Sunday, 20 May 2018

20th May

Dordon - Red Kite (J Morgan).
Birchmoor - Red Kite, Yellow Wagtail and possible Common Sandpiper (M Scott).
RSPB Middleton (Staffs) - Yellow Wagtail, 3 Little Ringed Plover & 9 Ringed Plover including a group of 6 which headed off North.
RSPB Middleton (Warks) - Cuckoo [play meadow].
Alvecote - Little Tern [Mill Pool] (R Smith).

Saturday, 19 May 2018

19th May

RSPB Middleton (Staffs) - 2 Ringed Plover, Little Ringed Plover & 3 Egyptian Geese (S Atkinson), Snipe, drake Teal, Hobby, Mediterranean Gull and Cuckoo (G Williams).
Birchmoor - Ruff (R Smith).

Friday, 18 May 2018

18th May

RSPB Middleton (Staffs) - Mediterranean Gull & 2 Hobby (S Cawthray), drake Teal and female Wigeon still.

Thursday, 17 May 2018

17th May

Birchmoor - Sanderling, Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 2 Little Ringed Plover in flooded field (R Smith), Little Stint evening (A Archer) Also 3 Yellow Wagtail.
RSPB Middleton (Staffs) - Black Tern, Dunlin, 3 Ringed Plover, Little Ringed Plover [Jubilee Wetlands], pair Goosander [river] (S Atkinson), 2 Cuckoo & Mediterranean Gull [Fishers Mill] (C Workman).

Wednesday, 16 May 2018

16th May

KWP - Minimum of 413 Black-Headed Gull nests & Cuckoo [Cliff & Canal Pools], 4 Oystercatcher [Bodymoor Heath Water] (S Haynes).
Shustoke Res - Hobby (S Haynes).
Birchmoor - Sanderling in flooded field (R Smith).
RSPB Middleton (Staffs) - Wheatear, 3 Egyptian Geese, female Wigeon [Jubilee Wetlands], pair Goosander [river], 1-2 Cuckoo (G Williams).

Tuesday, 15 May 2018

15th May

RSPB Middleton (Staffs) - Dunlin, 2 Hobby, 4 Ringed Plover, 8 Common Tern, Egyptian Goose (S Atkinson), Yellow Wagtail & Mediterranean Gull.
KWP Cliff Pool - Cuckoo
Alvecote - 2 Raven, 2 Common Tern and Wigeon still (M Scott).

Monday, 14 May 2018

14th May

RSPB Middleton (Staffs) - 4 Dunlin [Jubilee Wetlands] (K Sargent).

Sunday, 13 May 2018

13th May

RSPB Middleton (Staffs) - 3 Dunlin, 2 Ringed Plover, 2 Little Ringed Plover [Jubilee Wetlands], Pochard & Egyptian Goose [Dosthill NR] (R Strong), 3 Hobby over & drake Goosander on [River] (C Hiles), Snipe [East Screen] & Mediterranean Gull [Fishers Mill].
RSPB Middleton (Warks) - c.3 Cuckoo [Fishers Mill and River area] (R Strong).
Shustoke Res - Yellow Wagtail (P Forbes).
Alvecote - Avocet [Mill Pool] & Dunlin [Railway Pool] (F Savage per @birdsofalvecote).

Saturday, 12 May 2018

12th May

RSPB Middleton (Staffs) - 2 Dunlin, 2 Common Sandpiper, 5 Ringed Plover  Marsh Harrier 7.15am [over Jubilee Wetlands] (S Atkinson) - this is a different bird to the one seen on the 5th. Mediterranean Gull [Fishers Mill] and Cuckoo (M Cottingham).
KWP South - Arctic Tern and 4 Common Tern [Bodymoor Heath Water], Cuckoo [Mill Meadow] (M Pollock).
KWP Cliff Pool - Common Sandpiper (T Perrins).
Birchmoor - 12 Yellow Wagtail & 3 Little Ringed Plover (R Smith).

Friday, 11 May 2018

11th May

RSPB Middleton (Staffs) - Grey Plover, Mediterranean Gull & 2 Yellow Wagtail (P Forbes). TEMMINCK'S STINT 1.30pm [West Screen], Greenshank (J&P Hughes), Whinchat [between screens] (R Pugh). Dunlin and an increase in Ringed Plover and Little Ringed Plover numbers.
Shustoke Res - 300+ Swift and 200+ Hirundines (P Forbes).

Temminck's Stint was still present at dusk and on Jubilee Wetlands South, best viewed from between the screens.