Sunday, 11 October 2026

Sunday 11th October 2026

Blithfield Resv

Cattle Egret NW thru Blithe Bay with 3x Great Egrets, (MPR, GJM)  -  07:30 to 11:30 7x Great Egret, 3x Pintail, Red Kite, 2x YL Gull, 16x Ringed Plover, 24x Dunlin, 6x Curlew, 10x Ruff, Wheatear, sev Stonechat, (SRi)  -  

2x Grey Plover, 24x Dunlin, 15x Ringed Plover, 10x Ruff, 6x Curlew,  Cattle Egret, 8x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, Caspian Gull, 4x Common Gull,  Ruddy Shelduck, 3x Pintail, 6x Stonechat,  (HF, SE)

                                                     Cattle Egret by Steve Edwards

Belvide Resv

5x Grey Plover and Little Stint still,

Baswich - Milford River Sow Meadows

c100x Pink-footed Geese high SE this am, Great Egret, 4x Cetti's Warbler, Chiffchaff, 11x Skylark, 7x Redwing, 40x Stock Dove, (RSw)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Black-necked Grebe still, yellow wing-tagged juv Marsh Harri20x Gadwall, er again, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Little Egret, Stonechat, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (RPo)

Gailey Resv

3x Little Egret, 14x Shoveler, 4x Teal, 3x Pochard, 3x Snipe, Common Sandpiper, (JIs)

Doxey Marsh

Green Sandpiper, 167x Lapwing, 25x Snipe, 3x Grey Wagtail, Peregrine, 2x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 3x Redwing, 2x Willow Warbler, 53x Chiffchaff, 16x Cetti's Warbler, 7x Water Rail, 50x Shoveler, 9x Skylark, (WeBS, MBo, DTo, BLo, RRa, RSt)  -  15:30 to 17:00 4x Great Egret, 15x Snipe, 60x Lapwing, 2x Stonechat, 2x Greenfinch, Gadwall, Shoveler, Teal, (JKe, AKe)

Tittesworth Water

Arctic Tern, 3x Mandarin, 16x Teal, 5x Goosander, 63x Redwing, Willow Tit, 15x Siskin, (JOa, LH, TE)

The Roaches

2x Red Kite, 2x Raven, (MKe, JKe)

Whitemoor Haye

301x Cormorant (site record), 7x Little Egret, 5x Great Egret, c400x Lapwing, 48x Snipe, Mistle Thrush, Marsh Harrier (fem), 11x Wigeon, (SCo)

Branston GPs

Imm Marsh Harrier, 4x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, Shelduck, Mandarin, 60x Wigeon, 270x Pochard, 11x Goosander, 9x Curlew, 50x Lapwing, 2x Ringed Plover, 7x Green Sandpiper, 4x Snipe, YL Gull, 30x Skylark, 6x Stonechat, 2x Redwing, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Blackcap, 10x Chiffchaff, 150x Linnet, 10x Siskin, 3x Redpoll, (DSc)

Tucklesholme

Little Egret, 6x Goosander, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)