Thursday 21 April 2016

Thursday 21st April 2016

Newcastle
3x probable Little Egret over Basford heading north at 06:00 (STu)

Middleton Lakes RSPB
Swift, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, LR Plover, Common Sandpiper, Oystercatchers, Avocets, 4x Common Tern (@RSPBMiddleton), Also 3x Grasshopper Warblers, 6x Sedge Warblers, 5x Reed Warblers, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Common Whitethroat, 5+ Cetti's Warbler, 2x Great-crested Newt, Yellow-bellied Slider in the canal (JW)

Westport
Peregrine over north at 06:05 (KSt)

Fenton Park
Male Pied Flycatcher still in Fenton Park c100yds towards football pitch from tennis courts at 8pm. Short-eared Owl on Berryhill by mast (RBA)

Doxey Marshes
2x Sedge Warbler, 2x Little Ringed Plover, 6x Gadwall, 2x Shelduck & Cetti's Warbler (ABa)

Codsall
Corn Bunting & 3x Wheatear along Pendeford Hall Lane (JDu)