Friday, 3 January 2025

Friday 3rd January 2025

Orgreave

Barn Owl over the A513 at 07:30, (SCo)

Whitemoor Haye

Slavonian Grebe still, 2x juv Whooper Swan, 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, 150x Lapwing, 4x Goldeneye, 6x Pochard, 30x Shoveler, 2x Egyptian Geese, 14x Little Grebe, Cetti's Warbler, 50x Fieldfare, 150x Redwing, (JWo)  -  Slavonian Grebe still at 15:25, 500x Lapwing, 2x GBB Gull, 7x Yellowhammer, Stonechat, (DSc)

                                                     Slavonian Grebe by Jon Woodcock

Alrewas NMA

Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 2x Goosander, 12x Wigeon, (JWo)

Catholme (from footpath)

Great Egret, Little Egret, 7x Goldeneye, 4x Goosander, 2x Chiffchaff, (JWo)

Swynnerton

Red Kite alongside the A51 at 12:00, (CPe)

Aqualate

Adult male Garganey, (PJo)

Branston GPs

Female Marsh Harrier hunting at 13:42 then drifted off south, imm Peregrine, 2x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 5x Egyptian Geese, 2x Shelduck, 40x Teal, 16x Pochard, 3x Goldeneye, Goosander, 200x Lapwing, Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 6x Snipe, 2x Redpoll, 2x Siskin, (DSc)

Ipstones

58x Fieldfare, 12x Redwing in a field off Belmont Road,  (PBe)

Chasewater

Roost  -  Ad Iceland Gull, ad Med Gull, 2cy Caspian Gull, ad YL Gull, 59x Common Gull, Shag, (CW)

Tucklesholme

Great Egret, Goldeneye, Stonechat, (NCo)