Saturday, 18 January 2025

Saturday 18th January 2025

Trentham

Hawfinch still at St Mary and All Saints church at 12:12, (RPo)

Whitemoor Haye

2x juv Whooper Swan still, Merlin, 4x Great Egret, Little Egret, 57x Gadwall, 78x Wigeon, 5x Pochard, 38x Teal, 4x Shoveler, 5x Goldeneye, 80x Lapwing, Green Sandpiper, Cetti's Warbler, 7x Little Grebe, GBB Gull, 9x Linnet, Peregrine, (SCo)  -  In addition  Slavonian Grebe again on roadside pit, (TPe)

Belvide Resv

Green-winged Teal still, 

Bunkers Hill Wood (west of Stourbridge)

Firecrest still this morning, (WN)

Stanley Pool

Female Pintail, 15x Goosander, (GBr)

Tixall Wide Great Haywood

Tundra Bean Goose with Canadas and Greylags, (RSw)

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Black Redstart still, (Foz)

Gailey Resv

41x Pochard, 8x Goldeneye, Common Gull, (JIs)  -  Fullmoor Lane Brambling in the Finch flock, (SRi)

Little Bank Top farm (north of Dilhorne)

2x Red Kite in misty conditions, (DSc)

Branston GPs

Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 35x Wigeon, 130x Teal, 4x Goldeneye, Goosander, Ringed Plover, 9x Golden Plover, 370x Lapwing, GBB Gull, 15,000x Starling, (DSc)

Tucklesholme

Great Egret, Little Egret, 5x Pochard, Goldeneye, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Baldwins Gate 

Little Egret, (RWh)

Alrewas NMA

2x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 16x Goosander, (JWo)

Westport Lake

Drake Scaup, (per RGi)

Chasewater

30x GBB Gull, 30x Common Gull, 1000x Herring Gull, 1600x LBB Gull, (CW)

Barton - Wychnor

Glaucous Gull on ploughed fields along Green Lane, (JWo)

                                                      Glaucous Gull by Jon Woodcock