Sunday 18 October 2020

Sunday 18th October 2020

Branston GPs

Hawfinch thru south at 09:50, 72x Pinkfoots SE at 16:10, RedshankRuff, 14x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, 66x Lapwing, Golden Plover thru, Pintail, Goldeneye, 100x Wigeon, 90x Gadwall, 70x Shoveler, 80x Teal, 24x Pochard, 70x Little Grebe, 2x ad YL Gull, 2x Peregrine, Barn Owl, 2x Cetti's Warbler, c1100x Starling, Stonechat, Little Egret, (DSc)

Middleton Lakes

Jack Snipe on west scape, 2x Golden Plover over, 3x Snipe, Goldeneye, 2x Great Egret, Stonechat, (MSm)

Blithfield Resv

150x Pinkfoots over Callowhill, (GJM)  -  2x Rock Pipit, 20x Dunlin, Ruff, 2x Green Sandpiper, 5x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Gull, 4x Stonechat, 2x Little Egret, (SE,HF)

                                                      Rock Pipits by Steve Edwards

Tittesworth Water

Purple Heron still near the activity centre, (SG,IB, CT, et al.) - also 2x Common Gull, 25x Lapwing, 4x Snipe, 42x Wigeon, 8x Mandarin, (JOa)

                                                                     By Steve Seal

Enville

Great Egret flew east at 09:42, 270x Redwing and 130x Fieldfare over, (IWh)

Doxey Marsh - WeBS count

19x Cetti's Warbler, 12x Water Rail, 2x Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 14x Stonechat, 18x Gadwall, 33x Wigeon, 47x Redwing, 74x Lapwing, 3x Grey Wagtail, 14x Pinkfoots over east, (MBo)

Alvecote

Great Egret, 2x Green Sandpiper, 4x Little Egret, 2x Stonechat, 15x Wigeon, (MSc)

Berryhill

c200x Pinkfoots  east over Eaton Park at 16:25, (DBu)