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Saturday, 14 October 2023

Saturday 14th October 2023

Belvide Resv

11x Whooper Swan (6,2,3), drake Common Scoter still, Spotted Redshank, 3x Grey Plover, Crossbill thru, 5x Goosander, Shelduck, 

Elford north pit (private location)

Whooper Swan flew off towards Whitemoor Haye, (SCo)

Blithfield Resv

2x Whooper Swan Beech tree point also 2 Blithe Bay, (GJM)  -  Cattle Egret, 2x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 2x Curlew, 21x Dunlin, Ruff, 4x Ringed Plover, 128x Lapwing, 100x Linnet, Ruddy Shelduck, 3x Goosander, 

Radford Meadows

Peregrine, 2x Stonechat, 8x Gadwall, 54x Shoveler, 60x Wigeon, 150x Teal, 2x Snipe, 250x Lapwing, (RSw)

Tittesworth Water

45x Mandarin, 17x Wigeon, 5x Goosander, 2x Willow Tit, 2x Chiffchaff, (SGi, IB, JC)

Middleton Lakes

2x Great Egret, Little Egret, 10x Snipe, 70x Wigeon, Pochard, Cetti's Warbler, (BHa)

Branston GPs

2x Great Egret, 10x Little Egret, fem/imm Crossbill thru NW (2nd ever site record), 4x Egyptian Geese, 16x Wigeon, 50x Shoveler, 10x Pochard, Red Kite, 14x Curlew, 150x Lapwing, 2x Common Sandpiper, 6x Snipe, Green Woodpecker, 30x Skylark, 6x Stonechat, 3x Chiffchaff, 14x Redpoll and 12x Siskin thru south. (DSc)

Chatterley Whitfield

Snipe, Cetti's Warbler, Stonechats, (SHi)

Whitemoor Haye

Whooper Swan, 131x Wigeon, 19x Pochard, 141x Tufted Duck, 91x Lapwing,  4x Great Egret, 16x Little Egret, 13x Little Grebe, Stonechat, Green Woodpecker, 4x Siskin, c100 Redwing, 13x Egyptian Geese, (SCo, WeBS)

                                                          Whooper Swan by Stu Collins

Wychnor

Whooper Swan on the flooded fields, (JWo)

Alrewas NMA

Great Egret, Little Egret, Common Gull, 8x Redpoll, 12x Siskin, (JWo)

Catholme

4x Little Egret, 34x Gadwall, 6x Egyptian Geese, 25x Linnet, (JWo)

Tucklesholme

Little Egret, Shelduck thru south, 12x Wigeon, 80x Pochard, 9x Goosander thru north, 9x Egyptian Geese flew north, (DSc)

River Sow Meadows (Baswich - Milford)

5x Green Sandpiper, 6x Golden Plover over, 16x Snipe, Chiffchaff, (RSw)