Thursday, 18 August 2022

Thursday 18th August 2022

Middleton Lakes

3x Garganey on Canal pool, Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Snipe, Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, Goldeneye, Wigeon, (MSm)

Berryhill

4x Whinchat in paddocks mast side towards top end the Palletstacks track,  also  4-5 Wheatear nearby,  Spotted Flycatcher in copse c75 m south of the standing stone circle also 3x Lesser Whitethroat (2 juvs) and 2x Willow Tit, (RTo)  -  Barn Owl again hunting from the Viewpoint at 20:00, (MKe, JKe)

Blithfield Resv

2x Black Tern and Little Gull off Beech Tree point, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, Sanderling, 5x Dunlin, Redshank, Ringed Plover, Hobby, (MCh)  -  3x Turnstone to 11:00, (MPi)  -  Great Egret, Spotted Flycatcher, (CTa)  -  also 5x Black Tern, 12x Common Tern, Arctic Tern, Peregrine, 2x Common Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail, (CMa, RFe)

                                                   Spotted Flycatcher by Chris Taylor

Stanley Pool

Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, (DCo)

Tittesworth Water

Redshank, 4x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 6x LRP, Oystercatcher, 10x Goosander, 2x Mandarin, Egyptian Goose, (JOa, LH, DC)

Rudyard Lake

7x LRP, Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 5x Little Egret, (JOa, LH DC)  -  Redstart on Rudyard Road, (LRa)

Doxey Marsh

4x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, LRP, 3x Water Rail, (DB)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

18x Common Sandpiper, 3x Greenshank, 4x LRP, 7x Ringed Plover, 6x Snipe, 2x Ruff, 2x Whinchat, juv Cuckoo, YL Gull, 

Whitemoor Haye

Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper Bewicks pit, (TPe)