Friday 7th August 2020

Brewood area
 5x Yellow Wagtail, Yellowhammer, 2x Green Woodpecker, (PCo)

Branston GPs
Fem Marsh Harrier on BM pit still at 18:20, Great Egret, 15x Curlew, 2x Ringed Plover, 14x Little Egret, (CEc)  -  also Green Sandpiper, ad YL Gull, 6x Mandarin, 30x Pochard, 65x Gadwall, Peregrine, Green Woodpecker, (DSc)

Baldwins Gate
Osprey over at 13:15, (RWh)

Middleton Lakes

Red Kite this afternoon, (KAs)

Uttoxeter Quarry

2x Great Egret, 7x Little Egret, 6x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, LRP, (ABa)

Thursday 6th August 2020

Middleton Lakes

Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Hobby, Mandarin, (MSm)  -  Ruff dropped in at 16:45

Uttoxeter Quarry

2x Great Egret, Green Sandpiper, Dunlin, 5x Common Sandpiper, LRP, Little Egret, 3x Yellow Wagtail, (NDP)

Longnor

Red Kite over Newtown, (TMe)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only

Juv Little Tern from 16:44

Tittesworth Water

5x LRP, 3x Common Sandpiper, 30x Lapwing, 5x Mandarin, (JOa)

Baldwins Gate

2x Hobby, (RWh)

Wednesday 5th August 2020

Middleton Lakes

3x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Common Sandpiper, 11x Little Egret, 6x Yellow Wagtail, Mandarin, (MSm)

Aston - Burston pool

Green Sandpiper, 120x Lapwing, (CBr)

Doxey Marsh

Great Egret still on Tillington Flash, (CBr)

Billbrook

Hobby over Jubilee Wood, (PCo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Quail calling off the west lane track at 15:50, also 4x juv Whinchat

Tittesworth Water

6x LRP, 3x Common Sandpiper, 57x Lapwing, 5x Mandarin, Redstarts, (JOa)

Berryhill

2x Whinchat still, Redstart, 2x Stonechat, (NDP)

Branston GPs

6x Curlew, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, 41x Lapwing, 11x Little Egret, YL Gull, 10x Common Tern, 4x Mandarin, 2x Hobby, Peregrine, 20x Swift, 2x Green Woodpecker, (JWo, CEc)

Tuesday 4th August 2020

Codsall

Ring-necked Parakeet, (MFo)

Breech Road Moorlands

Red Kite over also 5x Willow Ttt, (DGH)

Enville

Green Sandpiper, Redstart, (DBa)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)

2x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Common Terns, (PFo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)SRi)

3x juv Arctic Tern 

Burslem

Ring-necked Parakeet over Chemical Lane, (SO)

Middleton Lakes

4x Garganey on JW south also Mandarin, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, Redshank, Common Sandpiper, (MercianBirding)

Branston GPs

9x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 52x Lapwing, 14x Little Egret, 12x Common Tern, 5x Common Gull, Hobby, Peregrine, 60x Swift, 2x Green Woodpecker, 9x Pochard, 53x Gadwall, 22x Teal, 2x Mandarin, 41x Little Grebe + 31x juvs, (JWo)

Dimmingsdale

Crossbill over Serpentine Drive, (ABa)

Gailey Resv

Juv YL Gull,  also Mandarin, (SRi)

Stafford

Red Kite over Beacon Hill and Hopton, 

Monday 3rd August 2020

Middleton Lakes

2x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x LRP, 4x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Snipe, 2x Garganey,  Mandarin, Yellow Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, Hobby, (MSm)

Brewood area

Little Owl, 5x Yellow Wagtail, Yellowhammer, Crossbills over, (PCo)

Trentham Gardens

1s Med Gull, 2x Common Tern, (RTo)

Doxey Marsh

2x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, LRP, (CBr)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)

Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 2x Curlew, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x Ringed Plover, 4x Dunlin, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Peregrine, Common Terns, (DBa)

Tittesworth Water

5x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, 112x Lapwing, Common Gull, 2x Mandarin, 2x Barnacle Geese, (SGi)

Baldwins Gate

Hobby, (RWh)

Branston GPs

Juv Black Tern still, 11x Common Tern, 8x Curlew, Redshank, 5x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 2x Dunlin, 9x Little Egret, 4x Mandarin, (CEc)

Sunday 2nd August 2020

Radford Meadows

Wood Sandpiper still, 2x Green Sandpiper, 9x Snipe, (ESm)

Whitemoor Haye

Grey Partridge, 3x Tree Sparrow, 8x Yellow Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler, Goldeneye, 5x Little Egret, Peregrine, (SCo)

Middleton Lakes

Ruff, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, (MSm)  -  2x Garganey JW south, (TPe)

Branston GPs

Juv Black Tern still to 10:40 at least, 8x Common Tern, Redshank, 6x Curlew, 2x Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, 3x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 12x Little Egret, 2x Hobby, 3x Green Woodpecker, Mandarin, (DSc)  -  also ad YL Gull, (JWo)

                                                          Black Tern by Dave Scattergood

                                                                             

Black Tern by Jon Woodcock

Alrewas NMA

Green Woodpecker, Hobby, 2x Goosander, Little Egret, Junction Pit - 11x Green Sandpiper, (SCo)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Great Egret still, 5x Little Egret, 3x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 11x Curlew, 6x Oystercatcher, (RPo)

Berryhill

2x Whinchat, 4x Redstart, Stonechat, (RTo, NDP)  -  2x Little Egret on Bottleslow early am

Knypersley Resv

Spotted Flycatcher, Lesser Whitethroat, Willow Tit, Little Owl, fem Mandarin, (GBr)

Baddeley Green

Hobby over Leek New Road at 13:20, also Crossbills heard flying over(GBr)

Doxey Marsh

2x Great Egret, Little Egret, Common Gull, (RRa)

Aston by Stone - Burston pool

2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Common Sandpiper, 300x Lapwing, (@fisherandbirder)  -  also 3x Green Sandpiper, 4x Snipe, (AEa)

Tittesworth Resv

7x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, 176x Lapwing, juv Redstarts, (JOa)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)

Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, Greenshank, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, 8x Oystercatcher, ad YL Gull, 10x Common Tern, (NMo)

Knighton

Quail calling at SJ746273, (RSu)

Whitfield Valley

Redstart, (RGi)

Saturday 1st August 2020

Middleton Lakes

3x Garganey by benches, 2x Dunlin, 3x LRP, Green Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper flew over JW, (MSm)  also YL Gull (SPA)  -  Mandarin Duck, Ruff

Radford Meadows

Wood Sandpiper on BMW scrape, (RSw)

Gailey Resv

Ad YL Gull to 10:30 only also a Hobby, (SRi)

Knypersley Resv

Osprey over also a Hobby, (GBr)

Branston GPs

Black Tern at Ashy pit, (TPe)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Great Egret, 13x Little Egret, 4x Green Sandpiper, 4x Common Sandpiper, 7x Curlew, 4x LRP, Oystercatcher, YL Gull, (RPo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Whimbrel south, Pied Flycatcher briefly,

Silverdale CP

Gropper at Victory pool area, (PCa)

Tittesworth Water

Hobby, YL Gull, Common Gull, 2x Common Tern, Redstart, Spotted Flycatcher, 170x Lapwing, 6x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, Snipe, 3x Goosander, Mandarin, (SGi, IB, KH)

Goldsitch Moss

Grey Partridge, Whinchat, (JOa)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)

2x juv Med Gull, 2x Whimbrel, Greenshank, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, (SE,HF)

Med Gulls by Steve Edwards

Alrewas Arboretum

7x Green Sandpiper, 4x Little Egret, (JWo)

Catholme (footpath)

5x Little Egret, (JWo)

Baldwins Gate

Hobby, (RWh)

Friday 31st July 2020

Doxey Marsh

Cattle Egret, 2x Great Egret , 2x Little Egret, (MGo)

Brewood

7x Yellow Wagtail, Marsh Tit, Yellowhammer, 2x Green Woodpecker, (PCo)

Branston GPs

Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Dunlin, 2x Green Sandpiper, 5x Common Sandpiper, Redshank, 15x Curlew, 2x Ringed Plover, 51x Lapwing, YL Gull, 20x Common Tern, 21x Little Egret, Peregrine, 19x Pochard, (JWo)

Thursday 30th July 2020

Middleton Lakes

3x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 8x Little Egret, Hobby, (MSm)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Great Egret, Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, 4x Common Sandpiper, 8x Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, YL Gull, (ABa)

Little Haywood

Red Kite at 11:00, (VLa)

Tittesworth Water

9x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 82x Lapwing, 2x Redstart, (JOa, TMe)

                                                                Redstart by Tammy Mellor

Longnor

3x Red Kite, (SMo)

Wednesday 29th July 2020

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Osprey 13:25 - 13:40 the drifted south, 5x Crossbill over south

Berryhill

2x Whinchat still, juv Redstarts, 2x juv Stonechat, (NDP, RTo)

                                                            Whinchat by Nick Pomiankowski

Branston GPs

Black-tailed Godwit, 15x Curlew, 12x Ringed Plover, 9x Dunlin, 5x Common Sandpiper, 5x LRP, 31x Lapwing, 16x Little Egret, 51x Common Tern, YL Gull, 3x Mandarin, 2x Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, (CEc, JWo, DSc)

                                                   Black-tailed Godwit by Dave Scattergood

Tittesworth Water

Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, (TMe)

Doxey Marsh

Great Egret, Little Egret, Common Sandpiper, Mandarin, 70x Lapwing, (RRa)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Green Sandpiper, 6x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, (ABa)

Morridge

Red Kite, (SCh)

Tuesday 28th July 2020

Middleton Lakes

Garganey on JW south, 4x Green Sandpiper, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Hobby, (MSm)  -  40x Black-tailed Godwit on JW at 15:30, (MCh)

Ford Green

Juv Med Gull to 11:05 only, (JJo)

Berryhill

2x Whinchat still, 4x juv Redstart, juv Stonechat, Peregrine, (NDP)

Blithfield Resv

3x Sanderling, 17x Dunlin, 2x Common Sandpiper, YL Gull, Wheatear, (TJa, DRo)  -  also juv Cuckoo, 15x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x LRP, Curlew, 2x Little Egret, (DBa)  -  also Arctic Tern, Blackwits increased to 26, Ringed Plover, (PDo)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Green Sandpiper, 7x Curlew, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Common Sandpiper, (TJa, DRo)

Gailey Resv

Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 3x Grey Wagtail, (PCo)

Tittesworth Water

3x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 8x LRP, 8x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 3x Common Tern, 157x Lapwing, (JOa, LH)

Drayton Bassett

Juv Cuckoo this afternoon, (MSm)

Baldwins Gate

2x juv Yellow Wagtail, (RWh)

Branston GPs

12x Little Egret, 46x Common Tern, 15x Curlew, LRP, 3x Ringed Plover, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 2x Mandarin, (DSc)

Monday 27th July 2020

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)

3x Sanderling, 42x Dunlin, 8x Common Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, 18x Oystercatcher, 8x LRP, Ringed Plover, 2x Curlew, 2x Arctic Tern, c50 Common Tern, (ABa)

Middleton Lakes

Wheatear on east scrape, 8x Little Egret, 4x Green Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 250x Lapwing, (MSm)  -  4x Black-tailed Godwit thru, 

Tittesworth Water

6x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 136x Lapwing, Common Tern, 2x Redstart, 4x Mandarin, (SGi, WLH)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Great Egret dropped onto the main pit at 18:25, (ABa)

Berryhill

2x Whinchat, 2x Redstart, 2x Stonechat, (SE,HF)

Whinchat by Steve Edwards

Branston GPs

Juv Med Gull, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, LRP, 3x Ringed Plover, 8x Curlew, 38x Lapwing, 44x Common Tern, ad YL Gull, 10x Little Egret, (JWo)

Sunday 26th July 2020

Middleton Lakes

4x Black-tailed Godwit, 6x LRP, 2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Pintail, (MSm)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Tree Sparrow, (SCo)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)

2x Red Kite, 21x Dunlin, 7x Common Sandpiper, 2x Curlew, Ringed Plover, 6x LRP, Redshank, Wheatear, 2x Little Egret, ad YL Gull at deep end, (JJH, SJH)  -  Turnstone Blithe Bay, (AMa)  -  Whimbrel, 4x Sanderling, 30x Dunlin, 3x Redshank, Green Sandpiper,  (DOu, LOu)  -  6x Arctic Tern, Redstart, Willow Tit, (MPR)

                                                           Sanderlings by Steve Edwards

                                                                            

                                                           Turnstone by Steve Edwards

Berryhill

2x Whinchat, Stonechat, 2x Redstart, (NDP)

Knypersley Resv

Hobby, 3x Willow Tit, Mandarin, (GBr)

Aqualate

Hobby, Spotted Flycatcher, Redstart, (TGM)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only

2x imm Pied Flycatcher along southeast bay, 3x Arctic Tern thru SW at 11:25, 1s Caspian Gull

Radford Meadows

600x Swift, Hobby, 2x Little Egret, 20x Lapwing, (RSw)

Brewood area

Little Owl, Yellowhammers, (PCo)

Branston GPs

Imm Marsh Harrier South Lake then flew towards Sandy pit, 40x Common Tern, 14x Little Egret, 8x Ringed Plover, LRP, 18x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, Mandarin, 2x Peregrine, ad YL Gull, Yellow Wagtail, (DSc)

Tittesworth Water

Common Tern, 9x LRP, 4x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 146x Lapwing, 6x Mandarin, 2x Goosander, (JOa)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 15x Curlew, 6x LRP, 3x Green Sandpiper, 7x Common Sandpiper, 8x Oystercatcher, (ABa)

Doxey Marsh

2x Common Tern, 3x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Mandarin, (RRa)

Saturday 25th July 2020

Middleton Lakes

3x Black-tailed Godwit, Snipe, 3x LRP, 3x Green Sandpiper, (MSm)  -  also 2x Ringed Plover, 264x Lapwing, (MercianBirding)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)

Drake Common Scoter, Whimbrel thru, (GJM)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Great Egret, YL Gull, 12x Little Egret, 11x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, 11x Common Sandpiper, 5x LRP, Dunlin, 3x Oystercatcher, Peregrine, (NDP)

Tittesworth Water

Redshank, 110x Lapwing, 5x LRP, 4x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Gull, 3x Mandarin, Goosander, 2x Redstart, 3x Grey Wagtail, (SGi, IB,CT)

Alvecote

8x Little Egret, 4x Common Tern, (MSc)

Burston

7x Green Sandpiper, Red Kite, Tree Sparrows, Yellowhammer, (AHa)

Alrewas Arboretum

3x Green Sandpiper, also 12x Buffalow in the field between the A38  and the signal box at Alrewas, (JWo)

By Jon Woodcock

Branston GPs

Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, 15x Curlew, 14x Ringed Plover, LRP, 4x Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, 36x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, 40x Swift, Peregrine, Green Woodpecker, (DSc)

Whitemoor Haye

Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, Yellow Wagtail, Yellowhammer, (SDA, TDA)

Upper Tean

Red Kite over the A50, (DMo)

Friday 24th July 2020

Burston

6x Green Sandpiper still, (AEa)

Stafford

Hobby over Park Avenue, (AHa)

Berryhill

Redstart, Lesser Whitethroat, 40x Swifts around the mast, (IBu)

Doxey Marsh

Great Egret, Little Egret, 4x Common Tern, 

Tittesworth Water

YL Gull, Common Tern, 7x LRP, 4x Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, 65x Lapwing, (JOa)

Ramshaw Rocks

Juv Cuckoo, (KMa)

Drayton Bassett

Peregrine over this evening, 

Branston GPs

13x Curlew, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 30x Lapwing, Oystercatcher, 20x Common Tern, 8x Little Egret, Peregrine, (DSc)

Thursday 23rd July 2020

Middleton Lakes

Black-tailed Godwit, 4x LRP, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Snipe, Hobby, Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)

Uttoxeter Quarry

10x Little Egret, 2x Dunlin, 10x Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, (RPo)

Tittesworth Water

Dunlin, 9x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, Curlew, 65x Lapwing, Spotted Flycatcher, Grey Wagtail, (JOa)  -  also YL Gull, Common Tern, 3x Mandarin, Goosander, (SGi)

Branston GPs

Cattle Egret still on Ashy pit, Greenshank, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x Redshank, 11x Ringed Plover, 10x Curlew, 4x Oystercatcher, 36x Common Tern, 12x Little Egret, 42x Little Grebe + 16 juvs, (JWo)

Ellaston

Little Egret flying down the River Dove, (PBu)

Burston

7x Green Sandpiper, (STu)

Doxey Marsh

2x Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, (KMa)

Wednesday 22nd July 2020

Branston GPs

Cattle Egret on Ashy pit, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, 9x Curlew, 3x Ringed Plover, 2x Redshank, 2x Common Sandpiper,  4x Oystercatcher, 38x Common Tern, 14x Little Egret, YL Gull, Marsh Tit, Hobby, (CEc, JWo)

                                                               Cattle Egret by Jon Woodcock

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)

8x Arctic Tern northwest, (MPR,GJM)

Doxey Marsh

Great Egret, 2x Common Tern, Mandarin, (NGR)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

3x Med Gull, 

Middleton Lakes

Marsh Harrier, Hobby, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, LRP, (ARa)  -  also 3x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, (SPA)

Bottleslow Flash

Green Sandpiper early morning, Little Egret, (RTo)

Morridge

Red Kite over at 11:00, (JOa)

Butterton

Osprey over SW, Whinchat, Spotted Flycatcher, Redstarts, (DGH)

Keele

7x Crossbill over, (MSu)

Tuesday 21st July 2020

Berryhill

4x Redstart (3 juvs), Tree Pipit, Garden Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, Little Egret, (RTo, NDP)

Brewood

2x Spotted Flycatcher, Yellowhammer, Green Woodpecker, (PCo)

Pool Hall

Juv Redstart, (GCl)

Enville

Redstart at Mere Farm, (DBa)

Tittesworth Water

Dunlin, 5x Common Sandpiper, 9x LRP, 3x Oystercatcher, 93x Lapwing, 3x Mandarin, (JOa)

Swallow Moss

Cuckoo, Peregrine, (JOa)

Gailey Resv

Great Egret in tree on fishing pool at 20:05, (SRi)

Stoke 

Hobby over west end at 20:06, (NDP)

Uttoxeter Quarry

17x Little Egret, Green Sandpiper, 6x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP,  (ABa)

Branston GPs

5x Black-tailed Godwit, 13x Curlew, 5x Ringed Plover, 2x Oystercatcher, 23x Lapwing, 4x Mandarin, 16x Common Tern, 21x Little Egret, Peregrine, Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

4x Med Gull

Monday 20th July 2020

Middleton Lakes

5x Dunlin, Snipe, LRP, (MSm)

Doxey Marsh

Great Egret, Little Egret, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, (DBa)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

20x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Dunlin, 2x Redshank, also 5x Whinchat, ad Med Gull, 

Tittesworth Water

YL Gull, 13x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, 102x Lapwing, 2x Oystercatcher, Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, 10x Mandarin, (SGi)

Stafford

2x Peregrine over Aldi car park, (ABa)

Botteslow Flash

2x Common Sandpiper

Sunday 19th July 2020

Middleton Lakes

6x LRP, 2x Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, 2x Redshank, 2x Oystercatcher, Water Rail, (MSm)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

8x Redshank, 3x Dunlin, 

Knypersley Resv

Barn Owl along Lodge Barn Road, (GBr)

Doxey Marsh

Great Egret, 2x Common Tern, Peregrine, Little Egret, (GPr, TWi)

Audley Meadows

Juv Whinchat, Lesser Whitethroat, (PDo)

Branston GPs

Crossbill over west at 10:49 (site tick), 5x Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Dunlin, 9x Curlew, 12x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 3x Oystercatcher, Mandarin, 20x Common Tern, 10x Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, Green Woodpecker, 2x Southern Hawker, (DSc)

Southern Hawker by Dave Scattergood

Tittesworth Water

Black-tailed Godwit, 9x LRP, 3x Curlew, 4x Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, 103x Lapwing, 4x Common Tern, 5x Mandarin, Spotted Flycatcher, Redstart, (JOa)

Tittensor Chase

Hobby, Yellowhammer, (AR)

Saturday 18th July 2020

Middleton Lakes

4x Green Sandpiper, 13x Oystercatcher, 4x LRP, Ringed Plover, (SPA)  -  Common Sandpiper, 

Knypersley Resv

Greenshank over, Common Tern, (GBr)

Tittesworth Water

Ad YL Gull, 4x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, (SGi)

By Steve Gibson

Berryhill

2x Whinchat, 3x Stonechat, Little Egret, (RTo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

2s Med Gull, 14x Common Sandpiper, 

Uttoxeter Quarry

3x Red Kite near the A50, Caspian Gull, 12x Little Egret, 6x Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, 16x Curlew, 3x LRP, 9x Goosander, 2x Mandarin, (ABa)

By Andy Barker

                                                               Caspian Gull by Andy Barker
                                                                     

Branston GPs

Turnstone, 5x Oystercatcher, 3x Dunlin, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, 13x Curlew, 5x Ringed Plover, ad YL Gull, 10x Little Egret, 50x Swift. 3x Mandarin, (DSc)

Friday 17th July 2020

Middleton Lakes

5x Green Sandpiper, 4x Ringed Plover, 6x LRP, Hobby, (MSm)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)

Knot from the area of the closed Cliffs hide, 15x Common Sandpiper, 6x Dunlin, 12x LRP, Redshank, YL Gull,  (GWi)

Rocester

Red Kite drifting west at 08:10, (JDr)

Doxey Marsh

Great Egret, Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, LRP, 

Branston GPs

6x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Dunlin, 14x Curlew, 4x Oystercatcher, 4x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 25x Lapwing, 7x Little Egret, 15x Common Tern, YL Gull, Common Gull, Peregrine, 2x Green Woodpecker, 12x White-letter Hairstreak, 10x Purple Hairstreak, 16x Gatekeeper, 3x Holly Blue, (JWo)

Thursday 16th July 2020

Middleton Lakes

5x Black-tailed Godwit to 07:30 only, Ringed Plover, LRP, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Redshank, (MSm)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)

8x Crossbill NE thru Blithe Bay, (GJM)

Brewood

4x Yellow Wagtail, Spotted Flycatcher, (PCo)

Berryhill

Whinchat, 2x Stonechat, Redstart, - Bottleslow Flash, Little Egret and ad YL Gull this evening, (RTo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

4x Whinchat off west lane track

Doxey Marsh

Great Egret still, Common Tern, Common Gull, 

Branston GPs

6x Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, 2x Dunlin, 2x Redshank, 4x Curlew, 4x Oystercatcher, 6x Ringed Plover, 32x Lapwing, 15x Common Tern, YL Gull, Common Gull, 10x Little Egret, 2x Hobby, Peregrine, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Ashley

Quail singing in wheat field, (RSu)

Wednesday 15th July 2020

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Redshank briefly before flying off north, (MFo)  -  3x Common Sandpiper, (JDu)

Middleton Lakes

Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)

Rudyard

Cattle Egret over the lake at 08:00, LRa)

Enville

LRP, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Egyptian Geese, (DBa)

Branston GPs

6x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 9x Little Egret, 15x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, (CEc)  -  also drake Common Scoter, 15x Black-tailed Godwit, 9x Curlew, Redshank,  (BAS, AMS)  -  also Common Scoter still at 21:00, 24x Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, 8x Shoveler (one juv) = first breeding success here, (DSc)

Uttoxeter Quarry

13x Little Egret on main pit, 21x Curlew, (ABa)

Barton Gate

Red Kite over at 16:12, (KBi)

Brankley Pastures

Plenty of Gamekeepers and Small Skippers, (JWo)

Tuesday 14th July 2020

Middleton Lakes
Greenshank on JW, (MSm)

Trentham Gardens
2x Common Tern, 2x Oystercatcher, 12x Mandarin, Little Egret, Redstart, (RTo)

Brewood
Hobby, 2x Yellowhammer, Spotted Flycatcher, (PCo)

Tittesworth Water
9x LRP, 4x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 78x Lapwing, Curlew, 5x Mandarin, Goosander, Redstart, (JOa)

Radford Meadows
Gropper this morning, (PDe, JTa)

Branston GPs
13x Curlew, 4x Ringed Plover, 3x Oystercatcher, 20x Lapwing, 8x Little Egret, 18x Common Tern, (JWo)

Alvecote
Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, 6x Little Egret, (MSc)

Stilecop (near Rugeley)
Unconfirmed report of a Golden Eagle over

Doxey Marsh

4x Common Tern on Creswell Flash, (SCa)