WILLOW TIT SURVEY 2020
The West Midland Bird Club Stafford Branch is asking for volunteers to assist
in the final year of the National Willow Tit Survey between late Feb and early April in 2020.
The cub has undertaken surveys around the county last year, but more help is needed to cover more parts of the county to search for this elusive species.
It has declined nationally by around 90% since the 1970s and though Staffordshire seems to be holding on to them, it is vital that we can find out as much as
we can so that we get as complete a picture within the county as possible.
Please get in touch if you are in interested in volunteering.
Contact Nick Pomiankowski, Staffordshire County Bird Recorder at
staffs-recorder@westmidlandbirdclub.org.uk; or Jonathan Groom, Monitoring
Officer at Staffordshire Wildlife Trust at j.groom@staffs-wildlife.org.uk.
Stoke on Trent
Ring-necked Parakeet in trees side of entrance to Waterworld, (AMa)
Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
2x drake Common Scoter at the deep end, (GJM)
Berryhill
2x Willow Tit, 2x Stonechat and at Botteslow Flash Little Egret, fem Shoveler, (RGi)
Whitemoor Haye
Firecrest still - 30x Yellowhammer, Goosander, 3x Goldeneye, 4x Shoveler, 2x Shelduck, 2x Grey Partridge, 20x GBB Gull, Little Egret, 30x Reed Bunting, (SCo) - 10x Tree Sparrow, (PFo)
Middleton Lakes
Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 2x Pintail, 100x Wigeon, 30x Shoveler, (DCo) - also 3x Oystercatcher, 4 - 5x Redpoll, (SPA
Hanley Park
Ring-necked Parakeet for second day near the band stand, (RGi)
Radford Meadows
500x Golden Plover, 500x Lapwing, Little Egret, 4x Shelduck, (Iwi)
Stoke on Trent
4x Waxwing still at the John Marston car park on Longton Hall Road, (AMa)
Doxey Marsh
2x Great Egret, (MAm)
Chasewater
Red-crested Pochard still on Slurry Pool
Branston GPs
55x Golden Plover, 179x Lapwing, 15x Curlew, 5x Goldeneye, 5x Shelduck, 76x Wigeon, 41x Shoveler, 37x Pochard, 112x Teal, 22x Gadwall, Little Egret, 6x Common Gull, 4x GBB Gull, Stonechat, 3x Green Woodpecker, Egyptian Goose, (JWo)
