Sunday, 9 December 2018

Sunday 9th December 2018


Whitemoor Haye
Great White Egret in flight, 2x Whooper Swan in fields along rough track (BirderAlrewas)

Barton North GP
Fem Long-tailed Duck, (TPe) also Redshank, 2x Green Sandpiper (ARa)  -  Also a Ruff over (JWo)

Uttoxeter Quarry
300x Golden Plover, 4x Green Sandpiper, 5x Pochard (RPo)

Branston GPs
Fem Long-tailed Duck still Ashy Pit (TPe)  -  Also 10x Shelduck, (m) Pintail, 24x Wigeon, 20x Shoveler, c100 Teal, 19x Gadwall, 43x Pochard, 2x Goldeneye, 14x Curlew, 5x Ruff, 7x Dunlin, c100 Lapwing, 4x Common Gull, 3x Yellow leg Gull, c80 GBB Gull, Cetti's Warbler, 30x Linnet (DSc) 

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Slavonian Grebe still just north of the causeway (SRi)

Endon Sewage Works
1w Med Gull, 2x Pintail, 3x Chiffchaff, Stonechat (GBr)

Kingswood
1w Caspian Gull

Brookleys Lake
186x Mandarin Duck, 2x Goosander, (RPo)

Dimmingsdale
17x Mandarin Duck, 3x Goosander, 6x Brambling (RPo)

Chasewater
Ad Caspian Gull in the roost

Cannock Chase
Great Grey Shrike still (GTo)