Thursday 25 August 2022

Thursday 25th August 2022

Berryhill

Pied Flycatcher in bushes at east end of "Lap Bunt paddock", 12x Whinchat - 8 from Palletstacks and a further 4 at "Lapbunt paddock", 10x Redstart, 7x Wheatear, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Tree Pipit, Stonechat, Little Egret, GBB Gull over, Swift, (RTo, NDP)  -  Botteslow Flash - Greenshank heard calling at 19:15, (RTo)

                                         Whinchats at "Lapbunt" paddock  by Russell Toon


                                                       Spotted Flycatcher by Phil Jones

Blithfield Resv

Turnstone briefly, Whinchat, (MPR, GJM)

Middleton Lakes

4x Garganey still, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, 4x Green Sandpiper, 4x Snipe, Great Egret, 4x Wigeon, (SPA, MSm)  -  4x Hobby this evening, 3x Water Rail, Goosander, 5x Green Sandpiper, (MSm)

Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, (ALa)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

2x Wood Sandpiper on north shore, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, 3x YL Gull, juv Cuckoo,  2x Common Tern, Goldeneye, 6x Greenshank, 11x Common Sandpiper, 11x Ringed Plover, 5x LRP, Great Egret, 

Furnace Grange Road

2x Whinchat and 2x Redstart this afternoon in paddock west of road between old Holybush pub  and farm access road, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, Green Sandpiper, (IMo)

Tunstall

Peregrine over, (ALo)

Rudyard Lake

3x Ringed Plover, Snipe, 6x Little Egret, 6x Goosander, Yellow Wagtail, (JOa, LH, DC)

Tittesworth Water

3x Green Sandpiper, 5x Common Sandpiper, 6x LRP, Snipe, Oystercatcher, 22x Mandarin, 2x Goosander, 87x Lapwing, (JOa, LH)

Alvecote

2x Spotted Flycatcher, Whinchat, Green Sandpiper, Great Egret, Little Egrets, (MSc)

Branston GPs

3x Greenshank, Redshank, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, 9x Common Sandpiper, 13x Green Sandpiper, 13x Curlew, 7x Oystercatcher, 17x Snipe, 14x Little Egret, Pintail, 6x Wigeon, 122x Pochard, Goosander, 12x Black-necked Grebe, 59x Little Grebe, 5x Water Rail, 6x YL Gull, Redstart, Wheatear, 22x Yellow Wagtail, Barn Owl, Hobby, Peregrine, 4x Green Woodpecker, (JWo, DSc)

                                                        Redstart by Jon Woodcock