Monday, 4 May 2026

Monday 4th May 2026

Blithfield Resv

06:15 - 10:45 Little Tern off Beech Tree Point at 06:30, c37 Common Tern,  3x Cattle Egret, 2x Great Egret, Ruddy Shelduck, Marsh Harrier, 2x Red Kite, 1s Caspian Gull, 10x Ringed Plover, Sanderling, 3x Dunlin, (SRi, GJM, MPR)

Lordship Lane

Early am - Wood Sandpiper, 3x Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 2x Shelduck, (RTo, BMo)

Belvide Resv

2x Black-necked Grebe, Sanderling, 3x Greenshank, Wood Sandpiper, 

Whitemoor Haye

Ruff, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Dunlin on roadside pit, LRP,  (SCo, PAn)  -  8x Dunlin, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper at 11:30, (MBr)

Branston GPs

Bar-tailed Godwit on Ashy pit, 6+ Dunlin, 8x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, YL Gull, (PAn)  20:00 evening update - Bar-tailed Godwit still, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, Great Egret, Mandarin, 4x Teal, 12x Pochard, Peregrine, 2x Common Tern, Yellow Wagtail, Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Linnet, Siskin, (DSc)

Freehay

11x Mandarin on the pond, (FCa)

Tucklesholme

12x Cattle Egrets in fields opposite the wading ponds, Gropper reeling, 3x Yellow Wagtail, (TWy)

Doxey Marsh

Yellow Wagtail, 2x Gropper, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, 5x Whitethroat, 17x Reed Warbler, Sedge Warblers, 2x Common Tern, LRP, Goosander, Shoveler, 2x Water Rail, Swift, (RSt)  -  4x Shelduck, 3x Shoveler, 15x Gadwall, 6x Swift, 2x LRP, Oystercatcher, Snipe, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Lapwing, 2x Common Tern, 4x GC Grebe, Little Egret, c30 House Martin, Sedge Warblers, Reed Warblers, Whitethroat, Blackcap, (CAFH)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Turnstone at 12:40, (RPo)

Middleton Lakes

Whimbrel first thing but flushed by a Peregrine, 7x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 3x Cuckoo, (SPA)

Trentham Gardens

12x Swift, (DGl)