Friday 26th December 2025

Pool Hall

Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 15x Cormorant, 11x Greylag Geese,  (GCl, KCl)

Gailey Resv

Red Kite, Great Egret, Common Sandpiper, 11x Wigeon, 6x Pochard, 2x Gadwall, 2x Goldeneye, (JIs)

Whiston

Red Kite around The Leys at 12:00, (GSt)

Belvide Resv

2x Russian White-fronted Geese and Green-winged Teal still, 

Branston GPs 

Slavonian Grebe -160th species of the year (DSc), on Ashy pit to 14:30 at least, Marsh Harrier (f), 2x Red Kite, Peregrine, 22x Curlew, 3x Green Sandpiper, 6x Snipe, 300x Lapwing, Snipe, 2x Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 6x Common Gull, 4x GBB Gull, 6x Shelduck, 72x Gadwall, 40x Wigeon, 70x Shoveler, Red Kite, 2x Stonechat, 5x Siskin, 12x Redpoll, 150x Redwing, 60+ Fieldfare, 2x Egyptian Geese, (DSc, JWo, ASt)

Westport Lake

Yellow-browed Warbler still also Great Egret over, (SSe)

                                                   Yellow-browed Warbler by Steve Seal

                                                 Yellow-browed Warbler by Steve Gibson

Chasewater

2x Red-crested Pochard on The Swag, (GHa, HKi)  -  Roost 2x ad YL Gull, Great Egret, (JAl)

Ellastone

6x Red Kite over at 13:20, (JDr)

Whitemoor Haye

4x Brambling, 5x Redpoll, 2x Greenfinch, Slavonian Grebe, Golden Plover, 450x Lapwing, 2x Common Sandpiper, 75x Wigeon, 2x Red-crested Pochard, 16x Shoveler, 14x Pochard, Shelduck, 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, 3x Whooper Swan, 140x Fieldfare, Stonechat, Chiffchaff, Grey Wagtail, 2x RL Partridge, (MKe, JKe)  - 117x Teal, 3x Shelduck, 55x Shoveler, 417x Wigeon, 22x Pochard, 25x Gadwall, 15x Goldeneye, 2x Red-crested Pochard, Slavonian Grebe, 6x Little Grebe, 9x GC Grebe, 3x Great Egret, Green Sandpiper, Golden Plover, Snipe, 2x Little Egret, 4x Redpoll, Siskin, c70 Linnet went to roost, Cetti's Warbler, 4x Egyptian Geese, c200 Fieldfare, Peregrine, Grey Wagtail, 3x GBB Gull, Common Gull, 2x Stonechat, 6x Reed Bunting, (SCo)  -  also 3x Pintail, (TPe)

Biddulph Moor

5x Tree Sparrow, (ALo)

Doxey Marsh

3x Shelduck, 13x Shoveler, 15x Gadwall, 44x Wigeon, 21x Teal, 4x Goosander, Water Rail, 116x Lapwing, 3x Great Egret, Little Egret, 2x GC Grebe, Red Kite, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Grey Wagtail, (CAFH)

Wombourne

2x Goosander between Bumblehole and Bratch Locks also male Mandarin between Bratch Locks and Awbridge, (Alison)

Tucklesholme

Great Egret, 4x Little Grebe, Egyptian Goose, Shelduck, 70x Wigeon, 60x Teal, 6x Pochard, (DSc)