Friday 21 April 2017

Friday 21st April 2017

Berryhill
1x Little Grebe, 1x Water Rail, 3x Wheatear, 1x Whitethroat, (@PhilLocker)

Belvide Res (WMBC Members Only)
Whimbrel, 2x Little Ringed Plover, 8x Common Sandpiper, 3x Common Tern, 4x Wheatear, 9x White Wagtail, 2x Whitethroat (@NigelCarp2008)

Bignall Hill, Red Street.
8x Wheatear, male Stonechat, 3x Fieldfare, high numbers of Skylark (@JohnMathers1)

River Sow Meadows
2x Lesser Whitethroat, Reed Warbler, male Goosander & 2x Fallow Deer Stags (@RobSwift5)

Sugar Loaf Farm, Iverley
Redstart. 4x Wheatear, 15x House Martin, 2x Sand Martin (@StourBirder)

Cuckoo Bank 
Redstart, Cuckoo, Grasshopper Warbler (@GrantHames)

Stafford 
Swift over Common Road (JJH)

Coombes Valley
3x Pied Flycatcher (c/o the warden)


Middleton Lakes
47x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Common Tern, 2x Dunlin (@atkinson_steve)

Highgate Common
Tree Pipit present (HKi)

Branston
3x Whitethroat, 2x Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, 2x Curlew, 2x Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, 20x Teal (JW)

Cannock Chase
1x rufous Cuckoo this morning (DNe)

Uttoxeter Quarry
1x Pink-footed Goose, 4x Goldeneye, 4x Goosander, 4x Gadwell (@rpintean)

Chasewater
tristis Chiffchaff still present on the bog at Norton (@CWG_sightings)