Birding In Staffordshire (1 Viewer)

[laesevets]

Knypersley Res

First Chiffchaff back today , also present 7 x Goosander and Raven.
See Knyp blog for more details.....:t:

http://knypersleyres.blogspot.com/

 

[GlynH]

Stanley Matthews Way

6,00am this morning.
New Conservation Pool
11 Curlew.
3 Mute Swans
2 Canada Geese
100+ BH Gulls
5 LBB Gulls.

4pm
Opposite Screwfix on Scrape
143 Golden Plover! this must be a record for S.M. Way
New Pool
120+ BH Gull
7 LBB Gull
5 Pied Wag

 

[Steve Turner]

1 wheatear, 2 stonechats today

Forgot to mention I also had 2 Brambling along the path that skirts the cemetery.

 

[Steve Turner]

4pm
Opposite Screwfix on Scrape
143 Golden Plover! this must be a record for S.M. Way

That's a lot of Golden Plover, you sure they weren't Snipe :-O Sorry Glyn, couldn't resist. Just my little in-joke with Neil-T

 

[Rockbirder]

Plenty for the WeBS notebook this afternoon. Selected 'highlights' and notable site counts as follows;

Dipper 1 still present

Little Ringed Plover 1
Green Sandpiper 2
Redshank 1
Curlew 27
Oystercatcher 6

Goosander 79 (new site record)
Great-crested Grebe 6

Black-headed Gull 500

And a single Chiffchaff.

Seventy nine eh!!! Nice one pal, that'll teach me to have a day off. The first migrants as well, can't be bad:t:

 

[Steve Turner]

Seventy nine eh!!! Nice one pal, that'll teach me to have a day off. The first migrants as well, can't be bad:t:

Perhaps you should have more days off

 

[kev burrows]

Perhaps you should have more days off

I HAD TO HAVE A DAY OFF WORK YESTERDAY AS MY WIFE WAS TAKEN INTO HOSPITAL ON SUN NIGHT WITH AN ASTHMA ATTACK ,WHATS THAT GOT TO DO WITH BIRDS I HEAR YOU ASK ,WELL I WENT OUTSIDE EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING AND CROSSED THE ROAD FROM A AND E AND STOOD WITH MY BACK AGAINST THE RAILINGS AT THE HOUSE ACROSS THE ROAD THE BIG ONE I THINK THEY ARE FLATS AND I NOTICED A SMALL BIRD IN THE TREE NOT SURE WHAT IT WAS I STOOD VERY STILL AS IT GOT LOWER AND LOWER UNTIL IT WAS ONLY THREE FEET FROM MY FACE OBLIVIOUS TO ME
TO MY SURPRISE IT WAS AN ABSOLUTELY LOVELY FEMALE GOLDCREST I HAVE ONLY SEEN A FEW OF THESE BIRDS BUT EVEN ON A BAD DAY BIRDING CAN PUT A SMILE ON MY FACE,AND THE WIFE IS GETTING BETTER AS WELL:t:

 

[Neil-T]

Great story Kev, just goes to show what can turn up, and it's good that it cheered you up a little, hope the wife makes a fast recovery mate. Neil.
Hope this cheers you up.

 

[Rob1991S-O-T]

9 waxwing fletcher road / water street Stoke on trent
then had 5 in the garden

pic 1 ,2 of the 5 and a starling

 

[kev burrows]

Great story Kev, just goes to show what can turn up, and it's good that it cheered you up a little, hope the wife makes a fast recovery mate. Neil.
Hope this cheers you up.

hi neil thanks for your picture and kind words she is recovering well it is only the second goldcrest i have seen helps when there are no leaves on the trees as they are tiny:t:
i feel some visits to the mighty berry hill are coming on watching the forum with interest to see what is popping up there.
kev

 

[minkstone]

Large numbers of Green-finches in the spring field area of Adderleygreen,i had large numbers about a month ago and the numbers dipped now the have built up again, i know there is concern about there decline and it is probably a localized thing, it is nice to see them back on the feeders had over 20 this afternoon for a short while on the feeders.Stu

 

[rob.72]

It's good to see the gp's back in good numbers on stan mat way, noticed them real close to the road the other day as I drove past... The highest count I got last winter was 326 on the 17/12/09.

 

[steve edwards]

Stanley Matthews Way

On new conservation pond this afternoon, of note

1 LRP
1 Dunlin
1 Little Grebe
2 Linnet

Also 100+ Golden Plover opposite screwfix (some near full summer plumage)

Steve

 

[chris23565]

Westport, 9 til 11, first 2 Chiffchaffs of the year, not much else of note except for 3 Goosanders, Nick had the better of things early doors with 6 Shoveler and a single Wigeon as well as the 2 Chiffchaffs.

 

[Rob Swift]

High Tide

Out of interest..... there's a high 10m+ tide on the Dee estuary/wirral this coming sunday morn. It can be a superb spectacle, if with the the help of a southerly breeze, the water covers the saltmarsh and brings everything in close.(especially viewing from Parkgate, old baths car park).

( I know it's not Staffordshire, but it is our nearest bit of coastline for us land locked birders!:-O )

cheers

Rob

 

[PROUD POTTER]

19 Waxwings this afternoon at 13:40 at Great Fenton Business Park off Grove Road in the two silver birches and dropping down onto the berries adjacent to unit D. Flew off over the park towards Smith's pool only to return about 15 minutes later.

 

[Rob1991S-O-T]

Radial park / stanley mattews way


Little Grebe 1 still new conservation pool first since 2006 as far as i know around that area

Golden Plover 145
Lapwing 8
Curlew 4 new conservation pool
Black-headed Gull 120
Lesser Black-backed Gull 8 4 over 4 bathing
Skylark 6 singing
Grey Wagtail 1
Stonechat 2
Wheatear 1 horse fields
Redwing 6
Jay 2
Greenfinch 8
Siskin 2
Linnet 6
Bullfinch 4
Reed Bunting 11

 

[NickPomiankowski]

Madeley SW

30+ bramblings still - many moving into summer plumage, plus a chiff.
Nick

 

[NickPomiankowski]

Waxwings

per an email: 15-20 at Wellington Street Burton on Trent opposite Curry’s/Carpet Right

 

[Neil-T]

Surprise visit form a Mealy redpoll this morning after not seeing it for 2 weeks or more.
4 Siskins.
7 Lesser redpoll.
6 Goldfinches.
Plus other common garden birds.


Then went over to Horton to check habitat and make a Barn owl box to put up in the barn next week. Loads of activity.

1 Barn owl as I was cleaning out the old pellets from the barn.
5 Greenfinches
Siskin, L redpoll and Goldfinch flock around the farm buildings.
Wren
3 Dunnock
3 Robins
Common tits
Stock dove sitting on nest in lower barn.
Kestrel
Buzzards
Treecreepers
Nuthatch
GSW