27th April

Walked along the River Severn from Buildwas to Cressage Bridge in the morning where birds included good totals of 22 Common Sandpipers and 6 Little Ringed Plovers, 28 Goosanders with a big presumably non-breeding flock and a female with 17 small ducklings, 7+ Redstarts, a reeling Grasshopper Warbler, 3 Lesser Whitethroats, a Whitethroat, a Yellow Wagtail, 5 Mandarin and a big flock of 85 Stock Doves on the big recently tilled field at Buildwas.

Goosander family

Common Sandpiper

Reed Bunting

Mute Swan 71BA - I saw this bird over at Venus Pool on 14th March this year, today she was down on the river