Sunday, 24 August 2025

Sunday 24th August 2025

Stanley Pool

Little Stint on east side this am, LRP, Lapwing and a Hobby over, 3x Red Kite, (GBr)

Uttoxeter Quarry

2x Ruff, Ringed Plover, 3x Curlew, 3x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 7x Little Egret, Shelduck, 2x Mandarin, (RPo)

Middleton Lakes

2x Garganey, 6x Goosander, Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, Black-tailed Godwit, 22x Snipe, Greenshank, 3x Ruff, Green Sandpiper, 2x Great Egret, 2x Hobby, (MSm)

Branston GPs

Great Egret, 12x Little Egret, 160x Pochard, 120x Gadwall, Mandarin, 40x Shoveler, Peregrine, Red Kite, Common Sandpiper, Snipe, 90x Lapwing, 9x Curlew, ad YL Gull, 3x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Swift, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, (DSc)  -  Additional SMP2/Deer Field 2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Green Woodpecker, 2x Red Kite, 2x Peregrine, 2x Hobby, c30x  Linnet, Grey Wagtail, (JWo)

Tittesworth Water

Female Marsh Harrier this am,  35x Mandarin, 4x Oystercatcher, 5x Lapwing, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Red Kite, Peregrine, (JOa, LH, TE)

Rudyard

3x Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, 8x Ringed Plover, 8x LRP, Yellow Wagtail, 4x Grey Wagtail, Peregrine, 31x Teal, (SGi)

Blithfield Resv

2x Ruddy Shelduck, 16x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, 3x Greenshank,  3x Dunlin, 12x LRP, 4x Ringed Plover, 15x Ruff, 6x Little Egret, Caspian Gull, (SE, HF)

Alvecote

Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, (MSc)

Cheddleton Heath

Red Kite very low over at 17:10, (PCa)

Thorncliffe

Barn Owl this evening, (TEe)