Saturday 9th August 2025

Blithfield Resv

2x Turnstone St Stephen's Bay this am,  (GJM)  -  5x Turnstone Admaston Reach, (PAn)

Friday 8th August 2025

Cannock Chase

7x Crossbill over the Whitehouse this afternoon also Garden Warbler, (AHa)

Blithfield Resv

Juv Med Gull, (GJM, MDJ)  -  Also Whinchat and a Clouded  Yellow sailing club area, (MDJ, GJM) -Turnstone Admaston Reach to 16:40 at least, (JAl)

                                                   Clouded Yellow by Rob Bendelow

Botteslow Flash

2x LRP, Grey Wagtail, and c70 House Sparrow around the old Botteslow farm area, Peregrine, (RTo)

Branston GPs

Marsh Harrier (juv), 2x Hobby, 2x Peregrine, 12x Curlew, Dunlin, 2x Green Sandpiper, 5x Common Sandpiper, 130x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher, 3x Great Egret, 14x Little Egret, 68x Pochard, 62x Gadwall, 8x Shoveler, 39x Teal, 2x Shelduck, 14x Egyptian Geese, 68x Little Grebe, 19x Common Tern (9 juv), YL Gull, 6x Swift, 4x Greenfinch, 3x Grey Wagtail, (JWo)

Middleton Lakes

This evening - 5x LRP, Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Green Sandpiper, 3x Snipe, 27x Little Egret with 3x Great Egret roosted riverside, (MB)

Alvecote

Spotted Flycatcher in Old Orchard, (TPe)  -  3x Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 24x Lapwing, 2x Common Tern, (MSc)

Thursday 7th August 2025

Blithfield Resv

3x Whimbrel top of Blithe Bay this am, (MJa)  -  3rd year Caspian Gull this am, (GJM)  -  Little Egret, Common Terns, 2x Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, Peregrine (juv), Hobby, Yellow Wagtails, (RBe)

                                                     Yellow Wagtail by Rob Bendelow

Tittesworth Water

2x Mandarin, Little Egret, 3x Oystercatcher, 3x Lapwing, (JOa)

Branston GPs

2x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, 6x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 6x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher, 5x Great Egret, 21x Little Egret, 43x Pochard, 64x Gadwall, 6x Shoveler, 10x Teal, 2x Shelduck, 7x Egyptian Geese, 70x Little Egret, 23x Common Tern, 3x YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, 8x Swift, 6x Linnet, Grey Wagtail, (JWo)

                                                    Yellow-legged Gull by  Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Wednesday 6th August 2025

Blithfield Resv

Sanderling, 2x Greenshank, 13x Dunlin, 5x Ringed Plover, Curlew, 5x Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, 4x LRP, 3x Spotted Flycatcher, 11x Yellow Wagtail, (SE,HF)

Tittesworth Water

Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 7x Mandarin, (SGi)

                                                    Black-tailed Godwit by Steve Gibson

Cannock Chase

7x Crossbill, Yellowhammer, Siskin, (DBa, CEv)

Tucklesholme

Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, 8x Common (3juv), Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 2x Wigeon, 15x Gadwall, 4x Egyptian Geese, 18x GC Grebe, 4x Cetti's Warbler (2juv), 15x Linnet, (JWo)

Whitemoor Haye

Ad Caspian Gull, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, Hobby, (TPe)

Coven

Count of 28x Mistle Thrush on ploughed field, (JDu)

Alton

3x Red Kite over mown fields, (TEy)

Tuesday 5th August 2025

Trentham Gardens

Fem/1st sum Pied Flycatcher, 6x Little Egret, 40x Swift, (RGi)

Trentham

Ring-necked Parakeet over the garden calling, (HF)

Branston GPs

Sanderling, Dunlin, Snipe, Redshank, 4x Ringed Plover, 8x Lapwing, Green Sandpiper, 5x Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 3x Great Egret, 23x Little Egret, Wigeon, 52x Pochard, 42x Gadwall, 10x Shoveler, 15x Teal, 2x Shelduck, 64x Little Grebe, 17x Common Tern (5 juv), YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, 2x Peregrine, 2x Hobby, 18x Swift, 10x Linnet, (JWo)

Tucklesholme

Hobby, 2x Oystercatcher, 5x Common Tern (2 juv), (JWo)

Monday 4th August 2025

Stanley Pool

Red Kite, juv LRP, Common Sandpiper, (GBr) 

Middleton Lakes

Wood Sandpiper still, Dunlin, 2x Green Sandpiper, 5x Snipe, Goosander, Barn Owl, 8x Common Tern, Great Egret, (SPA)

Branston GPs

Little Stint still, 2x Green Sandpiper, 5x Common Sandpiper, 18x Lapwing, 4x Oystercatcher, 8x Curlew, 4x Great Egret, 11x Little Egret, 71x Pochard, 85x Gadwall, 14x Shoveler, 10x Teal, 2x Shelduck, 10x Egyptian Geese, 56x Little Grebe, 28x Common Tern (10 juv), YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, (JWo)

Tittesworth Water

Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 16x Mandarin, Goosander, (SGi)

Doxey Marsh

Cattle Egret, and 2x Great Egret at Creswell Flash at 15:45, (RPo)  - in addition 2x Green Sandpiper on Octo hide flash, (RRa)

Ramshorn

3x Red Kite over at 15:30, (JDr)

Sunday 3rd August 2025

Belvide Resv

2x Lesser Scaup still, Black-necked Grebe, 7x Little Egret, Great Egret, YL Gull, 4x Ringed Plover, 16x LRP, Green Sandpiper, 7x Common Sandpiper, 3x Snipe, 3x Oystercatcher, Dunlin, 2x Red Kite, Wheatear, 

Middleton Lakes

Wood Sandpiper on West scrape, Green Sandpiper, 5x Snipe, Dunlin, juv Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)

Stanley Pool

2x Common Tern (adult and juv), Common Sandpiper, (GBr)

Rudyard

3x Common Tern at 08:48, (Laxmi)

Whitemoor Haye

36x Common Tern, 7x Little Egret, 61x Lapwing, 4x LRP (3 juvs),  Oystercatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, 6x Little Grebe, 39x Egyptian Geese, Hobby, Lesser Whitethroat, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)

Blithfield Resv

5x Crossbill over Yeatsall Bank this am, (GJM)

Tittesworth Water

15x Mandarin, LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, 7x Oystercatcher, 2x Lapwing, Common Gull, (JOa, LH, TE, KH)

Branston GPs

4x Great Egret, 18x Little Egret, 8x Egyptian Geese, 2x Shelduck, 84x Gadwall, 11x Shoveler, 86x Pochard, 9x Teal, 12x Curlew, 3x Oystercatcher, Green Sandpiper, 4x Common Sandpiper, ad YL Gull, 2x Common Gull, 30x Common Tern, 2x Green Woodpecker, 6x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Linnet, (DSc)

Doxey Marsh

3x Great Egret, Little Egret, Common Tern, Gadwall, 2x Teal, (CAFH)

Dunstall

2x Green woodpecker (ad+juv), (JWo)

Saturday 2nd August 2025

Belvide Resv

2x Lesser Scaup, fem Common Scoter, Black-necked Grebe, Gropper, Redstart.

Stanley Pool

Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, (GBr)

Cheddleton Heath

Red Kite over at 09:00, (PCa)

Tucklesholme

2x Curlew, 3x LRP (juv), 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Little Egret, 6x Common Tern, 2x Wigeon, 12x Gadwall, 6x Egyptian Geese, Hobby, Cetti's Warbler, 6x Swift, 4x Linnet, (JWo)  -  Additional 2x Pochard, Hobby again at 16:30, (DSc)

Baldwins Gate

Egyptian Goose this morning, (RWh)

Endon - Denford

Willow Tit, Gropper, 3x Green Woodpecker, 6x Mandarin at Ashes Pool, (DCo)

Alrewas NMA

2x Oystercatcher, Little Egret, 4x Gadwall, 5x Teal, (JWo)

Branston GPs

4x Great Egret, 15x Little Egret, 50x Little Grebe, 6x Egyptian Geese, 4x Shelduck, 50x Gadwall, 10x Teal, 40x Pochard, Peregrine, 8x Curlew, 3x Oystercatcher, 60x Lapwing, 2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 30x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, 4x Linnet, (DSc)

Longton

Red Kite circling over the A50 at 07:51, (STu)

Middleton Lakes

Arctic Tern with 12x Common Tern, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Green Sandpiper, c50x Lapwing, 5x Egyptian Geese, 2x Great Egret, 2x juv Water Rail, Hobby, 3x Garden Warbler, (DBr)

Friday 1st August 2025

Blithfield Resv

2x Spoonbill in Blithe Bay at 08:05 and flew NW at 08:10, (MDJ, GJM)  -  Greenshank, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, 11x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, 12x Dunlin, 5x Ringed Plover, Snipe, Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 6x Yellow Wagtail, (SE, HF)

                                                         Greenshank by Steve Edwards

Stanley Pool

3x Crossbill flew NE at 07:20, female Pintail, Common Sandpiper, (GBr)

Branston GPs

4x Turnstone, Little Stint, Whimbrel, 12x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, 6x Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 18x Lapwing, 4x Great Egret, 19x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, 57x Pochard, 66x Gadwall, 20x Teal, 7x Shoveler, 2x Shelduck, 74x Little Grebe, 33x Common Tern, Common Gull, 2x YL Gull, 4x Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, Hobby, Gropper, Yellowhammer, 4x Greenfinch, 4x Linnet, 16x Swift, 15x House Martin, (JWo)  -  This evening Little Stint present to 20:30 when flushed by Peregrine, 12x Egyptian Geese, 85x Pochard, 22x Swift, (DSc)

Belvide Resv

2x Lesser Scaup still, Black-necked Grebe, Common Scoter, Sanderling, 15x Black-tailed Godwit thru,

Berryhill

4x Stonechat, 3x Redstart, 13x Swift, (RTo)

Thursday 31st July 2025

Middleton Lakes

Marsh Harrier, 2x Green Sandpiper, LRP, Redshank, 8x Common Tern, Great Egret, (MSm)

Stanley Pool

Common Sandpiper, (GBr)

Tittesworth Water

2x Goosander, 7x Mandarin, 3x Little Egret, 2x Common Sandpiper, 8x Oystercatcher, Dunlin,  12x Lapwing, 9x Swift, (JOs, LH)

Blithfield Resv

243x Lapwing, 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, Greenshank, Snipe, 3x juv Shelduck, (MJa)

Enville

6x Crossbill, 11x Spotted Flycatcher, 3x Redstart, 2x Green Woodpecker, (MDJ)

Endon - Denford

Hobby, 2x Redstart, 6x Green Woodpecker (incl juvs), (DCo)

Cheddleton Heath

Red Kite over, (PCa)

Tucklesholme

Hobby, 2x Oystercatcher, 3x Little Egret, Wigeon, 4x Gadwall, 6x Egyptian Geese, 12x GC Grebe (2nest), 6x Common Tern, 6x Linnet, (JWo)

Newcastle

7x Swift over Maybank at 20:45, (PCa)

Wednesday 30th July 2025

Stanley Pool

Drake Common Scoter, 4x Redshank, 2x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, (GBr)

                                                     Common Scoter by Phil Jones

Belvide Resv

5x Common Scoter off the dam, 

Branston GPs

Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 6x Egyptian Geese, 30x Pochard, Oystercatcher, Green Sandpiper, 22x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Gropper, Crossbill thru south at 09:55, (heard only), (DSc)  -  2x Crossbill flew from Newbold pit towards Tucklesholme, (JWo)

Claymills

Hobby, (DSc)

Tucklesholme

Ruddy Shelduck, 5x Egyptian Geese, 6x Little Egret, Hobby, 2x Oystercatcher, 4x LRP, 6x Common Tern, 2x Linnet, (DSc, JWo)  -  2x Crossbill flew east over the footbridge at 17:30, (JWo)

Middleton Lakes

5x Green Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, 3x Redshank, 3x Bittern, 3x Great Egret, 8x Common Tern, (SPA)

Blithfield Resv

Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, 7x Dunlin, 8x Common Sandpiper, 32x Oystercatcher, 4x Ringed Plover, Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 31x Yellow Wagtail, 4x Spotted Flycatcher, Caspian Gull, (SE, HF)  -  This evening juv Med Gull in Blithe Bay, (RPo, MPR)

Tittesworth Water

LRP, 2x Dunlin, 11x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher, Curlew, (SGi)

Rudyard

4x LRP, Dunlin, Curlew, 2x Common Tern, 2x Grey Wagtail, (SGi)

Tuesday 29th July 2025

Gailey Resv

Common Tern, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Oystercatcher, (JIs)

Branston GPs

10x Curlew, 4x Common Sandpiper, 9x Oystercatcher, 155x Lapwing, 6x Great Egret, 23x Little Egret, 33x Pochard, Mandarin, 4x Shoveler, 28x Teal, 58x Gadwall, 3x Shelduck, 72x Little Grebe, 32x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, 4x Swift, (JWo)

Belvide Resv

Female Common Scoter, Black-necked Grebe, 2x Lesser Scaup also a report of a Sandwich Tern thru, 

Middleton Lakes

Juv Water Rail, 2x Green Sandpiper, 3x juv Redshank, (MSm)

Blithfield Resv

Sanderling, Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, 236x Lapwing, Curlew, 4x LRP, 2x Dunlin, Oystercatcher, 4x Shelduck, 3x Little Egret, (MJa)

Gradbach

Pied Flycatcher, (TCo)

Uttoxeter

Little Egret in Bramshall Road park, (AR)

Monday 28th July 2025

Branston GPs

Little Stint, Dunlin, Redshank, Avocet, 4x Common Sandpiper, 8x Curlew, 11x Oystercatcher, 18x Lapwing, 10x Great Egret, 19x Little Egret, 53x Pochard, 36x Gadwall, 28x Teal, 3x Shelduck, 12x Egyptian Geese, 73x Little Grebe, 44x Common Tern (11juv), 2x YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Hobby,  Peregrine, 4x Linnet, (JWo)

Stanley Pool

Little Egret, Common Tern, Common Sandpiper, (GBr)

Belvide Resv

3x Sanderling this afternoon, 2x Lesser Scaup, 2x Garganey, 4x Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, Common Sandpiper, Great Egret, Little Egret, 

Croxall

Osprey at 12:00, (SCl)

Tittesworth Water

Firecrest heard in the woods on the west side of the lake (c10 mins south of the water sports centre), also Curlew, Green Sandpiper, 11x Lapwing, 4x Oystercatcher, Willow Tit, (TCo)

Blithfield Resv

Admaston Pastry Point 17:15 to 17:30 - Whimbrel, Sanderling also 1sum Caspian Gull still in Blithe Bay, (JAl)

Tucklesholme

Hobby, (JWo)

Sunday 27th July 2025

Stanley Pool

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

Tittesworth Water

3x Goosander, 15x Mandarin, Little Egret, 4x Common Sandpiper, 27x Lapwing, 9x Oystercatcher, Curlew, (JOa, LH, TE)

Croxden Quarry

2x Black-tailed Godwit, (RPo)

Branston GPs

Adult Med Gull again at 21:00, Juv Marsh Harrier, 8x Great Egret, 20x Little Egret, 8x Curlew, 8x Oystercatcher, 3x Common Sandpiper, 12x Lapwing, 2x ad YL Gull, ad Common Gull, 36x Common Tern, Mandarin, 8x Shelduck, 3x Shoveler, 50x Gadwall, 26x Teal, 120+ Pochard, 62x Little Grebe, 10x Egyptian Geese, (DSc)

Belvide Resv

2x Garganey, 2x Common Tern, Yellow Wagtail, 

Whitemoor Haye

4x Great Egret, 7x Little Egret, 10x Common Tern, 5x LRP, 72x Lapwing, Hobby, 10x Swift, 30x Linnet, (SCo) - Also 4x Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, (ICW)

Saturday 26th July 2025

Doxey Marsh

Cattle Egret, Great Egret, Little Egret, Common Sandpiper, 6x Stonechat, 60x Lapwing, Common Tern, (GPr)

Sandon

2x Red Kite over at 14:00,

Tittesworth Water

Little Grebe (scarce here), Common Scoter, Common Tern, 2x Little Egret, 4x Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 2x Goosander, 16x Mandarin, (SGi, IB, KH)

Blithfield Resv

Sanderling, Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Caspian Gull, juv Redstart, Little Egret, (GJM, MPR, NT)

Belvide Resv

2x Sandwich Tern, juv Arctic Tern, 8x Common Tern, 2x Lesser Scaup, 2x Garganey, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 3x LRP, Mandarin, Spotted Flycatcher, 15x Common Sandpiper, Hobby, Red Kite, 

Uttoxeter Quarry

Hobby, 11x Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, 7x Common Tern, 5x Little Egret, (RPo)

Rugeley

Upper Birches - juv Hobby, Peregrine, 15x Swift, House Martin, (AFi)

Branston GPs

6x Great Egret, 18x Little Egret, 10x Egyptian Geese, 34x Pochard, 7x Curlew, 4x Oystercatcher,  3x Common Sandpiper, 140x Lapwing, ad Med Gull roosted, 3x ad YL Gull, Common Gull, 34x Common Tern, 11x Shelduck, (DSc)

                                                        Med Gull by Dave Scattergood

Tucklesholme

2x Little Egret, Oystercatcher, 10x Common Tern, 2x Egyptian Geese, (DSc)

Hanbury Woodend

Red Kite, (DSc)

Leek

7x Swift above John Street this evening, (RWi)

Alvecote

Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 8x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, (MSc)

Friday 25th July 2025

Middleton Lakes

Female Marsh Harrier showing on and off,  5x Green Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Oystercatcher, 3x Snipe, LRP, 3x Great Egret, Barn Owl, 7+ Common Tern incl 2 recently fledged, juv Peregrine, juv Redshank,  (SPA, MSm)

Enville

Spotted Flycatcher 3x Redstart, 6x Red Kite, 10x Swift thru, (ICW)

Whiston

Red Kite at The Leys, (GSt)

Doxey Marsh

Cattle Egret, 4x Great Egret, Hobby, Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, Gropper, Cetti's Warbler, (RSt)

Stanley Pool

Common Tern, Oystercatcher, 26x Lapwing, (GBr)

Belvide Resv

2x Garganey, 2x Lesser Scaup

Branston GPs

2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 3x Ringed Plover, 12x Curlew, 138x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher, 9x Great Egret, 18x Little Egret, Mandarin, 4x Shoveler, 15x Teal, 43x Pochard, 40x Gadwall, 8x Shelduck, 13x Egyptian Geese, 61x Little Grebe, 16x Common Tern, 3x YL Gull, Common Gull, Peregrine, Hobby, 2x Water Rail, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Swift, (JWo, DSc)

Thursday 24th July 2025

Cresswell

Little Egret on River Blithe, (BBo)

Branston GPs

3x Sanderling, Dunlin, 4x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 12x Curlew, 3x Oystercatcher, 130x Lapwing, 8x Great Egret, 25x Little Egret, 41x Pochard, 2x Shoveler, 38x Gadwall, 13x Shelduck (9juv), 8x Egyptian Geese, 60x Little Grebe, 24x Common Tern, (5 juv), ad Common Gull, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, Hobby, 4x Linnet, (JWo)

Stafford

Red Kite over Sandon Road Oxford Gardens

Tittesworth Water

Common Scoter, 3x Mandarin, Goosander, Little Egret, 4x LRP, 4x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, 14x Lapwing, 8x Oystercatcher, (JOa, LH)

Cannock Chase

Chase Cafe Enterprise centre - 2x Hobby 6x Swift at 09:00, (BCh)

Belvide Resv

Lesser Scaup still, fem Garganey, 6x Egyptian Geese, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, Redshank, Green Woodpecker, (CMa, DG)  -  Now 2x Lesser Scaup, 

Blithfield Resv

Knot, Curlew, Whimbrel, 8x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x Dunlin, 5x LRP, 4x Ringed Plover, 4x YL Gull, (RBr)

Wednesday 23rd July 2025

Gailey Resv

2x Common Tern, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Shoveler, Oystercatcher, (JIs)

Trentham Gardens

Female Pintail, 4x Mandarin, 8x Little Egret, (RGi)

Middleton Lakes

Greenshank, 5x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, Snipe, Great Egret, 3x newly fledged Common Terns, (SPA)

Belvide Resv

Eclipse drake Lesser Scaup at west end this afternoon, 

Doxey Marsh

3x Cattle Egret, 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, 3x Common Tern, (inc 2juvs), 2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Hobby, 2x Gropper, (DBa, IG, KM) - this afternoon 4x Green Sandpiper, 4x Common Tern, 2x Great Egret, 2x juv Water Rail, (BGo)

Dimmingsdale (Alton)

36x Mistle Thrush feeding on Rowan berries, (TEy)

Wootton

Red Kite over at 15:10, (JDr)

Blithfield Resv

This evening - Great Egret, 1st S Caspian Gull, 6x YL Gull, 60x Common Tern, 3x Ringed Plover, 10x LRP, 10x Dunlin, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, (SRi)

Branston GPs

This evening - 3x Great Egret, 16x Little Egret, 8x Egyptian Geese, 8x Shelduck, 36x Gadwall, 4x Teal, 32x Pochard, Hobby, Peregrine, 10x Curlew, 4x Oystercatcher, 70x Lapwing, Ringed Plover, 5x Common Sandpiper, 4x Common Gull, 32x Common Tern, 10x House Martin, Gropper, (DSc)

Tuesday 22nd July 2025

Branston GPs

2x Common Scoter(pair), 12x Curlew, 2x Dunlin, Avocet, Green Sandpiper, 8x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, 216x Lapwing, 4x Great Egret, 25x Little Egret, 36x Pochard, 42x Gadwall, 6x Shelduck (4juv), 11x Egyptian Geese, 47x Little Grebe, 27x Common Tern (6 juv), 2x YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, Hobby, 6x Greenfinch, (JWo)

                                                     Common Scoters by Jon Woodcock

Whitemoor Haye

c130 Lapwing, 4x Oystercatcher, Redshank, Common Sandpiper, 16x Little Egret, 4x Common Tern, Hobby, 3x YL Gull, Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, (SCo)

Chasewater

Little Egret, 3x Common Tern, (CMa)

Gailey Resv

Great Egret on the sailing lake, 6x Oystercatcher, (SRi)

Monday 21st July 2025

Stanley Pool

Spotted Flycatcher, 3x Common Sandpiper, (GBr)

Doxey Marsh

2x Cattle Egret, 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, 2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, (MBo)

Berryhill

2x Redstart in paddock just east of the Spedding Road gate, (RTo)

Blithfield Resv

Pintail, 2x Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 4x Dunlin, 11x Oystercatcher, 5x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP,  2x Greenshank, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Egyptian Geese (+4 chicks), (CMa, RF)

Branston GPs

Whimbrel, 12x Curlew, Dunlin, 14x Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 5x Ringed Plover, 189x Lapwing, 7x Oystercatcher, 8x Avocet (5juv), 4x Great Egret, 28x Little Egret, 54x Pochard, 42x Gadwall, 4x Shoveler, 6x Teal, 8x Shelduck (3juv+1duckling), 7x Egyptian Geese, 66x Little Grebe, 16x Common Tern, (3juv), 2x YL Gull, Peregrine, Lesser Whitethroat, Gropper, Grey Wagtail, (JWo)

Sunday 20th July 2025

Stanley Pool

12x Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, Little Egret, 154x Swallow south in one hour, (GBr)

Whitemoor Haye

Greenshank thru, Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 14x Little Egret, Hobby, 25x Swift, Yellow Wagtail, 4x Yellowhammer, 40x Linnet, (ICW)  -  Also Whimbrel heard thru, 4x LRP, 2x Great Egret, 18x Little Egret in total, (SCo)  -  This afternoon 14x Common Tern, 2x Redshank, 4x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 32x Lapwing, 2x Great Egret, 2x Teal, (SCo)

Tittesworth Water

6x LRP, 6x Oystercatcher, Little Egret, 2x Mandarin, (RPo)  -  3x Goosander, 2x Little Egret, Snipe, 4x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, 9x Oystercatcher, 10x Lapwing, 7x Swift, 3x Garden Warbler, (JOa, LH, TE, KH)

Branston GPs

 2x Great Egret, 15x Little Egret, 9x Avocet, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, 4x Oystercatcher, 5x Ringed Plover, 142x Lapwing, 9x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 12x Curlew, 20x Common Tern, ad YL Gull, 25x Gadwall, 21x Pochard, 10x Swift, Peregrine, (DSc)  -  Additional SMP2: 3x Green Sandpiper, Great Egret, 14x Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Middleton Lakes

Greenshank, Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Redshank (3juv), 15x LRP (11juv), 10x Common Tern (2juv), Bittern, Great Egret, (MSm) 

Tucklesholme

3x Little Egret, Hobby, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, Pochard, 2x Swift, Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, (DSc)

Gailey Resv

6x Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, 3x Common Tern, Yellow Wagtail, 35x Linnet, a few hundred Sand Martins, (SRi)

Saturday 19th July 2025

Croxall

6x Common Tern, 2x Little Egret, 2x Oystercatcher, Garden Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, (ICW)

Whitemoor Haye

8x Little Egret, 6x Common Sandpiper, 2x Redshank, 2x LRP, (SCo)

Stanley Pool

2x Common Tern, Little Egret, Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Doxey Marsh

From main hide - 2x Cattle Egret, 2x Great Egret, 4x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, (HKi)

                                                        Cattle Egret by Bill Goldstraw

Blithfield Resv

06:45 - 13:00 7x YL Gull, Peregrine, 50+ Common Tern, sev Ringed Plover, 11x Dunlin, 5x Common Sandpiper, Redshank, 2x Greenshank, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, Whimbrel, (SRi)  -  Turnstone early am (MPR)

Tittesworth Water

Dunlin, 9x Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP, 7x Oystercatcher, 4x Curlew, Little Egret, 8x Mandarin, (SGi, IB, GBo)

Rudyard

13x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, 7x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, (SGi, IB)

Branston GPs

3x Great Egret, 15x Little Egret, 8x Avocet, 3x Curlew, 5x Oystercatcher, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Redshank, 16x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 90x Lapwing, 5x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 12x Common Tern (2juv), 7x Egyptian Geese + 7 new goslings, 14x Shelduck (8 juv), 7x Teal, 35x Pochard, Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler, 2x ad YL Gull, Gropper, (DSc)

Middleton Lakes

4x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, Snipe, Avocet, 2x Oystercatcher, Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Common Tern, 2x Barn Owl, (SPA)

Newcastle

13x Swifts over Westlands this am, (JBa)

Friday 18th July 2025

Stanley Pool

5x Little Egret, 4x Common Tern, 3x Common Sandpiper, LRP, 3x Oystercatcher, Willow Tit, (GBr)

Branston GPs

Whimbrel, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Green Sandpiper, 11x Common Sandpiper, 9x Avocet (4juv),  10x Curlew, 2x Ringed Plover (1juv), 6x Oystercatcher, 112x Lapwing, 5x Great Egret, 23x Little Egret, 49x Pochard, 52x Gadwall, 4x Shoveler, 2x Teal, 8x Shelduck, (3juv+1 duckling), 8x Egyptian Geese, 52x Little Grebe, 14x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, Common Gull, Green Woodpecker, Red Kite, Hobby, Peregrine, 2x Gropper, 2x Garden Warbler, 6x Linnet, (JWo)

Whiston

Red Kite circling low over the Leys at 11:30, (GSt)

Enville

5+ Crossbill plus another 7 west, 3x Redstart, Spotted Flycatcher, Green Woodpecker, Red Kite, (ICW)

Doxey Marsh

2x Bar-tailed Godwit main hide this am, (MPe)  -  This pm 28x Lapwing, 3x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 4x Little Egret, Great Egret, 7x Gropper, 4x Stonechat, Linnet, 5x Swift, (CAFH) - The 2x Bar-tailed Godwit still present from main hide at 21:17, (DTo)

Norton Bridge

2x Red Kite circling over a recently ploughed field at 14:30, (DGI)

Mayfield

7x Swift over Mayfield, (JDr)

Thursday 17th July 2025

Stanley Pool

3x Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, Little Egret, (GBr)

Blithfield Resv

2x Bar-tailed Godwit and a Whimbrel briefly briefly in Blithe Bay this am, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew, 3x Greenshank,  (GJM)  -  8x Whimbrel, Curlew, 2x Turnstone, 3x Dunlin, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Greenshank, 2x LRP, 24x Ringed Plover, 9x Common Sandpiper, 2x YL Gull, (RBr)

Middleton Lakes

Garganey, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x juv Bittern, 6x Avocet (inc 4juvs), (SPA)

Tittesworth Water

Dunlin, 7x LRP, 4x Common Sandpiper, 8x Oystercatcher, 6x Lapwing, 5x Mandarin, (JOa, LH)

Branston GPs

2x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Dunlin, 2x Green Sandpiper, 4x Common Sandpiper, 7x Avocet (3juv), Redshank, 15x Curlew, 2x Ringed Plover, 168x Lapwing, 7x Oystercatcher, 4x Great Egret, 28x Little Egret, 57x Pochard, 32x Gadwall, 3x Shoveler, 2x Teal, 8x Shelduck, Black Swan, 10x Egyptian Geese, 70x Little Grebe, 12x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, Common Gull, Peregrine, Green Woodpecker, Gropper,, 15x Swift, (JWo, CEc, Dean)

                                                         Peregrine by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Wednesday 16th July 2025

Stanley Pool

Redshank, Common Sandpiper, LRP, Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Doxey Marsh

Cattle Egret in breeding plumage from Octagonal hide, 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 3x Water Rail, 4x Stonechat, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Swifts, (DBa)

Blithfield Resv

Wood Sandpiper, 4x Greenshank, Redshank, 8x Ringed Plover, 30x Common Sandpiper, 4x Dunlin, Hobby, 3x Mandarin, (HF, SE)

                                                     Wood Sandpiper by Steve Edwards

Chasewater

5x Common Tern, (SWa)

Tucklesholme

Common Sandpiper, 2x Little Egret, Wigeon, Shoveler, 4x Gadwall, 4x Egyptian Geese, 7x Common Tern (3juv), 12x GC Grebe, Gropper, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Greenfinch, 6x Linnet, (JWo)

Trent Washlands

c40 Swift, Cetti's Warbler, (AJa)

Branston GPs

Black-tailed Godwit, 13x Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, 12x Lapwing, 2x ad YL Gull, ad Common Gull, 4x Shelduck (+4juvs), 4x Egyptian Geese, 15x Pochard, Green Woodpecker, Gropper, (DSc)