Saturday, 3 October 2026

Saturday 3rd October 2026

Uttoxeter Quarry

3x Red-crested Pochard at 09:15- 2 drakes and 1 female, also Black-necked Grebe, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Great Egret, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (RPo)

Alton

Red Kite, 30x Linnet, 100x Meadow Pipit over south, (TEy)

Chasewater

1w Med Gull near the visitor centre, (TBr)

Blithfield Resv

06:45 to 12:30 - 9x Great Egret, 3x Red Kite, 2x Peregrine, 2x YL Gull, 40x Ringed Plover, juv Little Stint, 18x Dunlin, 5x Curlew, 9x Ruff, 7x Snipe, 7x Stonechat, Clouded Yellow, (SRi, GJM, MPR)

Biddulph Moor

2x Wheatear off top road, (ALo)

Branston GPs

Brambling over south at 09:50, 4x Swallow thru south, 4x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, Shelduck, 60x Wigeon, 75x Shoveler, 80x Pochard, Goosander, Peregrine, 7x Curlew, 18x Lapwing, Dunlin, 4x Green Sandpiper, 8x Snipe, GBB Gull, 30x Skylark, 3x Stonechat, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Blackcap, 25x Chiffchaff, 40x Linnet, 4x Siskin, 3x Couded Yellow, (DSc)

Cheddleton 

Redwing over at 07:00, (DSc)

Tucklesholme

60x Wigeon, 6x Shoveler, 25x Gadwall, 3x Goosander, Little Egret, (DSc)

Croxall

20x Shoveler, Snipe, Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Whitemoor Haye

100x Lapwing, Great Egret, (DSc)

Belvide Resv

18x Ringed Plover, 2x Dunlin, Snipe, 2x Peregrine, Goshawk (j), 3x Red Kite, 5x Goosander, 11x Pintail, 5x Great Egret, 2x YL Gull, 

Middleton Lakes

9x Shoveler, 50+ Gadwall, 20+ Teal, 6x Little Egret, Great Egret, 200+ Lapwing, 4x Chiffchaff, Linnets, (KJo)

Rudyard

15x Buzzard in field beside lake at Rushton end, (HBa)