Saturday 3rd January 2025

Westport Lake

Yellow-browed Warbler still at north end of the lake, the Scaup still, (RPo)

Elford - Fisherwick

3x Whooper Swan still, (SCo)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Russian White-fronted Geese and 3x Slavonian Grebe still, (TPe, SCo)  -  3x Slavonian Grebe, 2x Russian White-fronted Geese, 2x Red-crested Pochard, Great Egret, 1000+ Lapwing, (JWo)  -  In addition  2x Red-crested Pochard, Green Sandpiper, Yellowhammer, Siskin, 4x Chiffchaff, 2x Stonechat, Little Egret, GBB Gull, YL Gull, 2x Goldcrest, (SCo)

                                                           WF Geese by Jon Woodcock

Blithfield Resv

Red-throated Diver still, 3x Scaup, (MPR, GJM)

Middleton Lakes

2x Yellowhammer, Common Gull, 3x Pochard, 2x Goldeneye, Goosander, 12x Snipe, 3x Great Egret, 2x Stonechat, (MSm)

Coven

Red Kite this am, (JDu)

Doxey Marsh

3x Shelduck, 32x Shoveler, 10x Gadwall, 57x Teal, 2x Pochard, 2x Goosander, 3x Water Wail, 104x Lapwing, 4x Snipe, 2x Little Egret, Red Kite, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Stonechat, (CAFH)

Stanley Pool

2x Wigeon, 29x Goosander, 794x Canada Geese, (GBr)

Trentham Gardens

Scaup, Great Egret, 6x Little Grebe, 2x Wigeon, Shoveler, 2x Goosander, (HF, SE)  -  In the roost  16x Little Egret and Great Egret, in addition  38x Gadwall, 27x Lapwing over, 25+ Cormorant, Stonechat, (RGi)

Catholme (footpath)

Merlin (m), 6x Goosander, 80x Wigeon, 80x Pochard, Great Egret,  (JWo)

Alrewas NMA

Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 2x Redshank, 4x Lapwing, 12x Goosander, 50x Teal, 10x Redpoll, 100+ Fieldfare, (JWo)

Tittesworth Water

Shoveler, 53x Pochard, 25x Wigeon, 4x Teal, Snipe, 3x Willow Tit, (SGi)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Dusk - 13x Goosander, YL Gull, 7x Common Gull roosted, 60x Golden Plover, Water Rail, (RPo)

Aqualate

Drake Garganey, Marsh Harrier, Water Rail, this afternoon, (PJor)

Alrewas GPs

YL Gull, 92x Wigeon, 2x Chiffchaff, 4x Teal, 2x Bullfinch, (SCo)

Branston GPs

Red Kite, Peregrine, Great Egret, 9x Shelduck, 80x Wigeon, 70x Shoveler, 400x Teal, 40x Pochard, 6x Goldeneye, 2x Water Rail, 22x Curlew, 300x Lapwing, 7x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 4x Snipe, 30x GBB Gull, 2x YL Gull, 6x Common Gull, Stonechat, 60x Linnet, 3x Redpoll, (DSc)