Sunday 29 January 2023

Sunday 29th January 2023

Stanley Pool

Otter at 08:00, (GBr)

Aqualate

Fem Ferruginous Duck, 3x Scaup, drake Garganey, (IGr)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Merlin, Great Egret, (MBr, BHa, PAn)  -  also 8x Tree Sparrow, 12x Yellowhammer, 2x Golden Plover, c1300 Lapwing, Little Egret, 4x Goldeneye, Pochard, 8x Gadwall, 12x Shoveler, 33x Wigeon, 25x Teal, Shelduck, 46x Egyptian Geese, (BHa)  -  2x Ruff, (PAn)  -  3x Great Egret, 3x Golden Plover, (DSc)

Berryhill

2x Goosander, 10x Skylark, (IBu)

Westport Lake

30x Pochard, 2x Shoveler, (NJS)

Branston GPs

2x Green Sandpiper, 12x Snipe, 100x Lapwing, YL Gull, GBB Gull, Common Gull, Little Egret, 6x Little Grebe, 2x Shelduck, 6x Gadwall, 26x Teal, Chiffchaff, 3x Redpoll, 30x Linnet, 3x Skylark singing, (JWo, MCa, CEc, Dean, SCo)  -  Ashy pit 5x Pink-footed Geese, 19x Curlew, Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, 70x Lapwing, 15x Shelduck, 18x Wigeon, 12x Shoveler, 12x Pochard, 3x Goldeneye, 2x Stonechat, (DSc)  -  also late afternoon Redshank, 400x Lapwing, 5x YL Gull, 8x GBB Gull, 60x Teal, 12x Gadwall, 10x Shelduck, 4x Egyptian Geese, (JWo)

                                                Pink-footed Geese by Dave Scattergood

Crakemarsh - Uttoxeter

9x Whooper Swan still with Mutes from the B5030, (DSc)

Cuckoo Bank

30x Skylark, Stonechat, (GHa)

Tittesworth Water

Pink-footed Goose, 23x Pochard, Goosander, 5x Snipe, Willow Tit, 2x Lapwing, (LHa, JOa)

Cotton (near Alton)

Red Kite over the B5417 at 13:20, (TJe)

Doxey Marsh

Great Egret, Little Egret, Shoveler, Gadwall, Goosander, Wigeon, Snipe, Lapwing, Water Rail, (RSt)

Croxall  Lakes

2x Great Egret, 18x Little Egret, 24x Goosander, 14x Teal, 160x Lapwing, (BHa)

Burntwood (Loggerheads)

8x Brambling, 4x Redpoll with s possible mealy type, 100x Linnet, 200x Chaffinch, 14x Greenfinch, (RGi)

Chasewater

Gull roost Ad Iceland Gull, juv Glaucous Gull, 2x Caspian Gull, 6x YL Gull. Also GN Diver, Shag.

Uttoxeter

2x Little Egret at the race course, (AGo)

Gratwich

Red Kite over this afternoon, (AGo)

Trescott (Bennett's Lane)

2x Yellowhammer, 30x Linnet, 11x Reed Bunting, (IMo, GCl, KCl)