Today's main task was the rather mundane grocery shopping, so to spice things up I decided to go via Rickerscote Marsh and Radford Meadows on the east side of Stafford town centre. The latter site is a Staffordshire Wildlife Trust nature reserve.
Sadly, traffic on and off the retail park prevented me (nay, persuaded me) not to venture to Radford Meadows, so instead I took a look at Just Rickerscote Marsh. Practically the only place to view the marsh and pool is from the very end of Rickerscote Avenue, click here for a map showing where.
The pool can hold several hundred duck such as teal, wigeon, shelduck and pintail with a few waders also sometimes seen. Today's visit seemed to compound my thoughts that there are so few ducks around this winter, other than teal. The only birds seen were 382 teal, 6 wigeon, 8 shoveler, 2 gadwall and a handful of mallard and black-headed gulls.
The main highlight was 2 little egret in the distance over on Radford Meadows. Hopefully we'll get an increase in winter duck numbers before the season is over!
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