Monday, 14 April 2025

Monday 14th April 2025

Chatterley Whitfield

3x Whitethroat, (SHi)

Blithfield Resv

Wheatear, Common Tern, (GJM)  -  also 6x Yellow Wagtail between St Stephen's Bay and Old Acre Bay, (RCB)

WMI near Four Ashes

8x Whitethroat, (JDu)

Biddulph

Willow Tit, Oystercatcher, (SHi)

Hixon Airfield

2x Yellow Wagtail, (RCB)

Chasewater

200-300x Sand Martin, 2x Swallow, House Martin, Whitethroat, (CMa, LRM)  -  Common Sandpiper flying along western shore, (SWa)  -  700x Sand Martins pre roost, (CW)

Botteslow

Common Sandpiper, Little Egret and nearby a Wheatear from the Palletstacks, 

Whitemoor Haye

2x Whooper Swan still, Red Kite, Common Sandpiper, 5x LRP, 2x Redshank, Cetti's Warbler, (JAl)

Endon - Denford

2x Grasshopper Warbler, 2x Whitethroat, 2x Green Woodpecker, 3x Mandarin, Little Egret, Swallow, (DCo)

Branston GPs

11x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Grasshopper Warbler, 4x House Martin, 29x Swallow, c500x House Martin, Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Curlew, 4x Oystercatcher, 17x Lapwing, Great Egret, Little Egret, 3x Goldeneye, 2x Pochard, 12x Shoveler, 28x Gadwall, Mandarin, 26x Shelduck, 30x Teal, 6x Egyptian Geese, 16x Little Grebe, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Sedge Warbler, 2x Reed Warbler, 2x Stonechat,  JWo, CEc)

Tucklesholme

Common Sandpiper, 8x LRP, 8x Gadwall, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Sedge Warbler, 3x Reed Warbler, (JWo)

Middleton Lakes

White Stork over this evening, (AJo)

                                                                  By Alan Johnson

                                                                   By Alan Johnson

Trentham Lakes

Garden Warbler, (LSt)