Thursday 24 March 2022

Thursday 24th March 2022

Middleton Lakes

Red Kite thru at 09:10, 2x Avocet, 4x Oystercatcher, LRP, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Ruff, Dunlin, 2x Snipe, 6x Redshank, Great Egret, 7x Shelduck, 2x Pochard, 3x Goldeneye, (MSm)  -  also Curlew, 4x Little Egret, Goosander, (PAn)

Doxey Marsh

 LRP, Pintail, 8x Shelduck, 3x Goosander, (RRa)  -  Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, (DB)

Aqualate

Adult Little Gull this afternoon, (PJor)

Barton under Needwood

2x Brambling, (AP)

                                                                       By Alan Pauline

Rudyard Lake

LRP, 3x Oystercatcher, 24x Chiffchaff, 2x Willow Tit, SSe)

Tittesworth Water

Ringed Plover, 2x Oystercatcher, 5x Snipe, 8x Goosander, (JOa, SF)

Trentham Gardens

12x Mandarin, 6x Gadwall, 2x Oystercatcher, Little Egret, (PBi)

Ipstones

2x Curlew, (SCh)

River Sow Meadows (Baswich - Milford)

4x Green Sandpiper, Little Egret, Mandarin, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Chiffchaff, (RSw)

Branston GPs

Yellow Wagtail (first Staffs 2022 record),  2x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Ruff, 15x Redshank, 2x Ringed Plover, 3x Green Sandpiper, 12x Curlew, 5x Oystercatcher, 14x Snipe, 5x Little Egret, 6x Water Rail, 11x Goldeneye, 18x Pochard, 28x Shelduck, 28x Gadwall, 66x Shoveler,  32x Wigeon, 6x Mandarin, 6x Egyptian Geese, 30x Little Grebe, Peregrine, 3x Green Woodpecker, 12x Sand Martin, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

                                                           Goldeneye by Jon Woodcock