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Monday, 5 May 2025

Monday 5th May 2025

Returning Staffs 2025 Arrival

Belvide Resv

3x Black-necked Grebe, 2x Garganey, 2x Whimbrel, Arctic Tern thru Osprey over at 09:35, Great Egret, 7x Common Sandpiper,  500-600x Swift, 

Gailey Resv

Osprey 09:10 to 09:16 then headed west, 2x Common Tern, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, (SRi)

Rudyard

Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Garden Warbler, (TEe)

Silverdale

Quail heard at waste farm meadows, Common Sandpiper, 2x Stonechat, Also a escaped Red-tailed Hawk in the copse of trees just off High Lane CP.(PCa)

Apedale

Cuckoo heard, (PCa)

Tittesworth Water

Bar-tailed Godwit still, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker and in the general area a Little Owl on private land, very scarce in this area, (SGi)

                                                     Bar-tailed Godwit by Steve Gibson

        
                                                               Little Owl by Steve Gibson

Burston

Red Kite over at 16:00, (SBe)

Blithfield Resv

Blithe Bay, 2x Arctic Tern, c60x Common Tern, Whimbrel  over south, 3x Ringed Plover, 6x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Great Egret, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (SRi)

Huntington

Hobby low over the Barns pub, (SRi)

Branston GPs

Cattle Egret (Ashy pit), Mandarin, 20x Shelduck, 22x Pochard, 2x Shoveler, Peregrine, Hobby, Redshank, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, 100x Swift, 4x House Martin, 2x Stonechat, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, (DSc, PFo)

Cheddleton

Whimbrel over calling at midnight heading north, (DSc)