Thursday 8th September 2022

Blithfield Resv

European Shag from sailing club shore, (GJM)

                                                                    By GJ Mant

Middleton Lakes

3x Garganey still, 75x Wigeon, 2x Pintail, 2x Ruff, 3x Snipe, 2x Common Sandpiper, 5x Green Sandpiper, 3x Great Egret, (MSm)

Rudyard Lake

Green Sandpiper, 3x LRP, Yellow Wagtail, 68x Teal, (SGi)

Tittesworth Water

Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, (SGi)  -  also 15x Mandarin, (JOa, LH)

Wombourne

3x Redstart on Pickerells Hill, (WN)

Trentham Gardens

Dipper, (CBai)

Branston GPs

Adult male Marsh Harrier this afternoon and again at dusk, 3x Ruff, Redshank, 2x Greenshank, 15x Curlew, 2x Black-railed Godwit, 11x Green Sandpiper, 8x Common Sandpiper, 9x Dunlin, 4x Ringed Plover, 25x Snipe, 10x Little Egret, 4x Water Rail, 4x Pintail, 178x Pochard, 12x Wigeon, 2x Black-necked Grebe, 76x Little Grebe, 1w Med Gull, 2x YL Gull, Common Gull, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Peregrine, 5x Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

                                                     Marsh Harrier by Jon Woodcock

                                                        Med Gull by Jon Woodcock

Hixon Airfield

Wheatear, Whinchat also a Red Kite earlier seen from A51 near Great Haywood, (RCB)

Doxey Marsh

2x Cattle Egret, 3x Great Egret, 4x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, (DB)  -  Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Snipe, (JTu)

Gailey Resv

4x Swift, Yellow Wagtail, (SRi)

Ebstree Smestow Valley

Greenshank still, Green Sandpiper, Whinchat, (CVa, IMo)