Saturday, 5 April 2025

Saturday 5th April 2025

Returning Staffs 2025 Arrival

Belvide Resv

5x Little Gull off the dam, 

Gailey Resv

Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, Shoveler, 2x Oystercatcher, 19x Sand Martin, 8x Fieldfare over and nearby at Mansty Lane 132x Fieldfare, (SRi)

Whitemoor Haye

Slavonian Grebe still from opposite quarry entrance, 2x Whooper Swan still from S bends near Sittles farm, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 6x Little Grebe, 4x GC Grebe, Redshank, Green Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 2x Great Egret, 38x Shoveler, 3x Wigeon, 6x Gadwall, 2x Willow Warbler, 30x Swallow, 2x House Martin, 5x Sand Martin, 14x Fieldfare thru,  (SCo)

Doxey Marsh

2x LRP, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Snipe,  female Marsh Harrier, 8x House Martin, 4x Swallow, 42x Sand Martin, 2x Willow Warbler, 4x Blackcap, 8x Cetti's Warblers, 2x Shelduck, 40x Teal, 20x Gadwall, 12x Shoveler, 2x Little Egret, (MBo, GPr, RRa)

Mere Farm

Marsh Harrier heading high NE, Red Kite, Swallows, House Martins, Sand Martins, (WN)

Berryhill

Female Wheatear, 2x Sand Martin, (JOa)

Tittesworth Water

Garganey, 4x LRP, 3x Snipe, 5x Oystercatcher, 2x Goosander, 2x Mandarin, 6x Teal, 2x Willow Warbler, 11x Chiffchaff, (SGi, IB)

Longsdon Mill Pool

2x Wheatear, (SGi)

Bobbington

Redstart, (WN)

Blithfield Resv

3x Great Egret, Ruff, Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, (MJa)

Cannock Chase

Cuckoo this morning, called 3 times at the back of Castle Ring, (GTa)  -  4x Swallow, 21x Linnet, 3x Greenfinch, Red Kite, (MKe, JKe)

Rugeley

Red Kite drifting over towards Wolseley at 16:35, (AFi)

Branston GPs

20x Shelduck, 14x Wigeon, 30x Shoveler, Pochard, 6x Goldeneye, Oystercatcher, 6x Curlew, 11x Lapwing, Ringed Plover, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Swallow, 40x Sand Martin, Yellow Wagtail thru north, White Wagtail, Stonechat, Willow Warbler, 12x Linnet, 5x Redpoll, (DSc)

JCB Rocester

29x Barnacle Geese, 2x GC Grebe, Oystercatcher, (JDr)

Rudyard Lake

 Swallow this afternoon, (Laxmi)

Picherills Hill Womborne

Wheatear, (GCl)

Swindon

Green Sandpiper, Goosander at the flood, (GCl)

Staffs Moorlands

2x Curlew, (SHi)

Alrewas NMA

2x Oystercatcher, 2x Little Egret, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Swallow, 15x Sand Martin, Willow Warbler, (JWo)

Wychnor

Redshank, 2x Ringed Plover, 5x Lapwing, Little Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese, (JWo)