Tuesday, 8 April 2025

Tuesday 8th April 2025

Stanley Pool

Male Redstart and male Wheatear in fields south end of lake, male Yellow Wagtail by boats, (GBr)

Middleton Lakes

Reed Warbler singing from causeway, White Wagtail, Avocets, LRP, Willow Warblers (GG)

Blithfield Resv

4x Little Gull briefly of BTP at 11:30, (GJM)  -  4x Great Egret, LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, 5x Shelduck, (CMa, RF)

Wombourne

Pickerills Hill - Ring Ouzel this am, (ADe)

Baggeridge Pool

Reed Warbler (per Trish)

Trentham Estate

Green Woodpecker near the monument, (AR)

Burston Marsh

5x LRP, Little Egret, (AEa)

Essington Pool area

Whitethroat, Blackcap, Skylarks, (DBa)

Berryhill

Wheatear at the Palletstacks mound, (BBo)

Whitemoor Haye

Slavonian Grebe still, Green Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, Willow Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, Blackcap, Shelduck, (PJT)  -  3x Yellowhammer 2x Ringed Plover, Whitethroat at Sittles farm corner, (CMa, RF)

Branston GPs

Little Egret, Curlew, 2x Wigeon, 5x Shelduck, (CMa, RF)  -  2x Redshank, 4x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 7x Curlew, 20x Lapwing, 4x Oystercatcher, 4x Little Egret, 6x Pochard, Mandarin, 36x Shelduck, 6x Egyptian Geese, 32x Little Grebe, 20x GC Grebe, Peregrine, Reed Warbler, 10x Willow Warbler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 7x Swallow, 100x Sand Martin, 14x Linnet, White Wagtail, Stonechat, (JWo, George)

Belvide Resv

4x adult Little Gull still, Ruff, 2x Redshank, Curlew, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 5x LRP, 

Gailey

Red Kite soaring over the A5 between Gailey Island  and Stretton at 12:45, (IGr)

Barton under Needwood

Swallow at Bar Lane, (KBi)