Sunday 20 November 2022

Sunday 20th November 2022

Blithfield Resv

Cattle Egret with Little Egrets just north of the reservoir this am, (MPR, GJM)  -  Curlew Sandpiper (bearing Germain metal leg ring), still, 3x Curlew, 22x Dunlin, 13x Goldeneye, 18x Goosander, 2x Pintail, 3x Pochard, 4x Shelduck, 2x Peregrine, Red Kite, (SE, HF)

                                                  Curlew Sandpiper by Steve Edwards

Endon STW

Barn Owl this am also 78x Lapwing, (GBr)

Tittesworth Water

Woodcock, 25x Lapwing, 125x Teal, 10x Pochard, 68x Wigeon, 2x Willow Tit, (SGi)  -  2x Shoveler, 11x Pochard, 4x Mandarin, 95x Wigeon, 56x Lapwing, 16x Siskin, (JOa, LH)

Chasewater

Red-crested Pochard still on Norton Bog also 11x Pochard, 12x Goosander, 4x Goldeneye, 6x Wigeon, (BHa)

Stafford

2x Peregrine, (BGo)

Branston GPs

5x Pink-footed Geese, 2x Egyptian Geese, Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Ruff, 3x Redshank, 33x Dunlin, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 850x Golden Plover, c500 Lapwing, 12x Curlew, 4x Snipe, Common Gull, GBB Gull, 2x ad YL Gull, 75x Shoveler, 82x Pochard, 8x Goldeneye, 4x Goosander, Green Woodpecker, 4x Little Egret, Water Rail, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 50x Linnet, (DSc) - additional SMP 6x GBB Gull, Green Sandpiper, 6x Greenfinch, also 7x Shelduck Ashy pit, (JWo)

                                                  Pink-footed Geese by Dave Scattergood

Dimmingsdale (Alton)

Willow Tit, (TEy)

                                                                 By Terry Eyre

Whitemoor Haye

c800 Lapwing, 78x Golden Plover, 3x Snipe, 39x Egyptian Geese, 31x Pochard, 80x Wigeon, 66x Teal, 4x Gadwall, 2x Shoveler, Goldeneye, Peregrine, 8x Tree Sparrow, Great Egret, Little Egret, 50x Skylark, (SCo)

Branston Water Park

3x Little Egret, 18x Pochard, 2x Goosander, (DSc)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

3w Caspian Gull in the roost,

Aqualate

Slavonian Grebe still, (RWh)