Monday 19 September 2022

Monday 19th September 2022

Doxey Marsh

3x Avocet from main hide, 24x Snipe, (DBa, CE, KM)  -  also 2x Cattle Egret, 2x Green Sandpiper, (NGR)  -  Spotted Flycatcher, Swift, Water Rail, (RSt)

                                                         Avocets by Bill Goldstraw

Middleton Lakes

Ringed Plover, 4x Ruff, 8x Dunlin, 12x Snipe, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Great Egret, (MSm)  -  later counts 16x Snipe, Water Rail, 3x Green Sandpiper, Hobby, Goldeneye, (SB)

Blithfield Resv

2x Curlew Sandpiper, Bar-tailed Godwit, 2x Ringed Plover, LRP, 7x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Curlew, 4x Ruff, 2x Snipe, 3x Great Egret, Wheatear, 3x Whinchat, 3x Stonechat, Spotted Flycatcher, Yellow Wagtail, (SRi, PAn)  -  7x Black-tailed Godwit, Redshank, (SCa)  -  3x Curlew Sandpiper, 20x Dunlin in Blithe Bay this afternoon, (TPe)  -  4x Curlew Sandpiper this evening, (SE, HF)

                                          Dunlin and a Curlew Sandpiper by Steve Edwards

Westport Lake

Scaup this morning, (NJS)

Radford Meadows

150x Lapwing, (IWi)

Furnace Grange Farm Trescott

Male Redstart, 3x Stonechat, Green Sandpiper, Snipe, (IMo, CVa, ADe)

Knypersley Resv

Spotted Flycatcher by Osier bed also Willow Tit, 4x Mandarin, (GBr)

Alvecote

Pied Flycatcher and 3x Spotted Flycatcher in the Orchard, (SRo)  -  Osprey over Pretty Pigs at 15:45, Redstart, (ARa)

Tittesworth Water

Hobby and nearby 2x Whinchat near The Roaches, (NMK)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Little Stint, 3x Ruff, 8x Dunlin, 5x Ringed Plover, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, Redshank, Common Sandpiper, Garganey, 

Branston GPs SMP

2x Green Sandpiper, 6x YL Gull, 2x Little Egret, (JWo)