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Friday, 18 April 2025

Friday 18th April 2025

Belvide Resv

Black Tern at 08:23 but no sign after 10:15, fem Ring Ouzel briefly at 10:35, 

Tucklesholme

Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, 3x Groppers, Great Egret, 3x Goosander, Mandarin on river, 2x Egyptian Geese, Whitethroat, Red Warbler, Sedge Warbler, (PAn)  -  Whinchat still at first pond by railway line, (TWy)

Middleton Lakes

2x Wheatear, Whinchat, Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, (SPA)  -  Bittern, Gropper, Reed Warblers, Garden Warbler, Whitethroat, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Redshank, Snipe, Red Kite, (@Ochreros)

Blithfield Resv

Little Tern off Yeatsall Bank, (GJM, MDJ)  -  Black Tern at deep end at 15:45, (RPo)  -  2x Yellow Wagtail, (PAn)

Gailey Resv

2x Little Egret, 3x Common Sandpiper, (JIs)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Avocet south down river, White Wagtail, (ICW)  -  16:00 to 17:00 3x Ringed Plover, 5x LRP, 9x Oystercatcher, 2x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Redshank, Wheatear, 3x Shelduck, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)

Stafford Astonfields Balancing Resv

Garden Warbler, Whitethroat, 2x Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Blackcaps, Willow Warbler, (RSt)  -  Technology Park Lesser Whitethroat, (RSt)

Doxey Marsh

Oystercatcher, Water Rail, Reed Warbler, 5x Whitethroat, Sedge Warblers, Cetti's Warblers, Blackcaps, (RSt)  -  additional Yellow Wagtail, Gropper, (RRa)

Berryhill

Wheatear, Garden Warbler, Whitethroats, (RTo)  -  Sedge Warbler, (IBu)

Upper Hulme

Red Kite over A53 at 11:40, (DCo

Rudyard

Osprey at 09:00 heading north, (SSe, PJ)

Stanley Pool

LRP, 3x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Tittesworth Water

2x Garden Warbler, 8x Blackcap, 15x Willow Warbler, 2x Red Kite, Snipe, (SGi, KH)

Branston GPs

Marsh Harrier, 2x Goldeneye, 2x Pochard, 7x Shelduck, 8x Shoveler, Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, 4x Whitethroat, Gropper, 5x Blackcap, 500+House Martin, 2x Egyptian Geese, Grey Wagtail, (MKe, JKe, Lda)  -  4x Whimbrel, 2x Curlew, Greenshank, Redshank, Dunlin, Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 7x Oystercatcher, 14x Lapwing, Cattle Egret, Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, 2x Goldeneye, 8x Pochard, 2x Mandarin, 30x Shelduck, 33x Little Grebe, ad YL Gull, Peregrine, 3x Garden Warbler, 5x Gropper, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 7x Yellow Wagtail,, 20x House Martin, 500x Sand Martin, 2x Stonechat, 8x Linnet, (DSc, JWo, BSt, ASt)

North Staffs Moors

Pied Flycatcher, Curlews, Lapwings, 8x Swallow, (SHi)

Chasewater

100+ Swallows, 6x House Martin, Common Sandpiper, Grey Wagtail, (BCh)