Saturday, 4 January 2025

Saturday 4th January 2025

Uttoxeter Quarry

2x Whooper Swan, 5x Pintail, 4x Goldeneye, 10x Shoveler, Mandarin, Redshank, Dipper, (RPo)

Stanley Pool

Female Pintail, 10x Goosander, (GBr)

Tittesworth Water

15x Common Gull, 104x Wigeon, 4x Goosander, 19x Teal, 2x Pochard, Snipe, 5x Willow Tit, (SGi)

Cheadle

Hales Hall Pool - Water Rail, Goosander, (RPo)  -  Mill Road 12x Siskin, (TDu)

Church Eaton

16x Goosander on pool, (ABe)

Trentham Gardens

5x Gadwall, 2x Goosander, GC Grebe, (STu)

Belvide Resv

Lesser Scaup still, 2x PintailBrambling, 3x Little Egret, 3x Stonechat, 17x Siskin, 4x Snipe

Whitemoor Haye

96x Wigeon, 28x Gadwall, 82x Pochard, 39x Shoveler, 43x Teal, 5x Shelduck, Pintail, 7x Goldeneye, 2x Whooper Swan, 4x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, Green Sandpiper, Merlin, Peregrine, 2x GBB Gull, 2x Egyptian Geese, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo).  -  3x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 3x Goldeneye, Scaup, Greenfinch, 12x Siskin,  (AGP)

Tucklesholme

Green Sandpiper, 4x Snipe, 4x Shelduck, 5x Goldeneye, 2x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 4x Stonechat, (MJ)

Blithfield Resv

2x Goldeneye, 2x Pochard, 5x Goosander, 2x Great Egret, (MJa)

Branston GPs

Fem Marsh Harrier hunting again midday then flew off east at 12:06, 20x Little Grebe, Little Egret, 3x Egyptian Geese, 2x Shelduck, 16x Wigeon, 26x Pochard, 10x Goldeneye, 9x Goosander, 18x Curlew, 200x Lapwing, Water Rail, 4x GBB Gull, Cetti's Warbler, Chiffchaff, 3x Redpoll, (DSc)

Little Bank Top Farm (North of Dilhorne)

3x Red Kite, 20x Raven, (DSc)

Alrewas NMA

3x Snipe, Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 3x Goosander, 30x Wigeon, Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Wychnor

4x Snipe, Little Egret, (JWo)

Chasewater

Adult Iceland Gull and adult YL Gull in the roost,  (BSt)

Radford Meadows

10x Goosander, 5x Pintail, 3x Shelduck, 417x Wigeon, 91x Shoveler, 148x Golden Plover, 200x Lapwing, Snipe, (RSw)

Audley (Park Lane)

11x Shoveler, 40x Wigeon, 55x Teal. Also nearby 2x Little Egret, 60x Golden Plover. 100x Lapwing, (STu)