Friday 11 September 2015

Friday 11th September 2015

Middleton Lakes RSPB
Great White Egret Jubilee Wetlands (TVB)
also 8x Siskin, Hobby, Kestrel, 3x Little Egret, Wood Sandpiper, 4x Chiffchaff, Cetti's Warbler & Holly Blue (GWR)

Branston Gravel Pits
2x Great White Egret on south pit this afternoon, also 2x Little Egret, 12x Ruff, 3x Green Sandpiper, 8x Snipe, 14x Curlew, 2x Water Rail, 34x Little Grebe, 21x Great Crested Grebe, 11x Shoveler, 15x Pochard & Kingfisher (JWo, MCa, DSc)
Jon Woodcock

Blithfield Res
3x Black Tern (GJM) - also Osprey still, Hobby, Little Egret, 3x Yellow Wagtail. 5x Dunlin 4x Ringed Plover, Whinchat, Little Owl (BC LC)
also Common Crane, Little Stint, Pintail, c4 Wigeon, 2x Greenshank, 2x Little Egret & Pink-footed Goose (RBe)

Chatterley Valley
Little Egret again at 10:00 on stream from Whitfield Road (JJ)

Otherton Paddocks
4x Whinchat, Wheatear (SRi)

Gailey Res
Juvenile hybrid Mediterranean Gull x Black-headed Gull again this afternoon, also 3x Wigeon, Hobby, c2 Kingfisher & 12x Meadow Pipit south (SRi)

Berryhill
Stonechat, 2x Whinchat, 2x Redstart, Wheatear, 3x Snipe, Whitethroat (RT)

Tittesworth Res
11x Wigeon, Common Sandpiper, 8x Teal & 2x Chiffchaff (SGi)