Thursday, 1 January 2026

Thursday 1st January 2026

Gailey Resv

2x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 3x Goldeneye, 10x Pochard, Water Rail, Common Sandpiper, 5x Snipe, Cetti's Warbler, 4x Redpoll, (SRi)

Whitemoor Haye (64 species today)

07:30 to 16:00, 2x Russian White-fronted Geese, 3x Slavonian Grebe still, 2x Red-crested Pochard, Common Sandpiper, 60x Golden Plover, c1500x Lapwing, RB Goose, 10x Gadwall, 16x Pochard, 12x Goldeneye, 81x Teal, 38x Shoveler, 177x Wigeon,  Common Sandpiper, 7x Great Egret, Little  Egret, Redpoll, 4x Siskin, 10x GC Grebe, 11x Egyptian Geese, 2x Stonechat, 2x Yellowhammer, Peregrine, 2x Red Kite, GBB Gull, 3x YL Gull, Merlin, Grey Wagtail,  (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, Scaup, 7x Pochard, (RGi)  -  Scaup, YBW, Blackcap, (SE, HF)

Elford - Fisherwick

3x Whooper Swan still, (LWo, TPe)

Croxall

Brambling in hedge just past the entrance, (LWo)  -  7x Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 10x Goosander, 218x Teal, 18x Snipe, (ICW)

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  (86 species today)

Marsh Harrier, Peregrine, Red Kite, Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 1306x Lapwing, 20x Curlew, 11x Green Sandpiper, 3x Woodcock, Ruff, Dunlin, 8x Snipe, 4x Water Rail, 11x Shelduck, 66x Pochard, 67x Wigeon, 75x Shoveler, 12x Goldeneye, 2x Goosander, 77x Gadwall, 300+ Teal,  49x Little Grebe, Green Woodpecker, 4x GBB Gull, 5x Common Gull, Blackcap, 3x Chiffchaff,  50x Linnet, 20x Redpoll, 10x Siskin, 15x Greenfinch, 2x Stonechat, Cetti's Warbler, 7x Grey Wagtail,  20,000x Starling, (DSc, JWo)  -  Ruff on Ashy pit, Red Kite, (LWo)

Belvide Resv (75 species today)

Little Stint, Goshawk, 8x Goosander, 7x Little Egret, 2x Great Egret, Pintail, 2x Stonechat, 25x Siskin, 

Chasewater (45 species today)

The Swag 2x Red-crested Pochard, 7x Goosander, 4x Gadwall, 47x Wigeon, Little Egret, - South shore 2x Chiffchaff, Redpoll, Fieldfares, (CMa)

Blithfield Resv

Scaup, 2x Goldeneye, 38x Pochard, Goosander, 16x PFG, 12x Egyptian Geese, 2x Stonechat, Peregrine, (DBr)

Trentham Gardens

Scaup, 5x Little Grebe, 2x Wigeon, 5x Little Egret, (SE, HF)

                                                            Scaup by Steve Edwards

Tittesworth Water

2x Whooper Swan, (SGi)

Stonnall

9x Grey Partridge at 13:00 (JDa)

Cheadle

Hales Hall pool - 2x Water Rail, Snipe, 25x Redwing, (TDu)

Burntwood

Black Redstart in garden off New Road, (MCl)

Doxey Marsh (66 species today)

2x Shelduck, Pintail, 2x Pochard, Goosander, Great Egret, Black-tailed Godwit, Peregrine, Grey Wagtail, Stonechat, Redpoll, (AH, DT, GP, MB, RR, RS)

Pool Hall

Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 26x Goosander, Lapwing, (IMo per GCl)

Holden Lane Pool

8x Ring-necked Parakeet, (RGi)