Friday 20 March 2020

Friday 20th March 2020

Middleton Lakes
9x Avocet, 4x Redshank,  4x Oystercatcher, 2x Pintail, (MSm)

Berryhill
Wheatear, Common Gull over, 60x Fieldfare, 3x Chiffchaff, Lapwing, and on Botteslow Little Egret, (RGi)

Gailey Resv
Goldeneye, 2x Oystercatcher, 3x Gadwall, 2x Shoveler, 2x Chiffchaff, 3x Siskin, (PCo)

Doxey Marsh
Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, Water Rail, 4x Goosander, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Water Rail, (DCo)

Branston GPs
Long-tailed Duck still on BM pit, 7x Black-tailed Godwit, 11x Curlew, 5x Redshank, 11x Oystercatcher, 2x Snipe, 2x Pintail, Pochard, 9x Shelduck, Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Green Woodpecker, Common Gull, 5x Chiffchaff, (CEc) - also 8x Black-tailed Godwit, 14x Curlew, 4x Goldeneye, 35x Wigeon, 20x Shoveler, 14x Pochard, 12x Gadwall, (DSc)  -  100x Sand Martin, also a possible Merlin, (MJo)

Alstonefield
2x Wheatear by path to Narrowdale,

Trentham Gardens
Dipper, (DVi)

Rudyard Lake
Oystercatcher, (AR)

Ellastone
Red Kite over between the B5030 and the Dove, (JDr)

Whitemoor Haye
2x Corn Bunting, 35x Yellowhammer, 50x Linnet, 6x Tree Sparrow, 2x LRP, 2x Egyptian Geese, (SE, HF)

Corn Bunting by Steve Edwards

Tittesworth Water
22x Curlew, 6x Oystercatcher, 2x Snipe, Little Egret, 2x Mandarin, 14x Goosander, Willow Tit, (SG, IB)

Tawny Owl by Steve Gibson

Chasewater
2w YL Gull in the roost, Oystercatcher