Thursday, 1 January 2026

Thursday 1st January 2026

Gailey Resv

2x Great Egret, 7x Little Egret, (SRi)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Russian White-fronted Geese, 3x Slavonian Grebe still, 2x Red-crested Pochard, Common Sandpiper, 60x Golden Plover, c1300x Lapwing, RB Goose, (SCo)  -  Great Egret, Little Egret, 2x Red-crested Pochard, Slavonian Grebe, Common Sandpiper, Goldeneye, GBB Gull, (LWo)  -  Late morning 3x Slavonian Grebe, 2x RC Pochard, Merlin, Peregrine, 25x Golden Plover, 6x Great Egret, Stonechat, RB Goose, (TPe)

Dilhorne area

5+ Red Kite, 10x Raven, 60x Lapwing, 100x Redwing and nearby a further Red Kite at Caverswall, (DSc)

Westport Lake

Yellow-browed Warbler still, 

Elford - Fisherwick

3x Whooper Swan still, (LWo, TPe)

Croxall Lakes

Brambling in hedge just past the entrance, (LWo)

Madeley

2x Chiffchaff at the STW, 5x Goosander on the pool, (SJT)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Whooper Swan, 26x Golden Plover, 4x Goldeneye, 22x Pochard, Great Egret, Peregrine, calling Water Rail, (RPo)

Balterley Heath

3x PFG, 102x Wigeon, 2x Wigeon on the pool at Black Firs, (SJT)

Shraleybrook

Fem Mandarin, 45x Teal, 4x Shoveler on the small pool, (SJT)

Knypersley Resv

12x Mandarin, 3x Goosander, Willow Tit,  (GBr)

Rudyard - Biddulph Moor

2x Tree Sparrow at Greenfield farm off Dingle Lane, (GBr)

Stanley Moor

Barn Owl this am and 2x Chiffchaff at Endon STW, (GBr)

Branston GPs

Marsh Harrier, Peregrine, Red Kite, Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 700x Lapwing, 20x Curlew, 4x Green Sandpiper, GBB Gull, 3x Shelduck, 7x Wigeon, 70x Shoveler, 6x Goldeneye, 2x Goosander, Green Woodpecker, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, 15x Linnet, 12x Redpoll, 4x Siskin, (DSc, JWo)  -  Ruff on Ashy pit, Red Kite, (LWo)

Belvide Resv

Little Stint on North shore 13:15 to 13:22,