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Sunday, 11 February 2024

Sunday 11th February 2024

Radford Meadows Stafford

2x White-fronted Geese, (CDa)  -  c500x Golden Plover, Oystercatcher, 4x Pintail, 2x Little Egret, but no further sign of the WF Geese early afternoon, (RPo)

Whitemoor Haye

Slavonian Grebe still, viewed from opposite quarry entrance but elusive, Merlin, 41x Pochard, 16x Goldeneye, 2x Shelduck, 2x Little Egret, Green Sandpiper, 5x Golden Plover, 70x Lapwing, 3x Oystercatcher, 2x Little Grebe, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)

Uttoxeter Quarry

5x Oystercatcher, 600x Lapwing, Goosander, 2x Pochard, 7x Shoveler, 8x Shelduck, 38x Gadwall, 110x Wigeon, 210x Teal, Dipper, 40x Redpoll, (RPo)

Aqualate

Female Scaup, Imm Marsh Harrier, (IMG)  -  fem Scaup still at 15:15 also Marsh Harrier, 52x Goldeneye, Cetti's Warbler, (RPo)

Belvide Resv

Merlin along the dam, Med Gull, 5x Oystercatcher, Red Kite, 8x Yellowhammer

Trentham Gardens

3x Goosander on the Trent, (STu)

Endon

Great Egret over the A53 at 13:25, (KBr)

Codsall

3x Goosander at Long Birch Gunstone, (KAl)

Branston Water Park

2x Oystercatcher, 5x Pochard, Goldeneye, Goosander, 36x Gadwall, 2x Little Egret, 6x Greenfinch, (BHa)

Branston GPs

Female Marsh Harrier over north at 12:28, 36x Wigeon, 26x Shoveler, 44x Goldeneye, 7x Goosander, 200x Golden Plover, 7x Ringed Plover, 2x Oystercatcher, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, 3x GBB Gull, Green Woodpecker, 4x Stonechat, Barn Owl, (DSc), - 2x Cattle Egret still, Little Egret, 11x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, 110x Golden Plover, 400x Lapwing, 2x Oystercatcher, Common Gull, 22x Egyptian Gull, 9x Goldeneye, 28x Pochard, 32x Wigeon, 56x Teal, 12x Shoveler, 6x Gadwall, Common Gull, 2x Stonechat, Green Woodpecker, 12x Redpoll, (BHa)  -  also Dunlin, 20x Curlew, 3x Little Egret, 300x Golden Plover, (PAn)

Tittesworth Water

4x Oystercatcher, 2x Goosander, 2x Common Gull, 40-50x Greenfinch, Willow Tit, (JOa)

Chasewater

Ad Iceland Gull, 1w Caspian Gull, 3x YL Gull, 3x GN Diver, Shag, 

Mill Green NR

Goosander, 13x Teal, (SRi)

Smestow -Trescott Ford

7x Little Egret, 37x Golden Plover, Red Kite, 57x Lapwing, (IMo, CVa, GCl)

Himley

2x Pochard, 3x Shoveler, (CVa)