Belvide Resv
1w fem Velvet Scoter, 1w drk Long-tailed Duck, 4x Scaup (two drks)
Blithfield Resv
8x Wheatear, 4x Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, 5x LRP (MCh, PBe).
Drayton Bassett Pits
Glossy Ibis still this morning on Jubilee Wetlands
Doxey Marshes
Common Sandpiper, LRP, 2x Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, Whitethroat, 3x Willow Warblers, 4x Sedge Warblers, 2x Reed Warblers, White Wagtail, Goosander (RSw).
This evening - 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x White Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Goosander, Little Egret, LRP (SPe)
Tittesworth Resv
Male Redstart plus Arctic Tern thru at 10:30hrs (SGib)
National Arboretum, Alrewas
Male Redstart, 1x Lesser Whitethroat (SCo)
Alrewas GP
1x fem Scaup, 8x Gadwall, Sedge Warbler, Whitethroat (SCo)
Branston GPs
14x Redshank, 2x Dunlin, Ruff, 2x Oystercatcher, 3x Curlew, 34x Shelduck, Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat (AJ)
Uttoxeter Quarry
14x White Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Gadwall, 2x Shoveler, 2x Green Sandpiper, Curlew, 2x Wheatear, Whitethroat (EF)
Croxall GP
1x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher (SCo)
Whitemoor Haye
6x Gadwall, 4x Redshank, Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, 1x LRP (SCo)
Hulme, Stoke-on-Trent
Whinchat still off track between Malthouse Lane and Salters Lane, also 9x Wheatear.
SJ 941458 (RT, NP, DW)
Silverdale CP
10x Fieldfare (JHu), 1x Wheatear, 2x Whitethroats (PJ)
Audley
2x Lesser Whitethroats (JHu)
Berryhill
8x Whitethroat, 8x Wheatear (NP RT)
Cannock Chase
Redstart, Garden Warbler, Tree Pipit, 5x Wheatear, Cuckoo (MPi)
2x Male Redstart, Cuckoo (CW GW)
Old River Dove
2x Yellow Wagtail, Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, 10x Sand Martin, 3x Goosander (AJ)
Trent Washlands
Garden Warbler (AJ)
Barlaston Downs
4x Blackcap, 1x House Martin, 8x Willow Warbler, 2x Raven (MJa)
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