Friday, 2 January 2026

Friday 2nd January 2026

Whitemoor Haye

2x White-fronted Geese, 3x Slavonian Grebe, 2x Red-crested Pochard still, (TPe)  - Also c1000 Lapwing, 16x Golden Plover, Common Sandpiper, 8x Pochard, 2x Goldeneye, 4x Little Grebe, Great Egret, (DSc)

Uttoxeter

150+ Lapwing on field alongside the B5030 opposite the quarry, (JDr)

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2x Stonechat, 26x Snipe, Jack Snipe also 4x Stonechat at Coven, (JDu)

Gailey Island

103x Golden Plover, (JDu)

Silverdale CP

2x Shoveler, Stonechat, flock of Redpoll/Siskin, Fieldfares and nearby Apedale 30+ Redpoll, (PCa)

Doxey Marsh

Great Egret, Little Egret, Grey Wagtail, GBB Gull, many Lapwings, (PWi)

Gailey Resv

Chiffchaff, 4x Little Egret, 15x Pochard, Goldeneye, Common Sandpiper, Grey Wagtail, (SRi)

Branston GPs

Marsh Harrier (f), Red Kite, Peregrine, Barn Owl, 17x Curlew, 2x Common Sandpiper, 7x Green Sandpiper, 7x Snipe, 1156x Lapwing, Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 6x Water Rail, 14x Goldeneye, 10x Shelduck, 105x Wigeon, 77x Pochard, 74x Gadwall, 510x Teal, 99x Shoveler, 7x Egyptian Geese, 47x Little Grebe, 8x GBB Gull, 4x YL Gull, 6x Common Gull, Green Woodpecker, Blackcap, 3x Chiffchaff, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Stonechat, 9x Siskin, 19x Redpoll, 100x Linnet, 5x Grey Wagtail, (JWo, DSc)