Sunday 3rd January 2021

Swallow Moss

100x Pinkfoots over SW, (DGH)

Milwich

300x Pinkfoots SW over Morrilow Heath, (CDa)

Chasewater

90x Pinkfoots over NW at 10:00, (RSo)

Silverdale CP

220x Pinkfoots west at 10:25, (NDP)

Uttoxeter Quarry

150x Pinkfoots west at 11:17, Great Egret, Curlew, Peregrine, 8x Goosander, 2x Goldeneye, 5x Shelduck, Ruddy Shelduck, (RPo)

Berryhill

c300x Pinkfoots west at 11:25, (CSi)

Newcastle

c300 Pinkfoots NW over Basford at 11:34, (SJT)

Radford Meadows

8x White-fronted Geese still, Pink-footed Goose, 2x Little Egret, 2x Shelduck, (DEv)  -  also Great Egret, 2x Pink-footed Geese, 4x Pintail, 3x Shelduck, 2x Goosander, 17x Snipe, 60x Shoveler, Cetti's Warbler, (RSw)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Great Egret, (TPe)

Croxall

Great Egret, (TPe)

Whittington 

Great Egret, (TPe)

Little Aston STW

125x Skylark, 100x Linnet, 60x Yellowhammer in stubble east of Back Lane, 2x Jack Snipe, 8x Snipe, (PAn)

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Ring-necked Parakeet, 2x Stonechat, 150x Pied Wagtail, 7x Greenfinch, 100x Meadow Pipit, (Foz)

Alvecote

Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 10x Goosander, 2x Shelduck, (MSc)

Ipstones

Peregrine, 2x Redpoll, (SCh)

Mill End (near Audley

Great Egret still, Little Egret, Snipe, 18x Lapwing, (SJT)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Little Stint still, 

Deep Hayes CP

Fem Scaup still, 5x Goosander, Gadwall, Willow Tit, (GBr)

Drayton Bassett

200x Golden Plover, Jack Snipe, Peregrine along Drayton Lane, (MSm)

Middleton Lakes

2x Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, Chiffchaff, (JJH, SJH)  -  2x GBB Gull, 10x Common Gull, YL Gull, in the roost, (MercianBirding)

Doxey Marsh

 Water Pipit, Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 3x Cetti's Warbler, c120x in flight flock of Snipe, c150x Golden Plover, c250x Lapwing, 117x Pinkfoots west at 11:00, Common Gull, 4x Stonechat, 2x Goosander, Grey Wagtail, (RSw)

Hanchurch Woods

6x Crossbill from bottom car park, (SE, HF)

                                                                By Steve Edwards

Rocester

6x Goosander, (TEy)

Branston GPs

18x Curlew, 2x Redshank, Ruff, 2x Green Sandpiper, 8x Snipe, 4x GBB Gull, 16x Little Grebe, 8x Shelduck, 26x Shoveler, 75x Wigeon, 300x Teal, 20x Pochard, Green Woodpecker, 2x Stonechat, (DSc)

Pendeford Mill

c1000x Starling murmuration this evening, (JDu)