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Sunday, 30 September 2018

Sunday 30th September 2018

Rudyard Lake
Pintail, Goosander, 6x Snipe, 38x Teal, Blue morph Snow Goose (RPo)

Middleton Lakes
3x Great White Egret - 2 on North pit and one on JW, Hobby over, 2x Goosander, (SAt, AH)

Dimmingsdale
9x Mandarin, 10x Siskin, 2x Little Grebe (TEy)

Tucklesholme
Great White Egret still, Peregrine, Green Sandpiper, 2x Stonechat (Kay)

Branston GPs
Little Egret, Egyptian Goose, 6x Pintail, 6x Wigeon, 75x Shoveler,  40x Gadwall, 2x Peregrine, 4x Ruff, 3x Green Sandpiper, 4x Snipe, 8x Curlew, juv Med.Gull, 4x Common Gull, 2x Yellow legged Gull, 30x GBB Gull, Common Tern, Wheatear. (DSc)


Saturday, 29 September 2018

Saturday 29th September 2018

Gailey Resv
Cetti's Warbler still, also Stonechat by Abbey Foods complex (SRi)

Radford Meadows
Great White Egret, also Red Kite over east at 09:45 (RSw)

Blackbank
5x Great White Egret over west 08:15-08:20, (NDP)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Great White Egret Blithe Bay (GJM)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Red Kite over at 11:00, Arctic Tern, Goldeneye, 45x Wigeon, Redwing

Werrington
Red Kite over at 13:30 (DBl)

Knypersley Resv
3x Pintail, 3x Goosander, Willow Tit (GBr)

Middleton Lakes
2x Great White Egret in riverside roost, 3x Dunlin, 3x Hobby, 4x Pintail, 11x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 7x Egyptian Geese, Stonechat (Mercian Birding)

Branston GPs
Garganey still ashy pit 16:00, 5x L.ittle Egret, 66x Shoveler, 30x Wigeon, 6x Pintail, 40x Gadwall, 54x Pochard, 3x Water Rail, Peregrine, 11x Curlew, 4x Green Sandpiper, 4x Ruff, 3x Snipe, Common Tern, c60 Linnets, (DSc)

Tucklesholme
Great White Egret, Green Sandpiper, 3x Goosander, 2x Stonechat (DSc)

Chasewater
Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper

Friday, 28 September 2018

Friday 28th September 2018

Berryhill Botteslow Flash
c80 Pink-footed Geese over west at 09:45 (RTo)

Middleton Lakes
15x Golden Plover, Great White Egret on JW south (Mercian Birding)  -  also Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 2x Pintail, 4x Egyptian Geese on JW, Goosander on the river (SAt)

Newcastle
c60 Pink-footed Geese SE over Westlands at 10:25 (CSt)

Keele
c120-150 Pink-footed Geese over NW at 10:59, 2nd group of c100 over NW at 11:15 (JBr)

Branston GPs
Garganey, 3x Ruff, 2x Green Sandpiper, 11x Curlew, 250x Lapwing, 3x Snipe, 6x Pintail, 59x Pochard, 79x Shoveler, 52x Gadwall, 150x Teal, 12x Wigeon, 98x Little Grebe, 6x Water Rail, Common Tern, 6x Little Egret, 9x GBB Gull, (JWo, DSc)

Garganey by Jon Woodcock

Hanchurch Woods
11x Crossbill, 6x Fieldfare (JMa)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
3x Greenshank, 4x Curlew, 10x Ringed Plover, 5x Dunlin, Ruff, Snipe, Little Egret, YL Gull, Wheatear (RCB)

Thursday, 27 September 2018

Thursday 27th September 2018

Croxall
Cetti'sWarbler main path (GSt)

Wednesday, 26 September 2018

Wednesday 26th September 2018

Doxey Marsh
Water Pipit, 2x Whinchat, Great White Egret, 2x Little Egret, Hobby (GPr)  -  Also 4x Stonechat, 2x Cetti's Warbler (MBo)

Cannock Chase
3x Fieldfare near Tackaroo car park this morning (DNe)

Barton North Pit
6x Little Egret (JWo) 

Tucklesholme
2x Stonechat, YL Gull, Cetti's Warbler, 30+ Hornet. (JWo)

YL Gull by Jon Woodcock


Branston Leas - along the River
Greenshank, 3x Green Sandpiper, Kingfisher, Little Grebe, Cetti's Warbler. (JWo)

Middleton Lakes
Great White Egret still on North Pit (AndyR)

Branston GPs
2x Ruff, 5x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, 5x Little Egret, 4x Pintail, 65x Shoveler, 15x Wigeon, 40x GBB Gull, Common Gull, Common Tern, (DSc)


Tuesday, 25 September 2018

Tuesday 25th September 2018

Cuckoo Bank
Whinchat, Wheatear, Stonechat (GHa)

Middleton Lakes
Great White Egret, Ringed Plover, Pintail

Gailey Resv
Cetti's Warbler still, 1w Med Gull, 9x Shoveler, 8x Gadwall (SRi)

Branston GPs
3x Ruff, 10x Curlew, 2x Green Sandpiper, 5x Snipe, 133x Lapwing, 5x Little Egret, 6x Pintail, 45x Pochard, 12x Wigeon, 78x Shoveler, 134x Teal, 4x Shelduck, 39x Gadwall, 130x Little Grebe, Common Tern, GBB Gull, YL Gull, 3x Stonechat, c80x Linnet, 1x Peregrine. (JWo)

By Jon Woodcock

Silverdale CP
60x Lapwing (PCa)

Whittington Farm
120x Meadow Pipit over SW, 300x Swallow roosting in maize, Peregrine (JLi)

Monday, 24 September 2018

Monday 24th September 2018

Uttoxeter
Ring necked Parakeet off Demontfort Way early morning (DDa)

Middleton Lakes

Great White Egret still (PFo)

Chasewater
Grey Phalarope still in centre of lake

Doxey Marsh
4x Whinchat, 2x Stonechat (GPr)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
4x Pink-footed Geese on north shore, Whinchat, Wheatear, Stonechat, Goldeneye

Barton under Needwood
Gannet reported flying over north at 17:20 (MCa per JWo)

Whittington Farm
4x Stonechat, Little Owl, 110x Meadow Pipit over SW, (JLi)

Sunday, 23 September 2018

Sunday 23rd September 2018

Black Bank
123x Pink-footed Geese over in 4 skeins from 08:20, 342x House Martin over south (NDP)

Chasewater
Grey Phalarope still off the dam

Berryhill
65x Pink-footed Geese over - 28 at 08:40 (RTo) and 37 at 08:43 (IBu)  -  Spotted Flycatcher (IBu)

Newcastle
32x Pink-footed Geese over at 08:50 (STu)

i54
Merlin (MFo)

Cheddleton
Osprey over SW at 10:28 (DSc)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Merlin, Common Tern, Wheatear

Gailey Resv
Cetti's Warbler still, Hobby, Common Tern (SRi)

Branston GPs
Black-necked Grebe on Ashy Pit, 95x Little Grebe, 8x Pintail, 63x Shoveler, 2x Greenshank, 2x Ruff, Green Sandpiper, 3x Ringed Plover (DSc)

Alrewas Arboretum
Greenshank flew  over north, Green Sandpiper, 2x Goosander, Kingfisher (JWo)

Tittesworth Water
Wheatear (JOa)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Hobby (JPe)

Saturday, 22 September 2018

Saturday 22nd September 2018

Middleton Lakes
Great White Egret on North Pit, 4x Green Sandpiper, Ringed Plover east scrape, Tawny Owl Dosthill NR (SAt)

Chasewater
Grey Phalarope to this evening at least, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, Common Tern  -  2x Common Tern and a Arctic Tern roosted on island this evening


By Jon Woodcock

Tittesworth Water
2x Arctic Tern (per JOa, etal )

Gailey Resv
2x Stonechat on wires by entrance to Abbey Foods, Hobby, juv Common Tern (SEi)

Cannock Tip
4x Whinchat, 2x Stonechat

Radford Meadows
Green Sandpiper, Hobby, Wigeon, 43x Teal, 7x Shoveler (RSw)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Great White Egret, Turnstone, 5x Little Egret, 15x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, Black Tern, Arctic Tern, Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, YL Gull, (RCB)  -  Also Merlin Tad Bay (TJa)  -  Hobby late afternoon,(JAl)

Cuckoo Bank
5x Whinchat, Wheatear  -  also Whinchat No Man's Bank

Branston GPs
8x L.Egret, 6x Pintail, 14x Wigeon, 24x Gadwall, 58x Shoveler, 11x Curlew, 8x Ringed Plover, 2x Dunlin, 2x Ruff, 2x Greenshank, 5x Snipe, 15x GBBGull, Y.Leg Gull, Common Tern (DSc)

Berryhill
2284x Meadow Pipits over south up to 11:00 also a Wheatear present (RTo)

Blackbank
1480x Meadow Pipits over south (NDP)

Friday, 21 September 2018

Friday 21st September 2018

Middleton Lakes
5x Pintail, Greenshank, Dunlin, Ringed Plover, Great White Egret (Mercian Birding)

Blithfield Resv  (WMBC members only)
Garganey Tad Bay (GJM)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Juv Arctic Tern from 11:35

Branston GPs
Osprey over south at 14:42 (JWo)

Penkridge STW
9x Yellow Wagtail, 100+ Pied Wagtail (Hoppy)

Branston GPs
Osprey, Hobby, Greenshank, 4x Ruff, 7x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 6x Little Egret, 3x PIntail, 18x Gadwall, 51x Shoveler, 15x Wigeon, 22x Pochard, 86x Teal, 98x Little Grebe, 3x GBBG, Whinchat, c100x House Martin. (JWo)

Doxey Marsh
Whinchat and a Pochard (RRa)

Thursday, 20 September 2018

Thursday 20th September 2018

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Ringed-necked Parakeet briefly at 09:15

Middleton Lakes
Cattle Egret briefly on JW before flying off SW also  3x Ruff, 2x Dunlin, 2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Ringed Plover, 2x LR Plover, Pintail, Lesser Whitethroat, North Pit, Great White Egret, Green Sandpiper, Dosthill NR Peregrine (SAt)

Branston GPs
Turnstone still, 6x Ringed Plover, Greenshank, Ruff, 3x Little Egret, 2x Yellow Wagtail (DSc)

Wednesday, 19 September 2018

Wednesday 19th September 2018

Gailey Resv
Ist win Med Gull on sailing lake also  Hobby (IBut)

Whitemoor Haye
3x Grey Partridge, 27x Stock Dove (PFo)

Cannock
Wryneck Poplars Landfill this afternoon  (CCl)

Alrewas Arboretum
5x Goosander, Little Egret along the river, Little Egret on Junction Pit (JWo)

Alrewas GPs
2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Pochard (JWo)

Tuesday, 18 September 2018

Tuesday 18th September 2018

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Juv Arctic Tern this afternoon

Branston GPs
Turnstone, 4x Greenshank, 2x Ruff, 3x Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 11x Curlew, 15x Snipe, 12x Pintail, 29x Pochard, 23x Wigeon, 52x Shoveler, Shelduck, 50x Gadwall, 122x Teal, 13x Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, 87x Little Grebe, GBB Gull,  Hobby, (JWo)

Greenshanks by Jon Woodcock

Middleton Lakes
2x Ruff, 10x Ringed Plover, 5x Dunlin, LR Plover (RSPB)


Monday, 17 September 2018

Monday 17th September 2018

Bobbington
3x Wheatear - Leaton Lane (DBa)

Uttoxeter Quarry
2x Hobby, Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper (NDP)

Whittington Farm  -  Whittigton Hall Lane
3x Wheatear, 2x Little Owl, Peregrine (CLi)

Sunday, 16 September 2018

Sunday 16th September 2018

Knypersley Resv
Black Tern still on main lake (GBr)

Whitemoor Haye
c100 Greenfinch around entrance to quarry, Great White Egret, Hobby, 13x Siskin, 8x Little Egret, Goldeneye, 3x Egyptian Geese,  (alrewas birder)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
2x Black Tern at deep end (MPR, GJM)

Gailey Resv
2x Common Tern, Common Sandpiper (SRi)

Berryhill
Wheatear, Whinchat (RTo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Merlin, 7x Little Egret

Branston GPs
11x Pintail, Ruff, Turnstone, Greenshank, Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper (DSc)

Saturday, 15 September 2018

Saturday 15th September 2018

Middleton Lakes
Great White Egret, 3x Ruff, 2x LR Plover, Green Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, Peregrine, on JW, 2x Egyptian Geese Dosthill NR  (SAt)  -  Also 2x Hobby, 3x Ringed Plover (JJH)

Knypersley Resv
Juv Black Tern also a Hobby (GBr)


Black Tern by Steve Seal

Gailey Resv 
Black-necked Grebe on sailing lake, Cetti's Warbler on side of sailing lake, 3x Common Tern, (SRi)

Westport Lake
Whinchat on sewage works (CWa)

Uttoxeter Quarry
Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 3x Snipe, Little Egret, 18x Goosander, 2x Willow Tit (RPo)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
4x Spotted Flycatcher, 9x Curlew, 6x Ringed Plover, Curlew, 2x Common Tern (DOu, LOu)

Branston GPs
Turnstone, 9x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, 10x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 6x Pintail, 14x Wigeon, 48x Shoveler, Common Tern, Yellow Wagtail, 3x Whinchat. (DSc)



Friday, 14 September 2018

Friday 14th September 2018

Middleton Lakes
3x Ruff, 2x Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, 6x Snipe, 3x Pintail, 2x Egyptian Geese, Peregrine (ABl)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Red Kite to 13:15 to 13:20

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Great White Egret, 8x Greenshank, 2x Ruff, 2x LR Plover, 4x Little Egret, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Egyptian Geese (CVa)

Branston GPs
Turnstone, Greenshank, 17x Curlew, 4x Ringed Plover, 4x Common Sandpiper, 6x Snipe, 11x Pintail, 12x Pochard, 12x Wigeon, 40x Shoveler, 60x Gadwall, 132x Teal, 86x Little Grebe, 2x Water Rail, 2x Common Tern, 10x Little Egret, Hobby, 2x Whinchat, (JWo)


Thursday, 13 September 2018

Thursday 13th September 2018

Essington Quarry Pool
Whinchat and a Wheatear (JJO)  - Also 2x Yellowhammer (DBa)

Middleton Lakes
Cattle Egret from east screen (ABl)  -  Flew south from JW at 14:33 (SAt) - 3x Green Sandpiper, Ruff, 2x LR Plover, 2x Ringed Plover, 5x Snipe, 2x Egyptian Geese, Hobby, on JW and a Peregrine Dosthill NR (SAt)

Doxey Marsh
Great White Egret, Little Egret, Jack Snipe, 6x Snipe, Ringed Plover, (GPr, MBo, RRa)

Branston GPs
 Green Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Greenshank, Ruff, LR Plover, Pintail, Little Egret (CMa, DGl,)

Wednesday, 12 September 2018

Wednesday 12th September 2018

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only
Spotted Redshank still, 3x Greenshank, 2x Ruff, 2x Curlew, Great White Egret, 5x Little Egret, 2x Whinchat, Wheatear, 3x Yellow Wagtail, Hobby, (RBe)

Middleton Lakes
Great White Egret, 4x Little Egret, 4x Ruff (2ad, 2juv), Dunlin, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 5x Snipe, 230x Lapwing, 3x Pintail, 65x Wigeon, 4x Egyptian Geese, 5x Cetti's Warbler, Hobby, Kingfisher. (JWo)

Ruff by Jon Woodcock

River Sow Meadows
Hobby, 2x Snipe (Abar)

Tuesday, 11 September 2018

Tuesday 11th September 2018

Alvecote
2x Whinchat, 5x Little Egret (MSc)

Doxey Marsh
Great White Egret still (PDe, JTa)

Elkstones
Spotted Flycatcher, Redstart (DGH)

Branston GPs
2x Greenshank, 9x Ringed Plover, 2x Dunlin, 2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 7x Snipe, Curlew, 7x Pintail, 32x Wigeon, 22x Pochard, 33x Shoveler, 100x Teal, 64x Gadwall, 14x Little Egret, 82x Little Grebe, 2x Common Tern, YL Gull, GBB Gull, 2x Whinchat, Hobby, Peregrine, c150 Meadow Pipit (JWo)

Greenshank by Jon Woodcock

Monday, 10 September 2018

Monday 10th September 2018

Gailey Resv
1w Med Gull on sailing lake, Ruddy Shelduck, Common Sandpiper (SRi)

Middleton Lakes
3x Ruff, Redshank, Green Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, 8x Wigeon, 2x Hobby, (MSc)  -  Also Greenshank, 2x LR Plover, 

Doxey Marsh
Great White Egret still

Berryhill
3x Whinchat still, Spotted Flycatcher (CSi)

Sunday, 9 September 2018

Sunday 9th September 2018

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Juv Pectoral Sandpiper dropped on north shore at 08:20 and showed on and off to 11:07 when it flew off north

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Spotted Redshank and Osprey still in Tad Bay (RPo)

Aqualate
Black-necked Grebe still (IGr)

Berryhill
6x Whinchat and a Spotted Flycatcher (RT)

Branston GPs
Spotted Redshank still on Ashy Pit, 6x Ringed Plover, 2x Dunlin, 5x Pintail (TPe)  -  Also  Whimbrel dropped in at 19:34, 11x Curlew, 7x Snipe, 7x Pintail, 48x Gadwall, 45x Shoveler, 28x Wigeon, 22x Yellow Wagtail flew off south, Hobby thru, Tawny Owl (DSc)

Doxey Marsh
Spotted Crake on Doxey Flash (PDy, DTo)  also Great White Egret, Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 2x Pintail, 2x Little Egret, 2x Hobby Mandarin (MBo, et al.) Peregrine, Common Sandpiper (GPr)

Middleton Lakes
Curlew Sandpiper on west scrape (MPo)  -  Cattle Egret east scrape before flying south (Mercian Birding)

Alrewas Arboretum
2x Little Egret, 2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Yellow Wagtail on Junction Pit (JWo)

Saturday, 8 September 2018

Saturday 8th September 2018

                Well done to all those that took part in the rain in the 'All Dayer'  
                                      especially those at sites without hides.

Branston GPs  -  All Dayer 92 species
Whimbrel thru south, Spotted Redshank, 7x Ringed Plover, 2x Dunlin, Greenshank, Black-tailed Godwit, Swift, Hobby, Common Tern, Mandarin, (DSc)

Whitemoor Haye  -  All Dayer 66 species
Great White Egret, Goldeneye, 150+ Cormorant flying upstream of R Tame, YL Gull, Hobby, Peregrine, Green Sandpiper, (alrewas birder) - Merlin (TPe)

Ford Green 
Pintail still (JHu)

Chasewater  -  All Dayer 79 species
2x Curlew Sandpiper (JAl)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)  - All Dayer 90 species
3x Knot briefly on north shore at 14:55

Middleton Lakes  - All Dayer 91 species  (Staffs/Warks)
3x Ruff, 3x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, LR Plover, Ringed Plover, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Pintail, Hobby, Barn Owl,  (Mercian Birding)

Alvecote
Spotted Flycatcher, 4x Little Egret (MSc)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Spotted Redshank, 2x Great White Egret, 18x Little Egret, 3x Greenshank, 2x Ruff, 6x Curlew, 10x Dunlin, 20x Ringed Plover, Snipe, Whinchat, 20x Yellow Wagtail, 16x Wigeon (RCB)

Friday, 7 September 2018

Friday 7th September 2018

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Spotted Redshank still, 2x Great White Egret, 6x Whinchat (HF,SE, ABl)  -  Little Gull in Blithe Bay (RCB)

Ford Green NR
Pintail still (GAl)

Uttoxeter Quarry
4x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 8x Curlew, 11x Goosander, Mandarin, 143x Teal, Peregrine (ABa)

Doxey Marsh
Barn Owl, 2x Green Sandpiper, Great White Egret, 2x Little Egret (MPe)  -  fem Merlin, 2x Hobby, Peregrine, 2x Spotted Flycatcher (MBo)

Branston GPs
Spotted Redshank, 7x Ringed Plover, 2x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 11x Snipe, 17x Little Egret, 9x Pintail, 20x Pochard, 32x Gadwall, 24x Wigeon, 36x Shoveler, 130x Teal, 83x Little Grebe, 2x Common Tern, 3x YL Gull, Whinchat, 4x Yellow Wagtail (JWo)

Thursday, 6 September 2018

Thursday 6th September 2018

Doxey Marsh
Great White Egret still, 3x Pintail, (RRa)

Middleton Lakes
Great White Egret, Ruff, Ringed Plover on JW,  Pintail, on Canal scrape 6x Snipe, LR Plover on West scrape, 4x Egyptian Geese,  (SAt)

Bobbington
2x Green Sandpiper still, DBa)

Ford Green NR
Pintail (JJo)

Alvecote
10x Little Grebe (MSc)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Spotted Redshank still, 10x Dunlin, 12x Ringed Plover, Ruff, Common Sandpiper, Osprey, Whinchat, Wheatear, 13x Yellow Wagtail (CVa)

Burston
Barn Owl, Dunlin, 7x Snipe, Yellow Wagtail (DCo)

Branston GPs
Spotted Redshank still, 3x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 4x Ringed Plover, 12x Snipe, Curlew, 9x Pintail, 20x Wigeon, 19x Pochard, 62x Gadwall, 26x Shoveler, 180x Teal, 79x Little Grebe, 18x Little Egret, Whinchat, 6x Yellow Wagtail, Common Tern (JWo)  -  Also Greenshank, Dunlin (DSc)

Pintail by Jon Woodcock

Doxey Marsh
Pectoral Sandpiper on Creswell Flash before being flushed by a GWE, later seen once from the main hide (MBo)

Wednesday, 5 September 2018

Wednesday 5th September 2018

Essington Quarry Pool
2x Wheatear, Redstart (JJO)

Berryhill
3x Whinchat, 3x Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Wheatear, 2x Willow Tit,  (RT, DW)

Westport Lake
Eclipse drake Pintail (CWa)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
2x juv Black Tern, Little Egret, (CVa)

Uttoxeter Quarry
Little Egret, 7x Curlew, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 12x Goosander, 68x Teal (RPo)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
 Spotted Redshank, Great White Egret, Osprey, Turnstone, 30x Ringed Plover, 12x Greenshank, 4x Ruff, 6x Curlew, 20x Snipe, 6x Dunlin, Pintail, 18x Wigeon, 8x Wheatear, 2x Whinchat, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, (ABl, RPo) - Whinchat, Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail dam end (SB)

Gunstone
Yellow Wagtail (CVa)

Ford Green
2x Spotted Flycatcher, 3x Wigeon, 2x Shoveler, 7x Teal (JJo)

Dimmingsdale
25x Siskin (TEy)

Doxey Marsh
Great White Egret still (RRa, HGi)

Middleton Lakes
3x Whinchat, 3x Ruff, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, LR Plover, Ringed Plover, 2x Egyptian Geese (Mercian Birding)  -  2x Spotted Redshank on JW (MPa via Facebook)

Essington Hall Farm
7x Spotted Flycatcher, 6x Wheatear, Redstart, (DBa)

Dimmingsdale
Whinchat near Spring Cottage (ABa)

Tuesday, 4 September 2018

Tuesday 4th September 2018

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Spotted Redshank still (RWa)  -  also over 50x Yellow Wagtail (GJM)  -  2x Great White Egret, 9x Little Egret, 8x Ruff, 7x Greenshank, 4x Dunlin, 12x Ringed Plover, 20x Snipe, Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, Spotted Flycatcher (DBa)   -  Osprey, Turnstone, 10x Dunlin, Caspian Gull, 28x Ringed Plover, 2x YL Gull (RCB)

Berryhill
2x Whinchat, Wheatear, 2x Tree Pipit, Redstart, Spotted Flycatcher, Hobby, Lesser Whitethroat (RT)

Doxey Marsh
Great White Egret still, 2x Little Egret (RRa)

Penkridge
40x Yellow Wagtail, Hobby (Hoppy)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Juv Little Gull off the dam

i54
2x Wheatear, Yellow Wgatail (JDu)

Alvecote
5x Little Egret, (MSc)

Monday, 3 September 2018

Monday 3rd September 2018

Bobbington
Greenshank, Green Sandpiper still at The Mere (LAl, KBa)

Croxall GPs
12x Little Egret, Green Sandpiper (GSt)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
7x Pintail, 9x Wigeon, 2x Little Egret, 5x Spotted Flycatcher (PSm)

Middleton Lakes
Great White Egret on JW (RBa)

Branston GPs
Spotted Redshank still, 8x Green Sandpiper, 6x Curlew, 4x Common Sandpiper, 11x Snipe, Dunlin, Black-tailed Godwit, 19x Little Egret, 19x Pochard, 12x Wigeon, 60x Gadwall, 46x Shoveler, 124x Teal, 361x Tufted Duck, 75x Little Grebe, Common Tern, (JWo)

Doxey Marsh
Great White Egret, Little Egret, 2x Redstart, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 5x Snipe, Pintail, 10x Gadwall, 40x Shoveler, Mandarin, Hobby, (MBo)

Sunday, 2 September 2018

Sunday 2nd September 2018

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Cattle Egret northwest  shore to 07:00 when it flew east

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Spotted Redshank still, 6x Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Greenshank, 2x Ringed Plover, Snipe, Red Kite, 2x Little Egret, Common Tern, Peregrine,  (MJa)  -  5x Black Tern off Beech Tree Point at 12:45, Also Admaston to Blithe Bay Turnstone, 35x Ringed Plover, 8x Dunlin, 4x YL Gull,   Wheatear, Tad Bay 2x Great White Egret, Osprey (SRi)

Whitemoor Haye
Grey Partridge, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 30x Tree Sparrow, Common Tern (alrewasbirder)

Gailey Resv
Red Kite at 09:45 perched in front of Fullmoor wood, Whinchat, Ruddy Shelduck, Hobby, Lesser Whitethroat, (SRi)

Endon SWT
2x Grey Partridge, Hobby, Willow Tit (GBr)

Hatherton Resv
Common Sandpiper, Cetti's Warbler (SB)

Aqualate
Black-necked Grebe, 3x Pintail (IGr)

Branston GPs
Juv Spotted Redshank and juv Knot still on Ashy Pit, 8x Curlew, 3x Green Sandpiper, Dunlin, 3x Common Sandpiper, 9x Snipe, Black-tailed Godwit, 20x Little Egret, 3x Common Tern, Hobby, 5x Yellow Wagtail, Redstart, 12x Pochard, 32x Shoveler, 40x Gadwall, 170x Teal, 5x Wigeon, 54x Little Grebe, (DSc, JWo)

Spotted Redshank By Jon Woodcock

Uttoxeter Quarry
Great White Egret still, Little Egret, Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 11x Wigeon, 60x Teal (RPo)

River Sow Meadows
Wheatear, (RSw)

Radford Meadows
2x Peregrine, 3x Hobby (RSw)

Middletpn Lakes
LR Plover, Hobby, Water Rail (SNi)

Saturday, 1 September 2018

Saturday 1st September 2018

Middleton Lakes
Great White Egret on JW, Marsh Harrier over JW, 2x Dunlin, Ruff, Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, LR Plover, Ringed Plover, 5x Snipe, (SAt)

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Whinchat

Gailey Resv
Tree Pipit over, Ruddy Shelduck, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 6x Shoveler, Wheatear, (SRi)

Bobbington
Greenshank still, (IMo)

Branston GPs
18x Little Egret, juv Spotted Redshank, Knot, Ruff, Dunlin, 3x Green Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, 8x Curlew, 8x Snipe, 14x Yellow Wagtail, Hobby, (DSc)

Uttoxeter Quarry
Great White Egret still, Little Egret, 3x Common Sandpiper, Greenshank,  (IBu)

Tittesworth Water
3x Common Tern 3x Snipe, 5x Goosander (per JOa)