Monday 18 March 2024

Monday 18th March 2024

Returning Staffs 2024 arrival

Middleton Lakes

Avocet, Barn Owl, (GWi)  -  Green-winged Teal, Redshank, (MSm)

Tamworth

2x Waxwing on Woodland Road near abelia subway adjacent to brookweed, (MSc)

Whitemoor Haye

Slavonian Grebe still, 2x Redshank, 2x Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, 12x Goldeneye, 38x Shoveler, Yellowhammer, 4x Chiffchaff, (JWo, JHo, SHo, Richard),

                                                     Slavonian Grebe by Jon Woodcock

Blithfield Resv

LRP on the causeway, (GJM)

Radford Meadows Stafford

5x Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Snipe, Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, 150x Golden Plover, 5x Egyptian Geese, 4x Shelduck, 4x Pintail, 98x Shoveler, 250x Wigeon, 2x GC Grebe, 3x Little Egret, 4x Cetti's Warbler, (RSw)

Chasewater

Shag still, 14x Goldeneye, 2x Oystercatcher, 5x Chiffchaff, (SWa)  -  roost GN Diver, Shag, 14x Goldeneye, 22x GC Grebe, 2x Oystercatcher, (CW)

Endon - Denford

Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, Water Rail, 2x Green Woodpecker, 4x Mandarin, 23x Chiffchaff, 2x Willow Tit, (DCo)

Penkridge

Wheatear Teddesley Park this afternoon, 

Berryhill

Wheatear this afternoon on the top mounds Fenton fields side, (RTo)

Freehay

18x Mandarin, (FCa)

Branston GPs

Scaup, 7x LRP, 2x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 9x Oystercatcher, 14x Curlew, 40x Lapwing, 3x Little Egret, 45x Goldeneye, 36x Pochard, 22x Shelduck, 66x Wigeon, 46x Shoveler, 22x Gadwall, 160x Teal, 46x Little Grebe, 2x Common Gull, YL Gull, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 18x Chiffchaff, (JWo, JHo, SHo).

Weston Coyney

Red Kite over Leek Road/Winterfield Lane at 10:37, (SFe)

Loggerheads

Brambling, Blackcap, (JSt)