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Monday, 30 September 2019

Monday 30th September 2019

Stoke (South Handford farm)
Whinchat, 15x Lapwing, (RGi)

Stoke
Ring-necked Parakeet calling in trees in trees along the canal at Festival Park, (JBr)

Berryhill
Visible migration session produced another good passage of 2285x Meadow Pipits, also 2x overhead Wheatears which is unusual here. Amongst common migrants over were 42x Skylark, 9x Redwing, 10x Siskin, 78x Chaffinch, 17x Linnet, 11x Greenfinch, 3x Reed Bunting,  (NDP, RTo, DWa)  - 3x Whinchat, 7x Stonechat in the paddocks, (SE, HF)  -  2x Wheatear present on the top slag mound.

Whinchat by Steve Edwards

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Little Owl, Little Egret, Wigeon, Shoveler, (DBa)

Branston GPs
Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 7x Snipe, 67x Pochard, 17x Wigeon, 36x Gadwall, 77x Shoveler, 115x Teal, Mandarin, 89x Little Grebe, Great White Egret, 10x Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Sunday, 29 September 2019

Sunday 29th September 2019

Middleton Lakes
Greenshank, 4x Stonechat,

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Merlin, juv Arctic Tern, Common Sandpiper, 500x Meadow Pipit

Chasewater
Common Sandpiper, ad Med Gull in roost, Goosander,

Berryhill
5x Whinchat and 9x Stonechat in vegetated field just west of the Viewpoint also 3x Wheatear nearby and a Golden Plover over, (RTo)

Knypersley Resv
Redwing by visitor centre also Willow Tit by Osier beds, (GBr)

Radford Meadows
3x Golden Plover, 18x Snipe, 80x Lapwing, 26x Shoveler, 15x Wigeon, 55x Teal, 2x Gadwall, (RSw)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Osprey, 2x Med Gull, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Wheatear, Goldeneye, (Kay)  -  adult Med Gull, (MYa)

Whitemoor Haye
7x Little Egret, Goldeneye, 5x Shoveler, 247x Lapwing, Green Sandpiper, Common Gull, (BirderAlrewas)

Alrewas
Hobby, (JWo)

Branston GPs
Great White Egret, 6x Little Egret, 54x Little Grebe, Barnacle Goose, Mandarin, Pintail, 12x Wigeon, 180x Teal, 38x Shoveler, 55x Pochard, 4x Green Sandpiper, 50x Lapwing, ad YL Gull, 20x GBB Gull, (DSc)

Saturday, 28 September 2019

Saturday 28th September 2019

Tittesworth Water
5x Common Tern, (JOa, etal)

Longnor
12x Fieldfare,  (JOa)

Middleton Lakes
Cattle Egret on North Pit

Berryhill
2648x Meadow Pipits over from 06:45 during vismig. Present were 8x Stonechat, 3x Wheatear, Whinchat, 6x Fieldfare, Peregrine, (DWa, PBi, NDP)

Trentham Lakes
Peregrine over the Bet365 stadium (KDa)

Whitemoor Haye
2x Great White Egret, 14x Little Egret, (BirderAlrewas)

Alvecote
4x Little Egret, 2x Whinchat, Hobby, (MSc)

River Sow Meadows
Hobby, 2x Stonechat, 23x Wigeon, 2x Goosander, (RSw)

Chasewater
2x Ad Med Gull, 1w Caspian Gull, 2x YL Gull, 2x Hobby

Friday, 27 September 2019

Friday 27th September 2019

Stafford
15x Pink-footed Geese over Weeping Cross to the SW, (HKi)

Whitemoor Haye
6x Great White Egret, 41x Little Egret, 8x Grey Partridge, 600x Lapwing, Peregrine, (BirderAlrewas)

Middleton Lakes
Greenshank, Stonechat, also 51x Wigeon on Dosthill NR, (SAt)

Berryhill
3x Whinchat, 5x Stonechat, Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, (RTo, NDP, DWa)

Alrewas
Great White Egret over, (BirderAlrewas)

Alvecote
Great White Egret, Pochard, (MSc)

Branston GPs
7x Green Sandpiper, 6x Curlew, 45x Lapwing, 2x Great White Egret, 6x Little Egret, Pintail, 58x Pochard, 26x Gadwall, 64x Shoveler, Wigeon, 150x Teal, 4x Water Rail, 63x Little Grebe, 2x YL Gull, Common Gull, 22x GBB Gull, 3x Cetti's Warbler, c500 Starling, (JWo, CEc, Dean)

Thursday, 26 September 2019

Thursday 26th September 2019

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Jack Snipe still, 4x Ruff, 2x Greenshank, 5x Ringed Plover, (DJa)  -  LRP, Peregrine, 

Middleton Lakes
2x Great White Egret, 2x Snipe, 48x Wigeon, 3x Stonechat, Water Rail, (MSm)  - 2x Hobby

Doxey Marsh 
Great White Egret still, (MSc)

Tittesworth Water
2x Fieldfare over, (SF)  -  40x Lapwing, (JOa)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
3x Common Tern NW at 09:10, Whinchat, 2x Wheatear, Common Sandpiper, (GJM)

Chasewater
2x Caspian Gull (1w and 2w), ad Med Gull, 6x YL Gull

Cuckoo Bank
2x Swift thru

Codsall
3x Ring-necked Parakeet over the High School at 17:45, (IMo)

Wednesday, 25 September 2019

Wednesday 25th September 2019

Middleton Lakes
Great White Egret, Greenshank, 10x Snipe, Common Sandpiper, 3x Pintail, 82x Wigeon, 3x Stonechat, Water Rail, (MSm)

Berryhill
4x Whinchat, 5x Wheatear, 6x Stonechat also 2x Fieldfare thru, (RTo, NDP, DWa)

Doxey Marsh
3x Great White Egret, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Pochard, (JSp)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Jack Snipe still, 4x Ruff, 2x Greenshank, 8x Ringed Plover, LRP, 2x Snipe, Little Egret, 9x Egyptian Geese, 

Ingestre Floods
Spotted Flycatcher, 3x Green Sandpiper, 6x Mandarin, 2x Wigeon, (RCB)

Hixon Airfield
Wheatear, (RCB)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
YL Gull, Green Sandpiper, 6x Yellow Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, (RCB)

Tuesday, 24 September 2019

Tuesday 24th September 2019

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Jack Snipe, 4x Ruff, 2x Greenshank, 8x Ringed Plover, LRP, Dunlin, 

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only
Wheatear, Whinchat, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 12x Wigeon, (GJM)

Middleton Lakes
Green Sandpiper, 18x Snipe, Great White Egret, 2x Pintail, 19x Wigeon, Hobby, (MSm)

Branston GPs
Ruff, 8x Curlew, 7x Green Sandpiper, 8x Snipe, 32x Lapwing, 74x Pochard, 5x Wigeon, 62x Shoveler, 32x Gadwall, 156x Teal, 3x Mandarin, 83x Little Grebe, Great White Egret, 12x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail + juv, 2x Common Gull, 22x GBB Gull, 3x Stonechat, Grey Wagtail, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Green Woodpecker, (JWo, Dean)

Monday, 23 September 2019

Monday 23rd September 2019

Middleton Lakes
3x Great White Egret, 2x Golden Plover, 5x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 13x Snipe, Hobby, (MSm)

Berryhill
3x Whinchat, 3x Wheatear, 3x Stonechat, also 367x Meadow Pipit over SW, (RTo, DWa)

Doxey Marsh
Ruff at the back of Creswell Flash with 100x Lapwing, 2x Snipe, Little Egret,8x Gadwall, 8x Shoveler, Cetti's Warbler (JSp)  -  also Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Pochard, Wigeon, (RRa)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Whinchat, Stonechat, 2x Wheatear, 13x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Little Egret, Common Sandpiper, 2x Little Owl, 2x Tree Sparrow, Lesser Whitethroat, (DBa)

Burston Marsh
Hobby, 3x Snipe, 33x Teal, 5x Wigeon, (AEa)

Whitmore Bent Lane
Cetti's Warbler calling, (AMa)

Chasewater
Hobby over Norton Bog, (KWh)

Cannock Chase
7x Snipe, Stonechat, (PAn)

Silverdale
Ring-necked Parakeet (DTo)

Sunday, 22 September 2019

Sunday 22nd September 2019

Cuckoo Bank
6x Stonechat,

Middleton Lakes
3x Great White Egret, (MJa)

Berryhill
Whinchat, Stonechat, 3x Snipe, (RTo, NDP)

Tittesworth Water
110x Lapwing, 2x Wigeon, Goosander, (JOa)

Clayton
Redstart, 2x Willow Warbler at Bunnyhill, (RGi)

Chasewater
Hobby

Saturday, 21 September 2019

Saturday 21st September 2019

Middleton Lakes
Greenshank, 11x Snipe, 2x Great White Egret, 4x Pochard, 2x Water Rail, (MSm)

Tucklesholme
Great White Egret, (Kay)

Uttoxeter Quarry
2x Ringed Plover, 2x Green Sandpiper, 15x Wigeon, 21x Shoveler, 58x Teal, Goosander, Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, (RPo)

Tittesworth Water
30x Common Gull, Little Egret, 40x Lapwing, (JOa)

Friday, 20 September 2019

Friday 20th September 2019

Middleton Lakes
2x Great White Egret, 23x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, (MSm) - Black-tailed Godwit, (DCo)

Berryhill
Whinchat, Wheatear, 2x Stonechat, 4x Snipe, Willow Tit, Whitethroat,  also 674x Meadow Pipits over SW with other common migrants, (RToon, NDP, DWa)  -  Redstart still, Peregrine, 4x Stonechat, (PSa)

Aston Pool
Hobby, 4x Snipe, (Hoppy)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Juv Little Gull early afternoon, 13x Egyptian Geese

Branston GPs
2x Ruff, Common Sandpiper, 7x Green Sandpiper, 14x Curlew, 19x Lapwing, 2x Pintail, 97x Pochard, 14x Wigeon, 341x Teal, 123x Shoveler, 46x Gadwall, 2x Egyptian Geese, 79x Little Grebe, Great White Egret, 7x Little Egret,  3x Stonechat, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Peregrine, Tawny Owl, (JWo, CEc, Dean)

Codsall
10-12x Ring-necked Parakeet around Moatbrook Avenue, (HT)

Thursday, 19 September 2019

Thursday 19th September 2019

Middleton Lakes
2x Great White Egret, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 23x Snipe, Pintail, 19x Wigeon, Yellow Wagtail, Hobby, (MSm)

Alvecote
4x Pintail, 10x Wigeon, 2x Little Egret, 14x Little Grebe, (MSc)

Whittington Farm
Barn Owl, Peregrine, c1000 Swallow, (JLi)

Wednesday, 18 September 2019

Wednesday 18th September 2019

Middleton Lakes
Great White Egret, Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, 11x Snipe, 2x Stonechat, (MSm)

Berryhill, 
Vismig from 06:30 - c50x Pink-footed Geese, 1070x Meadow Pipit, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 4x Grey Wagtail, 10x Skylark over SW. (DWa, NDP, RTo)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
2x Little Egret, 2x Stonechat, 5x Yellow Wagtail, (DBa)

Burston Marsh
33x Teal, 3x Wigeon, 5x Snipe, Little Owl, (AEa)

Doxey Marsh
Green Sandpiper along River Sow, (NGr)

Tuesday, 17 September 2019

Tuesday 17th September 2019

Berryhill
32x Pink-footed Geese over SE at 07:50, 2x Willow Tit, Redstart, 323x Meadow Pipit over SW, (NDP, RTo, DWa)

Rudyard Lake
Great White Egret still north end, (GDB)

Tittesworth Water
Great White Egret still, (JOa)

Middleton Lakes
Black-tailed Godwit, Redshank, 10x Snipe, 2x Great White Egret, Pintail, 2x Stonechat, (MSm)  -  also Whinchat, 2x Hobby, LRP and a third GWE, (GWi)

Whitfield Valley
2x Willow Tit, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, Gropper, Lesser Whitethroat, (DVi, JJo)  -  2x Barn Owl and a Little Owl this evening, (PMo)

Croxall
Great White Egret, 5x Little Egret, (JJH)

Tucklesholme
Little Egret, Egyptian Geese, (JJH)

Whitemoor Haye
6x Little Egret, 3x Egyptian Geese, (JJH)

Cuckoo Bank
2x Stonechat, (DBa)

Trentham Gardens
2x Dipper, 2x Grey Wagtail, (MPa)  -  1w Med Gull, (DKe)

Silverdale CP
2x Wigeon, (PCa)

Westport Lake
1w Med Gull, (DKe)

Alvecote
Whinchat, 4x Pintail, 2x Little Egret, 4x Wigeon, 12x Little Grebe, (MSc)

Monday, 16 September 2019

Monday 16th September 2019

Middleton Lakes
Female Marsh Harrier, 2x Great White Egret, 23x Snipe, Redshank, Pintail, (MSm)

Rudyard Lake
Great White Egret still north end, (SSe)

Berryhill
Whinchat, Redstart, c350 Meadow Pipits grounded, (RTo)

Branston GPs
Imm/fem Marsh Harrier over Ashy Pit and BMP from 15:20 to 16:00, 4x Ruff, 7x Green Sandpiper, 13x Curlew, Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, 13x Snipe, 70x Lapwing, Pintail, 90x Pochard, 7x Wigeon, Mandarin, 49x Gadwall, 214x Teal, 38x Shoveler, 86x Little Grebe, Great White Egret, 9x Little Egret, 4x GBB Gull, Peregrine, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Marsh Harrier by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Sunday, 15 September 2019

Sunday 15th September 2019

Middleton Lakes
2x Golden Plover, Redshank, 10x Snipe, 2x LRP, Stonechat, 2x Hobby, 2x Wigeon,  (MSm), -  2x Ringed Plover, Great White Egret, 5x Egyptian Geese, Redstart, (KSa)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Great White Egret, 2x Little Egret, 5x Dunlin, 6x Ringed Plover, Ruff, 2x Greenshank,

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Wheatear, Stonechat, (MFo)

Rudyard Lake
Great White Egret at north end at 11:00,  (ALa)

Radford Meadows
2x Little Egret, 4x Snipe, 13x Lapwing, 2x Stonechat, 19x Teal, (CDa)

Tittesworth Water
2x Great White Egret, (ALa)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Bar-tailed Godwit at Portfields, (ESC, GJM)  -  also Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 5x Snipe, Common Sandpiper, 5x Little Egret, Pintail, Wheatear, (SE,HF)

Bar-tailed Godwit by Steve Edwards

Cuckoo Bank
2x Redstart, Stonechat, Peregrine, c100 Skylark

Madeley
Hobby hunting over Baa Hill, (STu)

Ingestre Flash
86x Lapwing, Green Sandpiper also 2x Goosander on the Trent, (RCB)

Uttoxeter Quarry
Knot, 3x Green Sandpiper, Hobby, Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, (ABa)

Branston GPs
Great White Egret, 5x Little Egret, 10x Curlew, 3x Green Sandpiper, 40x Lapwing, 2x Egyptian Geese, 10x Wigeon, 38x Shoveler, 48x Gadwall, Whinchat, Marsh Tit, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Water Rail, 2x Green Woodpecker, (DSc)

Cannock Chase
Adder, Hoverfly (Volucella zonaria) (JWo)

By Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Saturday, 14 September 2019

Saturday 14th September 2019

Middleton Lakes
Great White Egret, 7x Little Egret, Redshank, 22x Snipe, 32x Wigeon, Sacred Ibis still, (MSm)

Knypersley Resv
5x Egyptian Geese over north also a Hobby over, (GBr)

Berryhill
A vismig session from 06:30 produced 1448x Meadow Pipits and 2x Tree Pipit. Present were 2x Wheatear and 2x Redstart, (RTo, NDP, DWa, PBi)

Cuckoo Bank
Redstart, Stonechat, 

Uttoxeter Quarry
Hobby, 5x Curlew, 2x Green Sandpiper, 6x Wigeon, 9x Shoveler, 2x Goosander, Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, (RPo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Greenshank, Ruff, Dunlin, Ringed Plover,3x Garganey, Pintail, Gropper, Hobby,

Alvecote
2x Wheatear, 2x Pintail, 2x Little Egret, (MSc)

Chasewater
2x Hobby, 1w YL Gull, 1w Caspian Gull, Common Sandpiper

Alrewas Arbouretum
Little Egret, Goosander along the river, 2x Green Sandpiper, 15x Teal on Junction Pit, (JWo)

Branston GPs
13x Curlew, 5x Green Sandpiper, 10x Lapwing, 4x Snipe, pair of presumed hybrid American Wigeon on Pylon pit ,Great White Egret, 10x Little Egret, 68x Little Grebe, Pintail, 62x Pochard, 33x Shoveler, 40x Gadwall, 150x Teal, Peregrine, 3x Water Rail, Yellow Wagtail, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Friday, 13 September 2019

Friday 13 September 2019

Radford Meadows
Ruff, 16x Snipe, 24x Lapwing, Little Egret, 41x Teal, (CDa)

Middleton Lakes
2x Great White Egret, (VB), -  Sacred Ibis, (VB, RWa)  -  Wheatear, Greenshank, 4x LRP, 2x Dunlin, 22x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Goldeneye, (DCo)

Alvecote
4x Redstart, 3x Wheatear, 4x Pintail, 2x Little Egret, 3x Wigeon, (MSc)

Berryhill
459x Meadow Mipit over SW during a vismig session also 2x Redstart present, (NDP, RTo, DWa)

Cuckoo Bank
Redstart, 2x Wheatear, Green Sandpiper, Willow Tit

Thursday, 12 September 2019

Thursday 12th September 2019

Radford Meadows
BMW scrape, 56x Lapwing, Ruff, Green Sandpiper, 4x Snipe, Little Egret, 14x Teal, (CDa)

Knypersley Resv
Hobby over, (GFBr)

Whitemoor Haye
3x Great White Egret, 25x Little Egret all on the L shaped bend opp the centre, (DAb)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
2x Sandwich Tern west thru Blithe Bay, (GJM)  -  also Osprey Tad Bay, Great White Egret, Little Egret, (RRo)

Gailey Resv
Ad Med Gull on sailing pool, (HKi)

Alvecote
Hobby Pigs pool

Berryhill
Hobby thru, Redstart and 246x Meadow Pipit over SW, (RTo, NDP)

Branston GPs
7x Green Sandpiper, Ruff, Dunlin, 13x Curlew, Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, 40x Lapwing, Great White Egret, 6x Little Egret, 11x Wigeon, 216x Teal, 63x Pochard, 44x Gadwall, 25x Shoveler, 2x Egyptian Geese, 75x Little Grebe, YL Gull, Cetti's Warbler, 4x Green Woodpecker, Tawny Owl, Muntjac Deer, (JWo)

Muntjac Deer by Jon Woodcock

Middleton Lakes
Green Sandpiper, 3x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 2x Snipe, Great White Egret, 5x Little Egret, Stonechat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Wigeon, (MSc)

Wednesday, 11 September 2019

Wednesday 11th September 2019

Bignall End
2x Yellow Wagtail in paddocks behind Rye Hills, (JMa)

Whitemoor Haye
2x Great White Egret, 19x Little Egret, (BirderAlrewas)

Whittington Farm
c5000 Swallows going to roost in Maize fields, Hobby, Peregrine, (JLi)

Tuesday, 10 September 2019

Tuesday 10th September 2019

Berryhill
Whinchat, 5x Wheatear, 4x Redstart, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, Tree Pipit, Willow Tit, Lesser Whitethroat, 4x Grey Wagtail, 2x Snipe, (NDP)

Radford Meadows
6x Snipe, Little Egret, 35x Lapwing, 12x Teal, (CDa)

Cuckoo Bank
5x Wheatear, 2x Whinchat, (BSm)  -  5x Whinchat, Redstart, Gropper, 2x Reed Warbler this evening

Branston GPs
Marsh Harrier, 12x Curlew, 13x Snipe, Dunlin, 3x Green Sandpiper, 11x Little Egret, Great White Egret, (CEc)  -  Ruff, Redshank

Middleton Lakes
2x Garganey, Great White Egret, Ruff, 5x Dunlin, 3x LRP, Ringed Plover, 2x Hobby, 4x Wigeon, (MercianBirding)

Monday, 9 September 2019

Monday 9th September 2019

Middleton Lakes
6x Ruff, 9x Dunlin, 3x LRP, Greenshank, 4x Snipe, Great White Egret, Garganey, (MercianBirding)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
7x juv Arctic Tern, 7x Common Tern, Ruff, 14x Dunlin, 10x Ringed Plover, 

Radford Meadows
Little Egret, 12x Teal. 2x Wigeon, (CDa)

Alvecote
2x Redstart, 4x Pintail, 4x Wigeon, 22x Lapwing, (MSc)

Whittington Farm
Peregrine, Little Owl, Yellow Wagtail, (JLi)

Branston GPs
4x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, Ruff, 3x Dunlin, 2x Green Sandpiper, 9x Curlew, 67x Lapwing, Pintail, 3x Wigeon, 172x Teal, 36x Shoveler, 85x Gadwall, 56x Pochard, Great White Egret, 23x Little Egret, 4x Water Rail, 3x GBB Gull, 85x Little Grebe, Yellow Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Tucklesholme
Curlew, Egyptian Geese, (CEc)

Whitemoor Haye
9x Little Egret, 7x Egyptian Geese, Greenshank, 31x Lapwing, (CEc)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Great White Egret, 3x Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, 3x Wheatear, 2x Pintail, (CEc)

Berryhill
Wheatear, Redstart, Willow Tit, (NDP, RTo)

Sunday, 8 September 2019

Sunday 8th September 2019

Swineholes Wood
5x Spotted Flycatcher, Redstart, Green Woodpecker, (RPo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Great White Egret, 2x Little Egret, 4x Dunlin, 4x LRP, Spotted Flycatcher,

Ipstones Edge
4x Wheatear, (RPo)

Cuckoo Bank
9x Whinchat, Lesser Whitethroat

Tucklesholme
Some things are good at Tuckleshome with this LMS Jubilee 45699 "Galatea" steaming through.

By Jon Woodcock

Berryhill
Whinchat, 2x Wheatear, Swift. A vismig session early morning saw 253x Meadow Pipit going over to the SW also plenty of grounded Mipits, (RTo, NDP)

Ingestre
Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, Grey Wagtail, (RCB)

Middleton Lakes
2x Great White Egret, 6x Little Egret, 6x Dunlin, 3x LRP, Cetti's Warbler, (MJa)  -  also 5x Garganey, Mandarin, (MercianBirding)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Great White Egret, 3x Whinchat, 8x Wheatear, 3x Pintail, 2x Green Sandpiper, Spotted Flycatcher, (HFo, SEd)  -  20x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Greenshank, Little Egret, Peregrine, YL Gull, (DBa)

Gailey Resv
2x Common Tern, Lesser Whitethroat, 4x Shoveler and just north of the Resv at Otherton a Redstart, (SRi)

Croxall
Great White Egret on the east lake at 18:57 as viewed aboard the steam train, (DSc)

Saturday, 7 September 2019

Saturday 7th September 2019

Whitemoor Haye
Great White Egret, 11x Little Egret, Greenshank, Yellowhammer,  Goldeneye, Peregrine, 2x Wigeon,  (BirderAlrewas)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Wryneck briefly in stubble field off West Lane track then flew towards Hawkshutts farm, Great White Egret, 2x Little Egret, 2x Garganey, 2x Green Sandpiper, Spotted Flycatcher, 4x Wheatear, Whinchat, Redstart, Red Kite, Tree Pipit, Peregrine, Yellowhammer, Med Gull

Middleton Lakes
Great White Egret, Dunlin, LRP, Tree Pipit, Mandarin, 

Berryhill
2x Whinchat, 12x Wheatear, Redstart, Tree Pipit, Willow Tit and a fall of c150 Meadow Pipits, (RTo, NDP, DWa)

Uttoxeter Quarry
Pintail, 13x Shoveler, 25x Teal, 2x Goosander, Shelduck, 10x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Peregrine, Willow Tit, (RPo)

Silverdale CP
Wheatear, Marsh Tit, (PCa)

Doxey Marsh
Great White Egret still,

Branston GPs
Great White Egret, 11x Little Egret, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 8x Green Sandpiper, Ruff, 5x LRP, 13x Curlew, 2x Ringed Plover, Garganey, 3x Wigeon, 2x Mandarin, Peregrine, Hobby, 2x Egyptian Geese, YL Gull, 2x GBB Gull, 20x Yellow Wagtail thru, Wheatear, Redstart, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, Marsh Tit,  Cetti's Warbler, (DSc, CEc, Dean)

Friday, 6 September 2019

Friday 6th September 2019

Branston GPs
Great White  Egret (with broken wing), 8x Little Egret, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 9x Green Sandpiper, 2x Ruff, 13x Curlew, 10x Snipe, 7x Dunlin, 70x Lapwing, 8x Yellow Wagtail, Mandarin 24x Shoveler, 142x Teal, 8x Wigeon, 64x Gadwall, 6x Pochard, 2x Egyptian Geese, 65x Little Grebe, 2x Water Rail, ad YL Gull, 2x Peregrine, 2x Swift, Cetti's Warbler, Redstart, (DSc, JWo)

Berryhill


By Steve Edwards

Alvecote
Redstart, 5x Little Egret (MSc)

Middleton Lakes
3x Garganey, Great White Egret, Greenshank, 2x LRP, (MercianBirding)

Doxey Marsh
Great White Egret, (BirderGaz)

Thursday, 5 September 2019

Thursday 5th September 2019

Berryhill
13x Wheatear, Whinchat, Redstart, Lesser Whitethroat, (NDP, DWa)

Alvecote
Redstart around Pretty Pigs pool

Trentham Gardens
Dipper this afternoon, (PSw)

By Paul Swinhoe

Branston GPs
Common Crane dropped in from altitude from the east looking to roost at 19:12 into North Pit, also 2x Little Egret, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Green Sandpiper, 3x Dunlin, Common Tern, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Wigeon, (DSc)

Wednesday, 4 September 2019

Wednesday 4th September 2019

Whittington farm
Whinchat, Peregrine, (JLi)

Branston GPs
Ruff, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 7x Green Sandpiper, 4x LRP, 4x Ringed Plover, 5x Dunlin, 2x Snipe, 12x Curlew, 95x Lapwing, 19x Pochard, 155x Teal, 54x Gadwall, 24x Shoveler, 2x Egyptian Geese, 56x Little Grebe + 12 juvs, 3x Little Egret, 4x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Great White Egret still,

Tuesday, 3 September 2019

Tuesday 3rd September 2019

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
 Great White Egret, 2x Little Egret, 14x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Wheatear, (DBa)

Berryhill
2x Wheatear, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Willow Tit, (RTo, NDP)

Monday, 2 September 2019

Monday 2nd September 2019

Middleton Lakes
6x Dunlin, 12x Snipe, 2x LRP, 2x Great White Egret, 21x Little Egret, Pintail, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (KSa)  -  2x Green Sandpiper, Hobby, (MSm)  -  Ringed Plover, Mandarin, 2x Hobby, (Jo)  -  Juv Knot on JW north, (JAl)

Tittesworth Water, 
Common Tern, 6x Teal, (SG)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Whinchat still, Great White Egret, 2x Garganey,

Alvecote
2x Pintail, Redstart, 3x Little Egret, (MSc)

Whitemoor Haye
3x Swift, Goldeneye, (BirderAlrewas)

Branston GPs
The injured Great White Egret mobile and feeding, Ruff, Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, 6x Snipe, 2x Mandarin, Pochard, 2x Egyptian Geese, 6x Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, (CEc)

Sunday, 1 September 2019

Sunday 1st September 2019

Middleton Lakes
5x Garganey,  Greenshank, 29x Snipe, 2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 3x Dunlin, 2x Great White Egret, 15x Little Egret, 7x Goosander, 2x Wigeon, 2x Hobby, Water Rail, (MSm, MercianBirding)

Berryhill
6x Tree Pipit, 2x Wheatear, 2x Willow Tit, Redstart and a good influx of Chiffchaff, (NDP, RTo)

Brindley Ford, 
2x Grey Partridge, Little Owl, (PMo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
3x Knot, Great White Egret, Green Sandpiper, 

Branston GPs
The presumed pair of American Wigeon hybrids back on BM Pit (last seen Autumn 2018), injured Great White Egret still on pylon pit, 11x Little Egret, 13x Curlew, Ruff, 22x Snipe, 2x Green Sandpiper, 5x Dunlin, 5x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 50x Gadwall, 20x Shoveler, 5x Wigeon, 4x Egyptian Geese, (DSc)