Sunday, 12 February 2023

Sunday 12th February 2023

Tittesworth Water

2x Hawfinch still, 5x Oystercatcher, 30x Snipe, 23x Pochard, 3x Mandarin, 2x Goosander, 8x Common Gull, Little Egret, 60x Siskin, (SGi, LH, JOa)

                                                         Hawfinch by Rob Bendelow

Doxey Marsh

Dunlin, 250x Golden Plover, Great Egret, Little Egret, Pintail, 6x Goosander, 4x Shelduck, (DM, RRa)

Knypersley Resv

5x Mandarin, Goosander, 2x Willow Tit and  Woodcock by old hatchery, (GBr)

Alvecote

Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 2x Goosander, 6x Shelduck, 50x Wigeon, Polesworth Lane Yellowhammer, (MSc)

Cuckoo Bank

Woodlark, 6x Stonechat, 30x Wigeon, 4x Goosander, Peregrine.

Wimblebury (Cannel Mount)

8x Yellowhammer, 7x Redpoll, 25x Linnet, 3x Stonechat, 30x Skylark, 48x Lapwing, Chiffchaff, (BHa)

Whitemoor Haye

173x Lapwing, 4x Oystercatcher, Golden Plover over, 6x Gadwall, 25x Pochard, 22x Wigeon, 10x Goldeneye, 27x Shoveler, 3x Shelduck, 13x Tree Sparrow, c80 Yellowhammer, 2x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, Stonechat, 10x Egyptian Geese, (SCo)

Alrewas NMA

7x Goosander, Little Egret, Junction pit Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 12x Gadwall and 5x Chiffchaff at GP. (SCo)

Catholme (viewed from Mythalholme bridge)

27x Shoveler, 21x Wigeon, 4x Pochard, 2x Gadwall, 2x Goldeneye, Great Egret, Little Egret, (SCo)

Trentham Gardens

9x Little Egret into roost this evening, Egyptian Goose, YL Gull, Oystercatcher, Brambling, Water Rail, 9x Gadwall, 2x Mandarin, 3x Goosander, (RGi)

Chasewater

Gull roost - Juv Glaucous Gull, Caspian Gull, 4x YL Gull, also GN Diver, Shag and 2x Oystercatcher,

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Cattle Egret from 17:00 also fem Scaup.

Branston GPs 

SMPs pits only Green Sandpiper, 5x YL Gull, 6x Shelduck, 12x Gadwall, 4x Egyptian Geese, Green Woodpecker, (JWo)  -  Not SMPs 5x Oystercatcher, 14x Curlew, 150x Golden Plover, 650x Lapwing, 3x Dunlin, 5x Ruff, 5x Snipe, Woodcock, 26x Little Grebe, Great Egret, Little Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese, 34x Shelduck, 26x Shoveler, 20x Wigeon, 150x Teal, 30x Pochard, 11x Goldeneye, 3x Goosander, Green Woodpecker, Stonechat, (DSc)

Consall Woods

Green Woodpecker, Dipper, 3+ Willow Tit, 10x Siskin, (DSc)