Saturday, 23 January 2016

Saturday 23rd January 2016

Uttoxeter Quarry
Female Ring-necked Duck on main pit also Pink-footed Goose, 5x Goldeneye ,2x Goosander, 13x Pochard, 28x Wigeon (RPo)

Ring-necked Duck at Uttoxeter Quarry by Richard Powell - First record for the site
 

Photo by Phil Jones
Blithfield Res
Black Redstart still by Fishing Lodge car park (@MartinYapp)

Black Redstart at Blithfield by Martyn Yapp

Hinksford-Wall Heath
Hoopoe still north of Enville Road at 10:05

Chasewater
2x Caspian Gull (adult, 3w), adult YLG, Ring-necked Parakeet flew straight in at 15:35hrs (CWG_sightings)

Nr Cannock Tip
1w Mediterranean Gull (@nessie_w)

Belvide
1w Scaup still present (@BelvideBirding, @nutcracker1965)

Alvecote Pools
Red-necked Grebe on Pretty Pigs Pool (per NDP)

Aqualate
Whooper Swan this morning (IGr)

Whitemoor Haye
Whooper Swan still (@BirderAlrewas)

Tittesworth Res
64x Tufted Duck, 8x Goosander, 4x Pochard, 105x Common Gull, 4x Willow Tit (SGi)

Croxall Lakes
Green Sandpiper, 5x Redshank, 60x Pochard (AnM)

Gailey Resv
10x Greylag Geese, 25x Pochard, 2x Goldeneye (@TheSnapper1978)

Brookleys Lake
15x Mandarin, 8x Goosander, fem Pintail (@rpintean)

Silverdale CP
20x Lesser Redpoll, Kingfisher, 2x Goosander, 5x Skylark, 30x Meadow Pipit (PAD)