Saturday 31 August 2013

Blithfield Res (permit only)
Little Stint still at Admaston Reach also 2x Curlew Sandpiper, 5x LR Plover, 2x Dunlin - Blithe Bay 4x Curlew Sandpiper, 2x Greenshank (DT)
Osprey, Peregrine, 2x Whinchat, Wheatear, 3x Redshank, 19x Ringed Plover, 9x Goosander (AM)

Little Stint by Mick Turner

Berryhill
2x Whinchat at Tiddlers pool paddocks also 3x Redstart, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Wheatear (RT NP)

Uttoxeter Quarry
2x Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 12x Snipe, Pintail. Lesser Whitethroat (RP)

Hales (near Loggerheads)
2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Mandarin (RW)

Belvide Res (permit only)
Fem Garganey still also Redstart

Friday 30 August 2013

BLITHFIELD RESV - WMBC members are reminded that there is strictly no vehicular access on the exposed foreshore by order of the water company at Blithfield.
Anyone doing so may have their permits cancelled. Please keep to the perimeter tracks but take care when doing so. Thanks (Blithfield Birders Group)

Blithfield Res (permit only)
Little Stint at Admaston Reach this morning (RCB)
4x Curlew Sandpiper still, 3x Greenshank, Dunlin, Wheatear in Blithe Bay (SW)
Osprey, Little Stint, 4x Curlew Sandpiper, 3x Greenshank, 18x Ringed Plover, 5x Dunlin, 5x LR Plover, Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, Whinchat, 3x Wheatear, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Snow Goose, 4x Barnacle Goose (SE HF)
1w Mediterranean Gull in Blithe Bay tonight (GJM) and Curlew Sandpiper in Mickledale Bay late PM

Little Stint at Blithfield today by Steve Edwards

and two pics of the Curlew Sandpipers also by Steve Edwards

Dimmingsdale
Hobby, Woodcock, 7x Siskin (TE)

Berryhill
Whinchat still, 2xTree Pipit,3x Redstart, Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Raven (RT NP)

Belvide Res (permit only)
Adult fem Garganey still at the west end

Hanchurch Woods
c50 Crossbill along track from the Woodcutters cottage (KH)

Cannock Chase
Wheatear one between Katyn Memorial and Glacial boulder (RD)

Thursday 29 August 2013

BLITHFIELD RESV - WMBC members are reminded that there is strictly no vehicular access on the exposed foreshore by order of the water company at Blithfield. Anyone doing so may have their permits cancelled. Please keep to the perimeter tracks but take care when doing so. Thanks (Blithfield Birders Group).

Knypersley Res
Fem juv  Scaup this morning

Hanchurch Woods
21x Crossbill near the Woodcutters cottage (TR)

Cannock Chase
3x Crossbill, Spotted Flycatcher (RW) also Redstart and Spotted Flycatcher (RD)

Belvide Res (permit only)
Female Garganey still

Blithfield Res (permit only)
Osprey, 4x Curlew Sandpiper, 3x Ruff, 2x Greenshank, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x LR Plover, 4x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 2x Little Egret, 6x Common Tern, Whinchat (RB)

Branston GPs
5x Green Sandpiper, 5x Snipe, 2x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 2x Curlew, c200 Teal, 12x Shoveler, 41x Little Grebe (JW)

Uttoxeter Quarry
9x Green Sandpiper, 2x Greenshank, 3x Common Sandpiper, 20x Snipe, Ringed Plover (AB)

Wednesday 28 August 2013

Cheadle
2x Whinchat and 4x Wheatear at JCB Earthmovers (AB)

Belvide Res (permit only)
3x Black Tern flew through also adult fem Garganey still

Blithfield Res (permit only)
2x Osprey still in Tad Bay (CD)

Croxden
3x Wigeon, Gadwall, 3x Teal, 3x Pochard (AB)

Middleton Lakes RSPB
4x Ruff, 5x Little Egret, 2x Hobby

Tuesday 27 August 2013

Blithfield Res (permit only)
2x Osprey, 4x Curlew Sandpiper,  2x Turnstone, 2x Greenshank, 5x LR Plover, 2x Golden Plover, 5x Green Sandpiper, 5x Dunlin, 6x Snipe, 22x Ringed Plover, 3x Curlew, 3x juv Black Tern, juv Arctic Tern, 8x Common Tern, Cuckoo, 2x Whinchat, Wheatear, 10x Wigeon (GJM MPR PDH)
4x Curlew Sandpiper still late morning in Blithe Bay also juv Arctic Tern and 3x Snipe. Admaston Reach 2x Turnstone, 23x Ringed Plover, 5x Dunlin (RCB)
Additional - 2x Little Egret, Common Sandpiper, Painted Lady, 3x Giant Puffballs (JW)

Curlew Sandpipers by Jon Woodcock

Belvide Res (permit only)
Osprey one over mid morning, adult fem Garganey still at west end also juv Med Gull

Berryhill
2x Whinchat and 7x Redstart (NP. RT) - Spotted Flycatcher (IR)

Spotted Flycatcher by Isabel Rushton

Wetley Moor
2x Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Raven (RB)

Silverdale CP
2x Wheatear (GJ)

Monday 26 August 2013

Belvide Res (permit only)
Adult fem Garganey at the west end still, also juv Black Tern and 4x Tree Pipit below the dam.

Uttoxeter Quarry
Juv Curlew Sandpiper, Greenshank, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, LR Plover (RP)

Berryhill
5x Tree Pipit, 6x Redstart, 4x Wheatear, Whinchat, 2x Green Woodpecker, Raven, Yellow Wagtail (RT.NP)

Maer Woods
10x Crossbill, Tree Pipit (NP)

Burntwood Loggerheads
Flock of Crossbill (heard only), Spotted Flycatcher (NP)

Blithfield Res (permit only)
2x Osprey still in Tad Bay (SB)
2x Juv Black Tern this afternoon also Arctic Tern
Additional - 2x Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, Hobby, fem Goldeneye (SC)

Swineholes Wood, Ipstones Edge
12x Spotted Flycatcher and a Raven (DP. TE)

Hales
4x Ruff, 3x Green Sandpiper, 6x Snipe, 14x Curlew, Tree Pipit (ST)

Croxden Quarry
Adult YL Gull, Pintail, 14x Wigeon, Gadwall, 2x Shoveller, 6x Teal (RP)

Cannock Chase
6x Tree Pipit, 5x Redstart, Green Woodpecker (RW)

Branston GPs
4x Green Sandpiper, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 12x Curlew (TJ)

Croxhall (along the River)
Hobby, 2x Greenshank, 3x Little Egret - 6x Stone Loach, 6x Signal Crayfish, Lesser Treble Bar (JW)

Middleton Lakes RSPB
Jubilee Wetlands - 2 Ruff, Greenshank, 2x Dunlin, 6x Ringed Plover, 3x Snipe (MP) also a juv Black Tern Newreeedbed Pit

Croxhall GPs
4x Little Egret, 7x Snipe, 3x Yellow Wagtail, Kingfisher, 150x Lapwing, 4x Shoveler (SC)

Whitemoor Haye
4x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Common Tern, Common Sandpiper, Raven (SC)

Sunday 25 August 2013

Belvide Res (permit only)
Osprey at 06:15, adult Kittiwake through SW at 06:55, 5x Turnstone at 09:45, drake Common Scoter, juv Black Tern, adult fem Garganey

Blithfield Res (permit only)
12x Black Tern, Wood Sandpiper, Cuckoo in Blithe Bay (GJM)
2x Osprey still, Bar-tailed Godwit Blithe Bay, Ruff, Wood Sandpiper, 2x Raven (JJH)
2x Wheatear and a Whinchat in Blithe Bay (RP)
2x Greenshank, 6x Ringed Plover, 3x Curlew, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, Hobby (JW)
Additional - Redstart, 2x Little Egret, Green Sandpiper, 6x Dunlin, 3x LR Plover, 18x Ringed Plover, Yellow Wagtail (SE)

Spotted Flycatcher by Steve Edwards

Berryhill
4x Whinchat in paddocks northwest of the palletstacks also 7x Redstart (5 north of the palletstacks), 12x Wheatear, Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Snipe (RT. NP) - 5x Whinchat early evening (3rd paddock NW of Palletstacks track) also Hobby (RT)

Uttoxeter Quarry
Garganey,  juv Curlew Sandpiper, Greenshank, 2x Ringed Plover, LR Plover, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, 15x Goosander (RP)

Curlew Sandpiper by Richard Powell

Whitemoor Haye
Black-necked Grebe one late morning

Chase Terrace
Red Kite over Ironstone Road at 13:30 heading towards Chasewater (SMcG)

Tittesworth
6x Ruff and a Whimbrel  flew through also Green Sandpiper, 17x Snipe, 6x Curlew, 181x Lapwing, Yellow Wagtail (SG)

Branston GP's
South Pit - 2x Little Egret, 5x Ruff flew thru S, c30 Little Grebe. Sandy Pit - 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Green Sands, 2x Dunlin, Snipe, Shoveler. Scrape - Wood Sandpiper briefly then flew W (DSc)

Saturday 24 August 2013

Blithfield Res (permit only)
2x Osprey still in Tad Bay also 2x juv Black Tern and Wood Sandpiper. Also 8x Wigeon, 27x Barnacle Geese, adult Yellow-legged Gull.

Two Ospreys in Tad Bay Blithfield. Taken today by Mr Richard Powell

Middleton Lakes RSPB
Osprey one this morning also Great White Egret again on Jubilee Wetlands.

Berryhill
Whinchat, 4x Wheatear, 3x Redstart, Tree Pipit (RT. KH)

Doxey Marsh
2x Greenshank, 25x Snipe, Swift, Lesser Whitethroat, 7x Shoveler, 7x Wigeon (RS)

Gailey Res
Black-necked Grebe one on the main sailing lake this afternoon. Also four Ruff flew thru (First site record), 6x Curlew, Hobby and Yellow Wagtail (SAR)

Belvide Resv
Ad female Garganey, juv Black Tern and two Yellow-legged Gulls (near adult and a juv).

Uttoxeter Quarry
Juv Black Tern this afternoon, also a Ringed Plover, 2x Pochard, 5x Shoveler, 2x Egyptian Geese plus goslings (RPo)

Cannock Chase
Chase Vista area - 3x Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Raven, 2x Redstart (IBu)

Friday 23rd August 2013

Blithfield Res (permit only)
Juvenile Black Tern still present today (SWo)
2x Ospreys in dead tree still late afternoon, also Little Egret Tad Bay, 11x Ringed Plover, 4x Dunlin and the juv Black Tern still (RCB)
2x Whinchat in Mickledale Bay also a Clouded Yellow (SE. HF)
Late afternoon - 23 Curlew till 1750hrs, 7x Greenshank, 2x Little Egret and Peregrine (SE, HF)

Whinchat at Blithfield today by Steve Edwards

Westport Lake
Redshank at 09.06 flying around the main lake then flew south, also 3x Gadwall, 3x Shoveler & a Teal (CJW)

High Lane - Brown Edge
Red Kite over at 10:15 (KE)

Belvide Res (permit only)
Adult fem Garganey still at the west end also 2x juv Little Gull through

River Sow Meadows, Stafford
Little Egret, Green Sandpiper, Curlew, Lesser Whitethroat and Kingfisher (RSw)

Uttoxeter Quarry
A Little Egret (colour rings on both legs, with yellow darvic LL on left leg, and metal BTO on right with a red darvic AA), a Greenshank, 5x Green Sands, 7x Common Sands, 2x Ringed Plover, 3x Gadwall and 20 Teal (EFo, AB)

colour ringed Little Egret at Uttoxeter tonight

Whitemoor Haye
Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, 6x Yellow Wagtail (SC)

Stone
Green Sandpiper one over the Wayfarer pub at 19:00 (NP)

Thursday 22 August 2013

Drayton Bassett Pits
Great White Egret on North Pit this morning plus Garganey

Belvide Res
Adult female Garganey plus Yellow-legged Gull and juv Mediterranean Gull (RBA)

Hanchurch Woods
40x Crossbill, 2x Tree Pipit, Hobby (NP)

Silverdale CP
Whinchat on the Void 1830hrs (PJ)

Branston Gravel Pits

2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Ruff, 6x Dunlin, 12x Curlew, 7x Snipe, 17x Green Sandpiper, 6x Shoveler. 115x Teal, 6x Shelduck, 2x Kingfisher, Yellow Wagtail, 37x Little Grebe, 9x Gadwall, Cape Barren Goose (South Pit), Brown Argus, 4x Small Copper. (JW)

 

Blithfield Res (permit only)
Juvenile Black Tern still north of the causeway this afternoon.

Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent
Red Kite circling over Wickes on Reginald Mitchell Way at 1745hrs (SS)

Wednesday 21 August 2013

Blithfield Res (permit only)
Red Kite over Beech Tree Point this morning (GJM)
Juv Black Tern one north of the causeway still present at 20-00hrs. Also a Little Egret, 99 Teal, a Goldeneye, a Peregrine, 2x Hobby, 2x LRP, 8x Ringed Plover, 10x Dunlin, 1x Green Sandpiper, 7x Common Sandpiper, 1x Snipe, 1x Curlew, 5x Ruff, 55+ Common Tern, 1x Wheatear (GJM)

Gailey Res
Tree Pipit, one over south at 07:20

Hanchurch Woods
c20 Crossbill (MT)

Crossbills by Mick Turner

Wolseley Bridge
Little Egret at Trentside pool at 11:20 (JWH)

Middleton Lakes RSPB
Great White Egret again on North Pit this afternoon.

Belvide Res (permit only)
Juvenile Black Tern, also female Garganey.

Branston GP
2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Ruff, 3x Common Sandpiper, 9x Green Sandpiper, 8x Curlew, Redshank, 2x Shoveler (AJa)

Tuesday 20th August 2013

Westport Lake
2x Redshank briefly at 07.05 (CJW, NJS)

Hanchurch Woods
c60 Crossbill this morning along the track from the Woodcutters Cottage (DF)

Crossbill by Dave Fowler

Acton Trussell
Hobby, 2x Raven (GE)

Cheadle
Tree Pipit over JCB (AB)

Blithfield Res (permit only)
Deep end - Little Egret, Common Sandpiper, Common Tern - Blithe Bay - 5x Ruff, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 8x Dunlin - Tad Bay - Little Egret (RB)
Admaston Reach - Wheatear (TH)

Belvide Res (permit only)
Ecl drake Garganey at West end.

Branston GPs
2x Ruff, 11x Green Sandpiper, 2x Dunlin, 4x Common Sandpiper, 4x Ringed Plover, 6x Snipe, 26x Little Grebe, 13x Gadwall, 3x Little Egret (JW)

Drayton Bassett Pits

Great White Egret favouring the shallow lagoon on the West side of the north pit. Also on the north pit two Little Egret and a Garganey. Jubilee wetlands Green Sand, Common Sand, Ringed Plover and Bar-headed Goose (JH, ARD)

Uttoxeter Quarry
3x Greenshank, 5x Green Sandpiper, 4x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Pintail (AB)

Croxden
Adult YL Gull (AB)

Gailey Res
Whinchat on fence posts opposite Sailing club car park

Monday 19 August 2013

Middleton Lakes RSPB
Great White Egret again also Little Egret, Hobby, Spotted Flycatcher, (SB)

North Pit - Great White Egret briefly before flying to the private area, two Garganey and a Clouded Yellow Butterfly. Also 7x Dunlin, 3x Common Sandpiper, LRP, Hobby. (GWi) and Lesser Spotted Woodpecker seen (SBa)

Hanchurch Woods
80x Crossbill, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, Tree Pipit (NP). Also two Raven (SEd)

Crossbill at Hanchurch by Steve Edwards

Berryhill
3x Wheatear, 3x Redstart, Tree Pipit (RT)

Blithfield Res (permit only)
12x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Ruff, 7x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper (PB)

Sunday 18 August 2013

Uttoxeter Quarry
3x Greenshank, 7x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 3x Little Ringed Plover, Redshank, 2x Little Egret, 8x Teal, Goosander (AB)
Redstart (EF)

Aqualate
Fem Marsh Harrier, Garganey, 2x Spotted Flycatcher (IG)

Hales
Fem Marsh Harrier, also 15x Goosander, 40x Teal (RW)

Middleton Lakes RSPB
Great White Egret again also 6x Black-tailed Godwit (JD. KJD)

Branston GPs
7x Green Sandpiper, 2x Ruff, 13x Curlew, LR Plover, 7x Little Egret (RP)

Blithfield Res (permit only)
5x Ruff, 12x Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, 36 Common Tern, Goldeneye, Wigeon (RP)

Whitemoor Haye
Greenshank, 6x Common Tern inc 2 juvs (SC)

Saturday 17 August 2013

Tittesworth
2x Arctic Tern but no sign late morning also Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper (SG)

Blithfield Res (permit only)
Juv Marsh Harrier quartering the conifers along the education centre approach road this morning and appeared to drop into the trees but no further sign (GJM)
Osprey, juv Med Gull, 3x YL Gull, Greenshank, Ruff, 5x LR Plover, 11x Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin (JA)

Uttoxeter Quarry
Little Egret, 2x Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, fem Pintail, 6x juv Mandarin, 2x Egyptian Geese + goslings, 4x Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Common Tern, 2x Teal (RP)
18:30 - 20:50. 3x Greenshank flew in at 20:15, Black-tailed Godwit, 7x Green Sandpiper (5 flew in at 19:55) 7x Common Sandpiper, 8x Snipe, 4x Curlew, 20x Goosander (AB)

Middleton Lakes RSPB
Great white Egret again Newreedbed pool also juv Marsh Harrier

Friday 16 August 2013

Uttoxeter Quarry
5x Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, Little Egret, Goosander (EF)

Dimmingsdale
Crossbill and Spotted Flycatcher this morning (AB)

Blithfield Res (permit only)
5x Ruff still in Blithe Bay (RCB)

Branston GPs
2x Wood Sandpiper, 17x Green Sandpiper, 2x Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, 12x Curlew, 4x Snipe , Common Sandpiper, 17x Gadwall, 59x Teal, 31x Little Grebe, Little Egret, Mandarin (JW)

Denford - Endon
Hobby, Barnacle Goose, Kingfisher (AR)

Cannock Chase
30x Crossbill, Hobby, Spotted Flycatcher (MJ)

Middleton Lakes RSPB
Great White Egret again newreedbed pit

Thursday 15 August 2013

Three Shires Head
Honey Buzzard one over yesterday mid-afternoon.

Belvide Res (permit only)
3x Turnstone through west this afternoon.

Newcastle
Little Egret one over east to west at 17:30 (GM)

Wednesday 14th August 2013

Tittesworth Res
2x Green Sandpiper early morning also Greenshank and Kingfisher (PS)

Middleton Lakes RSPB
Great White Egret again this morning on Jubilee Wetlands.

Hanchurch Woods
60x Crossbill this morning - SJ839399.

Alton farmland
11x Spotted Flycatcher along a hedge (TE)

Blithfield Res (permit only)
Osprey one south over the causeway early afternoon.

Branston GPs
2x Wood Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, 13x Green Sandpiper, 8x Curlew, 5x Snipe, 5x Ringed Plover, 2x Ruff, 2x Little Egret, Hobby, 28x Little Grebe, 5x Gadwall (DS)

Tuesday 13th August 2013

Middleton Lakes
Great White Egret again this morning on new reedbed pool

Blithfield Res (permit only)
Whinchat on fence posts in fields by the dam wall also Spotted Flycatcher (SA)
4x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Ruff, 3x Ringed Plover, 3x Redshank, 4x Dunlin, Oystercatcher, 2x Wheatear, Hobby (RS)

Branston GPs
2x Wood Sandpiper, 2x Ruff, 8x Black-tailed Godwit, 17x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 3x Ringed Plover, LR Plover, 8x Snipe, 12x Curlew, 3x Little Egret, 4x Green Woodpecker (JW)
Long-winged Conehead, 5x Small Copper (JW)

Monday 12 August 2013

Hanchurch
70x Crossbill this morning (NP)

Middleton Lakes
Great White Egret on Jubilee Wetland and 2x Garganey on north pit this morning (GJM)

Blithfield Res (permit only)
19x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Ruff, 14x Ringed Plover, 2x Dunlin, Redshank, 2x Hobby, 2x juv Med Gull, adult Arctic Tern, c100 Common Tern (GJM MPR)

Whitemoor Haye
7x Common Tern, 6x Yellow Wagtail, 5x Shelduck juvs (SC)

Sunday 11th August 2013

Belvide Res (permit only)
4x Arctic Tern, 3x Ruff & Redstart
Also Quail still singing in wheat field at the west end

Middleton Lakes
Great White Egret again this morning
also 2x Little Egret, 2x Green Sandpiper, c20+ Gadwall, c8x Common Tern, 4x Shoveler, White Letter Hairstreak (JWo)

Great White Egret by Jon Woodcock

Endon Sewage Works
A Barnacle Goose with Canada Geese this morning

Hanchurch Woods
c40 Crossbill from lower car park (STu)

Saturday 10 August 2013

Tittesworth
Adult Med Gull this morning also Greenshank, Green Sandpiper (SG&IB)

Med Gull by Steve Gibson

Middleton Lakes RSPB
2x Garganey on North Pit mid morning.

Blithfield Res (permit only)
Blithe Bay - 2x Ruff, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper and a Peregrine over (DT)

Branston GPs
2x Wood Sandpiper, 2x Ruff, 7x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Redshank, LR Plover, Curlew, 7x Little Egret, 2x Yellow Wagtail , 2x Raven, 3x Green Woodpecker, Common Tern (AJ)

Amington Moors (near Tamworth)
2x Spotted Flycatcher in trees by River Anker near Moor Farm (SA&PM)

Hatherton Res
Common Sandpiper (SB)

Friday 9 August 2013

Middleton Lakes RSPB
Great White Egret again mid morning commuting between Jubilee and the reedbed pool (SW)
Also 3x Turnstone on Jubilee pools this afternoon

Whitemoor Haye
7x Common Tern (1 juv), 3x Common Sandpiper, 4x Shelduck juvs, Little Owl (SC)

Trent Washlands
2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Kingfisher, (AJ)

Croxall GP
7x Little Egret & 2x Greenshank (SWo)

Branston Gravel Pits

2x Wood Sandpiper, 2x Ruff, 16x Green Sandpiper, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 12x Curlew, 4x Snipe, 5x Little Egret, 4x Common Tern, 8x Shelduck, 24x Teal. 2x Long-winged Coneheads (JWo)

Blithfield Res (permit only)
2x Ruff, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 13x Dunlin, 6x LR Plover, 3x Ringed Plover, 3x Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, 5x Raven, Peregrine (RB)

Hanchurch Woods
c100 Crossbill this evening

Thursday 8 August 2013

Middleton Lakes RSPB
Great White Egret on Jubilee Wetlands this afternoon for about 15 minutes before flying off.

Cannock Chase
Woodcock, fem Wheatear, male Redstart, 2x Green Woodpecker (RW)

Wednesday 7 August 2013

Hanchurch Woods
2x Crossbill and 2x Spotted Flycatcher this morning (NP)

Belvide Res (permit only)
Quail still in wheat field by West Lane also Arctic Tern through.

Audley
2x Curlew over SW at 18:50 (JHu)

Tuesday 6 August 2013

Branston GPs
2x Wood Sandpiper, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, 12 Green Sandpiper, 12x Curlew, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Redshank, Snipe, 2x Oystercatcher, 3x LR Plover, 11x Little Egret, juv Med Gull on Sandy pit, 4x Shelduck, 4x Common Tern, 12x Shelduck (JW)
Fem/imm Redstart (DSc) - 3x Small Copper, 10x Common Blue (JW)

Wood Sandpiper by Jon Woodcock

Redstart by Jon Woodcock

Blithfield Res (permit only)
2x Greenshank Tad Bay, 5x Dunlin Blithe Bay (HMi)
2nd sum Caspian Gull, 13x LR Plover, 7 Dunlin, 2x Greenshank, 236x GC Grebe, 114x Common Tern 2x YL Gull, 12x Shelduck, 14x Goosander, 36x Teal, Pochard, (RCB)

North Staffs Moors
10x Stonechat (6 juvs) - Gradbach Area - 3x Crossbill, 2x Redstart, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, Tree Pipit, Wheatear, 8x Redpoll, 4x Red Grouse - Knotbury area - 2x Whinchat, 12x Wheatear (8 juvs), c170 Linnets, 5x Red Grouse - Roaches area - juv Cuckoo being fed by Meadow Pipit, 3x Redstart, Little Owl  (RT& NP)

Belvide Res
Quail still in wheat field by West Lane.

Rudyard Res
3x Oystercatcher (SFe)

Whitemoor Haye
11x Common Tern, 2x Common Sandpiper, LR Plover, 18x Shelduck (15 juvs) (SC)

Monday 5 August 2013

Belvide Res (permit only)
Knot still mid afternoon on the north shore.

Uttoxeter Quarry
Wheatear, Green Sandpiper, 6x Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, 14x Common Tern, 3x Teal (AB)

Croxden
Adult YL Gull still (AB)

Sunday 4th August 2013

Branston GP's
2x Wood Sandpiper (no sign after 8am), 10x Shelduck, 2x Oystercatcher, Snipe, 3x Redshank, 2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Dunlin, Ruff, Curlew, 3x Little Egret, Lesser Whitethroat & Sand Martin (JMo)

Uttoxeter Quarry
4x Green Sandpiper, 6x Common Sandpiper, 3x LR Plover, 2x Oystercatcher, 14x Common Tern (AB)

Blithfield Res (permit only)
5x YL Gull, Greenshank, 2x Green Sandpiper, 5x Common Sandpiper, c40 Common Tern, 11x Shelduck, Wheatear at Beech Tree point, Goosander, Barnacle Goose (JWo)

Wheatear by Jon Woodcock

Belvide Res (permit only)
Quail still singing in wheat field by West Lane also Knot still

Whitemoor Haye
4x Common Tern (2juvs), 18 Mute Swan, 5 juv Shelduck, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, Grey Partridge, 2x Raven over (SC)

Alrewas GPs
256x Tufted Duck, 22x GC Grebe (SC)

Saturday 3 August 2013

Blithfield Res (permit only)
2nd sum Caspian Gull, 5x YL Gull, 1st sum Little Gull, 6 LR Plover, Redshank, 2x Greenshank, Black-tailed Godwit (JA)

Branston pits
midday today: 1 Wood Sandpiper on sandypit, 6 LRP, 7 Green Sandpiper, 11 Curlew, 3 Dunlin, 3 Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 2 Ruff, 8 Shelduck, 2 Oystercatcher (DSc)

Belvide Res (permit only)
Quail still singing in wheat field by West Lane also the Knot still and Wood Warbler still by Gazebo hide.

Uttoxeter Quarry
Little Egret, Dunlin, 2x Common Sandpiper, 12x Common Tern, 3x Goosander (RP)
Early evening - 3x Green Sandpiper, 5x Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, LR Plover, Little Egret, 16x Goosander, 14x Common Tern, Egyptian Geese pair with 7 Goslings (AB)

Croxden
Juv Med Gull and adult YL Gull this morning (AB)

Knypersley Res
4x Crossbill over Lodge Barn Rd going north at 09:25 (GB)

Berryhill
First southbound Wheatear here this morning also 2x Redstart and a Hobby (RT)

Doxey Marsh
Hobby showed well this morning also Common Tern, single Wigeon and juv Sedge Warblers (RS)

Croxhall
3x Little Egret, Sedge Warbler, Whitethroat (JC)

Whitemoor Haye
205x Lapwing, 7x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 4x Shelduck juvs, 5x Common Tern (2 juvs), 5x Yellow Wagtail (3 juvs), 9x Tree Sparrow, 21x Mute Swan (SC)

Cannock Chase
60x Crossbill near the quarry this evening also 10x Linnet and 4x Green Woodpecker (RWi)

Branston GPs
Wood Sandpiper one still

Friday 2 August 2013

Branston GPs
2x Wood Sandpiper on Black Meadows scrape, also 2x Ruff, 10x Green Sandpiper, 3x Dunlin, 3x Common Sandpiper, 3x Redshank, 12x Curlew, 9x LR Plover, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Oystercatcher, 8x Little Egret, 10x Shelduck, 3x Common Tern (JW)
Four-spotted Chaser, Emperor Dragonfly, Small Copper, Wasp Longhorn (Strangalia maculata). (JW)

Wood Sandpiper by Jon Woodcock

Belvide Res (permit only)
Quail still singing in wheat field by West Lane also a Knot.

Berryhill
Juv Med Gull early morning with c85 BHGs on waste ground by the Ind estate also 2x Redstart, Hobby, Peregrine, c420 Goldfinch, c55 Linnet (RT)

Gailey Res
4x Common Tern (one juv), 4x drake Pochards, 5x Gadwall, 50x Grey Lag Geese, 24 GC Grebe, 2x Little Grebe, 2x Cormorant (IMo)

Whitemoor Haye
11x Common Tern (inc 3 juvs), 7x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 82x Lapwing, 4x Shelduck (SC&TP)

Thursday 1 August 2013

Belvide Res (permit only)
Quail still singing in wheat field by West Lane also Wood Warbler between ringing station and Gazebo hide.

Middleton Lakes RSPB
Fem/imm Marsh Harrier over Jubilee wetlands this afternoon also Little Egret (JH)

Blithfield Res (permit only)
Little Gull, 2x YL Gull, Greenshank, Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Dunlin, 11x LR Plover, 3x Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, c50 Common Tern, 3x Goosander, Kingfisher, 3x juv Shelduck. (SE. HF)
2nd sum Caspian Gull still this morning in Tad Bay (RCB)

Branston GPs
8x Little Egret, 6x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Snipe, 11x Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, c80 Lapwing, 2x Common Tern, Hobby, Water Rail, 4x Green Woodpecker (family). (AJ)

Cannock Chase
Hobby - Slow Worm, Common Lizard, 4 Bog Bush Crickets, Emperor Dragonfly, 4 Common Hawker, c20 Black Darter (Womere), numerous Common Darter, Brown Hawker, Southern Hawker, Emerald Damselfly, Tachina Grossa (JW)