Saturday 5 March 2022

Saturday 5th March 2022

Whitemoor Haye

Drake Red-crested Pochard on new workings, (MSm)  -  also 26x Pochard, 77x Wigeon, 9x Goldeneye, 40x Shoveler, 2x Shelduck, Green Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, Little Egret, 14x Little Grebe, (SCo)

                                                Red-crested Pochard by Jon Woodcock

Doxey Marsh

2x Snipe, 2x Water Rail, 6x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Pochard, Little Egret, 8x Siskin, (DM)

Tittesworth Water

22x Curlew, 38x Snipe, 4x Oystercatcher,5x Pochard, 6x Goosander, 5x Wigeon, 3x Mandarin, Common Gull, 2x Willow Tit, (SGi, IB, AP, EWi)

Audley

Red Kite over east at 13:30, (JMa), Mill End pool - Great Egret, Little Egret and 2x Shelduck at Park Lane flood, (BCa)  -  Red Kite over east

Fenton (Marl tip)

Dunlin, Peregrine, Chiffchaff, (NDP)

Middleton Lakes

20x Goldeneye, 7x Shelduck, Redshank, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Great Egret, (SPA)

Baswich  (Two Waters Bridge)

2x Goosander, Mandarin, (GHa)

Alrewas 

NMA - 2x Goosander, 2x Oystercatcher, Junction pit - 11x Gadwall, Chiffchaff, Cetti's Warbler, - Alrewas GPs 196x Wigeon, 2x Chiffchaff, (SCo)  -  Great Egret, (JWo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Ad Med Gull, 3x Curlew, Pintail, Barn Owl, 3w YL Gull, 4x Chiffchaff, 

Radford Meadows

Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, 4x Shelduck, 2x Mandarin, 15x Shoveler, 450x Wigeon, Little Egret, also a Peregrine at Hixon airfield, (RSw)

Branston GPs

11x Curlew, 3x Ruff, 130x Golden Plover, 3x Ringed Plover, 5x Redshank, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Dunlin, 8x Little Egret, 28x Shelduck, 43x Shoveler, 35x Wigeon, 10x Pochard, 12x Goldeneye, 7x Goosander, Peregrine, (DSc)