Sunday 13 October 2013

Sunday 13th October 2013

Blithfield Resv
Four ARCTIC SKUAS (a pale morph adult and three juvs) flew thru at 17:50hrs. Also 1w Little Gull, 3x Rock Pipit and a Pink-footed Goose (MPR, GJM).
Female Merlin briefly late afternoon (MYapp)

Gailey 
Rock Pipit on the causeway 13:00hrs

Belvide Resv
Wood Sandpiper still plus 3x Rock Pipit over

Brookleys Lake
35x Mandarin this afternoon (ABarker)

Croxden
A Dunlin and 1w Yellow-legged Gull (ABarker)

Whitemoor Haye
13:40 - 16:00 saw 147x Cormorants, 11x Great C Grebe, 1x Little Egret, 25+ Tree Sparrow, 30+ Skylark, 240 Lapwing (SCollins)

Doxey Marshes
1x Green Sandpiper, 1x Water Rail, 30x Snipe, 3x Goosander, 3x Little Grebe (AM)

Copmere
Female Common Scoter (DE)