Monday 24th October 2022

Blithfield Resv

Pectoral Sandpiper in Blithe Bay, (GJM)  -  Little Stint, (GWi)  -- additional Curlew Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 53x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover. 3x Curlew, 3x Snipe, 2x Stonechat, Red Kite, Barnacle Goose, (HF, SE)

                                    Record shot of the Pectoral Sandpiper by Steve Edwards

                                             Distant shot Pectoral Sandpiper by GJ Mant

Branston GPs

Osprey low over Ashy pit at 11:45, 4x Ruff, 47x Golden Plover, 7x Dunlin, 15x Curlew, Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Redshank, Water Rail, 2x Little Egret, 2x GBB Gull, 4x Pintail, 3x Goldeneye, 7x Egyptain Geese, 4x Stonechat,  (CEc)

Westport Lake

26x Goosander, (CWa)

Keele

2x Brambling, 3x Stonechat, 

Kings Bromley A515 layby

Adult Med Gull, Little Egret, (BGe)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Little Egret, 3x Tree Sparrow, also Little Egret Tucklesholme, (BGe)

Alvecote

Great Egret, Little Egret, 7x Goosander, Snipe, (MSc)

Botteslow Flash

Drake Mandarin, 3x Snipe, Little Egret, Peregrine, (RTo)

Gailey Resv

Little Egret, Shoveler, Peregrine, (SRi)