Botteslow Flash
LRP, Little Egret, Red Kite, 23x House Sparrow along Fenton Road, 2x Greenfinch, (RTo)
Cheadle
Red Kite over fire station at 08:30, (KR)
Rocester
7x Swift over, (JDr)
Botteslow Flash
LRP, Little Egret, Red Kite, 23x House Sparrow along Fenton Road, 2x Greenfinch, (RTo)
Cheadle
Red Kite over fire station at 08:30, (KR)
Rocester
7x Swift over, (JDr)
Barton-under-Needwood
Red Kite low over heading south, (JWo)
Tittesworth Water
Spotted Flycatcher, Redstart male +3 juv, 19x Linnet, 2x Goosander, (SGi)
Redstart by Steve GibsonBranston GPs
Curlew, Redshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, 7x Oystercatcher, 18x Lapwing, 3x Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 54x Pochard, 4x Shoveler, Teal, 6x Shelduck (3 ducklings), 10x Egyptian Geese, 32x Little Grebe, 6x Common Tern, YL Gull (3s), Garden Warbler, (JWo)
Scarlet Tiger Moth by Jon WoodcockMiddleton Lakes
Great Egrets, Little Egrets, Bittern, Common Terns, Avocets, Oystercatchers, Redshanks, LRPs, Red Kite, (RBe)
Rudyard
Adult Spotted Flycatcher with 2 juvs, (Laxmi)
By LaxmiBeamhurst
Red Kite over at 12:00, (FCa)
Branston GPs
Grey Plover, Curlew, Redshank, 5x Oystercatcher, 2x Little Egret, (CMa, RF)
Blithfield Resv
2nd year Caspian Gull still, (GJM)
Tucklesholme
Green Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, 4x Common Tern, Wigeon(m), 6x Egyptian Geese, 6x GC Grebe, Hobby, Lesser Whitethroat, 5+ Cetti's Warbler, 6+ Linnet, (JWo)
Trentham
Scarlet Tiger Moth, (JAt)
By Jon AttwellStaffs
Branston GPs
Grey Plover still, Black-tailed Godwit, Redshank, Common Sandpiper, 3x Avocet, 6x Oystercatcher, 18x Lapwing, Great Egret, 11x Little Egret, 5x Shelduck(3ducklings), 8x Gadwall, 7x Teal, 5x Shoveler, 31x Pochard, 11x Egyptian Geese(6juv), 28x Little Grebe, 6x Common Gull, YL Gull, Hobby, (JWo, SBI, George, CEc, Dean).
Trentham Lakes
Cetti's Warbler still, (LSt)
Longnor
12x Curlew in silage field, (PJo)
Doxey Marsh
Marsh Harrier flying over west at 06:00 mobbed by Lapwings, (MGo)
Brocton
Red Kite being mobbed by Crows and Gulls over field adjacent to the Chetwynd Arms at 10:30, (GBe)
Gailey Resv
2x Egyptian Geese, 4x ad Oystercatcher + one well grown chick, Common Sandpiper, 2+ Yellow Wagtail, Marsh Tit, (SRi)
Blithfield Resv
Green Sandpiper, 3x Curlew over, Dunlin, Ringed Plovers, (GJM,MPR)
Middleton Lakes
Bittern, 9x Avocet (inc young), 12x Ringed Plover, 8x Common Tern, (LDa, MKe) - Bittern, Cuckoo, Red Kite, 28x Avocet (inc young), 12x LRP, 2x Redshank, (RBr)
Branston GPs
Sum/plum Grey Plover viewed from Ashy pit at 13:35, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 10x Lapwing, 2x Shelduck, 6x Shoveler, 3x Teal, 12x Pochard, Common Tern, 5x Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, 5x Linnet, Lesser Whitethroat, 50x Swift, (DSc) - 19:00 - 20:30 S/p Grey Plover still on Ashy pit, 3x Curlew, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Avocet, Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 3x Oystercatcher, 8x Little Egret, 5x Teal, Gropper, 100x Swift, (JWo)
Grey Plover by Jon WoodcockSandyford
Red Kite over the Tesco express at 07:30, (GPr)
Tittesworth Water
2x Common Tern(+3juvs), 14x LRP, 10x Common Sandpiper, 12x Oystercatcher, 7x Lapwing(+5juvs), Red Kite, (JOa, LH, TE)
Gnosall
Red Kite low over Ginger Hill at 13:30 then drifted north, (GCa)
Tucklesholme
LRP, Lapwing, Common Tern, 20x Swift, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Linnet, (DSc)
Blithfield Resv
3x Common Sandpiper, Redshank, (GJM) - 7x Little Egret, 2x GBB Gull, 8x Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, c150x Lapwing, (MJa)
Middleton Lakes
Avocets, LRP, Oystercatcher, Little Egrets, Cuckoo, Common Terns, (RBe)
Cuckoo by Rob BendelowBranston GPs
2x Great Egret, 15x Little Egret, 5x Egyptian Geese(+ 6juvs), 40x Gadwall, 2x Shoveler, 4x Teal, 16x Pochard, Mandarin, 2x Shelduck, 4x Curlew, 4x Oystercatcher, 40x Lapwing, Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 6x Common Tern, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Scarlet Tiger Moth, (DSc)
Alrewas NMA
Cuckoo, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Lapwing, 2x Little Egret, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Linnet, (JWo)
Alrewas - Wychnor
2x Oystercatcher, Gropper, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)
Leek
25x Swift over John Street at 21:45, (RWi)
Middleton Lakes
Black-crowned Night Heron flew over East scrape at approx 07:55 then banked and landed in one of the pools to the east inside of the fox fence, also 20x Avocet + 16 well grown young, 3x Oystercatcher plus two well grown young, 10x LRP + 2 chicks, 3x Bittern in flight (2juvs) - (Jake Klavins warden) - The Night Heron now on west scrape at 19:25, also a Green Sandpiper, over, (TPe)
Rocester
9x Swift over at 07:50, (JDr)
Wedgwood Pools
2x Whitethroat, (NRo)
Branston GPs
Avocet, Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, 65x Lapwing, Great Egret, 10x Little Egret, Water Rail, 32x Pochard, 5x Teal, 7x Shoveler, 12x Gadwall, 5x Mandarin(4juv), 13x Shelduck (3ducklings), 12x Egyptian Geese(6juv), 22x Little Grebe, 2x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo, MCa)
Aqualate
2x Hobby hunting over mere this pm, (KLe)
Claymills
Cattle Egret at 20:07 then flew north over R Dove to Willington Wetlands, Mandarin, 3x Goosander 3x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, 2x Swift, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, (DSc)
Alrewas
Gropper reeling in fields just north of Alrewas also nearby 4x Redshank, 2x LRP, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Grey Wagtail, (SCo)
Trent Washlands
2x Little Egret, Oystercatcher, Cetti's Warbler, Reed Warbler, 7x Swift, (AJa)
River Sow Meadows Stafford
Female Marsh Harrier, Little Egret, (RSw)
Tittesworth Water
2x Common Tern(plus 3juvs), 9x LRP, 8x Common Sandpiper(plus 3juvs), 5x Oystercatcher 6x Lapwing(plus3juvs), 2x Ringed Plover, (JHa)
Brizlincote Valley
Red Kite northbound towards the River Trent, (SJo)
Eccleshall
Red Kite over the tennis club at 19:30, (RGa)
Richmoor Hill
2x Red Kite over the crossroads on the A52, (GSt)
Stanley Pool
Little Egret, Common Tern, Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 3x LRP, Spotted Flycatcher, (GBr)
Belvide Resv
14x Crossbill west at 15:18,
Middleton Lakes
9x visible Avocets made up of 4 adults and 5 juveniles, (JTu)
Claymills
4x Mandarin, 2x Green Sandpiper, Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, 8x Whitethroat, (DSc)
Florence Hill
Grasshopper Warbler, (AMa)
Doxey Marsh
This pm Shoveler, 6x Gadwall, 12x Swift, 3x LRP, Little Egret, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (CAFH)
Yoxall - Ridware - Kings Bromley
Red Kite over, (AGP)
Branston GPs
Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Redshank, Curlew, 33x Lapwing, 2x Ringed Plover, 5x Oystercatcher, 2x Great Egret, 10x Little Egret, 19x Pochard, 7x Shoveler, 5x Teal, 14x Shelduck(3 ducklings), 10x Egyptian Geese(6juv), 32x Little Grebe, 11x Common Tern, Red Kite, Hobby, RL Partridge, Gropper, 6x Linnet, (JWo)
Blithfield Resv
Tad Bay 19:00 to 20:30 - 5x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, 6x Oystercatcher, 2x Egyptian Geese, 8x Shelduck(4juvs), 5x Teal, YL Gull, 2x GBB Gull, Cuckoo, (JHi)
Stanley Pool
4x Red Kite over Stanley Head, Spotted Flycatcher, (GBr)
Chasewater
Osprey over north, (GHa)
Wetley Moor
7x Stonechat, Garden Warbler, 12x Whitethroat, 4x Linnet, (LEH)
Middleton Lakes
Bittern, 2x LRP, Redshank, 4x Oystercatcher, 7x ad Avocet (+7 chicks), (CMa, RF)
Tittesworth Water
Green Sandpiper, 4x Curlew, 5x Redstart, 5x Common Tern, 4x Mandarin, (SGi)
Green Sandpiper by Steve GibsonCheadle
2x Red Kite, Hobby, 7x Buzzard, (LEH)
Branston GPs
3x Curlew, Redshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 30x Lapwing, 4x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, 39x Pochard, 4x Teal, 7x Shoveler, 18x Shelduck, 23x Little Grebe, 9x Egyptian Geese, 8x Common Tern, YL Gull, Hobby, 3x Cetti's Warbler,100x Sand Martin, 4x Garden Warbler, (JWo)
Trentham Lakes
Cetti's Warbler still, (LSt)
Stanley Pool
Spotted Flycatcher along path down to lake Stanley head side, Willow Tit by bridge, (GBr)
Cheddleton Heath
Red Kite over 06:00, (PCa)
Blithfield Resv
3x fem Mandarin, 2x Red Kite, Peregrine, 1st Sum Caspian Gull, 1st Sum YL Gull, 40+ Common Tern, 5x Ringed Plover, Curlew, (SRi)
Doxey Marsh
Black-tailed Godwit, 2x LRP, 3x Little Egret, Great Egret, Peregrine, 4x Shoveler, Common Tern, 5x Water Rail, 29x Gadwall, 17x Cetti's Warbler, Gropper, 2x Stonechat, (MBo, PDy, RRa, RSt, DTo)
Uttoxeter Quarry
Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 8x Oystercatcher, Common Tern, 9x Pochard, 6x Shelduck, (RPo)
Tittesworth Water
3x Common Tern(+3juvs), 8x LRP(+ 4juvs), 6x Common Sandpiper(+3juvs), Oystercatcher, 6x Lapwing, Curlew, 2x Willow Tit, Red Kite, Common Gull, 2x Grey Wagtail, (JOa, LH, TE, KH)
Branston GPs
2x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 10x Egyptian Geese(+6 Goslings), 14x Shelduck(+ducklings), 40x Gadwall, 7x Shoveler, 22x Pochard, Goldeneye Hobby, 4x Oystercatcher, 8x Lapwing, 3x Curlew, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Common Tern, c150x Sand Martin, (DSc) - Additional Red Kite over, (JWo)
Blithfield Resv
3x Little Tern off Beech Tree Point this morning, 4x Ringed Plover, Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, (GJM)
Brookleys Lake
11x Crossbill over towards Alton Towers at 09:42, (RPo)
Cheadle
Curlew over at 05:26, (LEH)
Belvide Resv
2x LRP, 9x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, 10x Gadwall, Pochard, 2x Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, (CAFH)
Branston GPs
2x Red Kite, 2x Hobby, Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 3x Oystercatcher, 20x Lapwing, Common Sandpiper, 14x Shelduck, 7x Shoveler, 4x Teal, 37x Pochard, 6x Common Tern, (DSc)
Staffs
Marsh Warbler trapped and ringed at a private undisclosed site. No further sign after release,
Tittensor Chase
Hobby mobbed by House Martins, (AR)
Tittesworth Water
Juv Redstart, Common Tern (with 3 young), Lapwing (with 3 young), 4x Linnet rare here, (SGi)
Redstart by Steve GibsonRocester
5x Swift over, (JDr)
Branston GPs
3x Curlew, Redshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 22x Lapwing, 2x Oystercatcher, Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, Goldeneye, 25x Pochard, 4x Teal, 9x Shoveler, 42x Gadwall, 18x Shelduck(4 ducklings), 13x Egyptian Geese(6juv), Gropper, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Grey Wagtail, (JWo, MCa)
Botteslow Flash
Red Kite over at 07:40 heading towards Eaton Park, (RTo)
Baddeley Green
Red Kite up and down A53 by the Nissa shop, (GBr)
Tittesworth Water
2x Common Tern(2juvs), 8x LRP(4juvs), 6x Common Sandpiper(4juvs), Snipe, 6x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher, Mandarin, (JOa, LH)
Middleton Lakes
Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, Bittern, Avocets, LRP, Oystercatchers, 2-3x Red Kite, Cuckoo, Cetti's Warbler, Common Tern, (RBe)
Branston GPs
2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 3x Oystercatcher, 12x Lapwing, Avocet, 5x Great Egret, 11x Little Egret, Wigeon, 44x Pochard, 3x Teal, 6x Shoveler, 76x Gadwall, 14x Shelduck, 10x Egyptian Geese, Black Swan, 28x Little Grebe, 6x Common Tern, YL Gull, Peregrine, Hobby, Gropper, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)
Rudyard
Common Tern at 08:57, (Laxmi)
Alton
8 to 10x Red Kite over mown fields, 2x Willow Tit, (TEy)
Blithfield Resv
2x Dunlin, 16x Ringed Plover, 7x LRP, 13x Oystercatcher, Redshank, 3x Avocet, Cuckoo, Red Kite, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, (AGP)
Chasewater
3x Pochard, 11x Greylag Geese, (CMa)
Cheadle
Hobby over Hales Hall pool late afternoon, (MEd)
Tucklesholme/Branston Leas
Cuckoo, 2x Garden Warbler, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 5x Oystercatcher, 4x Little Egret, 12x Gadwall, 9x Egyptian Geese (5juv), 4x Common Tern, (JWo)
Whitemoor Haye
Red Kite, 5x LRP, (JHi)
Belvide Resv
Spotted Flycatcher still but elusive, (CMa, RF)
Cannock Chase
2x Cuckoo, Siskin, Sherbrook Valley, (HTy)
Branston GPs
2x Common Sandpiper, 3x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, 8x Oystercatcher, 10x Lapwing, 4x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 12x Pochard, 40x Gadwall, 6x Shoveler, 3x Teal, 18x Shelduck, 10x Egyptian Geese (6juv), 21x Little Grebe, 12x Common Tern, Peregrine, Hobby, 4x Garden Warbler, (JWo)
Branston GPs
2x Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, 4x Ringed Plover, 23x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher, 3x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, 30x Pochard, 6x Teal, 8x Shoveler, 43x Gadwall, 21x Shelduck, 12x Egyptian Geese (6juv), 16x Little Grebe, 10x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, Gropper, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Garden Warbler, 100x Swift, 150x Sand Martin, (JWo, CEc, Dean, George)
Alvecote
Cuckoo, 100+ Swift, Common Tern, (MSc)
Tucklesholme
Cuckoo, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Garden Warbler, 4x Cetti's Warbler, Oystercatcher, 4x Common Tern, Wigeon, 6x Gadwall, Shelduck, 9x Egyptian Geese (5+juv), (JWo)
Audley
3x Red Kite over the bowling green at 14:15, (MJW)
Blithfield Resv
Caspian Gull (2y), 43x Ringed Plover, 9x Dunlin, Cuckoo, (GJM)
Tittesworth Water
2x Common Tern, Mandarin, 6x Common Sand (+3juv), 13x Oystercatcher, 5x Lapwing, 2x Curlew, 2x Willow Tit, Cuckoo, (JOa, LH, TE)
Doxey Marsh
Great Egret, Common Tern, 4x Water Rail, 8x Lapwing, Cetti's Warbler, (RSt)
Belvide Resv
Shoveler, 11x Gadwall, 9x Pochard, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper,
Branston GPs
2x Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 10x Egyptian Geese (+6juvs,+8 young), 18x Shelduck, 38x Gadwall, 5x Shoveler, 2x Teal, 3x Pochard, 8x Lapwing, 2x Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, 3x Dunlin, 4x Common Tern, 200x Swift, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc, PFo) - Additional Spotted Flycatcher at the Deerfield, (JWo)
Trentham Lakes
Cetti's Warbler still, (LSt)
Blithfield Resv
Little Tern thru Blithe Bay early am, 19x Dunlin, 40x Ringed Plover, Redshank, (GJM)
Uttoxeter Quarry
Cuckoo, Great Egret, (RPo)
Branston GPs
2x Great Egret, 10x Little Egret, 6x Egyptian Geese, 12x Shelduck, 6x Shoveler, 34x Gadwall, 2x Teal, 20x Pochard, Peregrine, Hobby, 3x Curlew, 6x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 4x Common Tern, 150x Swift, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Gropper, Lesser Whitethroat, (DSc)
Alrewas NMA
Cuckoo, 2x Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, 2x Shoveler, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)
Freehay
A Mandarin family party in the garden, (RCa)
By Richard CastlesAlvecote
Great Egret, Little Egret, 100+Swift, (MSc)
Middleton Lakes
2x Black-necked Grebe North Pit, (GG)
Bignal End
6x Raven over Boon Hill at 09:15, (MJW)
Aqualate
Female Marsh Harrier, Cuckoo this afternoon, (KLe)
Branston GPs
5x Dunlin, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 5x Lapwing, 2x Oystercatcher, 6x Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 21x Pochard, 4x Teal, 5x Shoveler, 66x Gadwall, 15x Shelduck, 28x Little Grebe, Black Swan, 10x Common Tern, Peregrine, Hobby, 2x Stonechat (m+juv), Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 250+ Swift, (JWo)
Doxey Marsh
28x Gadwall, 100+ Swift, 4x Reed Warbler, Gropper, 7x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Stonechat, (CAFH)
Claymills
Adult Med Gull thru north at 20:40, 2x Little Egret, Oystercatcher, 5x Goosander +2juvs, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Garden Warbler, (DSc)
Doxey Marsh
2x Ringed Plover, 9x Gadwall, 5x Swift, 3x Reed Warbler, Gropper, 7x Cetti's Warbler, (CAFH)
Tittesworth Water
2x Common Tern, 8x LRP (+6juvs), 5x Common Sandpiper (+3juvs), 2x Oystercatcher (+2juvs), 5x Lapwing, Little Egret, 2x Teal, 2x Willow Tit, (JOa)
North Staffs Moors
Hobby, (JOa)
Trentham Gardens
12x Little Egrets, (HFo)
Branston GPs
Redshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, 6x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, 6x Lapwing, 4x Oystercatcher, 5x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, 11x Pochard, 4x Shoveler, 5x Teal, 67x Gadwall, 12x Shelduck, 18x Little Grebe, 10x Common Tern, YL Gull, Peregrine, 2x Hobby, 300x Swift, Gropper, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Grey Wagtail, (JWo, DSc)
Draycott in the Moors
2x Red Kite over Old Road at 14:30, (AR)
Staffordshire
Wood Warbler at a undisclosed location.
Tucklesholme/Branston Leas
Cuckoo, 8x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Garden Warbler, 6x Linnet, 4x Common Tern, Little Egret, Oystercatcher, Pochard, Shelduck, 7x Egyptian Geese, 8x GC Grebe, (JWo)
Blithfield Resv
Red Kite, c45 Common Tern, 17x Ringed Plover, 5x Dunlin,
Whitemoor Haye
Dunlin, Redshank, 4x LRP, 2x Common Tern, Yellowhammer, (SCo)
Whitemoor Haye
Corn Bunting, Oystercatcher, LRP, Swift, Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, (PJT)
Trentham Gardens
A pair of Little Egrets with five young on nest, (HFo)
Branston GPs
Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, 11x Lapwing, 4x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 24x Pochard, 4x Mandarin, 14x Shelduck, 19x Little Grebe, 14x Common Tern, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, Hobby, Cuckoo, Grey Wagtail, 350x Swift, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Greenfinch, (JWo)
River Sow Meadows Staffoed
Female Marsh Harrier, Cuckoo, Mandarin, Little Egret, (RSw)
Rudyard
2x Sanderling, 6x Ringed Plover, LRP, 8x Oystercatcher, (TEe)
Branston GPs
Sanderling, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 2x Curlew, 4x Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, Redshank, 24x Lapwing, 4x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, Water Rail, 2x Goosander, 12x Pochard, 12x Shelduck, 78x Gadwall, 8x Shoveler, 5x Teal, 9x Egyptian Geese, 23x Little Grebe, 6x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, Hobby, Cuckoo, 4x Stonechat, 2x Grey Wagtail, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 8x Linnet, 200+ Swift, (JWo)
Blithfield Resv
40+ Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, 24x Dunlin, 3x Sanderling, 4x Oystercatcher, 7x Common Tern, 2cy YL Gull, 2x Little Egret, (CMa, RF) - Wheatear still in Blithe Bay on the broken bridge,