Saturday 9th March 2024

Aqualate

Great Egret viewed from just left of the hide, (KHa)

Cheddleton Heath

Red Kite circling this am, (PCa)

Whitemoor Haye

Slavonian Grebe still, 4x Oystercatcher, 4x Ringed Plover, 2x Redshank, Merlin, Peregrine, (HAr) - additionally 8x Pochard, 11x Goldeneye, Great Egret, 2x Stonechat, Chiffchaff, (BHa)  -  also WeBS count 5x Oystercatcher, 2x Redshank, 2x Dunlin, 31x Lapwing, Great Egret, 22x Goldeneye, 177x Wigeon, 7x Pochard, 6x Gadwall, 7x Little Grebe, 4x Shoveler, 3x Chiffchaff, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)

Burton

7x Waxwing still at co-op car park in Horninglow, (CEc, SLe, RPo, RCB, DSc)

Uttoxeter Quarry

23x Curlew, 4x Oystercatcher, Pochard, Goosander, 5x Shoveler, 17x Gadwall, 33x Wigeon, Chiffchaff, Cetti's Warbler, (RPo)

Belvide Resv

3x Redhead Smew dropped in at 11:35, Ringed Plover, Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, 7x Oystercatcher, 2x Little Egret, 

Coven

4x Little Egret heading NW, (JDu)

Yoxall Bank

Very early Whitethroat, (TSl)

Alrewas

2x Oystercatcher riverbank, 5x Little Egret on River Trent, 2x Stonechat near the Trent, (DI)

Branston GPs

Adult Med Gull, 1s Little Gull, 2x Cattle Egret still in nearby Sheepfield at 16:00, 20x Curlew, 5x Oystercatcher, 4x Ringed Plover, 10x Golden Plover, c250 Lapwing, 2x Redshank, 3x Dunlin, 3x Little Egret, 80x Wigeon, 12x Shoveler, 10x Goldeneye, 12x Pochard, 20x Gadwall, 16x Little Grebe, 6x Egyptian Geese, 2x Chiffchaff, (DSc)

                                                        Little Gull by Jon Woodcock

                                                       Med Gull by Dave Scattergood

Tittesworth Water

14x Curlew, 2x Snipe, 6x Oystercatcher, 48x Wigeon, 7x Mandarin, 2x Pochard, Goosander, 2x Willow Tit, 4x Common Gull, Chiffchaff, (SGi, IB)

Cheadle

Ring-necked Parakeet still, (Dch)

Chasewater

GN Diver, Shag, 10x Goldeneye, 2x Oystercatcher, (@Ochruros)

Abbots Bromley

3x Red Kite together over this afternoon, (RCB)

Freehay

2x Greenfinch, (FCa)

Rudyard Lake

24x Golden Plover over NE, Curlew, 32x Wigeon, Little Egret, 2x Chiffchaff, (MSv)

Doxey Marsh

2x Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 4x Goosander, 2x Shelduck, 2x Oystercatcher, Chiffchaff, (DEm)

Radford Meadows Stafford

5x Pintail, Shelduck, Goosander, Wigeon, Shoveler, Gadwall, 4x Little Egret, (RSt)