Thursday 4th July 2024

Stanley Pool

2x Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Stoke

Lordship Lane - Greenshank, 3x Shelduck still, (RGi)

Moddershall

Red Kite, (J)

Doxey Marsh

Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Gadwall, 3x Shelduck, 2x Shoveler, Cetti's Warbler, (CAFH)

Branston GPs

1s Little Gull, 9x Curlew, 4x Common Sandpiper, 10x Oystercatcher, 72x Lapwing, Ringed Plover, 11x Little Egret, 8x Pochard, 32x Gadwall, Wigeon (m), 13x Teal, 8x Shoveler, 5x Shelduck, 6x Mandarin, 8x Egyptian Geese, 28x Little Grebe, 31x Common Tern, YL Gull, Hobby, Green Woodpecker, Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, 4x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Belvide Resv

Osprey 14:08 to 14:20 before heading east.

Wednesday 3rd July 2024

Tittesworth Water

Juv Redstart, 4x Common Tern, 5x Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, (SGi).

Radford Meadows Stafford

A rather unseasonable Tundra Bean Goose of unknown origin, 5x Teal, Wigeon, 43x Lapwing, (CDa)

Tucklesholme and Branston Leas

4x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, 5x Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, 2x Shelduck, 26x Egyptian Geese, 7x GC Grebe, Gropper, 5x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Branston GPs

8x Little Egret, 3x Shelduck, Wigeon, 8x Shoveler, 36x Gadwall, 14x Teal, 26x Pochard, Curlew, 6x Oystercatcher, 2x Ringed Plover, Redshank, Common Sandpiper, 6x Common Tern, 50x Swift, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, (DSc)

Tuesday 2nd July 2024

Middleton Lakes

Female Marsh Harrier, Hobby, 2x Ringed Plover, 8x LRP, juv Redshank, (MSm)

Stoke

Lordship Lane - 3x Shelduck, Common Sandpiper, (RGi)

Endon - Denford

3x Green Woodpecker, Willow Tit, 3x Mandarin over, Green Sandpiper, Oystercatchers, (DCo)

Handsacre

Red Kite, (GSt)

Radford Meadows Stafford

3x Little Egret, Oystercatcher, (IWi)

Blithfield Resv

Red Kite over east at 08:45, (JTu)  -  2x Great Egret, Little Egret, Wigeon, 20x Common Tern, (RCB)

Alvecote

Common Tern, 2x Little Egret, 20x Swift, (MSc)

Branston GPs

Red Kite, Hobby, 1s Little Gull, Curlew, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 10x Oystercatcher, 38x Lapwing, 18x Little Egret, 67x Pochard, Wigeon (m), 31x Gadwall, 18x Teal, 6x Mandarin, 7x Shelduck, 9x Egyptian Geese, 42x Little Grebe, 36x Common Tern, ad YL Gull, Water Rail, (JWo, CEc, Dean George)

Monday 1st July 2024

Stanley Pool

Common Tern at 05:50, 7x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Stoke

Lordship Lane - Black-tailed Godwit, (RGi)

Whiston

4x Red Kite again at The Leys this morning, (GSt)

Tittesworth Water

Great Egret, Red Kite, 5x Goosander, 4x Common Sandpiper, 3x Common Tern, 36x Lapwing, (SGi, AG)

Tucklesholme

Red Kite, Redshank, LRPs, (TWy)  -  also 8x Egyptian Geese, (CMa, RF)

Branston GPs

Black-tailed Godwit, Redshank, 6x Oystercatcher, Ringed Plover, 5x Little Egret, 4x Egyptian Geese, 2x Shelduck, 3x Mandarin, 4x Common Tern, (CMa, RF)  -  Little Gull, Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, 2x Redshank (one juv), 3x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 9x Oystercatcher, Ringed Plover, 3x Curlew, 43x Lapwing, 25x Little Egret, 56x Pochard, Wigeon (m), 6x Mandarin (5 juvs), 8x Shoveler, 26x Teal, 28x Gadwall, 8x Shelduck (4 ducklings), 13x Egyptian Geese, 42x Little Grebe, 39x Common Tern, YL Gull (ad), 2x Green Woodpecker, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 60x Swift, (JWo)

                                                    Black-tailed Godwit by Jon Woodcock

Belvide Resv

Wood Sandpiper still, Black-tailed Godwit, 

River Sow Meadows Baswich - Milford

Juv Redstart, 5x Little Egret, Oystercatcher, Cetti's Warbler, Teal, (RSw)