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)

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)

Tuesday 15th July 2025

Middleton Lakes

Garganey west scrape, 17x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Green Sandpiper, c20x Avocet (inc 11 juvs), (SPA) 

Gailey Resv

3x Yellow Wagtail, 4x Oystercatcher, (JIs)

Belvide Resv

Turnstone, Wood Sandpiper, fem Garganey, 

Branston GPs

Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Avocet (2grown up juvs), Redshank, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 6x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher, 5x Curlew, 4x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, 43x Pochard, 75x Gadwall, 4x Shoveler, 6x Teal, 8x Shelduck (3 juv+1 duckling), 12x Egyptian Geese, 67x Little Grebe, 20x Common Tern, YL Gull, Common Gull, Hobby, 6x Linnet, 46x Swift, (JWo)

                                                        Great Egrets by Jon Woodcock

Blithfield Resv

Wood Sandpiper this am, 5x Common Sandpiper, 12x Ringed Plover, 9x LRP, Curlew, (RBr)

Monday 14th July 2025

Stanley Pool

Greenshank over, 4x Lapwing, 3x Common Sandpiper, LRP, Oystercatcher, 2x Red Kite, Willow Tit, Little Grebe, also a black  Swallow over with a white breast and throat at 10:00, (GBr)

Branston GPs

7x Little Egret, 3x Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 5x Curlew, 3x Common Tern, Egyptian Goose, (CMa, RF)  -  Green Sandpiper, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 8x Curlew, 32x Lapwing, 2x Oystercatcher, 3x Great Egret, 23x Little Egret, Med Gull (ad), Common Gull (ad), 2x YL Gull (ad), 10x Common Tern, 56x Little Grebe, 16x Pochard, 8x Shelduck (3juv+1duckling), 36x Gadwall, 7x Egyptian Geese, Green Woodpecker, 4x Linnet, (JWo)

Sunday 13th July 2025

Rudyard

2x Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Grey Wagtail, (Laxmi)

Stanley Pool

7x Red Kite, (GBr)

Doxey Marsh

Caspian Gull, 6x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, Greenshank, Little Egret, 4x Great Egret, 2x Water Rail, Hobby, Gropper, Yellow Wagtail, (MBo, RRa, RSt, DTo, WeBS Team), 

Tittesworth Water

4x Mandarin, 2x Goosander, 2x Common Tern (+3juvs), 13x Oystercatcher, 12x LRP, 23x Lapwing, 12x Common Sandpiper, 3x Red Kite, Common Gull, 2x Little Egret, (JOa, LH, KH, TEe), 

Branston GPs

2x Crossbill thru NE at 12:27, 2x Great Egret, 12x Little Egret, 4x Shoveler, 20x Gadwall, 20x Pochard, 5x Curlew, 50x Lapwing, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, ad Med Gull, ad YL Gull, 8x Common Tern, 45x Little Grebe, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)  -  Redshank, Green Sandpiper, 16x Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, 4x White-letter Hairstreak, Holly Blue, Hummingbird Hawkmoth, Volucella Zonaria, (JWo)

Whitemoor Haye

8x Little Egret, Hobby, Garden Warbler, Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, (SCo)

Eccleshall

4x Oystercatcher over the tennis courts at 10:30 heading SW at 10:30, (RGa)

Rocester - Ellastone

Red Kite over at 14:30, (JDr)

Doxey Marsh

4x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 2x Little Egret, 3x Great Egret, 22x Swift, 2x Gadwall, Water Rail, 4x Gropper, (CAFH)

Saturday 12th July 2025

Stanley Pool

Common Tern, 3x Red Kite, 3x LRP, 6x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Caverswall

2x Red Kite over this am, (BBo)

Doxey Marsh

Oystercatcher, Green Sandpiper, juv Cuckoo, 3x Great Egret, 3x Common Tern, 2x Water Rail, 3x Gropper, Stonechat, (RSt)

Whitemoor Haye

05:00 to 09:00 - 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 35x Lapwing, LRP, 9x Little Egret, Wigeon, 30x Egyptian Geese, 20x GC Grebe, 6x Little Grebe, 10x Common Tern, 4x Reed Warbler, 2x Garden Warbler, Hobby, 4x Yellowhammer, 40x Linnet, Red-breasted Goose (escape), (SCo, WeBS)

Tittesworth Water

10x Little Egret, 35x Lapwing, 12x Oystercatcher, 11x LRP, 9x Common Sandpiper, 5x Goosander, (SGi, IB)

                                                        Little Egrets by Steve Gibson

Kinver Edge

Pied Flycatcher, Green Woodpecker this am, (MDJ)

Branston GPs

Ruff (m), 125x Lapwing, 7x Oystercatcher, 12x Curlew, 4x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 2x Avocet, 4x Shelduck (+4 ducklings), 3x Egyptian Geese, 17x Pochard, Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 8x Common Tern, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Gropper, 6x Linnet, 4x Migrant Hawker, (DSc)

Rocester

9x Swift over this evening  -  JCB Common Tern, 2x GC Grebe, (JDr)

Friday 11th July 2025

Gailey Resv

LRP, Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, (JIs)

Belvide Resv

Osprey over this am, 5x Yellow Wagtail, Common Tern, LRP, 

Botteslow Flash

3x Little Egret, juv Redstart, c30x Swift, (RTo)

Thursday 10th July 2025

Tittesworth Water

12x Oystercatcher, 8x Common Sandpiper, 13x LRP, 35x Lapwing, 2x Common Tern (+3 juvs), 4x Mandarin, (JOa, LH) - 20x Swift, (AP)

Cheddleton - Consal

2x Green Woodpecker (ad and juv), (DSc)

Cheadle

2x Peregrine over at 11:21, (TDu)

Burton

25x Swift over Clarence St at 14:45, (AJa)

Rudyard Lake

2x Common Sandpiper at 18:12, (Laxmi)

Cellarhead

Red Kite over the crossroads at 07:30, (PCa)

Leek

Red Kite over town centre at 17:00, (PCa)

Cheddleton Heath

Red Kite over at 19:10, (PCa)

Stone

20x Swift over Swan pub, (MJa)

Branston GPs

Osprey circled high over the Ashy pit then drifted off north, ad Med Gull, 12x Curlew, Avocet, 4x Common Sandpiper, Redshank, 4x Oystercatcher, 93x Lapwing, 3x Great Egret, 16x Little Egret, 55x Pochard, 49x Gadwall, 2x Teal, 8x Shelduck (3juv+1duckling), 11x Egyptian Geese, 38x Little Grebe, 12x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, 4x Linnet, (JWo)

Wednesday 9th July 2025

Tittesworth Water

3x Greenshank, Redshank, 5x Great Egret, 7x Mandarin, (SGi)

                                                       4 Great Egrets by Steve Gibson

Whitemoor Haye

YL Gull, Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 53x Lapwing, 5x Little Grebe, 4x Gadwall, 4x Common Tern, (SCo)

Doxey Marsh

2x LRP, 22x Lapwing, 2x Common Sandpiper, Water Rail (juv), 2x Little Egret, Great Egret, 3x Gropper, 7x Swift, 3x Gropper, 2x Stonechat, (CAFH)

Tuesday 8th July 2025

Doxey Marsh

5x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, Whinchat, 3x Stonechat, Red Kite, Water Rail showing main hide, 3x Great Egret, Little Egret, (MBo, PDy)  -  This pm 5x Shoveler, 21x Swift, 3x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, 3x Great Egret, 7x Reed Warbler, 3x Gropper, Cetti's Warbler, (CAFH)

Blithfield Resv

Blithe Bay only this am, 22x Black-tailed Godwit, 25x Oystercatcher, 10x Ringed Plover, 8x LRP, 5x Dunlin, 142x Greylag Geese, 2x Egyptian Geese (+4 chicks), 2x Shelduck, Swift, (CMa, RF)  -  Tad Bay this pm 24x Black-tailed Godwit, 7x Redshank, 2x Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 5x Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, 10x Shelduck (inc 5juvs), (JHi)

Tittensor

6x Swift around the church on the A34 this am, (DGl)

Branston GPs

Med Gull, 10x Curlew, 4x Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, 142x Lapwing, Great Egret, 12x Little Egret, 38x Pochard, Shoveler, 36x Gadwall, 8x Shelduck (3juv+1duckling), 4x Egyptian Geese, 51x Little Grebe (3juv), 10x Common Tern, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Red Kite, 4x Linnet, (JWo)

Barton-under-Needwood

3x Oystercatcher over south, (JWo)

Monday 7th July 2025

Middleton Lakes

4x Black-tailed Godwit present with a further 7 thru this am, also Green Sandpiper, juv Bittern,  (SPA)

Barlaston Common

2x Red Kite over east at 11:30, (AR)

Tittesworth Water

Green Sandpiper still, 3x Redshank, 6x Common Tern, Mandarin, (SGi)

                                                        Common Tern by Steve Gibson

Branston GPs

19x Black-tailed Godwit, 10x Curlew, Avocet, 4x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, Ringed Plover, 28x Lapwing, 3x Great Egret, 11x Little Egret, Water Rail, 6x Teal, 49x Pochard, 28x Gadwall, 9x Shelduck (2+3 ducklings), 10x Egyptian Geese, 40x Little Grebe, 18x Common Tern, Caspian Gull (2s), YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, 6x Linnet, (JWo)

                                               Black-tailed Godwits by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Sunday 6th July 2025

Croxall

6x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, LRP, Little Egret, 4x Common Tern, (ICW)

Whitemoor Haye

Med Gull, 2x Redshank, Common Sandpiper, 5x Little Egret, 4x Common Tern, (ICW)  -  Hobby, Red Kite, Common Sandpiper, (MBr)

Tittesworth Water

2x Curlew, 11x Oystercatcher, 11x LRP, 9x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 6x Lapwing, 2x Mandarin, Goosander, 2x Common Tern (+3juvs), 2x Willow Tit, (JOa, LH, KH)

Branston GPs

3x Great Egret, 7x Little Egret, 16x Common Tern, 30x Swift, 10x Pochard, 4x Shelduck, Teal, Avocet, 12x Lapwing, Oystercatcher, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, 10x Curlew, Redshank, Ringed Plover, 3x Common Sandpiper, 9x Egyptian Geese, 2x Linnet, Siskin thru south, (DSc)

Belvide Resv

Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, GBB Gull, 

Saturday 5th July 2025

Blithfield Resv

Garganey in Blithe Bay, sec/sum Caspian Gull, 2x Greenshank, several juv Redstarts, (GJM, MPR)

Rudyard

7x Black-tailed Godwit, early morning, (SGi)

Tittesworth Water

Green Sandpiper, 12x Common Sandpiper, 8x LRP, 11x Oystercatcher, 9x Lapwing, 5x Common Tern, Red Kite, (SGi, IB, PS)

                                                      Green Sandpiper by Steve Gibson

Trentham Gardens

Hummingbird Hawkmoth, around shopping village. (HF)

                                                                  By Heather Forbes

Branston GPs

Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 30x Little Grebe, 32x Gadwall, 8x Pochard, Black-tailed Godwit roosted, 8x Lapwing, 10x Curlew roosted, 4x Oystercatcher, 8x Common Tern, (DSc)

Tucklesholme

Great Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese, 2x Common Tern, 2x Linnet, (DSc)

Whitemoor Haye

c300x Sand Martin over fields, 2x Little Egret, 4x Great Egret, 35x Lapwing, 3x Oystercatcher, 8x Egyptian Geese, several Yellowhammers, 5x Gadwall, Garden Warbler, (SCo)

Alrewas NMA

2x Oystercatcher, 4x Common Tern, Cetti's Warbler, Tree Damsel Bug, (JWo)

Barton-under-Needwood

2x Yellow Wagtail, Green Lane, (JWo)

Friday 4th July 2025

Middleton Lakes

Sum/plum Black-tailed Godwit, (GG)

Astonfields Balancing Lakes

2x Peregrine Sandon Road, (RSt)

Blackshaw Moor

Red Kite at 13:15, (KBr)

Branston GPs

Adult Med Gull, Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Common Sandpiper, 2x Redshank (1juv), 9x Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, 38x Lapwing, Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, Water Rail, 48x Pochard, 2x Shoveler, 3x Teal, 6x Gadwall, 5x Shelduck (2ducklings), 40x Little Grebe, 14x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Red Kite, Cetti's Warbler, Hummingbird Hawkmoth, (JWo, CEc, George, MCa)

Claymills

Green Sandpiper, 3x Goosander, Swift, Garden Warbler, Painted Lady, (DSc)

Thursday 3rd July 2025

Tittesworth Water

12x Oystercatcher, 15x LRP, 2x Green Sandpiper, 10x Common Sandpiper, 11x Lapwing, Curlew, 7x Mandarin, 9x Teal, 3x Common Tern (+3juvs), 2x Common Gull, Willow Tit, (JOa, LH). This evening -  Green Sandpiper, Redshank, (SGi)

North Staffs Moors

3x Red Kite, (JOs, LH)

Branston GPs

Snipe, Black-tailed Godwit, 12x Curlew, 3x Common Sandpiper, 62x Lapwing, 2x Oystercatcher, 3x Great Egret, 17x Little Egret, Goosander, 43x Pochard, 6x Gadwall, Shoveler, 4x Teal, 5x Shelduck (3ducklings), 4x Egyptian Geese, 34x Little Grebe, 3x Common Tern, YL Gull, Hobby, Green Woodpecker, Gropper, 2x Garden Warbler, 6x Greenfinch, 4x Linnet, 3+ WL Hairstreak, 5+Purple Hairstreak, 2x Painted Lady, (JWo)

Wednesday 2nd July 2025

Tittesworth Water

16x Curlew, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 5x Lapwing, 3x Common Tern, (Laxmi)  -  Also Green Sandpiper, Peregrine, (SGi)

Brankley Pastures

8x Yellowhammer, 15+Purple Hairstreak, Variable Longhorn Beetle, Welsh Chafer, (JWo)

Silverdale CP

Stonechat, Gropper, (PCa)

Tuesday 1st July 2025

Gailey Resv

9x Common Tern (inc 7 thru east at 06:30), Little Egret, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, (JIs)

Tucklesholme

Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, Wigeon, 4x Egyptian Geese, (JWo)

Branston GPs

Black-tailed Godwit, 12x Curlew, 3x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 109x Lapwing, 4x Great Egret, 15x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, 48x Pochard, 2x Teal, 2x Shoveler, 5x Shelduck(3 ducklings), 6x Egyptian Geese, 41x Little Grebe, 14x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, Gropper, Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Linnet, Grey Wagtail, (JWo)

Doxey Marsh

7x Mandarin(6 ducklings), 2x Gadwall, 2x LRP, 3x Lapwing, YL Gull, 2x Little Egret, 3x Gropper, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Swift,  (CAFH)

Monday 30th June 2025

Doxey Marsh

2x Redstart (one juv), Lesser Whitethroat, 4x Gropper, (RSt)

Stanley Pool

Common Tern, 2x Red Kite, 3x Willow Tit, (GBr)

Belvide Resv

Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, Greenshank, Black-tailed Godwit, 11x LRP, 10x Oystercatcher, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Egyptian Geese, (CMa, RF)  -  4x adult Med Gulls this evening, 2x Greenshank, Black-tailed Godwit, 

Branston GPs

Redstart (juv), at BMP, Black-tailed Godwit(s/p), 12x Curlew, 3x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 81x Lapwing, 2x Great Egret, 14x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, 45x Pochard, Teal, 4x Shelduck (2juv), 16x Gadwall, 10x Egyptian Geese, 28x Little Grebe, 11x Common Tern, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Hobby, (JWo)

Botteslow Flash

Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, 8x Swift, (RTo)

Sunday 29th June 2025

Stanley Pool

2x Redstart(fem and juv), at south side of lake, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, Red Kite, 2x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Rudyard

Common Tern at 09:15, (Laxmi)

Tittesworth Water

2x Black-tailed Godwit, 11x Common Sandpiper, 15x LRP, 13x Oystercatcher, 6x Curlew, 12x Lapwing, 2x Common Tern (+3juvs), Pied Flycatcher, (JOa, LH, TE, KH)

                                                      Black-tailed Godwits by Tom Eeles

Branston GPs

4x Great Egret, 14x Little Egret, 20x Little Grebe, 12x Egyptian Geese, 4x Shelduck(+2juvs),  8x Teal, 12x Pochard, Black-tailed Godwit, 12x Curlew, 26x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, Gropper, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)  - 

Bug Stictopleurus punctatonervosus (or S. abutilon) - no previous Staffs records of S.punctatonervosus, 1 previous record of S abutilon. Caddisfly (Athripsodes bilineatus) - 4 records since 1995, Large Marsh Horsefly, 3+ White-letter Hairstreak, 150+ Large White Butterflies, (JWo)

                                 Stictopleurus punctatonervosus or S abutilon by Jon Woodcock

Alvecote

4x Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, Garden Warbler, 12x Lapwing, (MSc)

Leek

25x Swift again above John Street, (RWi)

Wolseley Centre

2x Common Tern, 2x Oystercatcher, Reed Warbler, (CAFH)

Tucklesholme

Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, (DSc)

Saturday 28th June 2025

Stanley Pool

Redstart at south end, Spotted Flycatcher, Red Kite, Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP, Oystercatcher, 9x Lapwing, (GBr).

Uttoxeter Quarry

3x Common Sandpiper, 7x Oystercatcher, 4x Little Egret, Common Tern, Silver-washed Fritillary, 8x Ringlet, (RPo)

Stafford

11x Red Kite and 17x Raven interacting/soaring over a ridge north of Stafford at 06:20, (RSw)

Blithfield Resv

Hobby, Red Kite, 10x LRP, 8x Oystercatcher, Curlew, c100x Lapwing, Common Terns, 6x Shelduck, (MJa)

Denstone

Red Kite circling over the railway at 12:45, (JTu)

Middleton Lakes

22x Avocet, 5x Oystercatcher, 4x LRP, Black-tailed Godwit, Ringed Plover, 4x Redshank, Little Egret, (MSc)

Freehay

Red Kite over at 17:00, (FCa)

Branston GPs

2x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 10x Egyptian Geese, 14x Pochard, 2x Shelduck (+ducklings), 7x Goosander, 9x Curlew, 40x Lapwing, 6x Oystercatcher, 4x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, Gropper  (DSc)

Blithe Bridge

Red Kite heading west at 12:02, alongside A50 towards the A521 roundabout, (DSc)

Whitemoor Haye

Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 15x Lapwing, 12x Yellowhammer, Cetti's Warbler, Reed Warbler,  Hobby, 5x Gadwall, (SCo)

Belvide Resv

3x Oystercatcher, Greenshank, 4x Egyptian Geese, 4x Teal, 4x Common Tern, 3x Little Egret, Great Egret, Garden Warbler, (CAFH)

Claymills

3x Little Egret, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Skylark, (DSc)

Friday 27th June 2025

Blithfield Resv

43x Oystercatcher (inc 5 juvs), 9x Common Sandpiper, 8x Ringed Plover, 30x LRP, Peregrine, (MDJ)

Leek

Red Kite over Sainsburys at 18:55, (FCa)  -  26x Swift over John St, (RWi)

Berryhill

Little Egret over, (Ed)

Kings Bank Trentham

5x Purple Hairstreak, (SE)

                                                                  By Steve Edwards

Thursday 26th June 2025

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)

Tittesworth Water

15x LRP, 11x Common Sandpiper, 9x Oystercatcher, Curlew, 6x Lapwing, 2x Common Tern (+3juvs), 2x Goosander, (JOa, LH)

Branston GPs

2x Curlew, 2x Avocet, Redshank, 3x Common Sandpiper, 10x Lapwing, 3x Oystercatcher, 14x Little Egret, Water Rail, 43x Pochard, 5x Shoveler, Teal, 2x Shelduck, 12x Egyptian Geese, 30x Little Grebe, 8x Common Tern, YL Gull, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Scarlet Tiger Moth, (JWo)

Wednesday 25th June 2025

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 Gibson

Branston 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 Woodcock

Middleton Lakes

Great Egrets, Little Egrets, Bittern, Common Terns, Avocets, Oystercatchers, Redshanks, LRPs, Red Kite, (RBe)

Tuesday 24th June 2025

Rudyard

Adult Spotted Flycatcher with 2 juvs, (Laxmi) 

                                                                    By Laxmi

Beamhurst

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 Attwell