Monday, 27 March 2023

Monday 27th March 2023

Doxey Marsh

The Alpine Swift still present ranging over the marsh to the rail line, (etal)  -  2x House Martin, Swallow, 6x Little Egret, Snipe, 2x Oystercatcher, 4x Goosander, 3x Little Grebe, (BHa)  -  Peregrine, 2x Swallow, Water Rail, (RSt)

Stanley Pool

Goosander, 2x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Middleton Lakes

2x Avocet, 3x Redshank, 6x Oystercatcher, Dunlin, Snipe, 7x Goldeneye, 3x Pochard, (MSm)  - also Black-tailed Godwit, LRP, 3x Little Egret, (MSm)

Stoke (Lordship Lane)

2x Shelduck, 2x Shoveler, Cetti's Warbler, (RGi)

Belvide Resv

Cattle Egret, 2 fem Scaup,

Gailey Resv

3x Cattle Egret still along Oak Lane, (SN)  -  Still 3x Cattle Egret opposite Oak Lane farm at 16:00, (KCl)  -  3x Cattle Egret came to roost on Island on sailing lake at 19:15 also Little Egret, (SRi)

Endon-Denford

Jack Snipe, 7x Snipe, Water Rail, Willow Tit, 2x Green Woodpecker, (DCo)

Little Aston

Fem Brambling, Peregrine, 2x Snipe, (SWa)

Radford Meadows

Great Egret, Little Egret, 4x Goosander, 11x Gadwall, Shelduck, 2x Oystercatcher, (DBE)

Whitemoor Haye

Fem Merlin, Curlew, 3x Dunlin, 4x Ringed Plover, 10x LRP, 3x Redshank, 2x Little Egret, Great Egret, (JAl)

Tittesworth Water

9x Whooper Swan still, (SGi).  -  also 30x Whooper Swan circled the Resv at 09:13 but did not land, (IF)

                                                       Whooper Swans by Steve Gibson

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