Saturday, 27 September 2025

Saturday 27th September 2025

Uttoxeter Quarry

2x Pintail, 2x Pochard, 9x Wigeon, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 4x Snipe, 2x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 6x Redpoll, 3x Swallow, (RPo)

Stanley Pool

Great Egret SE over at 09:50, 6x Swallow south, Little Egret by Puddy Lane, (GBr)

Belvide Resv

Black-necked Grebe still, 

Blithfield Resv

07:00 - 11:15 2x Great Egret, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, 5x YL Gull, 1st w Caspian Gull, 32x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 8x Dunlin, Little Stint, Curlew, Wheatear, 5x Stonechat, 12x Siskin, (SRi)

Whitemoor Haye

Female Merlin, (SCo)  -  Also 2x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 33x Wigeon, 20x Shoveler, 30x Teal, c250x Lapwing, 4x Snipe, Stonechat, 16x Chiffchaff, 5x Grey Wagtail thru, 56x Skylark, Redpoll, Siskin, 29x House Martin, 10x Swallow, (ICW)

Trentham Gardens

Osprey over the lake heading south at 16:33, 22x Gadwall, 8x Little Egret, 2x Ring-necked Parakeet, (RGi)

Brankley Pastures

Corn Bunting, Yellowhammer, 9x European Hornet, (MKe, LDa)

Doxey Marsh

6x Great Egret, 2x Cattle Egret, 2x Snipe, 50x Lapwing, Gadwall, Shoveler, (RRa)

Catholme

Red Kite, 5x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 4x Redpoll, 5x Sand Martin, 10x Swallow, (JWo)

Alrewas NMA

3x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret and 2x Little Egret on Alrewas canal, (JWo)

Amington Fields/Alvecote

40x Wigeon, Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 20x House Martin, 2x Little Grebe, Grey Wagtail, (MSc)