, 30x Teal, (RPo)

Tittesworth Water

Green Sandpiper, 8x LRP, 3x Common Sandpiper, 15x Mandarin, Goosander, (JOa, LH)

Furnace Grange Farm Trescott

Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Redstart, 9x Yellow Wagtail, Lesser Whitethroat, Green Sandpiper, Red Kite, juv Hobby, (IMo, CVa, GCl, ADe)

Doxey Marsh

2x Black-tailed Godwit, 8x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, (DM)

Branston GPs

2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Little Egret, Pintail, Peregrine, 2x YL Gull, (JWo)  -  also 3x Black-necked Grebe, 66x Little Grebe, 14x Little Egret, 5x Mandarin, 7x Wigeon, 150x Pochard, 3x Water Rail, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff, Greenshank, 8x Green Sandpiper, 2x Com

Alvecote

Wheatear, Redstart, Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Snipe, Great Egret, (MSc)