Friday, 22 August 2025

Friday 22nd August 2025

Middleton Lakes

2x Garganey still on west scrape, (GG)  -  Marsh Harrier, 3x Greenshank thru, 4x Ruff, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Green Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 11x LRP, Redshank, 22x Snipe, 2x Garganey, 2x Hobby, 34x Swift, (SPA)

Blithfield Resv

12x Crossbill Blithe Bay, (GJM, MDJ)  -  Early am 16x Ruff, 2x Greenshank, 2x Dunlin, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, Ringed Plovers, LRP, Wheatear, Yellow Wagtails, ad YL Gull, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, (PAn)  -  Additionally 2x juv Med Gull, 11x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Redshank, 197x GC Grebe, (MDJ)

Brindley Ford

2x Redstart, Garden Warbler, Willow Tit, (CBo)

Whitemoor Haye

Spotted Flycatcher in Orchard, (SCo)

Belvide Resv

2x Greenshank, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 9x Little Egret, 7x Great Egret, 2x juv Redstart in bushes near the dam, 7x Pochard,  Lesser Scaup, 15x Yellow Wagtail, 

Tittesworth Water

Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, 9x Goosander, 8x Mandarin, (SGi)

Rudyard

3x Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Ringed Plover, 6x LRP, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Grey Wagtail, 25x Teal, 56x Linnet, (SGi)

                                                            Ruffs by Steve Gibson

Branston GPs

Sandwich Tern this evening, Crossbill, 2x Tree Pipit, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Swift, 10x Snipe, 6x Curlew, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, LRP, Dunlin, 86x Lapwing, 2x Great Egret, 15x Little Egret, Goosander, 9x Mandarin, 114x Pochard, 142x Gadwall, 44x Shoveler, 77x Teal, 15x Egyptian Geese, 94x Little Grebe, 3x Common Tern (2juv), YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Red Kite, Peregrine, 2x Hobby, (JWo, DSc)

                                                     Sandwich Tern by Jon Woodcock

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