Monday, 7 April 2025

Monday 7th April 2025

Returning Staffs 2025 Arrival

Dimmingsdale (Alton)

Male Pied Flycatcher this am, (TEy)

Belvide Resv

8x ad Little Gull, Sedge Warbler,

Stanley Pool

LRP, 3x Oystercatcher, Goosander, (GBr)

Himley Great Pool

2x Oystercatcher briefly to 11:20 only, (CTi)

Middleton Lakes

Fem type Marsh Harrier, 14x Avocet, Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP, 5+ Redshank, 4x Oystercatcher, 13x Snipe, 2x Bittern, Great Egret, 4x Shelduck, 2x Swallow, (SPA)

Barton Marina

10x Wigeon, (SCo)

Sneyd Green

Osprey over heading north at 15:25, (JOa)

North Staffs Moors

Ring Ouzel, 4x Wheatear, (NDP)

Chasewater

Goshawk flew in across from the Burntwood bypass and flew around the boggy heathland behind the sailing club, 21x Chiffchaff, 11x Willow Warbler, 5x Blackcap, (CMa, LRM)

Branston Leas

Cattle Egret flew up from cattle field, (TWy)

Whitemoor Haye

Slavonian Grebe and the 2x Whooper Swan still, Curlew, 6x Gadwall, 6x Shelduck, 7x Pochard, 2x Wigeon, 3x Goldeneye, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)  -  2x LRP, 4x Yellowhammer, 7x Little Grebe, c20x Linnet, 2x Cetti's Warbler, many Chiffchaff, Skylark, (TSl)

                                                     Yellowhammer by Tony Slater

Burton

Avocet feeding on the patio of a residential garden in Horninglow this am,  (film received by BSt, ASt)

Biddulph

2x Oystercatcher, 4x Lapwing at 17:00, (SHa)

Berryhill

2x Stonechat, Lapwing, (IBu)

Branston GPs

Cattle Egret flew from South Pit to Tucklesholme at 19:30, Reed Warbler singing from the canal plantation, Great Egret, Little Egret, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, Snipe, 2x Curlew, 4x Oystercatcher, 24x Lapwing, 28x Shelduck, 9x Goldeneye, 6x Pochard, 38x Shoveler, 31x Gadwall, 70x Teal, 16x Wigeon, 2x Egyptian Geese, 24x Little Grebe, 20x GC Grebe, Green Woodpecker, 12x Linnet, 2x Redpoll, Grey Wagtail, Stonechat, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 8x Willow Warbler, 8x Swallow, 80x Sand Martin, (JWo)

Trentham Lakes

Cetti's Warbler still, (LSt)