Tuesday, 15 April 2025

Tuesday 15th April 2025

Branston GPs

Cattle Egret, Great Egret, 7x Little Egret, 4x Greenshank, 3x Curlew, 2x Redshank, 12x Lapwing, 2x Common Sandpiper, 6x Oystercatcher, 24x Little Grebe, 6x GC Grebe, Mandarin, 4x Pochard, 3x Goldeneye, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, 14x Shelduck, Peregrine, imm male Marsh Harrier, 6x Egyptian Geese, 3x Grasshopper Warbler, 6x Cetti's Warbler, House Martin, 20x Swallow, 500x Sand Martin, 2x Stonechat, (BSt, JWo, CEc, DSc, George)

                                                      Cattle Egret by Jon Woodcock

Botteslow Flash

4x Little Egret at 06:30, (RTo)

Belvide Resv

Black-necked Grebe, 2x Dunlin, 7x LRP, Ringed Plover, 9x Common Sandpiper, 12x Shelduck, Great Egret, Yellow Wagtail, 

Blithfield Resv

3x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 5x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP, Curlew, 2x Shelduck, 2x Swallow, Egyptian Goose, (CMa, RF)  -  2x Common Scoter, (GJM)

Whitemoor Haye, 

2x Grasshopper Warbler, Whitethroats, Sedge Warbler, Willow Warblers, Cetti's Warbler, 4x Yellow Wagtail, 4x Swallow, House Martin, 4x LRP, (GHa)

Cannock Chase

4x Redstart, 2x Tree Pipit, Cuckoo heard, Goosander, (CMa, RF)   -  4x Redstart, 2x Tree Pipit, Red Kite, Willow Warblers, (TSl)

Tittesworth Water

Osprey over NW at 15:45, (RTo)

Churnet Valley

2x Pied Flycatcher, (BBo)

Alvecote

Little Egret, Goosander, Swallow, (MSc)

Berryhill

Male Wheatear "Lap Bunt" paddock this evening, (IBu)

Tucklesholme

2x Whinchat  near second viewing screen, 3x Reed Warbler, Grasshopper Warbler, 5x Sedge Warbler, 4x Whitethroat, 8x Cetti's Warbler, 2x LRP, 4x Oystercatcher, 3x Little Egret, Great Egret, 3x Shelduck, 6x Gadwall, Goosander, (BSa)

Chasewater

827x Sand Martin in the roost, (CW)

Trentham Lakes

Cetti's Warbler still and nearby Grasshopper Warbler at Hanford, (LSt)