Wednesday 24 August 2022

Wednesday 24th August 2022

Middleton Lakes

4x Garganey still on Canal Pool, 3x Black-railed Godwit, 5x Green Sandpiper 5x Snipe, Great Egret, Goldeneye, Wigeon, Water Rail, Hobby, (MSm)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Juv Marsh Harrier through west at 11:05, juv Cuckoo still, 10x Ringed Plover, 15x Common Sandpiper, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Greenshank, LRP, Common Tern, 

Berryhill

Stonechat, 3x Whinchat, 2x Tree Pipit, 2x Redstart, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, Wheatear, (RTo)

                                                            Wheatear by Clive Wood

                                                         Tree Pipit by Russell Toon

Ford Green

2x Tree Pipit, Spotted Flycatcher on Hawthorn Hill, (JJo)

Swineholes Wood

Spotted Flycatcher, (PBe)

Blithfield Resv

6x Black Tern, Little Gull, 13x Black-tailed Godwit, 9x Common Sandpiper, 3x Curlew, 3x Dunlin, 2x Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, 7x LRP, 2x Redshank, 19x Ringed Plover, 3x Ruff, 5x Barnacle Geese, Common Gull, Great Egret, 15x Little Egret, 2x Red Kite, 2x Wheatear, 35x Yellow Wagtail, (SE,HF)

                                                            Ruff by Steve Edwards

Tuckleshome and Branston Leas

Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 4x Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 40x Chiffchaff, 4x Little Egret, 4x Common Tern, (JWo)

                                                  Lesser Whitethroat by Jon Woodcock