Saturday, 25 October 2025

Saturday 25th October 2025

Uttoxeter Quarry

Juv Marsh Harrier at 10:15 with yellow tags on both wings, Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 2x Snipe, 23x Goosander, (RPo)

Blithfield Resv

White-rumped Sandpiper still at Admaston Reach, (MJo)  -  10:00 to 15:00 Juv WR Sandpiper, still,  5x Whooper Swan, Great Egret, 2x YL Gull, 6x Golden Plover, 2x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 3x Curlew, 2x Stonechat, (SRi)

Belvide Resv

6x Whooper Swan 10:28 to 11:34 only. Another 10x Whooper Swan dropped in at 12:22, Goshawk, Med Gull, Common Gull, 8x Dunlin, Black-tailed Godwit, PFG, Shelduck, 

Cannock Chase

8x Crossbill at Haywood Warren, c10x Redpoll at Brocton Hill, (IWi)

Stanley Pool

70x PFG flew east, fem Pintail, 3x Wigeon, Pochard, (GBr)

Whitemoor Haye

5x Goldeneye, 55x Teal, 49x Pochard, 19x Gadwall, 6x Shoveler, 135x Wigeon, 200x Lapwing, Golden Plover, Green Sandpiper, 7x Great Egret, 16x Little Egret, 8x GC Grebe, 5x Little Grebe, Cetti's Warbler, 48x Egyptian Geese, Blackcap, 4x GBB Gull, 5x Redpoll, Yellowhammer, Grey Wagtail, 2x Stonechat, (SCo)

 
                                                         Yellowhammer by Stu Collins

Tittesworth Water

41x Whooper San, 28x PFG, Common Sandpiper, 37x Wigeon, 8x Mandarin, 85x Teal, 2x Goosander, 45x Linnet, 9x Redwing, (SGi, IB, AP)

Doxey Marsh

2x Whooper Swan on Creswell Flash at 15:04, (AHa)  -  Still at 16:30 at least.  AHa, GPr, RRa)

Calwich

Red Kite over at 10:40, (JDr)

Middleton Lakes

2x Great Egret, Little Egret, 2x Little Grebe, 5x Pochard, 50+Lapwing, 2x Egyptian Geese, 2+ Stonechat, (MSc)