Wednesday 3 April 2024

Wednesday 3rd April 2024

Middleton Lakes

Green-winged Teal on JW north, (MSm)  -  also 2x Avocet, Redshank, Blackcap, (NSl)

Chasewater

GN Diver, Shag, 5x Goldeneye, 18x GC Grebe, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Swallow, 30x Sand Martin, 3x Blackcap from south shore and dam, (CW)  -  early afternoon 70x Sand Martin, 2x Swallow, (GHa)

Branston GPs

1w Little Gull still on SMP2 viewed from Small Meadows Lane, Male Scaup, Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 4x Ringed Plover, 2x Redshank, 14x Curlew, 3x Oystercatcher, 3x Little Egret, 36x Goldeneye, 16x Pochard, 25x Shelduck, 18x Gadwall, 14x Wigeon, 18x Shoveler, 120x Teal, 2x Mandarin, 33x Little Grebe, Common Gull, 100x Fieldfare, 5x Cetti's Warbler, Willow Warbler, White Wagtail, 30x Swallow, 250x Sand Martin, 4x Redpoll, (JWo, CEc, Dean, SBl )

                                                          Scaup by Jon Woodcock

Trentham

Osprey heading north, (Blu)

Blithfield Resv

Sandwich Tern still, but mostly distant of Beech Tree Point, (PFo), RCB)

Radford Meadows Stafford

Yellow Wagtail, Swallow, Cetti's Warbler, 10x Shelduck, (RSw)