Saturday 31st October 2015

Cannock Chase
Great Grey Shrike again this morning near broken birch. Park at Chase Corner (RCB)
also 2x Short-eared Owl at Sherbrook Valley this afternoon (JW, MPa)

Great Grey Shrike by Louie

Short-eared Owl by Jon Woodcock

Belvide Res
Female Garganey still

Stone
8x Goosander on the river (DEm)

Berryhill
Short-eared Owl over this afternoon also 3x Snipe, 2x Golden Plover, 2x Stonechat, 3x Brambling, 3x Siskin, 2x Redpoll (RT)

Caverswall
Barn Owl this evening (BBo)

Middleton Lakes RSPB
Merlin at North Pit this evening (TVB)

 i54
Water Rail, Green Sandpiper, 3x Grey Wagtail, 4x Meadow Pipit, Redpoll (MFo)

Friday 30th October 2015

Burntwood
Yellow-browed Warbler at 14.40, along Stables Way with junction of Mavor Avenue in area of scrub on opposite side of the road (JGH)

Blithfield Res
9x Golden Plover, 3x Dunlin, Little Egret Tad Bay, Peregrine, Blithe Bay (RCB)

Hixon Airfield
97x Golden Plover at 15:00 (RCB)

Chasewater
2x adult Yellow-legged Gull (RSo)

Branston Gravel Pits
9x Ruff, 13x Curlew, Dunlin, Redshank, 103x Lapwing, 5x Wigeon, 23x Gadwall, 36x Pochard, 16x Shoveler, c40 Little Grebe, 2x Kingfisher, Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, Chiffchaff, c250 Fieldfare, 150x Redwing & Small Tortoiseshell (JWo)

Doxey Marsh

38x Wigeon, 2x Little Grebe, Little Egret, 29x Snipe, 13x Fieldfare, 3x Lesser Redpoll, Willow Tit, Stonechat. (RJS)

 

Thursday 29th October 2015

Belvide Res
Female Garganey still present (BB)

Doxey Marshes
2x Shoveler, Water Rail, Grey Heron, 10x Snipe, Sparrowhawk, Cetti's Warbler & Lesser Redpoll (DSc)

Westport Lake
Male Goldeneye, 3x Cormorant, 9x Fieldfare, 33x Tufted Duck, 2x Goosander & Skylark over (SG, CJW)

Cannock Chase
c130 Brambling in the Katyn area also c30 Fieldfare at 15:45 (RCB)

Wednesday 28th October 2015

Cannock Chase
Merlin down from the white house car park this morning (SWo) - Ring Ouzel Sherbrook Valley (AB)

Doxey Marsh

Kingfisher, Peregrine, 2x Stonechat, 2x Raven, 14x Snipe. (RJS)

 

Tuesday 27th October 2015

Cannock Chase
Great Grey Shrike still Sherbrook Valley this morning (GJM)
also Red Kite over (JCh)

Dosthill NR
2x Bearded Tit this morning, then flew across river (GWi via TVB)

Uttoxeter Quarry
Common Sandpiper this afternoon at small reedbed pool (TJa)

Branston Gravel Pits
10x Ruff, 13x Curlew, 2x Water Rail, 42x Shoveler, 28x Gadwall, 7x Wigeon, 18x Pochard, 4x Common Gull, c800 Black-headed Gull, c30 Lesser Black-backed Gull & 2x Cetti's Warbler (JWo)

Dovedale
Red Kite over Bunster Hill at 12:30 (KBr)

Belvide Res
Female Garganey still on north shore

Doxey Marshes
49x Shoveler, 7x Wigeon, Sparrowhawk, 2x Stonechat & c35 Goldfinch (CTu)

Monday 26th October 2015

Middleton Lakes RSPB
2x Bearded Tit by river scree, then flew towards jubilee wetland (TVB)

Cannock Chase
Great Grey Shrike Sherbrook Valley this afternoon (IWh)

Chasewater
2x Jack Snipe, 79x Snipe, 2x Stonechat, 2x Chiffchaff (IWh)

I54
Water Rail, Kingfisher, 9x Teal, Reed Bunting & 4x Linnet (JDu)

Sunday 25th October 2015

Parkhall CP
Great Grey Shrike near old golf course this morning (CSi)

Blithfield Res
Water Pipit over Blithe Bay also 2x Brambling (MPR GJM)

River Sow Meadows

11x Redwing, 7x Skylark, 6x Golden Plover, Snipe, 3x Goosander, 2x Little Grebe & 2x Green Woodpecker. (RSw)
 

Milford Pool.

114x Wigeon, Little Grebe, 2x Raven & Kingfisher. (RSw)

Dimmingsdale
Brambling, 4x Mandarin, 6x Goldcrest, 25x Siskin, 60+Redwing, Tawny Owl (TEy)

Mandarins by Terry Eyre

i54
1x Water Rail top pools (MFo)

Saturday 24th October 2015

Belvide Res
Female Garganey still present, also 3x Pintail & immature Peregrine (BB)

Branston GP
c200 Teal, 4x Shoveler, 14x Curlew, 11x Ruff, 4x Snipe, Golden Plover, c70 Lapwing, Water Rail, 2x Cetti's Warbler & Grey Wagtail (DSc)

Middleton Lakes RSPB
Bittern flew across New Reedbed Pool at 16.15

Friday 23rd October 2015

Branston GPs
Firecrest near works on edge of national forest & canal, also 2x Stonechat, 9x Ruff, 13x Curlew, 18x Golden Plover, 2x Redshank, 34x Lapwing, 2x Water Rail, 30x Shoveler, 29x Gadwall, 5x Wigeon, c30 Pochard, 2x Little Egret, c40 Fieldfare, c60 Redwing, 14x Siskin, 4x Lesser Redpoll, c30 Skylark, c60 Goldfinch, c15 Goldcrest & Cetti's Warbler (JWo)

Blithfield Res
194x Golden Plover, 2x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, Wheatear, Stonechat (GJM)

Dimmingsdale
2x Brambling, 30x Redwing (TEy)

I54
2x Dunlin & 14x Teal (JDu)

Swallows Mire, Milford
127x Wigeon, female Goosander, 7x Cormorant, 2x Raven & 43x Coot (JWH)

Westport Lake
Common Gull, 3x Pochard & Raven over (ARa)

Thursday 22nd October 2015

Ford Green
c20 Siskin, Lesser Redpoll, Cormorant & 3x Little Grebe (JJo)

Blithfield Res
28x Golden Plover, 2x Dunlin, Curlew, Tad Bay also Greenshank on the causeway (RCB)

Branston GPs

2x Stonechat (pair near Ashy Pit), 9x Ruff, 2x Redshank, 4x Snipe, 14x Curlew, 125x Lapwing, 2x Water Rail, Cetti’s Warbler, 30x Gadwall, 5x Wigeon, 54x Pochard, 21x Shoveler. (JWo)

Belvide Res
Female Garganey still

 

Wednesday 21st October 2015

Belvide Res
Female Garganey still present

Stafford
1x Red Kite over today (MFo)

Tuesday 20th October 2015

Branston GP
Avocet on the Sandy Pit, 2x Redshank, 14x Curlew, 14x Lapwing, 2x Snipe, 2x Water Rail, Goldeneye, 21x Shoveler, 31x Gadwall, 55x Pochard, 2x Cetti’s Warbler, Fieldfare, Redwing, c15x Skylark, Grey Wagtail.

Avocet at Branston - 2nd latest ever record for Staffs

Belvide Resv
1x Sanderling briefly early afternoon (@BelvideBirder)


Bobbington
Green Sandpiper on the Mere this morning (DBa)

Monday 19th October 2015

Notice
North Staffs RSPB group are holding an indoor meeting this Wednesday 21st October at the Conference Centre/Medical Institute, Hartshill Road, Stoke-on-Trent. The speaker is Jeff Clarke and the talk is "A Night on the Tiles". Full details here


Berryhill
30x Pink-footed Geese over east, also 17x Brambling over & Barn Owl early morning (RT)

Ford Green/Chatterley Valley
1st winter Stonechat, 32x Pink-footed Geese over SE, Redwing & 3x Little Grebe (JJo)

Hoar Cross
2x Raven (DT)

Sunday 18th October 2015

Community Notice Board
Newcastle Natural History Society
Monday 19th October at 19.30, Barn Owls - Their plight & future by Alan Peace
Non members £3.00, Children 50p
Quaker Meeting House
2 Miller Street
Newcastle-under-Lyme
ST5 1QJ

Whitemoor Haye
Possible Great White Egret seen briefly (DAb)

Silverdale CP
6x Teal, 2x Stonechat, 3x Brambling, 5x Siskin, Redwing, Fieldfare, Green Woodpecker, 36x Lapwing & Snipe (PJ, NDP)

Caverswall
42x Pink-footed Geese over at 12.25 (BBo)

North Staffs Moors (Swallow Moss)
3x Red Grouse, Woodcock, c200 Fieldfare, c40 Goldfinch & 2x Lesser Redpoll (DSc)

Dimmingsdale
80x Redwing, 6x Goldcrest & 2x Buzzard (TEy)

Saturday 17th October 2015

Uttoxeter Quarry
5x Bearded Tit along River Tean by new workings at 12:15 to 12:32 when they flew off high west. Also 4x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 3x Snipe, 8x Wigeon, 37x Teal, Pochard, Shoveler, 2x Gadwall, 2x Siskin, Redpoll  (RPo)

Brookleys Lake
202x Mandarin, 80x Siskin (RPo)

I54
Jack Snipe, Little Grebe, 2x Siskin, Kingfisher (JDu)

Aston - Burston
Jack Snipe, 3x Green Sandpiper, 38x Snipe, 44x Redwing, 2x Raven, Grey Wagtail & Kingfisher (DCo)

Branston Gravel Pits
Pair of Stonechat on fenceline by Ashy pit, and Ruff at Water Park (DSc)

Whitemoor Haye
6x Pochard, 207x Tufted Duck, 7x Shoveler, Wigeon, 400x Lapwing, c30 Fieldfare, 6x Redwing, 30x Tree Sparrow & Grey Wagtail (SCo)

Ladderedge CP
Fieldfare, 10x Redwing, 11x Siskin, Cormorant, Willow Tit, Raven & Grey Wagtail (ARa)

Cheddleton
95x Redwing over also Brambling, 4x Redpoll, 3x Siskin (DSc)

Dimmingsdale
7x Fieldfare, 2x Redwing & 4x Goldcrest (TEy)

Friday 16th October 2015

Branston Gravel Pits
13x Curlew, 3x Water Rail, 28x Gadwall, 19x Shoveler, 20x Pochard, 2x Wigeon, Little Egret, 24x Little Grebe & 6x Goldcrest (JWo)

Dimmingsdale
25x Siskin, 2x Redpoll, 3x Redwing (TEy)

Berryhill
Barn Owl again at dusk (RT)

Thursday 15th October 2015

Blackbank
c1330 Redwing north, 68x Fieldfare by 09:15, 29x Pink-footed Geese east at 08:45, 3x Brambling south (NDP)

Silverdale CP
4x Stonechat in the Void area (NDP)

Gailey Res
Marsh Tit & 2x Water Rail (SRi)

Ingestre
71x Redwing this morning also 2x Grey Wagtail and Green Sandpiper on the Trent (RCB)

Audley - SJ793495 (accessed from path west from Wereton Road just south of Audley)
60x Redwing, 17x Skylark, 8x Yellowhammer, 20x Tree Sparrow, Peregrine, Grey Wagtail (PAD)

North Staffs Moors
9x Snipe, 6x Red Grouse (TEy)

Wednesday 14th October 2015

Belvide Res
Female Garganey still along the north shore

Tuesday 13th October 2015

Blithfield Res
Rock Pipit at the causeway also juv and adult Whooper Swan at Newton Manor farm then flew to Blithe Bay (GJM) - Rock Pipit still on causeway at 16:25 also 23x Golden Plover, Dunlin, Curlew, Peregrine Tad Bay also Wheatear Admaston Reach (RCB)

Berryhill
Ring Ouzel in hawthorns at top end of the Palletstacks also 2x Wheatear, 4x Stonechat still (RT)

Branston Gravel Pits
13x Curlew, 17x Gadwall, 18x Pochard, 15x Shoveler, 39x Little Grebe, 7x Skylark, Grey Wagtail & 5x Siskin (JWo)

Bateswood NR
Green Woodpecker, 30x Redwing, Grey Wagtail, 8x Skylark, Lesser Redpolls, Siskins (PAD)

Cannock Chase (Cadet Huts / Sherbrook Valley)
2x Crossbill, 7x Siskin, 2x Fieldfare, 35x Redwing, 12x Jay, Raven (GWR)

Belvide Res
Female Garganey still on the north shore

Monday 12th October 2015

Belvide Resv
Fem Garganey still present plus female Scaup (@BelvideBirder)

i54/Staffs Canal
1x Teal, 1x Grey Wagtail, 1x Blackcap (IPh)

Sunday 11th October 2015

Middleton Lakes
3x Spoonbill still present this morning until 08:20 when they flew off, eventually arriving at Conwy on North Wales coast. One of the juveniles was colour ringed in Holland this year  (JMo)

Silverdale CP
Grasshopper Warbler this morning (STu)

Belvide Res
Hobby & juvenile Common Tern (BB)

Blithfield Res
24x Golden Plover, 3x Dunlin, Ruff, Curlew, 2x Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Stonechat, Osprey & Peregrine (BAS, AMS)

Doxey Marshes
9x Wigeon, Gadwall, Curlew, 3x Kingfisher, 21x Skylark, 3x Stonechat, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 16x Lesser Redpoll & 11x Siskin (RJS)

Branston GP
c40x Little Grebe, Little Egret, 27x Shoveler, 17x Gadwall, 37x Pochard, 11x Ruff, 11x Curlew, 6x Golden Plover, 6x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 2nd yr Yellow-legged Gull, Water Rail, 3x Swallow, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Chiffchaff, 6x Redpoll, 2x Yellowhammer, 2x Migrant Hawker, 3x Hornet (DSc)

Saturday 10th October 2015

Middleton Lakes RSPB
3x Spoonbill on Jubilee Wetlands late afternoon

Belvide Res
2x Rock Pipit on shingle Island and the female Garganey still

Rock Pipit by Steve Nuttall

Blackbank
385x Pink-footed Geese over NW in three skeins this morning also 4x Fieldfare and 39x Redwing over south (NDP)

Berryhill
335x Pink-footed Geese over west in 6 skeins between 08:40 and 09:43 (RT)

Westport Lake
200x Pink-footed Geese over WNW at 09:40

Radford Meadows

Stonechat, 4x Fieldfare, 2x Chiffchaff, 10x Meadow Pipit, 115x Lapwing, Snipe, Raven & 45x Teal (RS)

Ipstones
140x Pink-footed Geese over NW at 11:45 (TEy)

 

Friday 9th October 2015

Whitemoor Haye
12x Pink-footed Geese over, 5x Little Egret, Goldeneye, Shoveler, Wigeon, 10x Pochard, 10x Tree Sparrow, 5x Yellowhammer, Goldcrest (SC)

Blackbank
Brambling over this morning (NDP)

Belvide Res
Female Garganey still in southeast bay

Blithfield Res
Osprey, Ruff, Curlew, Dunlin, 19x Golden Plover, Stonechat. No sign of the Common Crane since 7th Oct (RCB)

Thursday 8th October 2015

Blackbank (visible migration)
Selected species - Fieldfare, 113x Redwing, 1003x Meadow Pipit, 31x Siskin, 4x Lesser Redpoll (NDP)

Rough Close Common
50x Pink-footed Geese over SW also Green Woodpecker (AR)

Branston GP
1x Stonechat, 6x Shoveler, 11x Curlew, 6x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Water Rail, Chiffchaff, Cetti's Warbler (DSc)

Berryhill
2x Fieldfare, 92x Redwing, 39x Cormorant over, 20x Pink-footed Geese over west, 5x Stonechat, 5x Lesser Redpoll, Peregrine (RT)

Wednesday 7th October 2015

Middleton Lakes RSPB
Great White Egret again Jubilee Wetlands

Blithfield Res
Red-breasted Merganser reported Tad Bay this morning (BR)

Doxey Marsh

43x Shoveler, 34x Snipe, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Blackcap, 6x Lesser Redpoll, 3x Raven (RS)

Astonfields
3x Redwing at the balancing resv (RS)

Belvide Res
Female Garganey still

Branston GP
Curlew, Snipe, 15x Shoveler, 5x Gadwall, 10x Pochard, Little Egret, 30x Little Grebe, c15x Skylark (JW)

Tuesday 6th October 2015

Belvide Res
Female Garganey still, 2x Pintail, 2x Redshank, Ringed Plover (BB)

Monday 5th October 2015

Belvide Res
Female Garganey still present today

Branston Gravel Pits
14x Tree Sparrow, Cetti's Warbler, Kingfisher, Little Egret, 6x Gadwall, 23x Shoveler, 17x Pochard, 5x Snipe, 53x Lapwing & 34x Little Grebe (JWo)

Brewood
5x Siskin, 2x Green Woodpecker, Bullfinch & c20 Tree Sparrow (JDu)

Sunday 4th October 2015

Middleton Lakes
1x Great White Egret flew in 0920hrs from Tameside NR (@TameBirding). Spotted Flycatcher from canal bridge

Penkridge
Flock of Ring-necked Parakeet near Penkridge with 3 birds calling and flying high over River Penk heading east (photo below) (SSp)

Doxey Marshes
3x Cetti's Warbler & 15x Wigeon (RSt)

Ford Green
8x Pink-footed Geese flying SW, also Barn Owl & Green Woodpecker (JJo)

Hale
2x Gadwall, 3x Wigeon, Ruddy Shelduck & 2x Raven (RWh)

Saturday 3rd October 2015

Notice - Work party tomorrow at Belvide. Meet at 0930hrs

Tameside NR
1x Great White Egret today (@TameBirding)

Berryhill
41x Pink-footed Geese over SW at 10:26 also 5x Stonechat uphill from Tiddlers Pool (RT NDP). The Pink-footed Geese were also seen over Longton and Blurton.

Doxey Marshes
Cetti's Warbler by Cresswell Flash and Warren Lane Flash, Little Egret by Octagon hide (DEm)

Belvide Res
Female Garganey still present

Friday 2nd October 2015

Blithfield Res
Common Crane, Osprey, 2x Greenshank, 8x Golden Plover, Curlew, 4x Ringed Plover, 4x Goosander, Shoveler, 2x Peregrine (ad + juv) Raven (RB) - Juv Common Tern, Wheatear, Stonechat, Willow Warbler (GJM)

Doxey Marsh
2x Golden Plover this morning (NG)

Belvide Res
Garganey still in the south east bay

Branston GPs

18x Golden Plover, 12x Ruff, 256x Lapwing, 21x Shoveler, 18x Pochard, 36x Little Grebe, Little Egret, Water Rail, Cetti’s Warbler. (JW)

Wetley Moor
Stonechat, 8x Chiffchaff, Raven (RB)

Berryhill
31x Pink-footed Geese over NW, 4x Crossbill over and 2x Stonechat (RT)

Silverdale CP
2x Stonechat, 2x Green Woodpecker & Jay (GSa)

Thursday 1st October 2015

Preston Vale (near Penkridge)
Great White Egret flushed at 12:30 and flew ENE (RA)

Middleton Lakes RSPB
Great White Egret still Jubilee Wetlands, also Rock Pipit this afternoon

Audley
8x Snipe, Siskins, Lesser Redpolls, Yellowhamers, 3x Chiffchaff (PAD)

Doxey Marsh
Cetti's Warbler, 2x Stonechat, Little Egret, 17x Snipe, 5x Lesser Redpoll, 2x Siskin (RJS)

Blithfield Res
Juvenile Common Tern (GJM)

Bateswood NR
Green Woodpecker, Kingfisher (PAD)