Tame Valley Birding: June 2012

Friday, 29 June 2012

Ladywalk - Redstart nr Bittern Hide (S Cawthray)

RSPB - Red-Crested Pochard (m) still New Reedbed Pool (J Allen)

RSPB - 10 Black-Tailed Godwit, 2 Green Sandpiper, 5 Shoveler North End. Red-Crested Pochard(m) still New Reedbed Pool (G Williams)

RSPB - Red-Crested Pochard(m) New Reedbed Pool (G A Williams) Also 2 Hobby, Little Egret, 2 Yellow Wagtail (G Williams)

Whitacre Heath - Red Kite over (L Wimbush)
RSPB - Green Sandpiper, 4 Teal, Shoveler North End (G Williams)

Alvecote - Short-Eared Owl on Shuttington Bridge 7.00 am (A Archer)

Whitacre Heath - Short-Eared Owl hunting flashes 7pm (P Casey)

Kingsbury - Egyptian Goose still Cliff Pool (S Cawthray)

Kingsbury - Egyptian Goose, Hobby Cliff Pool (Bobby D) Yesterday Green Sandpiper, 2 Ringed Plover, Gadwall (f + brood of 6) (W Eley)

Shustoke - Arctic Tern(ad) with 35+ Common Tern. Also 2 1st Sum prob Arctic Terns present. 500 Swift (TP)

RSPB - 10 Crossbill over Entrance Track (S Haynes) 2 Dunlin, Yellow Wagtail North End (G Williams)

RSPB - 2 Dunlin, 3 Ringed Plover, Wigeon(m), Teal(m), 4 Shoveler (3m,f), Yellow Wagtail North End (TP, G Williams)

Kingsbury - 4 Hobby Canal Pool (S Cawthray)
Middleton - pr Shelduck + 12 small young (only 5 yesterday!) (R Henderson, TP)