Monday 8 April 2024

Monday 8th April 2024

Berryhill

10x Wheatear by 08:20, (RTo)  -  2x Ring Ouzel in hedgerow at the Viewpoint paddock (20 foot pool) then flew up towards the mast this am, still 7x Wheatear this evening, (IBu)

Middleton Lakes

2x Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew south, Common Sandpiper, 11x Shelduck, Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, (MSm)  -  Reed Warbler heard

Blithfield Resv

Sedge Warbler this am, (GJM)

Chasewater

GN Diver, Shag, 8x Swallow, 15x Willow Warbler, 2x Goldeneye, (SWa)

Cannock Chase

Cuckoo, Tree Pipit, 25x Crossbill, Willow Warblers, Swallow, (RPo)  -  Wheatear near the Glacial boulder around 18:00, (MSt)

Codsall

House Martin over, (HT)

Fradley - Alrewas towpath

Sedge Warbler, 2x Swallow, 2x Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, 12x Lapwing, 3x Yellowhammer, Willow Warbler, 75x Linnet, 6x Greenfinch, (BHa)

Shoal Hill Common

2x Wheatear in the paddock off the B5012 just west of the common, (SRi)

Branston GPs

Water Pipit on Newbold pit, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 5x White Wagtail, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, 2x Dunlin, 4x Green Sandpiper, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x Redshank, 20x Curlew, 6x Oystercatcher, 4x Little Egret, Scaup, 20x Goldeneye, 6x Pochard, 16x Gadwall, 22x Shoveler, 40x Teal, 32x Shelduck, 20x Little Grebe, 2x Water Rail, Green Woodpecker, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 6x Willow Warbler, (JWo, CEc, Dean, SBI)

                                                         Water Pipit by Jon Woodcock

Radford Meadows Stafford

2x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 50x Shoveler, 1w Common Gull, 2x House Martin, (RSw)

Alvecote

Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 2x Swallow, (MSc)

Wolseley

Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail in flooded fields beside the River Trent, (MJo)

Chatterley Whitfield

Grasshopper Warbler, Cetti's Warbler both towards the north end,  Blackcap, 2x Willow Warbler, (CBo)