Wednesday 6 February 2019

Wednesday 6th February 2019

Middleton Lakes
4x Whooper Swan briefly, 9x Pochard, 5x Shelduck, Common Gull, 2x Egyptian Geese, Cetti's Warbler on JW, 6x Pochard, 2x Stonechat, Cetti's Warbler on North Pit, 3x Egyptian Geese, 9x Goldeneye, Dosthill NR (SAt)

Madeley Pool
Little Egret (TrJa)

Doxey Marsh
2x Cattle Egret, (The second Cattle Egret eaten by a Fox), 2x Great White Egret, 4x Little Egret, 300x Golden Plover, 800x Lapwing, 2x Curlew, 4x Cetti's Warbler,  8x Goosander, Peregrine, 4x Cetti's Warbler, (MBo)  -  Also Short-eared Owl (SEd)

By Steve Edwards

Leek
Dipper on the Churnet river by Sainsburys (STu)

Trentham Gardens
Dipper, 4x Little Egret (PFo)

Branston GPs
16x Curlew, 14x Ruff, 3x Redshank, 12x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 150x Lapwing, Peregrine, Stonechat, Little Egret, Gadwall, Pochard, Shoveler, (CEc)  -  Also 40x Shoveler, 12x Gadwall, 2x Pochard, 10x Shelduck, 100x Teal, 2x GBBG, (JWo)

Reeds being taken from the Sandy Pit to be replanted at Tucklesholme by Jon Woodcock

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Oystercatcher on the causeway (PMo)

Wolseley
8x Goosander, Little Egret (GTo)

Barton North Pit
Great White Egret (JWo)

Tucklesholme/Branston Leas
Great White Egret, 7x Goosander, 2x Shelduck, 10x Gadwall, 80x Teal, 2x Lapwing, Kingfisher, Stonechat, 30x Linnet (JWo)

Branston Water Park
Water Rail, 2x Goosander, Shelduck, 8x Pochard, 20x Teal (JWo)