Sunday 22nd January 2023

Trentham Gardens

2x Dipper, 8x Little Egret left the roost, Wigeon, 3x Goosander, 4x Teal, 30x Siskin, (RGi)

Endon STW

Barn Owl, 45x Lapwing, Willow Tit, (GBr)

Aqualate

Drake Garganey again this am,  also 2x fem Scaup, (IGr)

Westport Lake

Wigeon, 2x Goosander, 10x Pochard, Shoveler, (NJS)  -  Red Kite over at 15:40, (KBr)

Berryhill

Woodcock. Jack Snipe, 10x Snipe, (IBu)

Radford Meadows

22x Teal, 196x Wigeon, 12x Shoveler, Goosander, 2x Shelduck, 91x Snipe, 238x Lapwing, (CDa)  -  Afternoon counts 7x Ruff, 109x Snipe, 428x Wigeon, 506x Teal, 4x Gadwall, 8x Shoveler, Shelduck, 4x Little Egret, Greenfinch, (RSw)

Tittesworth Water

24x Pochard, 16x Wigeon, 8x Mandarin, 5x Teal, 63x Lapwing, 11x Snipe, 3x Willow Tit, 15x Common Gull, (SGi)

Rocester

9x Whooper Swan with 15x Mute Swan in oil seed rape field seen from the B5030. (RPo)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Completely frozen but 40x Gadwall, 5x Wigeon, Pochard, Goosander, (RPo)

Alrewas NMA

Redhead Smew near to confluence then flew off north, 6x Goldeneye, 4x Shelduck, 12x Goosander, 3x Great Egret, 10x Little Egret, Woodcock, Redshank, (IWh)

Chasewater

GN Diver, Shag at 15:10, (SRi)  -  Ad  Iceland Gull on main lake at 15:10, (JAl)  -  Also 2x Caspian Gull, 5x YL Gull and ad Med Gull in the roost  -  29x Goldeneye, 13x Goosander, 28x Wigeon, 9x Gadwall, 10x Pochard, 

                                                                 Shag by Dan James

Whitemoor Haye

8x Goosander, 7x Goldeneye, 72x Pochard, 294x Wigeon, 88x Teal, 17x Shoveler, 22x Gadwall, 5x Little Grebe, 49x Egyptian Geese, c350 Lapwing, 8x Snipe, 6x Golden Plover, fem Merlin, GBB Gull, 2x Common Gull, 5x Little Egret, Great Egret, 11x Tree Sparrow, c40 Skylark, c60 Stock Dove, c30 Linnet, (SCo) -  Barn Owl, 

Branston GPs

Green Sandpiper, 9x Little Grebe, 12x Shelduck, Little Egret, 2x YL Gull, 2x GBB Gull, (JWo)  -  Additional 10x Shoveler, 25x Pochard, Goldeneye, 6x Egyptian Geese, Curlew, 5x Lapwing, 7x YL Gull, 5x GBB Gull, Common Gull, Green Woodpecker, c3000 Starling, (DSc)

Onecote

104x Pink-footed Geese west at 14:00, (PBe)

Chatterley Whitfield

Little Egret at 15:00, (SHi)

Newcastle

Little Egret in Lyme Valley park, (KMo)

Pool Hall

2x Stonechat below dam, 16x Shoveler, 3x Goosander, Snipe, 16x Lapwing, (IMo, GCl, KCl, CVa)

Consall (River Churnet)

Dipper, 3x Siskin, (DSc)