A Great Day Out

Today we had planned to go out with our good friend and birding companion Chaz Mason to do a tour of some of the sites in Staffordshire.

The day started out at Cannock Chase, while we were there we picked up some new birds to add to our year list. We had our first Cuckoo of the year and the first Tree Pipit both bird were seen near the scout huts

Next we made our way to Tucklesholme to try and find the Temminck's Stint for Chaz which had been seen earlier in the morning but as usual we couldn't find the bird,  it we did see the usual four Little Ringed Plovers and two Ringed Plovers. After that we went over to Whitemoor Haye which proved to be a much better place to see migrants today. On arrival we parked up next to the field where farmers were working on the field, but this proved not to disturb the birds in any great way. So in the same field we were able to pick out four of the seven Wheatears, two White Wagatils and a Yellow Wagtail and Chaz was telling us that last year he didn't notice until the autum that he hadn't seen a Yellow Wagtail, so this year he was going to make sure he would see one. Good job we were able to help him put that to bed.

What a great day birding and is always a even better day with the company of Chaz - Joe and Martyn