Thursday 16th May 2024

Branston GPs

1s Little Gull,  22x Ringed Plover, 3x Oystercatcher, 2x Redshank, 3x Dunlin, 5x Little Egret, 12x Shelduck, 29x Gadwall, 30x Pochard, 3x Shoveler, YL Gull, 38x Common Tern, 10x Egyptian Geese, 27x GC Grebe, 38x Little Grebe, 130x Swift, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Garden Warbler, (DSc, JWo)

                                                          Little Gull by Jon Woodcock

WMI site near Calf Heath

Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 2x Gadwall, Lesser Whitethroat, (SRi)

Tittesworth Water

11x Oystercatcher, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, 2x Shelduck, (JOa, LH)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Sanderling on pit opposite quarry, Greenshank briefly Kestrel pit, (TPe

RSPB Coombes Valley

30x Pied Flycatcher, 5x Redstart, 4x Spotted Flycatcher, (RSPB)

Wednesday 15th May 2024

Middleton Lakes

1s Little Gull on JW south, Marsh Harrier over JW, 3x Ringed Plover, LRP, Redshank, (MSm)  -  also Red Kite, 2x LRP, 2x Redshank, Garden Warbler, 2x Cuckoo, Garden Warbler, (@Ochruros)

Tucklesholme

Great Egret, 5x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, 4x Common Tern, 5x Shelduck, 9x Gadwall, 13x Egyptian Geese, 8x GC Grebe, Cuckoo, Gropper, 6x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Garden Warbler, (JWo)

Alrewas NMA

2x Common Tern, (RBe)

                                                   Common Tern by Rob Bendelow                   

Staffs

Tuesday 14th May 2024

Middleton Lakes

Marsh Harrier thru at 07:30, 14x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, Greenshank, 2x Redshank, 2x Dunlin, 2x Common Tern, 70x Swift, (MSm)

Branston GPs

2x Arctic Tern, 24x Common Tern, 34x Ringed Plover, 7x Redshank, 5x Oystercatcher, 3x Little Egret, Water Rail, 18x Pochard, 28x Shelduck, 2x Shoveler, 21x Gadwall, 38x Little Grebe, Common Gull, Red Kite, Green Woodpecker, Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 200x Swift, (JWo)

Radford Meadows

2x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Hobby, (RBr)  - 10x Swift, (MA)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Red Kite south, Hobby, 2x Avocet, Ringed Plover, 10x Common Tern, 3x Yellow Wagtail, (ICW)  -  6x LRP, 2x Ringed Plover, Red Kite, Little Egret, (JAl)

Tucklesholme

8x Common Tern, 2x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, 5x Shelduck, 7x Gadwall, 2x Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Egyptian Geese with 7x Goslings, (MKe, JKe)

WMI site near Calf Heath

Redshank, 5x LRP, Shelduck, (SRi)

Monday 13th May 2024

Radford Meadows Stafford

Drake Garganey on BMW scrape early morning, (RSw)

Seisdon

9x White morph Snow Geese SW over at 09:30, Osprey drifted  NW at 10:00, (GCl)

Whitemoor Haye 

Drake Garganey viewed from quarry entrance, (SCo)  -  Red Kite over, Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, (CMa, RFe)

Caverswall

Red Kite over this am, (BBo)

i54

Barn Owl at 16:00, (JDu)

Berryhill Botteslow Flash

2x Oystercatcher at 07:15, (RTo)

Lichfield

2x Red Kite over Boley park at 16:05, (BHa)

WMI site near Calf Heath

Shelduck, 5x Gadwall, 2x Oystercatcher, 3x LRP, Lesser Whitethroat, (SRi)

Branston GPs

Curlew, 8x Ringed Plover, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Little Egret, 21x Pochard, 18x Shelduck, 23x Gadwall, 2x Shoveler, 8x Egyptian Geese, 28x GC Grebe, 36x Little Grebe, 23x Common Tern, Cuckoo, Green Woodpecker, 60x Swift, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, 4x Garden Warbler, (JWo)

Barton under Needwood

Hobby, (JWo)

North Staffs Moors

3x Hobby, (JJo)

Sunday 12th May 2024

WMI site near Calf Heath

2x Temminck's Stint present to at least 17:25. Best to park with caution along Straight Mile and walk back to Vicarage Road to view, please be aware of fast moving vehicles, also 6x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, (SRi)  -  still to 17:25 at least also 3x Whimbrel (GCl)

Whitemoor Haye

Little Tern from quarry entrance to 09:15 only, 12x Common Tern, 5x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, Whimbrel, Corn Bunting, 2x Grey Partridge, 4x Little Egret, 2x Garden Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Shelduck,  (SCo) - 2x Avocet, 

Middleton Lakes

Curlew, Greenshank, 2x Redshank, Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 3x Common Tern, 2x Cuckoo, (MSm)

Belvide Resv

Drake Garganey, Black Tern thru, Great Egret, 

Aqualate

Black Tern, (IMG)

Gaily Resv

Little Gull, (GCl)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Hobby, 2x Common Tern, Little Egret, Grasshopper Warbler, (RPo)

Radford Meadows Stafford

Greenshank, Great Egret, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (RSw)

Swindon area

Corn Bunting on wires, (DBa)

Doxey Marsh

Black-tailed Godwit, 3x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 5x Common Tern, Red Kite, 7x Cetti's Warbler, 29x Gadwall, (MBo, WeBS team)

Endon - Denford

Hobby, (DCo)

Rocester JCB

Red Kite over main lake at 11:20, 5x Common Tern, 2x Oystercatcher, (STu)

Tittesworth Water

GBB Gull, 2x Common Tern, 10x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 4x Garden Warbler, (JOa, LH)

Endon 

Red Kite over this afternoon, (DCo)

River Sow Meadows

Cuckoo, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Shelduck, (IWi)

Branston GPs

2x Hobby, Greenshank, 8x Ringed Plover, 2x Oystercatcher, 20x Shelduck, 12x Pochard, Cuckoo, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Saturday 11th May 2024

Middleton Lakes

Greenshank, 7x Ringed Plover, 5x LRP, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, female Wheatear on JW south, (MSm)

Blithfield Resv

4x Black Tern this am, (MPR, GJM)  -  6x Black Tern at 15:35 also YL Gull, (PAn)  - 8x Black Tern at 16:50, (TPe)

Belvide Resv

3x Black Tern to 10:55 only and a further 4x Black Tern from 11,24, 3x Whimbrel, Curlew, 2x Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, 2x Common Tern, 

Lichfield

Red Kite and 2x Swift over Boley park coop this am, (BHa)

Whitemoor Haye

Grey Plover on pit opposite quarry entrance, (TPe)  -  3x Whimbrel still from the bend in the rough track, Hobby, (SMG)

Knypersley Resv

Cuckoo on Lodge Barn Road then flew to Marshes Hill at 11:20, 5x Mandarin, Water Rail, 2x Swift, Oystercatcher over, (GBr)

Freehay

6x Mandarin in garden, (FCa)

Checkley

Red Kite over this am, (FCa)

Whitemoor Haye - Elford

3x Red Kite over plough, (TPe)

Gayton

Curlew this am, (IWi)

Gailey Resv

2x Common Tern 2x Yellow Wagtail, Garden Warbler, also nearby Lesser Whitethroats at Calf Heath and Otherton, (SRi)

Branston GPs

Greenshank, 8x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Cuckoo, (PAn)

Alrewas NMA

4x Common Tern, 2x Oystercatcher, Goosander, (JWo)

Friday 10th May 2024

Middleton Lakes

2x Avocet, 6x Oystercatcher, 5x Ringed Plover, 5x LRP, 3x Redshank, Cuckoo, Great Egret, 2x Common Tern, Red Kite, (MSm)

Belvide Resv

24x feral Snow Geese from 07:00 to 08:10 only, 

Chasewater

Shag, 2x Cuckoo, Oystercatcher, 3x Garden Warbler, (SWa)

Tittesworth Water

2x Greenshank (first of the year here), (SGi)

                                                           Greenshanks by Steve Gibson

Stanley Pool

Common Sandpiper, (GBr)

Dimmingsdale

Spotted Flycatcher also Mandarin and Grey Wagtail on the river, (TDu)

Berryhill

Red Kite SW over Mossfield Road end at 11:30, (CSi)

Blithfield Resv

Turnstone on the causeway, (JAl)

Whitemoor Haye

3x Whimbrel from quarry entrance, 11x Oystercatcher, 6x LRP, 3x Common Sandpiper, (SCo)

Cannock Chase

7x Tree Pipit, 3x Cuckoo, 25x Crossbill, 4x Garden Warbler, 2x Stonechat, (CBo)

Knypersley Resv

3x Mandarin, Garden Warbler, (PMo)

Thursday 9th May 2024

First Staffs 2024 arrival

Middleton Lakes

7x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, Avocet, 4x Redshank, 2x Cuckoo, Goosander, (SPA)

Belvide Resv

Drake Garganey, 

Blithfield Resv

Turnstone and Common Sandpiper on the causeway, (PBe)

Tittesworth Water

Osprey thru at 12:00, 12x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, Mandarin,2x Pied Flycatcher, 10x Garden Warbler, (JOa, LH, LF)

Elkstone

Spotted Flycatcher, (SF, LF)

Wolseley Centre

2x Common Tern, Cetti's Warbler, (AR)

Cannock Chase

3x Cuckoo, 7x Tree Pipit, (AR)

Leek

5x Swift, (JOa)

Berryhill Botteslow Flash

Common Sandpiper, (RTo, IBu)

Rocester

5x Swifts, (JDr)

Sandon

Male Whinchat in fields alongside the River Trent this evening, (RSw)

Branston GPs

Greenshank, Redshank, 4x Dunlin, 4x Ringed Plover, 3x Oystercatcher, 2x Little Egret, 8x Common Tern, 14x Pochard, 12x Gadwall, 26x Shelduck, 5x Mandarin, 32x Little Grebe, Cuckoo, Green Woodpecker, Yellow Wagtail, 6x Garden Warbler, 4x Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

                                                       Greenshank by Jon Woodcock

Wednesday 8th May 2024

Belvide Resv

Common Crane this am to 11:17 only, 

Whitemore Haye

7x Whimbrel still, (SCo)

Middleton Lakes

Greenshank, 3x Redshank, 5x LRP, 5x Common Tern, Great Egret, Cuckoo, Hobby, (MSm)

Stanley Pool

3x Little Egret at 05:50, Peregrine over at 07:10, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Berryhill Botteslow Flash

Whinchat on the marsh/scrub between the flash and the Causley brook (first Botteslow record), 2x Ring-necked Parakeet, 3x Garden Warbler, Little Egret, (RTo)

Radford Meadows Stafford

3x Little Gull, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Hobby, (RBr)

Doxey Marsh

Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Shelduck, (CAFH)

Blithfield Resv

Turnstone briefly on the causeway, (GJM)

                                                             Turnstone by GJ Mant

Downs Banks

Redstart, 6x Garden Warbler, 2x Yellowhammer, (CBo)

Wombourne

Ring-necked Parakeet

Draycott in the Moors

Yellowhammer along Old Road, (AR)

Cannock Chase

3x Cuckoo, 4x Garden Warbler, 3x Tree Pipit, (DBa)  -  2x Cuckoo, 2x Redstart, 4x Tree Pipit, Green Woodpecker, (PWo, KWo)

Tucklesholme

Cuckoo, Red Kite, 2x Grasshopper Warbler, 6x Cetti's Warbler, 5x Sedge Warbler, 6x Reed Warbler, 3x LRP, 2x Little Egret, 6x Common Tern, 5x Shelduck, 9x Gadwall, 9x Egyptian Geese, 10x GC Grebe, (JWo)

Berryhill

Female Wheatear in "Lap Bunt" paddock this evening, (IBu)

Boon Hill

Wheatear at 18:45, (MJW)

Branston GPs

Sanderling, Greenshank, 4x Dunlin, 6x Ringed Plover, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Little Egret, 6x Common Tern, 8x Pochard, 19x Gadwall, 6x Shoveler, 19x Shelduck, Mandarin, 24x GC Grebe, 38x Little Grebe, Hobby, Cuckoo, Green Woodpecker, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 4x Garden Warbler, (JWo)

                                                       Sanderling by Jon Woodcock

Tuesday 7th May 2024

Branston GPs

Wood Sandpiper still,  33x Dunlin, 8x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, Little Egret, 11x Pochard, 27x Shelduck, 11x Gadwall, 8x Shoveler, 6x Egyptian Geese, 32x Little Grebe, 26x GC Grebe, Marsh Harrier (f), Cuckoo, Wheatear, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 6x Cetti's Warbler, 5x Garden Warbler, 4x Lesser Whitethroat,  (JWo, GWi, George, Bob)

Middleton Lakes

2x Avocet, 2x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 3x Redshank, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Cuckoo, (MSm)

Belvide Resv

Common Scoter, 

Stoke

Smithpool 6x Swift, Lordship, Lane 4x Swift, (RGi)

Whitemoor Haye

3x Whimbrel, Oystercatcher, LRP, Swift, Shelduck, Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, 2x Pochard, (PJT)

Tittensor Chase

2x Garden Warbler, (AR)

Burslem Park

Swift, (SGi)

WMI site Calf Heath

5x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 2x Shelduck, (SRi)

Monday 6th May 2024

Middleton Lakes

3x Avocet, 2x Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, Dunlin, 2x Common Tern, Cuckoo, (MSm)

Branston GPs

Wood Sandpiper on Ashy pit, (GWi)  -  also Greenshank, Redshank, Common Sandpiper, 7x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, Marsh Harrier (f), Red Kite, 2x Little Egret, 6x Common Tern, Water Rail, 18x Pochard, 12x Shelduck, Cuckoo, Green Woodpecker, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Lesser Whitethroat, 6x Garden Warbler, (DSc, JWo, CEc, ASt, GWi, SBl, PFo)

                                                   Wood Sandpiper by Jon Woodcock

Castlecroft to Dimmingsdale

Garden Warbler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (IMo) - Finchfield Red Kite circling at 11:45 and Hobby low NW, (GCl)

Tittesworth Water

Redstart, Lesser Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, 2x Common Tern, 6x Mandarin, 7x Common Sandpiper, (SGi, PS)

Tucklesholme

Marsh Harrier hunting over the pools at north end,

Belvide Resv

Whimbrel,

Sideway

Cetti's Warbler still, (LSt)

Sunday 5th May 2024

Belvide Resv

2x Hawfinch NE over the dam, Whinchat, Hobby

Blithfield Resv

3x Black Tern, (MPR, GJM)  -  also Sanderling still on causeway, (TPe)

Stone - Moddershall

Little Owl, Green Woodpecker, (BHa)

Knypersley Resv

Pied Flycatcher, 4x Mandarin, Water Rail in Osier beds, Peregrine, 3x Dabentons Bats, (GBr)

Middleton Lakes

Avocet, Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, 2x Common Tern, Cuckoo, Pochard, Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)

Whitemoor Haye

3x Whimbrel Quarry field, (TPe)

Littleton Pit site - Shoal Hill Common

Cuckoo, 7x Garden Warbler, sev Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Oystercatcher over, (SRi)

North Staffs Moors

2x Hobby, (AMa, NCo)  -  2-3 Cuckoo, 4x Curlew, 4x Wheatear, Grasshopper Warbler, 8x Red Grouse, (DCo)

Tittesworth Water

4x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 8x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, 8x Garden Warbler, Cuckoo, (JOa, LH)

The Burntwood (Loggerheads)

4x Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, singing Siskins, (RGi)

Trentham Gardens

3x Oystercatcher, 2x Mandarin, 2x GC Grebe, (STu)

Branston GPs

Marsh Harrier, 2x Oystercatcher, Dunlin, Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 3x Common Tern, Cuckoo, 6x Pochard, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Garden Warbler, (DSc)

Saturday 4th May 2024

First returning Staffs 2024 arrival

Branston GPs  -  101 species all dayer

Quail, Spotted Redshank, Sanderling, 2x Redshank, 4x Dunlin, 6x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 3x Little Egret, Scaup, 22x Pochard, 31x Shelduck, 2x Mandarin, 12x Gadwall, 8x Shoveler, 3x Common Tern, YL Gull, 3x Water Rail, 2x Marsh Harrier, 2x Red Kite, Barn Owl, Green Woodpecker, Cuckoo, 6x Lesser Whitethroat, 6x Garden Warbler, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 9x Yellow Wagtail, 30x Swift, (DSc, JWo, CEc, Dean, PFo, SBl, George, Bob, PAn)

                                                     Spotted Redshank by Jon Woodcock

Whitemoor Haye  -  77 species all dayer

9x Whimbrel, Turnstone, 6x LRP, Common Sandpiper, Cuckoo, 2x Grey Partridge, 2x Peregrine, Red Kite, 2x Hobby,  6x Common Tern, 8x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, Green Woodpecker, (SCo)  -  4x Wheatear at the start of the rough track, (SMcG)  -  Ringed Plover, 

Blithfield Resv  63 species  all dayer

Red-throated Diver, but flew north at 07:50, (MJa)  -  Sanderling on the causeway, (GJM, MPR)

Stanley Pool

Hobby over north at 06:47, Red Kite over over south end at 18:10, (GBr)

Smewstow Valley - Pool Hall

Cuckoo, Tree Pipit, Hobby, 3x Goosander, Barn Owl, Yellow Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, Little Grebe, (GCl, KCl, ADe, IMo, IP, GR)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Dunlin, 4x Swift, 4x Goosander, Cetti's Warbler, Grasshopper Warbler, 2x Garden Warbler, 2x Sedge Warbler, 5x Reed Warbler, 10x Whitethroat, (RPo)

Belvide Resv  -  91 species all dayer

Whimbrel, Greenshank, 13x Dunlin, 10x Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, LRP, Scaup, Osprey thru north, Hobby, Peregrine, 4x Common Tern, Wheatear, 4x Lesser Whitethroat, 4x Garden Warbler, 4x Yellow Wagtail.

Tittesworth Water

Little Tern, 3x Redstart, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, (SGi, IB, DB)

                                                            Little Tern by Steve Gibson

Berryhill

3x Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Garden Warbler, 4x Sedge Warbler, Green Woodpecker, Wheatear, Stonechat still,  (RTo)

Chasewater  68 species all dayer

Shag, 3x Gadwall, Arctic Tern 2x Common Tern, 3x Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, 3x Reed Warbler, 6x Garden Warbler, Water Rail, (CMa, CW)

Rocester

Red Kite over at 17:30, (JDr)

Stoke on Trent

Smithpool park - Common Sandpiper, 2x Garden Warbler, (RGi)

Huntington

Red Kite over west at 16:30, (SRi)

Trentham - Sideway

Cetti's Warbler, Whinchat, 3x Sedge Warbler, (LSt)

Doxey Marsh  -  74 species all dayer

Great Egret, Little Egret, Water Rail, Whimbrel, Oystercatcher, Ringed Plover, LRP, Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, Common Gull, Yellow Wagtail, Swift, Lesser Whitethroat, Gropper, (AHa, RRa, GPr, DCo)

                                                             Whimbrel by Alan Hateley

Handsacre Flash  -  63 species all dayer

Swift, Yellowhammer, Cetti's Warbler, Gadwall, Goosander, Little Grebe, Greenfinch, (GSt)  

Tucklesholme - Branston Leas  -  70 species all dayer

Lesser Whitethroat, Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, Grasshopper Warbler, Common Tern, Great Egret,  Egret, Common Gull, LRP, Common Sandpiper, Egyptian Goose, Goosander, Greenfinch, (TWy)     

Aqualate  -  78 species all dayer

Common Scoter                     

Friday 3rd May 2024

Middleton Lakes

Whimbrel, Curlew, Garganey, 4x Avocet, Cuckoo, (MSm)  -  Redshank, 2x LRP, Garden Warblers, (DCo)

Belvide Resv

2x Whimbrel, Turnstone thru at 11:40, Osprey thru north at 13:00, drake Scaup still, 12x Arctic Tern, 3x Common Tern, 

Whitemoor Haye

2x Avocet on pit by traffic lights, (ICW)

Rudyard Lake

12x Garden Warbler, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, Common Tern, (SSe)

Berryhill Botteslow Flash

2x Shelduck early am, YL Gull, (RTo)

Pendeford Hall Lane

2x LRP, (JDu)

Calf Heath

Hobby from A449 towards i54 and STW at 16:49, (Hoppy)

Radford Meadows Stafford

14x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, 2x Dunlin, Whimbrel, 18x Shelduck, 20x Gadwall, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (RSw)

Branston GPs

5x Common Tern, 4x Dunlin, 6x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, Scaup (m), 20x Pochard, 2x Mandarin, 12x Shoveler, 14x Gadwall, 32x Shelduck, 5x Egyptian Geese, 2x Little Egret, 28x GC Grebe, 28x Little Grebe, YL Gull, 2x Green Woodpecker, Yellow Wagtail, 100x Swift, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, 5x Garden Warbler, 2x Greenfinch, (JWo, DSc, CEc)

                                                            Mandarin by Jon Woodcock

Thursday 2nd May 2024

Middleton Lakes

No sight or sound of the Savi's Warbler by 07:00,  2x Cuckoo, Grasshopper Warbler, (PAn)

Belvide Resv

2x Arctic Tern thru N at 08:20, drake Scaup, Whimbrel, Greenshank, 

Tucklesholme

2x Common Tern, Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, Little Egret, 8x Shelduck, 18x Gadwall, 10x Egyptian Geese, 12x GC Grebe, 8x Cetti's Warbler, 5x Lesser Whitethroat, 5x Garden Warbler, 9x Sedge Warbler, 6x Reed Warbler, 8x Linnet, (JWo)

Rudyard Lake

Hobby over north end at 11:25, and nearby 2+ Tree Sparrow at Greenfield Farm on Dingle Lane,  (GBr)

Gun Hill

2x Hobby, (LHa)

Westport Lake

Reed Warbler on top pool, (AR)

Cannock Chase

Hobby Brindley Heath this afternoon, (GSt)

Berryhill

Stonechat still, Reed Warbler, 4x Sedge Warbler, Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, (RGi)

Dimmingsdale (Alton)

Cuckoo, (TEy)

Tittesworth Water

4x Common Sandpiper, 10x Oystercatcher, 2x Garden Warbler, (JOa, LHa)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Drake Garganey at 16:45, 6x Goosander, Mandarin, Yellow Wagtail, Garden Warbler, (RPo)

Blithfield Resv

Drake Common Scoter from Admaston  car park looking towards Beech Tree Point, (JAl)

Gailey Resv

4x Common Tern, Yellow Wagtail, (SRi)

North Staffs

Pied Flycatcher, Garden Warbler, Red Kite, (BGo)

                                                       Pied Flycatcher by Bill Goldstraw

Doxey Marsh

Great Egret, Little Egret, (JTu)

Endon - Denford

10x Garden Warbler, 2x LRP, Lesser Whitethroat, 4x Sedge Warbler, (DCo)

Wednesday 1st May 2024

Middleton Lakes

Savi's Warbler on Canal Pool, also Garganey, 4x Avocet, LRP, Common Sandpiper, 2x Cuckoo, (MSm)  -  Savi's Warbler reeling at 20:58, Great Egret, 3x Common Tern, Gropper, 2x LRP, Water Rail,  (JWo)  -  Hobby

                                                             Garganey by Jon Woodcock

Belvide Resv

Whimbrel, Greenshank, drake Scaup, Little Tern to 14:15 only, 

Knypersley Resv

Lesser Whitethroat by Lodge Barn Road, Common Sandpiper on causeway, 2x Water Rail in Osier beds, 2x Mandarin, (GB)

Tittesworth Water

Redshank, 9x Common Sandpiper, 9x Oystercatcher, 6x Garden Warbler, Redstart, (SGi)

Rudyard Lake

10x Garden Warbler, 3x Whitethroat, (SSe)

Kings Bromley

Osprey flew NE over Manor Park sailing club at 18:05 also Common Tern, 2x Oystercatcher,  (BHa)

Blithfield Resv

Sanderling on the causeway, (GJM)

                                                            Sanderling by GJ Mant

Cuckoo Bank

Grasshopper Warbler, 5x Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Stonechat, Yellow Wagtail, (GHa)

Branston GPs

Male Scaup, Mandarin, 24x Shelduck, 18x Pochard, 10x Oystercatcher, 3x Dunlin, 4x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Common Gull, 2x Swift, Yellow Wagtail, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 5x Garden Warbler, 15x Redpoll, (DSc, JWo)

Tuesday 30th April 2024

190 species recorded so far in Staffs 2024

Cheddleton 

From the Valley to "The Boat" Willow Tit, Red Kite, Green Woodpecker, 2x Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, Goosander, 4x Sedge Warbler, (ALa)

Belvide Resv

Whimbrel, fem Marsh Harrier thru south, 

Branston GPs

Bar-tailed Godwit, 2x Whimbrel, 3x Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 10x Oystercatcher, 5x Little Egret, Scaup (m), 12x Pochard, Mandarin, 8x Shoveler, 20x Gadwall, 38x Shelduck, 32x Little Grebe, Marsh Harrier (f), Wheatear, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 20x Swift, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, 4x Garden Warbler, 15x Redpoll, (JWo, DSc, CEc, Dean, JHo, SJo, ABl, CBl, PAn, Ray)

                                                      Bar-tailed Godwit by Jon Woodcock

Middleton Lakes

Sandwich Tern above JW, (PDe)

                                                            Bittern by Kevin Taylor

Rudyard Lake

Common Tern 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, (SSe)

Whitemoor Haye

Whinchat on start of rough track, 9x Whimbrel again, (TPe)  -  Hobby, fem Wheatear, (SRi)

WMI site near Calf Heath

4x Oystercatcher, Ringed Plover, 9x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 2x White Wagtail, Shelduck, (SRi)

Monday 29th April 2024

190 species recorded so far in Staffs 2024

Middleton Lakes

2x Whimbrel on west scrape, Garganey, Cuckoo, 6x Swift, LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, Great Egret, 5x Garden Warbler, (MSm)

Outwoods - Park Farm floods

6x White Wagtail, 3x Shelduck, 2x Dunlin, 5x Ringed Plover, (ABe)

Tittesworth Water

Yellow Wagtail, Redstart, Common Tern, (SGi)

                                                        Yellow Wagtail by Steve Gibson

Endon - Denford

3x Garden Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 2x LRP, Curlew, (DCo)

Carmountside Flash

Grasshopper Warbler, RNP, Little Egret, (ALa)

Stanley Pool

Common Sandpiper,  Garden Warbler, (ALa)

Belvide Resv

Wood Sandpiper to 13:40 only, Greenshank, 6x Common Sandpiper, Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 

Chasewater

Shag still, Common Sandpiper, 2x Swift, Oystercatcher, 12x GC Grebe, (SWa)

Berryhill

2x Whinchat, 3x Wheatear, Snipe, (RTo, IBu)

Pendeford Hall Lane

Greenshank heard calling, Lesser Whitethroat, Gadwall, (IMo)

Branston GPs

2x Whimbrel, 8x Dunlin, 12x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 7x Oystercatcher, 4x Little Egret, Scaup, 7x Pochard, 32x Shelduck, 32x Gadwall, 12x Shoveler, 8x Teal, 6x Egyptian Geese, 30 GC Grebe, 36x Little Grebe, GBB Gull, 2x Common Gull, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, 5x Garden Warbler, 5x Yellow Wagtail, 80x Swift, 25x Redpoll, (JWo)

                                                         Whimbrel by Jon Woodcock

Cannock Chase

3x Tree Pipit, 2x Crossbill, Redpolls, Siskins, (CMa, RF)

Whitemoor Haye

6x Whimbrel still this evening from quarry entrance, (BHa)  -  7x Whimbrel late evening, (SRi)

Radford Meadows Stafford

Whimbrel, 28x Shelduck, 20x Gadwall, 5x Little Egret, Yellow Wagtail, Common Gull, Swift, (RSw)

Sunday 28th April 2024

Gailey Resv

2x Arctic Tern, Common Tern early am, (SRi)

Middleton Lakes

7x Arctic Tern on North pit, drake Garganey, Ringed Plover, (MSm)  -  Med Gull flew south over JW, 3x Dunlin, 

Whitemoor Haye

12x Black-tailed Godwit, (TPe)  -  6x Whimbrel still late morning, (AMa, NCo)  -  7x Whimbrel this evening also 4x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, (JAl)

i54 - Pendeford Hall Lane

Greenshank still, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (JDu)

Blithfield Resv

5x Arctic Tern, 5x Common Tern off Beech Tree Point, mid morning, (SRi  -  mid day 9x Arctic Tern, 5x Common Tern, 10x Swift, 3x Yellow Wagtail, (PAn)

Belvide Resv

2x Arctic Tern, Common Tern, fem Scaup, Osprey thru at 10:25, 

Endon - Denford

2x LRP, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Curlew thru, (DCo)

Botteslow Flash

LRP early am, (RTo)

Stoke Lordship Lane

Yellow Wagtail over, (RGi)

Branston GPs

3x Common Tern, 4x Dunlin, 10x Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, 4x Little Egret, Scaup (m), Goldeneye, Pochard, 18x Shelduck, 18x Gadwall, 8x Shoveler, 18x Teal, 16x Little Grebe, 50x Swift, 100x House Martin, Yellow Wagtail, 15x Redpoll, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Sedge Warbler, 4x Garden Warbler, (JWo, DSc, SRi)  -  In addition this afternoon 13x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Mandarin, 5x Pochard, Peregrine, YL Gull. 80x Swift, 20x Redpoll, (DSc)

Doxey Marsh

5x Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, (GPr, RRa, AHa)

Tittesworth Water

8x Oystercatcher, 3x Common Sandpiper, Common Tern, 3x Common Gull, Goosander, 2x Garden Warbler, Willow Tit, (JOa, LH)

The Burntwood (Loggerheads)

2x Curlew, Red Kite, 2x Siskin, (RGi)

River Sow Meadows

2x Oystercatcher, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 5x Sedge Warbler, 2x Gadwall, (IWi)

Calf Heath

Dunlin, (KCl)

Stanley Pool

2x Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, Red Kite, (GBr)

Sideway

Cetti's Warbler still, Lesser Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, (LSt)

Saturday 27th April 2024

Middleton Lakes

Whimbrel to 06:00 from the benches, also drake  Garganey still, 4x LRP, Ringed Plover, 2x Redshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, 5x Snipe, 2x Dunlin, 8x Swift, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)

Whitemoor Haye

4x Whimbrel, LRP, Common Sandpiper, 6x Oystercatcher, 2x Grasshopper Warbler, 3x Garden Warbler, 3x Sedge Warbler, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, Cetti's Warbler, 5x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Swift, 5x Shelduck, Little Egret, (SCo)  -  7x Arctic Tern briefly on Back pit, 7x Whimbrel, White Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail (TPe, PAn)

Belvide Resv

Black Tern at 12:15, 

Berryhill

Red Kite over east at 09:35, LRP over calling, 2x Stonechat still, 2x Redpoll, Sedge Warbler, (RGi)

Doxey Marsh

2x LRP, 3x Reed Warbler, 3x Swift, 5x House Martin, Whitethroat, 7x Sedge Warbler, (GPr, RRa)

Cannock Chase

4x Cuckoo, 2x Redstart, 2x Garden Warbler, 2x Whitethroat, 5x Tree Pipit, 6x Stonechat, Curlew, (BHa)

Knypersley Resv

Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, Mandarin, (GBr)

Wolseley Centre

2x Common Tern, Mandarin, Cetti's Warbler, (STu)

Blithfield Resv

4x Swift, 7x Common Tern, Red Kite, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Yellow Wagtail, House Martins, (MJa)  -  20x Arctic Tern, (TPe)

Norton Green

Red Kite over at 14:30, (DCo)

Tittesworth Water

Common Tern, 8x Oystercatcher, (SGi, IB)

Mosshouse - Foxley

Peregrine, Grasshopper Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Yellowhammer, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear, (JHu)

Apedale

Cuckoo, (CBa)

i54 floods

Lawn Lane / Pendeford Hall Lane Greenshank (Foz, KCl)

Branston GPs

7x Whimbrel thru north, (DSc), 3x Little Egret, (m) Scaup, 16x Shelduck, 14x Teal, 8x Pochard, 22x Gadwall, 8x Shoveler, 3x Mandarin, 5x Oystercatcher, 9x Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Snipe, 6x Common Gull, 30x Swift, 40x House Martin, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Garden Warbler, 28x Little Grebe, Green Woodpecker, 5x Redpoll, 5x Linnet, (DSc, JWo)

                                                         Common Gull by Jon Woodcock

Westport Lake

2x Swift  this afternoon, (RGi)

Highgate Common

2x Cuckoo, (KBa)

Sideway

Cetti's Warbler still, (LSt)

Friday 26th April 2024

Middleton Lakes

Garganey, Whimbrel on JW north, 2x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, LRP, Redshank, 2x Snipe, 4x Shelduck, (SPA), 

Burntwood

Female Redstart in gardens, (MCl)

Rocester North Lake

5x Pochard, 6x GC Grebe, 4x Oystercatcher, 23x Barnacle Geese, (JDr)

Branston

Cuckoo by the Trent near the Riverside hotel, (ASt)

Cannock Chase

Early am Tree Pipit, Redstart, Lesser Whitethroat, (KHa)  -  in addition 2x Cuckoo, (ABe)

Shareshill

Approx one mile west of Shareshill a White Stork drifting north at 13:55, (per ICr)

Botteslow Flash

2x Yellow Wagtail this am, (RTo)

Otherton

Yellow Wagtail, (SRi)

Branston GPs

2x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 9x Oystercatcher, 6x Little Egret, Scaup (m), Goldeneye, 4x Mandarin, 28x Shelduck, 19x Gadwall, 16x Shoveler, 16x Teal, 8x Egyptian Geese, 25x GC Grebe, 34x Little Grebe, Common Gull, 300x Sand Martin, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Sedge Warbler, 4x Reed Warbler, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 14x Redpoll, Greenfinch, Peregrine, (JWo, CEc Dean George, SCo)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Peregrine, 5x Sedge Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Garden Warbler, 3x LRP, 2x Grey Partridge, (SCo)

Thursday 25th April 2024

Tittesworth Water

Cuckoo, Common Tern, Pied Flycatcher, Garden Warbler, (SGi) 

Branston GPs

Grasshopper Warbler, 5x Lesser Whitethroat, 8x Whitethroat, 3x Garden Warbler, 3x Sedge Warbler, 6x Reed Warbler, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, 2x White Wagtail, Curlew, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, 5x Little Egret, Scaup (m), Goldeneye, 18x Gadwall, 10x Shoveler, 20x Shelduck, 24x Teal, 3x Mandarin, 7x Egyptian Geese, 2x Common Gull, 31x Little Grebe, 24x GC Grebe, 6x Redpoll, 15x Swift, (JWo)

Stanley Pool

Common Sandpiper, (ALa)

Middleton Lakes

Wood Sandpiper still, (GW)

Doxey Marsh

2x Ruddy Shelduck on Creswell Flash to 15:05 when they flew off, (RRa)

Belvide Resv

2x White Stork flew north at 16:10, Curlew Sandpiper briefly then flew north at 16:45, 

Whitemoor Haye

10x Whimbrel still at 16:15, (SCo)

Lichfield

Darnford Park Garden Warbler, Darnford Lane 4x Yellowhammer, 3x Greenfinch, Whitethroat, (BHa)

Wednesday 24th April 2024

Returning Staffs 2024 arrival

Middleton Lakes

Spotted Redshank, Wood Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, 2x Garganey, LRP, 3x Snipe, Common Sandpiper, (MSm)  -  Common Tern, 7x Swift, 3x Redshank, Garden Warbler, (SPA)

Berryhill

3x Whinchat by the Palletstacks mound, 10x Wheatear, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Stonechat, (RTo)  -  Sedge Warbler, House Martin, (IBu)  -  2-3x Whinchat and 8x Wheatear still at 17:35, (IBu)

Endon - Denford

2x Shelduck, Wheatear, Lesser Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, Green Woodpecker, Mandarin, (DCo)

Pool Hall

2x Wheatear this am, (GCl)

Belvide Resv

Bar-tailed Godwit, 3x Arctic Tern, Common Tern, Garden Warbler, 

Doxey Marsh

Osprey thru at 13:20, (RRa)

Hem Heath Wood - Newstead STW

2x Gadwall, 2x Little Grebe, Grasshopper Warbler, House Martin, (RGi)

Whitemoor Haye

10x Whimbrel still, (TPe)  -  also Yellow Wagtail, Sedge Warbler, (PAn)

Shoal Hill Common

2x Garden Warbler, (SRi)

i54

Garden Warbler, (JDu)

Branston GPs

2x Dunlin, Curlew, 2x Common Sandpiper, 9x Ringed Plover, 5x Oystercatcher, 5x Little Egret, Scaup, Goldeneye, 14x Shoveler, 22x Gadwall, 36x Teal, 26x Shelduck, 20x Little Grebe, 2x Common Gull,  YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, 2x Wheatear, 5x Yellow Wagtail, 4x White Wagtail, 5x Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Garden Warbler, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 17x Swift, 8x Linnet, (JWo, SBl, CEc, Dean)

                                                     Cetti's Warbler by Jon Woodcock

Radford Meadows Stafford

Early evening 8x Little Egret, Great Egret, 18x Shelduck, 12x Gadwall, Goosander, Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 2x Wheatear, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Yellow Wagtail, (RSw)  -  early afternoon Redshank, 2x Dunlin, (DEv)

Lower Penn

2x Hobby this afternoon,

Whitemoor Haye

Female Ring Ouzel at 06:20 this am, (GBr)

Tuesday 23rd April 2024

Middleton Lakes

40x Redshank still, LRP, 6x Snipe, Garganey, Common Tern thru, Garden Warbler, Yellow Wagtail, 2x White Wagtail, (MSm)

Whitemoor Haye

10x Whimbrel still, 6x LRP, 8x Yellowhammer, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Sedge Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Little Egret, 6x Shoveler, Yellow Wagtail, (SCo), this evening Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Grey Partridge, White Wagtail, and the 10x Whimbrel still, (TPe)

Berryhill

Palletstacks - Whinchat, 4x Wheatear still,  Curlew over, (RGi)  -  Botteslow Flash a Redstart this evening along the fence line that runs alongside the north side of the flash, Little Egret, (RTo)

Belvide Resv

Drake Garganey, drake Scaup, Arctic Tern,

Blithfield Resv

2x Arctic Tern early am, 7x Pintail, (GJM)  -  4x Arctic Tern at 14:30 also 6x Yellow Wagtail, (PFo)

Downs Banks

Redstart, 6x Yellowhammer, (CBo)

Chatterley Whitfield

2x Cetti's Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, 2x Whitethroat, Grasshopper Warbler, (CBo)

Sideway fishing pool

Cetti's Warbler still, Lesser Whitethroat, (IBu)

Chasewater

Shag still, Common Sandpiper, 5x Swift, Lesser Whitethroat, (CMa)  -  Cuckoo, 2x Common Sandpiper, Garden Warbler, (CW)

Tittesworth Water

Osprey, 2x House Martin, (SGi)

                                                                  By Steve Gibson

WMI site near Calf Heath

Probable 3rd sum Caspian Gull briefly, 12x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Gadwall, Wheatear, White Wagtail, (SRi)

Branston GPs

Curlew, 3x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 6x Oystercatcher, 3x Little Egret, Goldeneye, 4x Pochard, 14x Shoveler, 14x Gadwall, 24x Teal, Mandarin, 17x Shelduck, 11x Egyptian Geese, 22x GC Grebe, 40x Little Grebe, Green Woodpecker, Wheatear, 12x Swift, 5x Yellow Wagtail, 3x White Wagtail, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Garden Warbler, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 8x Redpoll, Yellowhammer, (JWo)

Monday 22nd April 2024

The weather conditions produced some nice birding in Staffs today including a good movement of Arctic Terns

Belvide Resv

35x Arctic Tern, Little Tern at 11:11 to 11:30 only, 3x Common Tern, 2x Kittiwake, 14x Redshank, Black-tailed Godwit, Scaup, 17x Swift

Blithfield Resv

60x Arctic Tern between BTP and the causeway at 13:30, (JAl), Female Common Scoter this am (GJM)  -  49x Arctic Tern still at 17:30, Common Scoter still at 17:50, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Lesser Whitethroat, Mandarin, (RPo)  -  Sandwich Tern, Swift, (AM)

Branston GPs

28x Arctic Tern on Ashy pit, 18x Bar-tailed Godwit and a Knot on North pit, Whimbrel, Curlew, Dunlin, 3x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 8x Oystercatcher, 5x Little Egret, Scaup, Mandarin, 32x Shelduck, 24x Shoveler, 19x Gadwall, 44x Teal, 5x Egyptian Geese, 26x GC Grebe, 32x Little Grebe, Green Woodpecker, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, 9x Yellow Wagtail, 3x White Wagtail, 16x Swift, 10x Redpoll, 5x Cetti's Warbler, Barn Owl, (JWo, CEc, SBl)

                                                    Bar-tailed Godwits by Jon Woodcock

                                                           Knot by Jon Woodcock

Chasewater

Adult Red-throated Diver at 15:40, Shag still, Dunlin, 9x Swift, 20x House Martin, (CW)  -  28x Arctic Tern at 12:30, (CMa, RFe)  -  Whimbrel thru, (PAn)

Stoke on Trent

Lordship Lane - White Wagtail, House Martin, Snipe, (RGi)  -  Redshank and LRP this afternoon, (IBu)

Ford Green

Oystercatcher for 5 mins, (JJo)

Tucklesholme

Common Sandpiper, Gropper. Lesser Whitethroat, Reed Warbler, Great Egret over north, (TWy)

Whitemoor Haye

6x Arctic Tern over back pit, 4x Swift over roadside pit, (JAl)  -  this evening 11x Whimbrel, 2x Med Gull, Ruddy Shelduck, 2x Swift, (TPe)  -  also Gropper, 4x LRP, Green Sandpiper, Cetti's Warbler, 4x Swift, (SCo)

Middleton Lakes

Turnstone still on JW north, 41x Redshank, 2x Dunlin, 3x Ringed Plover, 2x White Wagtail, Arctic Tern flying upriver, Yellow Wagtail, (SPA)

Rudyard Lake

2x Arctic Tern dropped in this afternoon, (SSe)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Marsh Harrier at 16:45, drake Pintail, 4x Goosander, 6x Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, (RPo)

Gailey

10x Swift, Common Tern, Common Sandpiper, (SRi)

Trentham Gardens

Reed Warbler, (NMK