Sunday 23 October 2016

Sunday 23rd October 2016

Belvide Res (WMBC Members Only)
Juvenile Scaup & Black-necked Grebe this morning (@BelvideBirding)

Blithfield Res (WMBC Members Only)
Great White Egret still Tad Bay Ruff, YL Gull, 2x Shelduck (@rpintean)
130x Golden Plover, 18x Dunlin, Redshank, Great White Egret, 5x Snipe, 2x Little Egret, Peregrine & 2x Goosander (PDa)

Middleton Lakes RSPB
Great White Egret on Jubilee Wetlands this morning (@wizz15) also 6x Golden Plover &  3x Pintail (@onionsargey)

Branston GPs
Jack Snipe, 12x Common Snipe, 5x Pintail, 36x Shoveler, 250x Teal, 28x Gadwall, 72x Wigeon, 220x Lapwing. imm Peregrine, Stonechat (DSc)

Swallow Moss
Male Hen Harrier near the farm drive by layby late afternoon.

Chasewater
1w Caspian Gull in the roost (@CWG_sightings)

Baswich
73x Pink-footed Geese high SW at 09.25 (@RobSwift5)

Uttoxeter Quarry
Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, Dunlin, 8x Snipe, 2x Goldeneye, 12x Goosander, 2x Shoveler & 22x Fieldfare (@rpintean)

Whitemoor Haye
187x Lapwing, 182x Cormorant, 20x Wigeon, 57x Linnet, 10x Little Egret, Grey Wagtail, 61x Fieldfare, 12x Tree Sparrow, 20x Yellowhammer, 11x Collared Dove, 43x Stock Dove, Kestrel & Redwing (@BirderAlrewas)

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Jack Snipe, 2x Stonechat, 6x Common Snipe, Peregrine, Grey Wagtail, 2x RL Partridge, Green Woodpecker, 120x Lapwing, 12x Yellowhammer, 6x Teal, 30x Meadow Pipit, 70x Chaffinch, Green Woodpecker, 6x Teal, 3x Siskin, 4x Goldcrest, Raven (Foz. JDu)

Croxall Lakes
1x Merlin (SCa)

Hanchurch Woods
3x Crossbill near the lower car park (TRo)