Monday 18 February 2013

Monday 18 February 2013

Branston Gravel Pits
Adult Glaucous Gull in the roost (see photo's below), c80x GBBG, 9x Herring Gull, c70x LBBG, 4x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 13x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, 7x Snipe, c300x Lapwing, 10x Shelduck, 121x Wigeon, 16x Gadwall, 6x Pochard, 23x Mute Swan, c50x Fieldfare (JW) 
 

Chasewater
In the roost 3 juv Glaucous Gulls , juv Iceland Gull, 1w Caspian Gull 3 Yellow L Gulls ad & 2, 2w (JA)
 
Croxall
2x Oystercatcher along River Trent (JW)

Blithfield Res (permit only)
Long-tailed Duck 1st winter drake in Tad Bay to 15:10 at least.  In the roost - 1+ adult Caspian Gull and two 2w Yellow-legged Gulls (GJM, MPR)

Copmere
Redhead Smew still this morning from the boathouse (DE).
Still to 16:50 at least also drake Scaup (NJS).

Silverdale CP
10x Goosander, 6x Skylark, 4x LapwingBuzzard (GA)

Ipstones Edge
Kestrel, 45x Fieldfare, Raven and a Woodcock at dusk Sunday (DP)