Saturday 9 March 2019

Saturday 9th March 2019

Middleton Lakes
Wheatear (1w male), still on west side of JW, also 21x Goldeneye, 5x Pochard, 2x Egyptian Geese, 18x Shelduck (SAt)  -  also 4x Oystercatcher (PAn)

By Steve Atkinson

Whitemoor Haye
Brambling, 2x Grey Partridge, 2x Redshank, Goldeneye, 2x Little Egret, 69x Wigeon, 2x Shelduck (BirderAlrewas)

Drayton Bassett
4x Whooper Swan still off Portleys Lane at 10:25 (PAn)

Radford Meadows
432x Wigeon, 54x Teal, 4x Goosander, 2x Pintail, Curlew (RSw)

Knypersley Resv
Singing Siskin by Gawtons stone Willow Tit, Woodcock, 17x Goosander, Chiffchaff, (GBr)

Barlaston
Red Kite over at 14:20 drifting towards Trentham (IBr)

Cannock Chase
Great Grey Shrike still between the Butts and the Cadet huts near a small burnt out car (BAS, AMS)

Branston GPs
Long-tailed Duck still on Black Meadows Pit (BAS, AMS)  -  also 8x Curlew, 6x Ruff, 5x Redshank, 5x Dunlin, 3x Ringed Plover, 3x Oystercatcher, 2x Green Sandpiper, Snipe, Little Egret, 23x Shelduck, 54x Shoveler, 8x Wigeon, 3x Goldeneye, 2x Chiffchaff, 35x Linnet (DSc)

Doxey Marsh
2x Cattle Egret, 2x Little Egret, Great White Egret 

Trentham Gardens
2x Oystercatcher still, Chiffchaff (RGi)

Tittesworth Water
33x Curlew, 5x Oystercatcher, 8x Lapwing, 4x Snipe, Dipper, 19x Goosander, 7x Pochard, 6x Barnacle Geese, Common Gulls, Chiffchaff,  (SG, WLH, IB, CT)

Clayton
Woodcock flushed at Bunnyhill this afternoon (RGi)

Chasewater
3x Sand Martin, 3x Oystercatcher, 2x Chiffchaff

Croxall - from the NA
2x Redshank, 2x Oystercatcher, Shelduck, 2x Goosander, Goldeneye, 36x Wigeon, (JWo)

Alrewas
2x Oystercatcher on the Trent (JWo)