Tuesday, 29 April 2025

Tuesday 29th April 2025

Blithfield Resv

Spotted Redshank Admaston Reach then flew east, (GJM)  -  Probable Little Tern Blithe Bay, Dunlin, 3x Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, 

                                                      Spotted Redshank by GJ Mant

Branston GPs

25x Ruff, Whimbrel, Redshank, Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 6x Oystercatcher, Ringed Plover, 28x Lapwing, Little Egret, 2x Mandarin, 24x Shelduck, 10x Egyptian Geese, White-cheeked Pintail, Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, Cuckoo, 3x Hobby, 2x Gropper, 4x Garden Warbler, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Stonechat, (JWo, CEc, BSt)

Belvide Resv

2x Cattle Egret

Uttoxeter 

Red Kite over Waitrose at 11:20, (AR)

Rudyard

2x Common Sandpiper on west shore, (Laxmi)

Middleton Lakes

2x Wood Sandpiper still, Greenshank, 4x Common Tern, Yellow Wagtail, (SPA)  -  also 3x Hobby, (SB)

Weston Coyney

Red Kite over at 10:45, (SFe)

Longsdon Mill Pool

Wheatear, Oystercatcher (ALa)

Wolseley Centre

Common Tern, Cetti's Warbler, (CAFH)

Croxden Quarry

Caspian Gull (near adult) at 17:20, (RPo)

                                                              By Richard Powell

Upper Tean

Red Kite at 17:30, (RPo)

Burton

2x Swift over Clarence St, (AJa)

Trentham Gardens

2x Mandarin, (DCo)

Stanley Pool

Male Wheatear,  (GBr)

Whitemoor Haye

Greenshank roadside pit, (JAl)  -  This evening 2x Redshank, Greenshank, calling Cuckoo, (SCo)

Doxey Marsh

Site record count of 131x singing Sedge Warbler in public areas, Common Tern, Great Egret, Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, (RSt)  -  Also 32x Cetti's Warblers counted in public areas, 

Tucklesholme

Wheatear, (AP)  -  3x Common Tern along the Trent beside the reserve, (JTu)