Saturday 21 February 2015

Saturday 21st February 2015

Aqualate
Redhead Smew this morning, also a juvenile Glaucous Gull roosted this afternoon (IG)

Belvide Res
2x Scaup (drake & female) at west end, also Little Egret, Water Rail, 2x Oystercatcher & Green Woodpecker (BB)

Chasewater Res
2x adult Mediterranean Gulls & a 2nd winter Yellow-legged Gull (@CWG_sightings)

Doxey Marshes
c3 Water Pipit between octagonal hide and railway line, also Cetti's Warbler, 2x Barnacle Geese & 2x Stonechat (SR)

Gailey
Peregrine, 6x Gadwall, 30x Pochard, 3x Goldeneye, 2x Oystercatcher (SR)

Uttoxeter Quarry
8x Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, 7x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 15x Goosander, 5x Goldeneye, 10x Pochard, 75x Wigeon (RP)

Trentham Lakes
Little Egret this afternoon (ST)

River Sow Meadows, Stafford
95x Wigeon, 225x Lapwing, 180x Golden Plover, 5x Snipe & 200x Fieldfare (RS)

Milford Pool
74x Wigeon, 2x Gadwall, Little Grebe, 5x Goosander & 2x Raven (RS)