Thursday 2nd February 2023

Tittesworth Water

Scaup, 25x Pochard, 10x Goosander, 19x Snipe, Oystercatcher, 10x Common Gull, Little Egret, (SGi)

Branston GPs

Imm/fem Marsh Harrier on south pit before flying east, Ringed Plover (first Staffs 2023),  Dunlin, 3x Ruff, 3x Redshank, 13x Curlew, 2x Green Sandpiper, 875x Lapwing, 3x Golden Plover, 6x Pink-footed Geese, 12x Goldeneye, 52x Pochard, 384x Teal, 38x Shelduck, 4x Egyptian Geese, 22x Little Grebe, 2x Little Egret, 5x YL Gull, GBB Gull, 2x Common Gull, 2x Stonechat, Greenfinch, Green Woodpecker, (JWo)  -  additionally 2x Brambling, (CMa, RF)

                                                       Ringed Plover by Jon Woodcock

Wombourne

5x Waxwing heard and seen this afternoon at the Bratch Locks, (DJo)

Radford Meadows

c400 Lapwing, c50 Golden Plover, 3x Ruff, 2x Shelduck, 2x Little Egret, (CDa)

Doxey Marsh

50x Golden Plover, 3x Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 6x Goosander, 600x Lapwing, (DM)

Ford Green 

2x Ring-necked Parakeet and a Black Swan, (PMo)

Blithfield Resv

Goldeneye and a Stonechat, (RCB)

Middleton Lakes

Adult winter Kittiwake at 15:30 at Dosthill NR, Shelduck, 7x Goldeneye, Pochard,  7x Goosander, 2x Common Gull,  (MSm)  -  Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, Stonechat, 2x Egyptian Geese, 300x Lapwing, 50+ Wigeon, 35+Shoveler, (MSc)

Orgreave

Red Kite over, (RBe)

Westport Lake

25x Pochard, (NJS)

Chasewater

Gull roost Ad Iceland Gull, juv Glaucous Gull, 2x Caspian Gull, Med Gull, 4x YL Gull also the Shag and GN Diver, 

Kingstone

3x Red Kite, (JTu)