Monday 8 March 2021

Monday 8th March 2021

Middleton Lakes

Bittern on small pool behind west screen, 2x Avocet, 9x Oystercatcher, Curlew over, Ringed Plover, LRP, 2x Snipe, 4x Dunlin, 4x Redshank, Great Egret, Common Gull, 9x Goldeneye, 6x Shelduck, Pochard, Stonechat, (MSm)  -  Marsh Harrier heading north at 13:45, (PFo)  -  30x Wigeon, 3x Little Egret, 30x Shoveler, Egyptian Goose, 110x Lapwing, (MSc)

Cheddleton Water Meadows

2x Oystercatcher, 4x Shoveler, 2x Shelduck, 12x Red-legged Partridge, (EWi)

Uttoxeter Quarry

20x Curlew, Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, Little Egret, Goldeneye, 8x Goosander, 6x Shelduck, 14x Wigeon, Chiffchaff, 2x Willow Tit, Green Woodpecker, (RPo)

Ford Green

Cetti's Warbler at the pool, 4x Snipe, Shoveler, (JJo)

Dimmingsdale

20x Siskin, 6x Redpoll, (TEy)

Branston GPs

6x Pink-footed Geese, 7x Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, 3x Redshank, 3x Ruff, Dunlin, 3x Ringed Plover, Snipe, 3x Chiffchaff, (CMa)  -  also 6x Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, 3x Snipe, 10x Curlew, 10x Goldeneye, 5x Shelduck, Green Woodpecker, (CEc)

Croxall

6x Oystercatcher, Curlew, 2x Green Sandpiper, 8x Shelduck, (SCa)

Tucklesholme

2x Oystercatcher, 2x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, (SCa)

Alrewas NMA

Great Egret, Little Egret, Goosander, Shelduck, (RBe)

                                                                Egrets by Rob Bendelow

Whitemoor Haye

Peregrine, (RBe)

Biddulph Moor

3x Snipe at Beckfields farm, (SHi)

Forsbrook - Draycott in the Moors

Merlin at 12:00, Grey Wagtail, (AR)