Sunday 5th November 2023

Belvide Resv

Great Northern Diver off the dam to 09:05 only, - Caspian Gull and 11x YL Gull in the roost

Seisdon Quarry

Crossbill over at 07:34, Brambling over, 242x Fieldfare over, 6x Stonechat, 17x Skylark over, 4x Redpoll,  (GCl)

Chasewater

2x Great Northern Diver still at 08:00, (KWh)  -  also Shag, Goldeneye, Goosander, (PAn)

                                              Great Northern Divers by Keith Whitehouse

Aqualate

Juv Scaup this am, (IGr)

Radford Meadows

33x Golden Plover, 127x Lapwing, Black-tailed Godwit, Cetti's Warbler, (CDa)

Middleton Lakes

Fem Goldeneye, 3x Shelduck, 2x Pochard, Jack Snipe, 30x Snipe, Great Egret, 4x Stonechat, (MSm)  -  JW roost Cattle Egret, 5x Great Egret, 22x Little Egret, also Bittern flew from Dosthill NR. (MB)

Blithfield Resv

Red-throated Diver Blithe Bay at 11:10, 2x Great Egret, Ruddy Shelduck, YL Gull, 3x Stonechat, Redpoll,  (SRi) 

                                                    Red-throated Diver by Steve Edwards

Stanley Pool

Pink-footed Geese heard, Chiffchaff, (GBr)

Baldwins Gate

c100 Pink-footed Geese over NE in two skeins at 08:45, (RWh)

Trentham Gardens

21x Little Egret this morning, (GSa)

Rudyard Lake

70x Pink-footed Geese over NW at 11:00, (SSe) -  Imm Scaup, (MSt)

Doxey Marsh

2x Whooper Swan over Creswell Flash at 11:54 heading east, also a Pintail, (AHa)

Baswich

3x Goosander, 2x Little Egret, (IWi)

Weston Coyney

c140 Pink-footed Geese over SE at 09:00, (SFe)

Tittesworth Water

A late Swallow thru, 160x Pinkfoots over west, 27x Wigeon, 11x Mandarin, Snipe, Willow Tit, 5x Common Gull, (JOa, LH, KH)

Caverswall

150x Pink-footed Geese over SE at 15:30, (TDu)

Whitemoor Haye

43x Pochard, 24x Wigeon, 29x Gadwall, 12x Shoveler, c200 Lapwing, Green Sandpiper, Great Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese, 3x GBB Gull, 300x Fieldfare, c120 Linnet, 25x Siskin, Cetti's Warbler, 7x Little Grebe, 3x Stonechat, (SCo)

Uttoxeter Quarry

667x Teal (very large count), 2x Goldeneye, 7x Pochard, 10x Wigeon, 16x Shoveler, 7x Fieldfare, (RPo)

The Burntwood (Loggerheads)

500x Pink-footed Geese in three skeins mid afternoon, (RGi)

Branston GPs

5x Whooper Swan over east at dusk, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Great Egret, 40x Greenfinch, (JWo, CEc, Dean)  -  2x imm Scaup still North pit, juv Shag Marley pit, 80x Little Grebe, Great Egret, 7x Egyptian Geese, 4x Shelduck, 30x Shoveler, c200 Teal, 20x Pochard, 8x Goldeneye, 120x Lapwing, 15x Curlew, 2x Common Sandpiper, 8x GBB Gull, 6x YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, 4x Stonechat, 40x Fieldfare, 20x Redpoll, 2x Siskin, (DSc)

Alvecote

2x Stonechat, 8x Little Grebe, Fieldfare, (MSc)