Friday 1st January 2021

Tittesworth Water

18x Whooper Swan at 07:45, 7x Pochard, 27x Snipe, Oystercatcher, 477x Pinkfoots over at 13:43, Willow Tit, 6x Common Gull, GBB Gull,  (SGi, IB)

                                                      Whooper Swans by Steve Gibson

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Little Stint still, Common Sandpiper, 3w YL Gull, 

Doxey Marsh

2x Water Pipit, Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 2x Chiffchaff, Pintail,2x Stonechat, ( GCl)  -  6x Water Pipit, 300x Golden Plover, (DB)

Whitemoor Haye

Great Egret on pit adjacent to A513, (SCo)

Newcastle

2x probable Whooper Swan flew low NE over Basford at 09:30, (SJT)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Whooper Swan, Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, Goldeneye, 2x Shelduck, 3x Golden Plover, Curlew, 2x Stonechat, Cetti's Warbler, Green Woodpecker, (RPo)

Radford Meadows

15x White-fronted Geese, Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, (RSw)  -  also Pink-footed Goose, Peregrine, Shelduck, (GCl)  -  afternoon update - 86x Pinkfoots 0ver north, 5x Pintail, 58x Shoveler, 2x Gadwall, 2x Goosander, 4x Little Egret, 7x Snipe, Stonechat, 2x Siskin, (RSw)  - 40x Pinkfoots flew in at 14:30, (SE,HF)

                                                          Pintail by Steve Edwards

Botteslow Flash

Common Gull, briefly, Little Egret, (IBu)

Gailey Resv

3x Goldeneye, 2x Pochard, 3x Wigeon, 9x Little Grebe, 100x Golden Plover, 2w YL Gull, 90x Skylark, 2x Redpoll, (SRi)

Berryhill

Jack Snipe, 6x Common Snipe, 5x Stonechat, Little Egret, (IBu, RGi)  -  24x Pink-foots over NW also Woodcock, (IBu)

Middleton Lakes

Pintail on JW, Great Egret,  (SBe)  -  Drayton Bassett, Brambling, (MSm) - 3x Great Egret, 2x Pochard, 

Wombourne

Great Egret over Langley Road, (CVa)

Alrewas GPs

135x Wigeon, 2x Pochard, 46x Teal, 3x Chiffchaff, - along the Canal towards Wychnor  - Cetti's Warbler, Woodcock, Great Egret, Little Egret, (SCo)

Whitemoor Haye

700x Lapwing, 30x Snipe, 4x Golden Plover,  Great Egret, 5x Goldeneye, 146x Wigeon, 46x Shoveler, 44x Teal, 11x Gadwall, 20x Tree Sparrow, 2x Redpoll, (SCo)

Wetley Moor

75x Reed Bunting, 2x Willow Tit, also Blackcap nearby (RBe)

Branston GPs

24x Lapwing, 8x Curlew, 2x Redshank, 3x Green Sandpiper, Ruff, Common Sandpiper, 2x Little Egret, Barnacle Goose, 11x Shelduck, 92x Wigeon, 22x Pochard, 3x Goldeneye, 2x Peregrine, ad YL Gull, 9x Common Gull, 5x GBB Gull, 2x Stonechat, 4x Redpoll, 2x Green Woodpecker, (DSc)

Whittington farm

97x Pinkfoots west in two skeins at 12:30, 500x Chaffinch, 40x Stock Dove, 22x Lapwing, 2x Stonechat. Little Owl, (JLi)

Alrewas NMA

2x Goosander, Little Egret, (JWo)

Barton under Needwood

Blackcap, (JWo)