Sunday 19th October 2025

Chasewater

3x Red-crested Pochard still on Swag pool, (TPe)  -  Drake Common Scoter off the dam , 3x RC Pochard still, (RSo).

Blithfield Resv

07:30 to 11:30 - White-rumped Sandpiper along Admaston Reach still, 8x Golden Plover, 4x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 2x Green Sandpiper, 4x Curlew, Snipe, Great Egret, 18x Little Egret, 20x Fieldfare, Rock Pipit, 3x Stonechat, (SRi)  -  Also 5x Ruff, 3x Curlew, Wheatear, (HF, SE)

                                               White-rumped Sandpiper by Steve Edwards

Middleton Lakes

Goosander, Dunlin, 2x Snipe, 2x Great Egret, 2x Stonechat, (MSm)

Whitemoor Haye

274x Wigeon, 7x Shoveler, 61x Pochard, 10x Teal, 23x Gadwall, Swallow thru south at 08:35, 130x Lapwing, 3x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 11x Great Egret, 13x Little Egret, 8x GC Grebe, 5x Little Grebe, 12x Egyptian Geese, Cetti's Warbler, c60 Fieldfare thru, Grey Wagtail, 3x Siskin, (SCo)

Tittesworth Water

Pintail, 5x Mandarin, 2x Wigeon, 74x Teal, 2x Red Kite, Common Gull, 50+ Fieldfare, 17x Redwing, 3x Redpoll, (JOa, TE, KH)

Doxey Marsh

2x Cattle Egret, 4x Great Egret, Little Egret, 6x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Linnet, 3x Chiffchaff, (RSt)

Branston GPs

5x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 45x Little Grebe, 2x Pintail, 11x Wigeon, 100x Shoveler, 70x Pochard, 2x Goldeneye, 8x Goosander, Peregrine, 33x Lapwing, 16x Curlew, Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 3x Snipe, 4x GBB Gull, 2x ad YL Gull, 45x Skylark thru, 80x Fieldfare thru, 100x Redwing, Stonechat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Chiffchaff, 150x Linnet, 6x Redpoll, 5x Siskin, c500 Starlings roosted Sandy pit,  (DSc)

Belvide Resv

Black-tailed Godwit, Redshank, 3x Snipe, 48x Golden Plover, 4x Dunlin, 3x Ringed Plover, 2x Rock Pipit, 6x Pintail, juv PFG, 2x Mandarin, 

Coven

400+ Redwing, 2x Fieldfare, 60+ Mipit, 8x Mistle Thrush, 5x Skylark, (JDu)

Consal - Dilhorne

7x Red Kite, 10x Raven, 50x Lapwing, (DSc)

Saturday 18th October 2025

Blithfield Resv

White-rumped Sandpiper, Spoonbill Blithe Bay, Knot, 7x Ruff, Black-necked Grebe, (MPR, GJM)  Also - 2x Crossbill over, 3x Curlew, (TPe)

Radford Meadows Stafford

2x Ruff, 102x Lapwing, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 6x Siskin, 44x Wigeon, Goosander, 4x Ring-necked Parakeet, 30x Fieldfare, 9x Redwing, 12x Skylark, Chiffchaff, (RSw)

Consall - Dilhorne

4x Red Kite, 20x Raven, 60x Lapwing, 20x Fieldfare, 15x Redwing, (DSc)

Brankley Pastures

45x Redpoll, 2x Greenfinch, 7x Linnet, 57x Redwing, Green Woodpecker, 8x Yellowhammer, 30x Mipit, (MKe, PKe, JKe)

Branston GPs

10x Great Egret, 7x Little Egret, 5x Egyptian Geese, 10x Wigeon, 90x Shoveler, 80x Teal, 16x Pochard, Goldeneye, 3x Goosander, Peregrine, 38x Golden Plover, 100x Lapwing, Dunlin, Redshank, 2x Snipe, 19x Curlew,  8x GBB Gull, 3x ad YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, 8x Skylark, Stonechat, 20x Linnet, 2x Siskin, (DSc)

Tucklesholme

Great Egret, 6x Little Grebe, 200x Cormorant thru north, 7x Curlew flew NW, Snipe, Common Gull, 90x Wigeon, 20x Shoveler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, c250 Starling, (DSc)

Dimmingsdale

70x Redwing, (TEy)

Friday 17th October 2025

Blithfield Resv

Pair of Common Scoter this am, (GJM)  -  2x Common Scoter, Caspian Gull, 5x Ruff, 3x Curlew, 7x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Snipe, 3x Redshank, Common Sandpiper, 2x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, 4x Stonechat, 3x Common Gull, Grey Wagtail, 30x Redwing, 2x Pochard, (SE, HF)

Dilhorne area

4x Red Kite, 20x Redwing, (DSc)

Middleton Lakes

Garganey, 3x Shelduck, Dunlin, 10x Snipe, Stonechat, 7x Mipit, 4x Siskin, (MSm)  -  Redshank, Black-tailed Godwit, Water Rails, 20x Redwing, 12x Skylark, 6x Redpoll, 3x Great Egret, 

Branston GPs

Fem Marsh Harrier, 20x Curlew, 5x Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 2x Green Sandpiper, 12x Snipe, 64x Lapwing, 2x Great Egret, 11x Little Egret, 3x Water Rail, Goldeneye, 10x Goosander, 63x Pochard, 117x Shoveler, 31x Gadwall, 115x Teal, 63x Little Grebe, 3x YL Gull, GBB Gull, 4x Common Gull, Green Woodpecker, 2x Peregrine, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 8x Chiffchaff, 7x Stonechat, 16x Redpoll, 30x Linnet, 35x Redwing, 32x Skylark, 115x Mipit, (JWo)

                                                            Curlew by Jon Woodcock

Whitemoor Haye

8x Little Egret, 4x Great Egret, 171x Lapwing, Oystercatcher, Green Sandpiper, Cetti's Warbler, 53x Pochard, 6x Shoveler, 19x Gadwall, 4x Teal, 153x Wigeon, GBB Gull,  11x GC Grebe, 5x Little Grebe, Chiffchaff, Grey Wagtail, 4x Egyptian Geese, 4x Stonechat, (SCo)

Thursday 16th October 2025

Middleton Lakes

Jack Snipe, c70 Golden Plover, Black-tailed Godwit, 9x Snipe, 4x Little Grebe, 8x Goosander, 2x Great Egret, Barn Owl, (SPA)

Gailey Resv

Little Egret, 3x Wigeon, Gadwall, Cetti's Warbler, (JIs)

Tittesworth Water

3x Mandarin, 31x Teal, 21x Redwing, Grey Wagtail, (JOa)

Blackbank

Vismig - 55x PFG, 2x Brambling, (NPo)

Tittensor Chase

70x PFG over west at 13:25, 25x Redwing, 29x Skylark, 125x Linnet (AR)

Ranton

Marsh Harrier at 12:04, (AHa)

Cannock Chase

12x Crossbill at the Whitehouse, (AHa)

Belvide Resv

Black-necked Grebe, 

Branston GPs

Rock Pipit over Ashy pit, 10x Curlew, Ringed Plover, 5x Dunlin, 64x Lapwing, 4x Green Sandpiper, 12x Snipe, 4x Great Egret, 12x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, Goldeneye, 12x Goosander, 78x Pochard, Pintail, 9x Wigeon, 24x Gadwall, 152x Teal, 112x Shoveler, 58x Little Grebe, 2x Caspian Gull, 3x YL Gull, 8x Common Gull, 3x GBB Gull, 3x Green Woodpecker, 2x Peregrine, 6x Stonechat, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 5x Chiffchaff, Blackcap, 5x Fieldfare, 42x Redwing, 14x Skylark, 3x Grey Wagtail, 5x Siskin, 10x Redpoll, 3x Greenfinch, 150x Linnet, 30+ Mipit, 72x Collared Dove, (JWo, CEc, Dean, George)

Wednesday15th October 2025

Middleton Lakes

Glossy Ibis dropped into JW north at 13:10, (JKl)

Belvide Resv

Drake Common Scoter

Alton

9x Redwing, (TEy)

Walton on the Hill

Red Kite over Brocton Golf club at 12:35, (TEv)

Branston GPs

Ashy pit/BMPit  2x Little Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese, 6x Wigeon, 30x Shoveler, 30x Teal, 10x Pochard, Goldeneye, Snipe, Green Woodpecker, Skylark, Grey Wagtail, 2x Stonechat, 2x Linnet, Siskin, (DSc)  -  North pit Great Egret, 3x Dunlin, Curlew, Ringed Plover, (SCa)

Blithfield Resv

Female Common Scoter this am, 7x Ruff, (GJM)  -  Black-necked Grebe, Common Scoter, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, 5x Ruff, 3x Curlew, 5x Dunlin, 7x Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 4x Stonechat, 5x Swallow, 2x Great Egret, 11x Little Egret, c950x Linnet, 4x Common Gull, Red Kite, (SE, HF)

                                                    Common Scoter by Steve Edwards

Tucklesholme

12x Snipe, 3x Water Rail, 6x Little Egret, Goldeneye, 6x Goosander, 8x Pochard, 159x Wigeon, 41x Gadwall, 79x Shoveler, 65x Teal, 12x Little Grebe, 17x GC Grebe, 6x Stonechat, 11x Cetti's Warbler, 14x Chiffchaff, 6x Redpoll, 6x Greenfinch, 25x Linnet, 20+ Mipit, 5x Skylark, (JWo)

Doxey Marsh

49x Shoveler, 6x Gadwall, 15x Teal, 90x Lapwing, 4x Snipe, 3x Little Egret, 6x Great Egret, Cattle Egret, 3x Stonechat, Water Rail, 2x YL Gull, 7x Cetti's Warbler, (CAFH)

Gailey Resv

Drake Common Scoter, Rock Pipit briefly on c'way, 2x Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese, 8x Wigeon, 4x Pochard, Cetti's Warbler, (SRi)

Chasewater

Drake Common Scoter still at 16:00, 4x fem Goosander, (CMa)

Tuesday 14th October 2025

Blithfield Resv

7x Common Scoter (4 drakes) this am, 7x Ruff, (GJM)

Enville

Brambling, 82x Fieldfare, 144x Redwing over this am, (ICW)

Branston GPs

19x Common Scoter (6 drakes) on Ashy pit present to after dusk, 8x Curlew, 8x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 12x Snipe, 3x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, 2x Pintail, 7x Goosander, 112x Pochard, 45x Wigeon, 27x Gadwall, 98x Shoveler, 116x Teal, 11x Egyptian Geese, 71x Little Grebe, 1w Caspian Gull, 4x YL Gull, 8x Common Gull, 2x GBB Gull, 3x Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, 8x Stonechat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 8x Chiffchaff, 17x Redwing, 15x Skylark, 100x Linnet, 6x Greenfinch, 120x Mipit, (JWo)

                                                     Common Scoters by Jon Woodcock

Belvide Resv

Pair of Common Scoter, 

Doxey Marsh

4x Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 43x Shoveler, 5x Gadwall, 4x Teal, 2x Pochard, 15x Snipe, 111x Lapwing, 3x Stonechat, 5x Cetti's Warbler, (CAFH)

Gailey Resv

Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 7x Wigeon, 8x Teal, Common Gull, (SRi)

Monday 13th October 2025

Doxey Marsh

16x PFG on the marsh at 08:59, (RBr)  -  14:00 - 16:00 3x Great Egret, Cattle Egret, Dunlin, 2x Snipe, Lapwing, Wigeon, Gadwall, Shoveler, Teal, GC Grebe, Little Grebe, (KLe)

Astonfields Balancing Resv

Fieldfare, 7x Redwing, 4x Skylark, (RSt)

Cheddleton

10x Fieldfare at 10:40, Redwing, 3x Redpoll, 2x Siskin, Grey Wagtail, (DSc)

Hanchurch Woods

35+ Crossbill, (HFo)

Croxall

3x Great Egret, Red Kite, 70x Redwing and 15x Fieldfare over, (ICW)

Whitemoor Haye

Merlin, (ICW)  -  5x Fieldfare, 2x Redwing, (SCo)

Chasewater

3x Red-crested Pochard (2 male 1 fem), 2x Ring-necked Parakeet flew out, Peregrine, 25x Wigeon, 5x Teal, 2x Gadwall, 2x Shoveler, 3x Little Egret, 5x Siskin, 2x Chiffchaff, (CMa)

Maer

Red Kite at 14:00, (CPe)

Belvide Resv

3x Rock Pipit

Branston GPs

17x Curlew, Golden Plover, 10x Snipe, 3x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 7x Green Sandpiper, 25x Lapwing, 8x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, Water Rail, Pintail, 75x Pochard, 22x Wigeon, 102x Shoveler, 48x Gadwall, 156x Teal, 58x Little Grebe, Med Gull, (ad), Caspian Gull (ad), 2x YL Gull, 5x Common Gull, GBB Gull, 2x Green Woodpecker, Barn Owl, Peregrine, 2x Fieldfare, 9x Redwing, 5x Stonechat, 12x Skylark, 2x Siskin, 2x Redpoll, 2x Greenfinch, 30x Linnet, 7x Chiffchaff, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 100x Mipit, 36x Collared Dove, (JWo)

Sunday 12th October 2025

Gailey Resv

Whooper Swan still, 7x Pochard, (SRi)

Doxey Marsh

Bittern still, Marsh Harrier, 4x Great Egret, Cattle Egret, 2x Crossbill, 3x Stonechat, 21x Cetti's Warbler, 60x Lapwing, 37x Snipe, 6x Water Rail, 3x Swallow, 2x House Martin, 54x Shoveler, 8x Gadwall, 10x Wigeon, (MBo, PDy, RSt, DTo, WeBS team)

Whitemoor Haye

Marsh Harrier (cream crowned) at 13:30 and again at 14:40,  Green Sandpiper, 4x Pochard, 3x Chiffchaff, (TCo)

Tittesworth Water

7x Whooper Swan, 53x Teal, 4x Snipe, Grey Wagtail, 20x Linnet, Red Kite, RLP, (JOa, TE)

Blithfield Resv

Black-necked Grebe, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, 7x Ruff, 3x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, 3x Stonechat, 4x Common Gull, (SE, HF)

                                                    Black-necked Grebe by Steve Edwards

Branston GPs

1w Caspian Gull, 4x Common Gull, ad/w Med Gull, ad YL Gull, 3x GBB Gull, 5x Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 16x Curlew, 7x Lapwing, 7x Green Sandpiper, 3x Dunlin, 6x Wigeon, Pintail, c120 Shoveler, 100x Teal, 75x Pochard, 2x Green Woodpecker, 6x Stonechat, 2x Redwing, 6x Cetti's Warbler, 7x Chiffchaff, 20x Linnet, 2x Siskin, Redpoll, (DSc)

                                                     Caspian Gull by Dave Scattergood

Staffs

Saturday 11th October 2025

Belvide Resv

An incredible count of 8x (eight) White-rumped Sandpipers this afternoon. They were present to 17:30 then flew towards the dam and not seen since,

Blithfield Resv

Leach's Petrol this am, Black-necked Grebe, Rock Pipit, (MPR, GJM)  -  additionally fem Merlin, Red Kite, 2x Stonechat, 2x Great Egret, (JWo, CEc, Dean)

Wetley Rocks - Consall

10x Red Kite at 09:15,  (DSc)

Branston GPs

2x Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, Wigeon, 80x Shoveler, 22x Pochard, 16x Lapwing, 5x Dunlin, 4x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 16x Curlew, 2x GBB Gull, 2x ad YL Gull, Common Gull, Green Woodpecker, 44x Skylark thru south, 2x Grey Wagtail, 5x Stonechat, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 6x Chiffchaff, 4x Siskin, 2x Redpoll, 25x Linnet,  (DSc)

Brankley Pastures

90+ Redpoll, 2x Green Woodpecker, 2x Yellowhammer, 9x Mipit, (MKe, LDa)

Tucklesholme

80x Wigeon, 20x Shoveler, 15x Gadwall, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Alvecote

3x Little Egret, 2x Lapwing, (MSc)

Friday 10th October 2025

Branston GPs

Spoonbill still still on the shingle island at Ashy pit, 9x Curlew, 5x Dunlin, 2x Common Sandpiper, 10x Green Sandpiper, 14x Lapwing, 4x Snipe, 4x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, 7x Goosander, 98x Pochard, 25x Gadwall, 65x Shoveler, Wigeon, 192x Teal, 82x Little Grebe, 3x YL Gull, GBB Gull, 4x Common Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 6x Chiffchaff, 80x Linnet, 5x Siskin, 3x Redpoll, 14x Skylark, 130x Mipit, 3x Stonechat, 3x Grey Wagtail, 38x Collard Dove, (JWo)

Thursday 9th October 2025

Blithfield Resv

7x Ruff, 2x Curlew, 5x Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, 2x Wheatear, 2x Stonechat, (MJ)  -  28x Egyptian Geese, 4x Dunlin, 7x Ringed Plover, 7x Ruff, 2x Great Egret, Common Gull, Stonechat, 2x Wheatear, (CMa, RF)  -  3x Great Egret, 3x Curlew, 100x Lapwing, 2x Wheatear, 4x Stonechat, 80x Wigeon, 60x Linnet, 12x Mipit, 29x Egyptian Geese, Common Gull, (DBr)

Stafford

Green Sandpiper over Rising Brook heading towards Rickerscote, (MBo)

Colwich

2x House Martin south near Bishton, (DGl)

Cheadle

3x Red Kite heading east at 13:55, (TDu)

Branston GPs

Spoonbill (subadult) on Island on Ashy pit and roosted this pm, 7x Dunlin, 10x Green Sandpiper, 8x Lapwing, 15x Curlew, 2x Snipe, 3x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, 14x Goosander, 2x Pintail, 83x Pochard, 76x Shoveler, 54x Gadwall, 118x Teal, 73x Little Grebe, Common Gull, 3x YL Gull, 3x GBB Gull, Red Kite, Barn Owl, Green Woodpecker, Blackcap, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 19x Skylark, 5x Redpoll, 100x Linnet, 120x Mipit, Stonechat, Grey Wagtail, 35x Collared Dove, 500+ Starling, (JWo, CEc, Dean, DSc, George), 

                                                         Spoonbill by Jon Woodcock

Tittesworth Water

2x Mandarin, 3x Goosander, 21x Teal, Red Kite, (JOa)

Doxey Marsh

Bittern this evening at 18:36, 6x Great Egret, (AHa)

Wednesday 8th October 2025

Branston GPs

4x Dunlin, ad YL Gull, Wigeon, 40x Shoveler, Green Woodpecker, 10x Skylark, 30x Mipits, 3x Chiffchaff, 8x Redpoll, 5x Siskin, 4x Greenfinch, 3x Linnet, (DSc)

Belvide Resv

Black-necked Grebe still, 2x Whooper Swan, 3x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Great Egrets, Little Egrets, Peregrine, 6x Stonechat, 

Blithfield Resv

Spoonbill this am, (KayD)  -  Spoonbill, Little Stint, 14x Ringed Plover, 6x Dunlin, 7x Ruff, Greenshank, 3x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, 2x Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, 3x Common Gull, 3x Stonechat, (HF, SE)

                                                           Spoonbill by Steve Edwards

Stone

Great Egret over Swan pub heading north, (MJa)

Brankley Pastures

4x Yellowhammer, 86x Redpoll, 14x Siskin, 15x Linnet, Green Woodpecker, 4x Raven, (JWo)

Middleton Lakes

Bittern also partial riverside roost of 4x Great Egret and 15x Little Egret, (MM)

Tuesday 7th October 2025

Belvide Resv

Rock Pipit SW, Black-necked Grebe still, Swallow thru, 

Trentham Gardens

2x Mandarin, 2x Gadwall, 2x Water Rail, 5x Little Egret, Chiffchaff, Dipper, (RGi)

Stanley Pool

No sign of the drake Scaup this am, (GBr)

Branston GPs

Female Merlin, Little Stint, 3x Dunlin, 4x Golden Plover, 26x Lapwing, 9x Green Sandpiper, 18x Curlew, Snipe, 3x Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 2x Goosander, 153x Pochard, 29x Gadwall, 80x Shoveler, 3x Wigeon, 194x Teal, 13x Egyptian Geese, 64x Little Grebe, 2x YL Gull, 6x Chiffchaff, Blackcap, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Stonechat, 3x Redpoll, 32x Linnet, 4x Greenfinch, 12x Skylark, 170x Mipit, 2x Grey Wagtail, 42x Collared Dove, (JWo)

Burton

9x Goosander, 3x Little Egret, 2x Cetti's Warbler on River Trent between Drakelow viaduct and Sunken gardens, (JDr)

Tucklesholme

5x Curlew, 2x Snipe, 3x Little Egret, 5x Goosander, 12x Pochard, 68x Wigeon, 38x Shoveler, 35x Gadwall, 8x Little Grebe, 5x Stonechat, 5x Skylark, 5x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Monday 6th Oct 2025

Stanley Pool

Drake Scaup, 2x Redwing, 5x Swallow, 5x Chiffchaff, Red Kite, (GBr)

Gailey Resv

Cetti's Warbler, Pochard, Shoveler, (JIs)

Kings Bromley lay-by 

2x Great Egret, Little Egret, (RBe)

Belvide Resv

Black-necked Grebe still, Peregrine, 3x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 15x Great Egret, 7x Little Egret, Goldeneye, 10x Stonechat, 

Branston GPs

18x Curlew, 5x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Snipe, 2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x Great Egret, 7x Little Egret, Goosander, 191x Pochard, 76x Shoveler, 32x Gadwall, 4x Wigeon, 183x Teal, 3x Egyptian Geese, 76x Little Grebe, 6x Common Gull, 2x YL Gull, GBB Gull, 2x Peregrine (ad+juv), Red Kite, 31x Skylark, 40x Mipit, 4x Stonechat, 12x Siskin, 66x Linnet, 4x Chiffchaff, 3x Cetti;s Warbler, (JWo, George).

Sunday 5th October 2025

Blithfield Resv

4x Knot, Little Stint, Greenshank, Redshank, 5x Ringed Plover, 2x Dunlin, 13x Ruff, 2x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, Caspian Gull, Common Gull, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, 2x Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, Goosander, 2x Stonechat, 12x Swallow, (HF, SE)

Belvide Resv

Black-necked Grebe still, 5x Ringed Plover, 12x Great Egret, Pintail, Goldeneye, 2x Goosander, Goshawk, 14x Stonechat, 2x Yellowhammer, 

Gailey Resv

07:00 - 10:00, 12x Golden Plover, Common Sandpiper, 3x Egyptian Geese, 2x Gadwall, 9x Pochard, 2x Red Kite, Cetti's Warbler, Chiffchaff, (SRi)

Stanley Pool

Fem Wigeon, Little Grebe, 4x Chiffchaff, (GBr)

Tittesworth Water

15x Mandarin, Goosander, 11x Wigeon, 42x Teal, Common Gull, Grey Wagtail, 40x Linnet, (JOa, TE)

Branston GPs

2x Red Kite thru west at 14:28, Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 4x Egyptian Geese, 50x Shoveler, 100x Teal, 30x Gadwall, Goosander, 2x Dunlin, 2x Green Sandpiper, 7x Curlew, 2x Common Sandpiper, GBB Gull 4x Common Gull, 2x ad YL Gull, 4x Skylark, 2x Grey Wagtail, Stonechat, 2x Chiffchaff, 20x Linnet, Redpoll, (DSc)  -  Additional SMP2 - 2x Red Kite still at 15:30 heading east, House Martin, 40x Linnet, 3x Skylark, 2x Grey Wagtail, Little Egret, (JWo)

Tucklesholme

2x Little Egret, 66x Wigeon, 12x Gadwall, 14x Shoveler, 6x Pochard, 5x Curlew, one Swallow thru west, (DSc)

Whitemoor Haye

16:30 to 18:30 5x Great Egret, 12x Little Egret, 9x Pochard, 13x Shoveler, 9x Wigeon, Green Sandpiper, 38x Stock Dove, Stonechat, GBB Gull, (SCo)

Saturday 4th October 2025

Belvide Resv

Black-necked Grebe still, Grey Plover, Curlew Sandpiper, Dunlin, 4x Ringed Plover, 6x Golden Plover, Goldeneye, 10x Great Egret, Peregrine, 

Stanley Pool

Red Kite, 4x Chiffchaff, (GBr)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Green Sandpiper 4x Pochard, 7x Goosander, 10x Wigeon, 32x Shoveler, 38x Teal, 3x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 3x House Martin, (RPo)

Branston GPs

Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 7x Wigeon, 45x Shoveler, 150x Teal, Goosander, 28x Pochard, Peregrine, 5x Dunlin, 3x Lapwing, Green Sandpiper Common Sandpiper, 5x Curlew, 4x Snipe, 2x ad YL Gull, GBB Gull, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Grey Wagtail, 40x Mipit, Stonechat, 12x Linnet, 4x Chiffchaff, (DSc)

Whitemoor Haye

Greenshank, 170x Lapwing, 2x Green Sandpiper, 11x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 59x Egyptian Geese, 22x Pochard, 51x Shoveler, 10x Gadwall, 5x Wigeon, 19x Teal, 7x Little Grebe, 5x GG Grebe, c40 Skylark, 3x Grey Wagtail, Stonechat, 2x Chiffchaff, 3x Goldcrest, (SCo)

Gailey Resv

Common Sandpiper, 3x Pochard, Shoveler, (SRi)

Alvecote

Great Egret, 53x Wigeon, (MSc

Friday 3rd October 2025

Whitemoor Haye

18x Golden Plover thru SW at 08:20, (SCo)

Gailey Resv

Great Egret, 12x Pochard, Shoveler, Teal, (JIs)

Belvide Resv

Black-necked Grebe still, 4x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 3x Snipe, 14x Great Egret, Goldeneye, 

Thursday 2nd October 2025

Leek

Red Kite circling over John St at 09:45 then headed north, (RWi)

Tittesworth Water

12x Mandarin, 47x Teal, Little Grebe, Little Egret, 5x Snipe, skein of PFG over SW at 07:45, (JOa)

Blithfield Resv

Little Stint, 13x Ruff, 2x Curlew, 8x Ringed Plover, 7x Dunlin, Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, Peregrine, 3x Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, Common Gull, Stonechat, (SE, HF)

                                                        Little Stint by Steve Edwards

Doxey Marsh

5x Great Egret, Little Egret, 7x Shoveler, 12x Teal, 12x Gadwall, 4x Wigeon, 18x Lapwing, 8x Snipe, 6x GC Grebe, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Stonechat, (CAFH)

Branston GPs

Ad Med Gull, 18x Curlew, Greenshank, 4x Dunlin, 6x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 3x Snipe, 4x Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, Water Rail, Pintail, 2x Goosander, 199x Pochard, 16x Wigeon, 122x Shoveler, 48x Gadwall, 196x Teal, 3x YL Gull, 3x GBB Gull, 2x Common Gull, 77x Little Grebe, Peregrine, Red Kite, 6x Stonechat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Redpoll, Skylark, 2x Grey Wagtail, 22x Linnet, 90x Mipit, (JWo)

Wednesday 1st October 2025

Parkhall CP

Merlin hunting flock of 30x Linnet between Parkhall and Hulme, 8x Crossbill flying over the Conifers, 20x Redpoll, 2x Siskin, 3x Chiffchaff, 10x Goldcrest, (RGi)

Belvide Resv

Black-necked Grebe still, 

Blithfield Resv

Blithe Bay - 3x Dunlin, 5x Ringed Plover, 2x Ruff, Greenshank, fem Merlin, 2x Great Egret, Shelduck, c150x Mipit, c100x Linnet, (MJa)

Doxey Marsh

2x Great Egret, 2x Cattle Egret, 15x Snipe, 10x Lapwing, 4x Gadwall, (BGo)

                                                          Snipe by Bill Goldstraw

Gailey Resv

Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 2x Egyptian Geese, 2x Shoveler, 5x Pochard, Teal, Swallow, (SRi)

Tucklesholme and Branston Leas

4x Curlew, 4x Snipe, 3x Little Egret, 12x Little Grebe, 21x GC Grebe (7juv), 4x Goosander, 12x Pochard, 96x Wigeon, 44x Shoveler, 32x Gadwall, 70x Teal, 2x Egyptian Geese, Hobby, 7x Stonechat, 3x Skylark, 3x Redpoll, 8x Cetti's Warbler, 15x Mipit, (JWo, TWy)

Tuesday 30th September 2025

Belvide Resv

Black-necked Grebe, 8x Great Egret, 11x Little Egret, 5x Egyptian Geese, Goldeneye, Red Kite, 

Rudyard

2x Little Egret over at 09:00, (Laxmi)

Doxey Marsh

4x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 2x Cattle Egret, 4x Dunlin, 22x Snipe, 106x Lapwing, 3x Stonechat, 7x Cetti's Warbler, (RSt)

Chasewater

Female Common Scoter still, Common Sandpiper, Chiffchaff, (CMa, MPa)

Blithfield Resv

Blithe Bay - Redshank, Greenshank, 10x Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, 150x Lapwing, Great Egret, Little Egret, 

Black Bank

Vismig - Brambling, 204x Mipit, 20x Siskin, 40x Chaffinch, 9x Swallow, (NPo)

Branston GPs

18x Curlew, Greenshank, 5x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 9x Green Sandpiper, Snipe, 4x Great Egret, 14x Little Egret, 3x Water Rail, Pintail, 152x Pochard, 30x Wigeon, 98x Gadwall, 102x Shoveler, 246x Teal, 75x Little Grebe, 3x YL Gull, GBB Gull, Peregrine, 4x Stonechat, Redpoll, 36x Linnet, 70x Mipit, 4x Cetti's Warbler, Grey Wagtail, 500x Starling, (JWo)

Wetley Moor

3x Stonechat, 4x Swallow, Chiffchaff, (DBr)

Whitemoor Haye

Fem Merlin, 2x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 9x Pochard, 4x Wigeon over, Grey Wagtail, 5x Swallow thru, (SCo)

Monday 29th September

Blithfield Resv

2x Rock Pipit on the causeway but flighty, (GJM)

Belvide Resv

Black-necked Grebe still, 5x Crossbill south, 8x Stonechat, 3x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Ruff thru, 3x Red Kite, Great Egrets, Little Egrets, 97x Wigeon, 

Whitemoor Haye

Great Egrets, Little Egrets, Stonechat, (RBe)

                                                                    By Rob Bendelow

Branston GPs

3x Great Egret, 12x Little Egret, Pintail, 12x Wigeon, 183x Pochard, 24x Wigeon, 87x Shoveler, 96x Gadwall, 265x Teal,  Greenshank, 6x Dunlin, 18x Curlew, 10x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 4x Snipe, Water Rail, 82x Little Grebe, YL Gull, 4x Common Gull, 2x GBB Gull, Peregrine, 6x Stonechat, 20x Linnet, 2x Siskin, 5x Skylark, 90x Mipit, 8x Swallow, 3x Cettis Warbler, 2x Grey Wagtail, (DSc, JWo)

Tucklesholme

46x Wigeon, 24x Shoveler, 10x Gadwall, 6x Teal, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Chiffchaff, 1x Redpoll thru, (DSc)

Doxey Marsh

3x Great Egret, 2x Cattle Egret, Little Egret, 12x Snipe, 15x Lapwing, (BGo)

Berryhill

Wheatear, 4x Stonechat, Redpoll, 4x Chiffchaff, 5x Skylark, (RGi)

Lordship Lane

24x Lapwing, Snipe, (RGi)

Alvecote

2x Great Egret, Little Egret, 27x Lapwing, (MSc)

Sunday 28th September 2025

Belvide Resv

Black-necked Grebe still, Goldeneye, 6x Ringed Plover, 2x Snipe, Dunlin, 14x Great Egret, 16x Little Egret, 8x Chiffchaff, 

Stanley Pool

Honey Buzzard over at 13:05, Red Kite, Willow Tit, Little Egret, 21x Swallow south, (GBr)

Radford Meadows Stafford

Whinchat, Wheatear, 5x Stonechat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Little Egret, 5x Snipe, 120x Lapwing, 50x Wigeon, Shoveler, c150 Teal, Peregrine, 17x House Martin and 14x Swallow thru south, (RSw)

Doxey Marsh

6x Great Egret, 3x Cattle Egret, 4x GC Grebe, Cetti's Warbler, (JDr)  -  24x Shoveler, 4x Gadwall, 2x Pochard, 69x Lapwing, 4x Snipe, 2x Little Egret, 6x Great Egret, Cattle Egret, Cetti's Warbler, (CAFH)

Blithfield Resv

Little Stint, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Curlew, 7x Dunlin, 11x Ringed Plover, 8x Ruff, Greenshank, Caspian Gull, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, Caspian Gull, Common Gull, 2x Great Egret, 7x Little Egret, 2x Stonechat, 3x Pintail, 49x Wigeon, (SE, HF)

Tittesworth Water

6x Mandarin, 28x Teal, 8x Snipe, Grey Wagtail, 60-70x Linnet, 9x Swallow, (JOa, TE)

Branston GPs

3x Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 2x Pintail, 14x Wigeon, 130x Shoveler, 100x Gadwall, 200x Teal, 150x Pochard, 10x Goosander, Peregrine, 6x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x Dunlin, 17x Curlew, GBB Gull, Green Woodpecker, 2x Grey Wagtail, 3x Stonechat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)  -  Additional Red Kite, Peregrine, 3x Green Sandpiper (Deer Pond), 5x Lapwing, 4x Stonechat (SMP2)

Alton

Stonechat, (TEy)

Croxall

2x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 30x Teal, (JWo)

Whitemoor Haye

Cetti's Warbler, 19x Egyptian Geese, 23x Gadwall, 39x Teal, 20x Pochard, 16x Shoveler, 47x Wigeon, 165x Lapwing, Snipe, 6x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 7x Little Grebe, 10x GC Grebe,  14x Greenfinch, 20x House Martin, 10x Swallow, 2x Stonechat, 5x Yellowhammer, (SCo)

Saturday 27th September 2025

Uttoxeter Quarry

2x Pintail, 2x Pochard, 9x Wigeon, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 4x Snipe, 2x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 6x Redpoll, 3x Swallow, (RPo)

Stanley Pool

Great Egret SE over at 09:50, 6x Swallow south, Little Egret by Puddy Lane, (GBr)

Belvide Resv

Black-necked Grebe still, 

Blithfield Resv

07:00 - 11:15 2x Great Egret, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, 5x YL Gull, 1st w Caspian Gull, 32x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 8x Dunlin, Little Stint, Curlew, Wheatear, 5x Stonechat, 12x Siskin, (SRi)

Whitemoor Haye

Female Merlin, (SCo)  -  Also 2x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 33x Wigeon, 20x Shoveler, 30x Teal, c250x Lapwing, 4x Snipe, Stonechat, 16x Chiffchaff, 5x Grey Wagtail thru, 56x Skylark, Redpoll, Siskin, 29x House Martin, 10x Swallow, (ICW)

Trentham Gardens

Osprey over the lake heading south at 16:33, 22x Gadwall, 8x Little Egret, 2x Ring-necked Parakeet, (RGi)

Brankley Pastures

Corn Bunting, Yellowhammer, 9x European Hornet, (MKe, LDa)

Doxey Marsh

6x Great Egret, 2x Cattle Egret, 2x Snipe, 50x Lapwing, Gadwall, Shoveler, (RRa)

Catholme

Red Kite, 5x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 4x Redpoll, 5x Sand Martin, 10x Swallow, (JWo)

Alrewas NMA

3x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret and 2x Little Egret on Alrewas canal, (JWo)

Amington Fields/Alvecote

40x Wigeon, Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 20x House Martin, 2x Little Grebe, Grey Wagtail, (MSc)

Friday 26th September 2025

Whitemoor Haye

Short-eared Owl over at 10:18, (ICW)

Stone

Little Egret, fem Goosander this am, (DWi)

Blithfield Resv

Little Stint, this am, 5x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, 15x Dunlin, Greenshank, Redshank, 16x Ringed Plover, 8x Ruff, 2x Snipe, 3x Common Gull, 2x Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 69x Wigeon, Stonechat. (HF, SE)

                                                      Little Stint by Steve Edwards

Stanley Pool

50x PFG north at 08:15, Willow Tit by bridge, 3x Red Kite, 13x Swallow and a House Martin south, (GBr)

Rudyard

Great Egret, 25x Snipe, Ringed Plover, 25x Lapwing, 90x Teal, 4x Wigeon, 35x Linnet, (SGi)

Tittesworth Water

Common Sandpiper, 13x Mandarin, 21x Teal, 9x Linnet, (SGi)

Branston GPs

Ad Med Gull, Greenshank, 7x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 15x Curlew, 3x Snipe, 23x Lapwing, 5x Great Egret, 15x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, 2x Pintail, 224x Pochard, 32x Wigeon, 198x Gadwall, 143x Shoveler, 135x Teal, 95x Little Grebe, 20x Common Gull (6ad+141w), 2x Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, 6x Stonechat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Redpoll, 16x Linnet, 60x Mipit, 3x Grey Wagtail, (JWo)

                                                            Med Gull by Jon Woodcock

Stonydelph Lake

Grey Wagtail, 3x Little Grebe, (MSc)

Middleton Lakes

Marsh Harrier, (DHa)

Thursday 25th September 2025

Branston GPs

Rock Pipit over SMP, 4x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, 6x Green Sandpiper, 8x Lapwing, 14x Curlew, 3x Snipe, 3x Great Egret, 17x Little Egret, 6x Water Rail, 6x Goosander (juv), 2x Red-crested Pochard, 311x Pochard, 28x Wigeon, 228x Shoveler, 124x Gadwall, 394x Teal, 96x Little Grebe, 4x Common Gull, GBB Gull, 7x Stonechat, 3x Grey Wagtail, 12x Linnet, 2x Redpoll, (JWo, CEc, Dean, George)

Belvide Resv

Black Tern, Black-necked Grebe, Garganey, Goldeneye, 

Rudyard

Red Kite over at 10:00, (Laxmi)

Tittesworth Water

12x Mandarin, 2x Goosander, 4x Wigeon, 37x Teal, Little Egret, Red Kite, (JOa)