Thursday 6th October 2022

Rudyard Lake

48x Snipe, 2x LRP, Dunlin, 97x Teal, Mandarin (SSe, JOa, LH)

Blithfield Resv

2x Rock Pipit briefly on the dam this am before flying north, (GJM)  -  Wheatear, Ruff, 3x Curlew, Egyptian Goose, (JTu)

                                                              Ruff by Jean Tuck

Middleton Lakes

3x Pintail, Goldeneye, Pochard, 2x Great Egret, Stonechat, (SPA)

Tittesworth Water

Common Sandpiper, 5x Snipe, 19x Mandarin, Yellow Wagtail, (JOa, LH)

Ipstones

Red Kite at 15:00, (SCh)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Female Ferruginous Duck at west end, Garganey, Rock Pipit, 

Kings Bromley (A515 layby)

2x Cattle Egret, 3x Little Egret, Great Egret, (RBe)

Trentham Gardens

Med Gull, Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 12x Mandarin and a Dipper on river, (HF)

Lichfield

Merlin in fields off Darnford Lane opposite the golf club, also a Little Egret on Darnford Brook, (BHa)

Branston GPs

Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 14x Curlew, 8x Snipe, 128x Lapwing, 3x Pintail, 63x Pochard, 123x Shoveler, 12x Wigeon, 76x Little Grebe, 6x Little Egret, 4x YL Gull, 4x GBB Gull, Peregrine, 3x Green Woodpecker, Swallow, 100x Linnet, (JWo)

                                                          Peregrine by Jon Woodcock