Sunday 3 March 2024

Sunday 3rd March 2024

Doxey Marsh

Dark Bellied Brent Goose on Creswell but flew to near the motorway bridge at 10:30, (GPr, MBo)  -  Great Egret late afternoon, (GCl, KCl)

Radford Meadows

Very early drake Garganey this morning, (RSw)

Aqualate

2x Scaup this am, 

Trentham Gardens

A good count of 13x Oystercatcher also a Little Egret, (STu)

Rocester

2x Oystercatcher, (STu)

Branston GPs

(not SM pits) - 2x Red Kite circled North pit 13:00 to 13:05 then flew NE, the Marsh Harrier later headed back north at 16:08, 8x Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, 25x Curlew, 200x Lapwing, Green Sandpiper, Snipe, 30x Little Grebe, 2x Little Egret, 16x Shelduck, 62x Wigeon, 16x Shoveler, 28x Pochard, 26x Goldeneye, 5x Goosander, 20x Redpoll, (DSc)  -  Marsh Harrier south over Ashy pit at 15:55,  2x Cattle Egret, (SM pits) - YL Gull, 2x Common Gull, 2x Oystercatcher, 8x Shelduck, 4x Egyptian Geese, 6x Little Grebe, 6x Redpoll, 4x Greenfinch, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine,  (JWo)

Uttoxeter Quarry

70x Curlew, 6x Oystercatcher, 8x Goosander, 230x Wigeon, Cetti's Warbler, Willow Tit, 2x Common Gull, (RPo)

Tar Hill / Brocton Coppice

Red Kite over at 14:50, (KPo)

Tittesworth Water

6x Goosander, 2x Pochard, 5x Oystercatcher, 2x Curlew, 14x Common Gull, 2x Willow Tit, (JOa, LH)

Rownall

2x Oystercatcher on farm pond, (DCo)

River Sow Meadows (Baswich-Milford)

7x Green Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, Great Egret, Little Egret, Peregrine, Barn Owl, 4x Shelduck, 55x Wigeon, 60x Teal, Cetti's Warbler, (RSw)

Whitemoor Haye

Slavonian Grebe still, Merlin, SE Owl, Green Sandpiper, 3x Yellowhammer, 2x Stonechat, Peregrine, (SCo)

Stanley Pool

Oystercatcher, 9x Goosander, 36x Lapwing, (GBr)