Tuesday 30 August 2022

Tuesday 30th August 2022

Stanley Pool

Osprey over at 06:50, also Common Sandpiper, (GBr)

Rudyard Lake

Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, LRP, 4x Ringed Plover, 23x Teal, (SSe)

Middleton Lakes

2x Garganey, 5x Great Egret, Dunlin, 5x Snipe, 4x Green Sandpiper, (MSm)  -  also Hobby, 6x Little Egret, (MSc)  -  at least 3x Garganey this afternoon, Greenshank, (SPA)

Tittesworth Water

Green Sandpiper, 3x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 2x Peregrine, 6x Goosander, 14x Teal, (SGi)

Blithfield Resv

c50 Yellow Wagtail, (GJM)  -  juv Black Tern near causeway from Beech Tree point, 11x Dunlin, Curlew, Green Sandpiper, 7x Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Wigeon,  (SCa)  -  Black-tailed Godwit, Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 3x Oystercatcher,  (AWa)

Alvecote

5x Spotted Flycatcher, Redstart, (TPe)

Berryhill

5x Whinchat and 3x Wheatear from the Palletstacks this evening, (IBu)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 2x Goldeneye, 13x Yellow Wagtail, Curlew over, 4x Swift, poss YL Gull, Teal, (SCo)

Branston GPs

Whimbrel, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Greenshank, 10x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 15x Curlew, 16x Snipe, Ruff, Great Egret, 9x Little Egret,, 4x Water Rail, 3x Black-necked Grebe, 84x Little Grebe, Pintail, 125x Pochard, 4x Wigeon, 53x Shoveler, 37x Gadwall, 2x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, Peregrine, 2x Green Woodpecker, 8x Yellow Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

                                                          Pintail by Jon Woodcock

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