Sunday 20 August 2023

Sunday 20th August 2023

Knypersley Resv

Great Egret over south at 07:50, Swift, Mandarin, (GBr)

Rudyard Resv

2x Little Egret, Dunlin, 2x Common Sandpiper, Common Tern, Redstart, Spotted Flycatcher, (SSe)

Branston GPs

2x Black Tern still at 20:20 42x Common Tern, 12x Little Egret, 7x Egyptian Geese, 45x Shoveler, 115x Pochard, 3x Goosander, Peregrine, 5x Curlew, 6x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Greenshank, 4x Snipe, 3x YL Gull, 6x Yellow Wagtail, 50x Little Grebe, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Seisdon area

2x Redstart, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, Hobby, 4x Yellow Wagtail, Tree Pipit, 2x Little Egret, (GCl, IMo) 

Whitemoor Haye

2x Greenshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, roadside pit, (TPe)

Tucklesholme

Juv Ruff on the end of spit, (JWo)

Tittesworth Water

3x Snipe, 3x Common Sandpiper, 36x Mandarin, 4x Goosander, (JOa, LH)

Doxey Marsh

Osprey, Hobby briefly this am, 4x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 10x Water Rail, 16x Cetti's Warbler,  (MBo, RRa, WeBS team)

Blithfield Resv

5x Great Egret, 32x Little Egret, Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, Dunlin, 4x Greenshank, Redshank, 52x Ringed Plover, 12x LRP, 4x Ruff, 2x Hobby, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Pintail, (SE, HF)  -  20x Yellow Wagtail, Swift, 3x Common Sandpiper, Hobby, (SFi)

                                                          Great Egrets by Steve Edwards

Belvide Resv

11x Common Sandpiper, 4x Greenshank, 2x Ruff, 3x Oystercatcher, LRP, 7x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 4x Little Egret, Green Woodpecker.