Oyster Catchers and Lesser Redpoll at Tittesworth Reservoir today

Two Oystercatchers are spending time at Tittesworth Reservoir again this year. Today one was on the floating island in the main reservoir and another on the conservation pool. Two (plus maybe one or two more) Oyster Catchers are also spotted in a shallow temporary pool near the Caldon Canal at Cheddleton (near sewage works). Will they breed in the Churnet Valley again this year?

Also notably today at Tittesworth Res. a flock of about Blackcaps, Willow Warblers and Chiffchaffs, 20 Lesser Redpoll, 3 Cormorants, Great Crested Grebe pairs, a few Teal, a male Mandarin Duck, Reed Buntings and a Brown Hare. 

There are plenty of early spring wild plants beginning to flower amongst them Butterbur, Lesser Celandine, Green Field Speedwell. 

Male Lesser Redpoll at Tiittesworth reservoir. (photo by Andy Cope.)

Green Field Speedwell.