Saturday 19 October 2024

Saturday 19th October 2024

Uttoxeter  Quarry

Pink-footed Goose, 2x Great Egret, Green Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, Shelduck, 4x Wigeon, 5x Pochard, 60x Shoveler, 70x Teal, Peregrine, 2x Stonechat, Cetti's Warbler, (RPo)

Berryhill

Yellow-browed Warbler still, showing well this am on the Greenway by the information board adjacent to the east end of Uffington Parade. (JOa)

Branston GPs

One Spoonbill on Ashy pit at 12:45, 2x Stonechat, Little Egret, 3x Egyptian Geese, (RPo)  -  3x Spoonbill to 11:00 at least and one still present at 18:00, 16x Golden Plover, 10x Curlew, 135x Lapwing, Pintail, 66x Wigeon, 70x Shoveler, 24x Gadwall, 80x Teal, Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler, 30x Redwing, 6x Egyptian Geese, 3x Little Egret, (DSc)

Cannock Chase

Great Grey Shrike briefly by trig point at 14:30 then flew towards Sherbrook Valley, (SE, HF)

Calf Heath WMI site

Near adult Caspian Gull, 240x Lapwing, 107x Golden Plover, Common Sandpiper, (SRi)

Radford  Meadows

11x Pintail, Goosander, 150x Shoveler, 16x Gadwall, 350x Teal, 200x Wigeon, 3x Pochard, 150x Lapwing, 18x Snipe, 2x Little Egret, 2x Little Grebe, (RSw)

Trentham Gardens

200x PFG NE at 16:49, 2x Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 20x Gadwall, 2x Goosander, 2x Mandarin, 82x Tufted Duck, (RGi)

Weston Coyney

Approx 190x PFG over north at 16:30, (SFe)

Shoal Hill Common - Littleton pit site

Water Rail, Green Woodpecker, Redwing, 2x Redpoll, (SRi)

Whitemoor Haye

5x Great Egret, 7x Little Egret, 2x Goldeneye,  49x Pochard, 21x Gadwall, 23x Shoveler, 64x Teal, 76x Tufted Duck, 9x Wigeon, 5x Snipe, 416x Lapwing, 36x Little Grebe, 7x GC Grebe, 15x Egyptian Geese, YL Gull, Peregrine, Stonechat, 8x Redwing, (SCo, WeBS