1st-winter WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER still on pit to south of North Pit; park at Middleton Hall, wellingtons required.....Also today DBP South, first pool - two Cetti's Warblers in reeds....Newreedbed Pool .....fem/imm Long-tailed Duck.....North Pit...2x Shelduck, Snipe, 250x Lapwing, 3x Little Egret with 8 over SW at dusk.......15x Waxwing from Dosthill heading heading to Middleton Hall to roost. Meanwhile, no DUNLIN seen today (11 on Friday, 3 on Sat) but the WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER remains......JH et al
Long-tailed Duck at DBP's today by Rich Powell
White-rumped Sandpiper at DBP's today by Rich Powell
Doxey Marshes
Water Pipit still present.............Birdguides
Branston GP's
30x Waxwing in bushes by storage yard, Ruff, c350 Golden Plover, c200 Lapwing, 71x Greylag Goose, Peregrine, Buzzard, Green Woodpecker, Jay.......AJ
Belvide Resv
a probable adult Caspian Gull in the roost and 7 adult Yellow-legged Gulls.....SN
Belvide Resv
a probable adult Caspian Gull in the roost and 7 adult Yellow-legged Gulls.....SN
Westport Lake
1w drake Scaup still present......NJS
Gailey
Black-necked Grebe this afternoon on fishing pool in the East corner......SW
Uttoxeter Quarry
1w Med Gull on Leasowes Farm Pool at 12-25hrs........1x Green Sandpiper, 30x Snipe, 19x Wigeon, 8x Pochard, 38x Tufted Duck, 12x Teal, 1x Goldeneye, 1x Gadwall, 12x Goosander, 47x Cormorant and a Raven......AB
A phone scoped shot of the Tox Mediterranean Gull by Andy Barker
Hales Hall
Water Rail 1, Goosander 1......AB
Croxden
Wigeon 5.......AB
Brookleys Lake
Mandarin 63 by 1545......AB
Waxwings@
Stoke-on-Trent Etruria - 28 still outside Mecca Bingo, Octagon Park early morning.....SS
Uttoxeter - Sixteen by JCB Parts Depot on A522
Dosthill NR - Three at 11-00hrs
Burton-upon-Trent - 23 in Clarence St again mid-afternoon......AJ
Lichfield - four on Eastern Avenue late afternoon.....Birdguides
A Waxwing by the JCB parts factory by Rich Powell
Waxwing in Stoke-on-Trent today. By Steve Seal
Silverdale CP
Black Bank - 4490 Wood Pigeons N this morning (7.30-9am). Also 3 Brambling south....NP
Trent Washlands, Burton
Little Egret and 21x Teal......AJ
Trentham Gdns
14x Mandarin on Black Lake and a Kingfisher......ST
Stoneydelph Lake
Drake Pintail still present...........PP
Bateswood Lake, Newcastle-under-Lyme
10x Wigeon........JH
