First returning birds to Staffs 2024
Branston GPs
2x Ringed Plover in Ashy pit, (CEc) – 2x Cattle Egret in the sheep field opposite SMP2 viewed from the road leading to Dunstall cricket club, at 11:30 800x Lapwing2x ringed plover, 4x Curlew, (DSc) – 2x also Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 20x Curlew, 1100x Lapwing, 11x Goosander, 18x golden eyes, 8x Pochard, 7x Shelduck, 104x Wigeon, 6x by the way 100x Teal, 5x Egyptian Goose, 25x Little Grebe, Ad Caspian Gull, 8x YL Gull, 4x GBB Gold, 6x Common Gull, Peregrine, (JWo, CEc)
Ringed Plovers by Jon Woodcock
Burton on the Trent Washlands
At 11:55 20x Wigeon14x Common Gull with BHGs and LBBGs in floods behind Tesco view from St Peters bridge, (DSc)
Endon – Denford
3x Jack Snipe30x rift2x Little Egret yet, 2x Goosander, Woodcock(DCo)
Oakmoor
2x Dipper, (AM)
Cannock Chase
200x Siskin40x Crossbill(DBa, KM, ML, JS)
Stanley Poole
9x Goosander200x Lapwing, (GBr)
Chasewater
Iceland Gull, 2x Caspian Gull3x GN Dover, Shag, (Jal)
Radford Meadows Stafford
250x Golden Plover5x paint tail, 3x Goosander, (DB)
Belvide Resv
6x Dunlin5x Shelduck, 12x Pochard, 185x Wigeon, Red Kite,
