Tuesday 16 August 2022

Tuesday 16th August 2022

Alrewas

2x Spotted Flycatcher near River Swarbourne edge of Potters Meadow, (SCo)

Codsall

Juv Cuckoo still at Waterey Lane allotments, (PCo)

Blithfield Resv

Little Gull, Black Tern, 2x Ruff, Great Egret, (GWi),  -  also 2x Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, 4x Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, Redshank, Oystercatchers, 20x Yellow Wagtail, (DBa) 

Uttoxeter Quarry

6x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Pochard, 53x Barnacle Geese, (NDP)

Doxey Marsh

2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 3x Snipe, 4x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, (GSa)

Tittesworth Water

2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 5x LRP, Common Gull, (SGi)

                                                     Green Sandpipers by Steve Gibson

Rudyard Lake

2x Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Little Egret, (SGi)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Juv Cuckoo still, Greenshank, 9x Dunlin, 8x Green Sandpiper, 3x LRP, 2x Snipe, 2x Whinchat, YL Gull.

Alvecote

Whinchat, Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, (MSc)

Branston GPs

14x Black-necked Grebe, Golden Plover, 8x Ringed Plover, 4x Avocet, 13x Curlew, 11x Green Sandpiper, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, 132x Lapwing, 18x Snipe, Water Rail, 7x Little Egret, Pintail, 192x Pochard, 54x Little Grebe, 6x Common Tern, Peregrine, 2x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

                                                        Golden Plover by Jon Woodcock

Trentham

Hobby hawking over Kingswood this evening, (NMK)

Upper Hulme Ranges

Marsh Harrier at 09:45, (PBe)