Saturday 29th February 2020

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Fem Scaup still, Redshank, 2x Common Sandpiper,

Middleton Lakes
Great Egret

Bottleslow Flash
2x Little Egret, (IBu, RTo)  -  2x Willow Tit on the LNR

Cannock Tip
Ad Iceland Gull

Tittesworth Water
5x Curlew, 4x Oystercatcher, 13x Snipe, 9x Goosander, (SG, WLH, IB, CT)

Tameside NR
2x Oystercatcher, 2x Goosander, (MSc)

Chasewater
Ad Iceland Gull, ad Med Gull in the roost, also 2x Oystercatcher

Alton - Oakamoor
2x Willow Tit, 60x Siskin, 2x Redpoll, (TEy)

Willow Tit by Terry Eyre

Whitemoor Haye
14x Yellowhammer, 200x Lapwing, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Egyptian Geese, 30x Linnet, (DSc)

Branston GPs- Small Meadows Pit
Ringed Plover, 2yr YL Gull, 10x Shelduck, 12x Gadwall, 70x Pied Wagtail, (DSc)

Alrewas Arboretum
2x Oystercatcher, 6x Goosander, (JWo)

Wychnor
2x Goosander on the river, (JWo)

Ingestre
2x Green Sandpiper, Redshank, 3x Mandarin on the floods, (RCB)

Friday 28th February 2020

Hanley Forest Park
Willow Tit, 2x Goosander, (AR)

Tittesworth Water
5000x Starling murmuration, 30x Snipe, Peregrine, 12x Goosander, Pochard, Peregrine, (SGi)

By Steve Gibson

Staffs

Thursday 27th February 2020

Doxey Marsh (Wellies essential, no access to Octagonal hide)
Pink-footed Goose, 2x Little Egret, Stonechat, (GPr)  -  160x Golden Plover and 150x Lapwing west of the motorway (DCo)

Trentham Gardens 
2x Dipper this morning,  (MWi)

Cannock Chase
Woodlark, 3x Crossbill, Woodcock, (DBa)

Hanley Park
3x Goosander, (AR)

Churnet Valley Cheddleton
4x Mandarin, 3x Snipe, 2x Oystercatcher, Barn Owl, c600 Jackdaw, (DSc)

Branston GPs
2x Ringed Plover, 3x Green Sandpiper, 7x Oystercatcher, 4x Curlew, 117x Lapwing, 28x Pochard, 3x Goldeneye, 19x Shelduck, 19x Gadwall, 80x Teal, 18x Wigeon, 22x Shoveler, 2x Egyptian Geese, 26x Little Grebe, 8x Little Egret, 2x Green Woodpecker, 58x Pied Wagtail, (JWo)

Consall
4x Willow Tit, (PGu)

Middleton Lakes
Great Egret, Pochard, 12x Shelduck, 3x Oystercatcher, (MSm)

Chasewater
Ad Iceland Gull in the roost

Wednesday 26th February 2020

Pendeford Mill
3x Little Egret, Goosander, Grey Wagtail, 8x Gadwall, (PCo)

Branston GPs
Ruff, 5x Oystercatcher, 70x Lapwing, 3x Curlew, Barn Owl, 60x Teal, 10x Shelduck, 12x Shoveler, Green Woodpecker, (DSc)

Pattingham
100x Golden Plover over

Tuesday 25th February 2020

WILLOW TIT SURVEY 2020 - FINAL REQUEST FOR VOLUNTEERS
The West Midland Bird Club Stafford Branch is asking for volunteers to assist in the final year of the National Willow Tit Survey between late Feb and early April in 2020. The club has undertaken surveys around the county last year, but more help is needed to cover more parts of the county to search for this elusive species. It has declined nationally by around 90% since the 1970s and though Staffordshire seems to  be holding on to them, it is vital that we can find out as much as we can so that we get as complete a picture within the county as possible.
   
Please get in touch if you are in  interested in volunteering.  
Contact Nick Pomiankowski, Staffordshire County Bird Recorder at staffs-recorder@westmidlandbirdclub.org.uk; or Jonathan Groom, Monitoring Officer
at Staffordshire Wildlife Trust at  j.groom@staffs-wildlife.org.uk.


River Sow Meadows
2x Green Sandpiper, 12x Snipe, 2x Stonechat, 50x Teal, (RSw)

Middleton Lakes
2x Curlew over north, Great Egret, 5x Pochard, Goosander, 7x Shelduck, 2x Egyptian Geese, 4x Oystercatcher, Stonechat, (MSm)

Gailey Resv
2x Goldeneye, 5x Gadwall, (HKi)

Trentham Gardens
Great Egret in the Heronry, (HF, SE,)  -  still at 14:55 but elusive also 2x Oystercatcher, (PFo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Fem Scaup still, Common Sandpiper, 27x Snipe, 4x Oystercatcher, Goldeneye, Pochard, 11x Shelduck, 

Cannock Tip
Red Kite over west,

Aston-Burston
Green Sandpiper, Curlew over, 11x Snipe, 111x Lapwing, Little Owl, 88x Teal, 18x Wigeon, 3x Mandarin, 2x Shelduck, Goosander, 2x Stonechat, Grey Wagtail, (DCo)

Tittesworth Water
10x Curlew, 21x Snipe, 12x Lapwing, 3x Oystercatcher, 5x Common Gull, 3x Willow Tit, (JOa, CT)

Chasewater
Ad Iceland Gull, ad YL Gull, 

Monday 24th February 2020

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Fem Scaup still, 7x Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, Tree Sparrow, (DBa)

Botteslow Flash
YL Gull, Little Egret, (RTo)

Church Leigh
2x Curlew on flood off Bents Lane, (CTa)

By Chris Taylor

Chasewater
Ad Iceland Gull, ad Med Gull, 2x YL Gull in the roost

Sunday 23rd February 2020

Middleton Lakes
3x Great Egret, 4x Pochard, 12x Shelduck, 4x Oystercatcher, 40x Wigeon, 25x Shoveler, Barn Owl, (MSm, DCo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
1w fem Scaup still, Common Sandpiper, (SRi)

Audley SW
3x Little Egret with cattle, (SJT)

Blithbury
3x Whooper Swan still opposite  Newlands Lane, (CJW)

Ingestre
Curlew and Green Sandpiper on floods, 100x Wigeon, 25x Teal, (RCB)

Silverdale CP
2x Goosander, (PCa)

Chasewater
Ad Iceland Gull, ad YL Gull in the roost

Whitmore Bent Lane
Brambling, Willow Tit, (PJo)

i54
92x Skylark, 2x Stonechat, 22x Lapwing, Chiffchaff, 16x Teal, (JDu)

Branston GPs  -  All lakes and paths are flooded. Wellies and extreme care needed as flood levels are the worst ever seen here.

Presumed feral Snow Goose (ad white morth) still with the Grey Lags, 2x Egyptian Geese, 28x Pochard, 90x Teal, 48x Wigeon, 24x Shoveler, 22x Shelduck, 7x Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, Common Gull, 2x GBB Gull, Green Woodpecker, Redpoll, (DSc)

Saturday 22nd February 2020

Middleton Lakes
5x Great Egret, 9x Goldeneye, 18x Shelduck, 2x Oystercatcher, 8x Egyptian Geese, 6x Cetti's Warbler, Barn Owl at 11:00, (SPA)

Radford Meadows
Redshank, Goosander, 321x Wigeon, 260x Teal, (RSw)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Fem/imm Scaup still also a Curlew

Gailey Resv
4x Goldeneye, 4x Oystercatcher, (SRi)

Tittesworth Water
Curlew, 4x Oystercatcher, 3x Snipe, 14x Lapwing, 17x Goosander, 5x Common Gull, 3x Willow Tit, 40x Siskin, (SGi, WLH, IB, CT)

Whitemoor Haye
2x Peregrine, (MPa)  -  6x Tree Sparrow with large flock of Yellowhammer and Reed Bunting, (JJH, SJH,)

Ellastone-Calwich
2x Red Kite over the B5023 at 12:20, (JDr)

Chasewater
Ad Iceland Gull, 3w Caspian Gull, 2x YL Gull in the roost also 25x Goldeneye

Friday 21st February 2020

Branston
Waxwing still on Marlow Drive, (JWo)

By Jon Woodcock

Middleton Lakes
Great Egret, 4x Pochard, 9x Shelduck, 4x Oystercatcher, Stonechat, (MSm)

Gailey Resv
Oystercatcher, 102x Greylags, (IMo)

Alvecote
Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 37x Wigeon, (MSc)

Chasewater
Ad Iceland Gull, 1w Caspian Gull, 2x YL Gull in the roost.

Branston GPs
4x Ruff, 2x Green Sandpiper, 7x Curlew, 3x Oystercatcher, Snipe, 50x Lapwing, 37x Pochard, 6x Goldeneye, 80x Teal, 67x Shoveler, 25x Wigeon, 20x Shelduck, 11x Gadwall, 2x Egyptian Geese, 4x Little Egret, 23x Little Grebe, 2x YL Gull, Common Gull, (JWo)

Barton village pond
2x Goosander, (JWo)

Folly Lane-Wetley Rocks
c1000 Starling murmuration

Thursday 20th February 2020

Ingestre
Merlin thru west this morning, (RCB)

Elford-Fisherwick
2x Corn Bunting on trees, (SCo)

Blithbury
3x Whooper Swan opposite Newlands Lane, (SCo)

Branston
Waxwing visiting Rowan trees on Marlow Drive, (FGo)

Whitemoor Haye
400x Lapwing, 14x Goldeneye, 9x Pochard, Cetti's Warbler, Great Egret, Peregrine, 2x Egyptian Geese, (SCo)

Chasewater
Ad Iceland Gull, 3w Caspian Gull, ad YL Gull in the roost.

Wednesday 19th February 2020

Whitemoor Haye
2x Great Egret, Cetti's Warbler, 200x Lapwing, Oystercatcher, 6x Pochard, 6x Goldeneye, Goosander, 2x Stonechat, 2x Peregrine, Yellowhammer, Tree Sparrow, (SCo)

Endon
Little Egret on flood off Stanley Moss Lane, (KKi)

Chasewater
Ad Iceland Gull, ad YL Gull in the roost

Stoke on Trent
Little Egret on Newstead Brook, (JCa)

Tuesday 18 February 2020

Radford Meadows
200x Lapwing, 156x Wigeon, 250x Teal, 24x Shoveler, (CDa)

Alrewas
2x Great Egret and 2x Little Egret viewed from the A38, (SCo)

Pendeford Mill
3x Little Egret, 10x Siskin, Grey Wagtail, (PCo)

Flash
Short-eared Owl flew across the road, (IBu)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Fem/Imm Scaup still

Bateswood
3x Woodcock, 4x Snipe, 15x Common Gull, 4x Goosander, 6x Redpoll, (DCo)

Trentham Gardens
Goosander, Grey Wagtail, 5x Black Swan, (PFo)

Gailey Resv
3x Goldeneye, Oystercatcher, (HKi)

Bolehall Moor
7x Yellowhammer, 46x Lapwing, (MSc)

Chasewater
Ad Iceland Gull, 1w Caspian Gull, 2w YL Gull in the roost.

Branston GPs
Ringed Plover on Small Meadows, 18x Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, 57x Lapwing, 40x Pochard, 8x Goldeneye, 39x Shoveler, 28x Wigeon, 94x Teal, 12x Gadwall, 8x Little Egret (Lower farm), 32x Little Grebe, 40x Pied Wagtail, 2x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Ringed Plover by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Monday 17th February 2020

Gailey Resv
4x Goldeneye, Oystercatcher, (PCo)

Doxey Marsh
Great Egret, (RDi)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
2x Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, Peregrine, Yellowhammer, 40x Linnet, (DBa)  -  Ad Kittiwake to 16:04 only, also fem imm Scaup still

Burston-Aston
3x Green Sandpiper, 60x Snipe, 125x Lapwing, 43x Wigeon, 45x Teal, 4x Goosander, 2x Stonechat, Grey Wagtail, (DCo)

Middleton Lakes
3x Great Egret briefly as viewed from the canal towpath also 4x Oystercatcher, 10x Shelduck, (MSm)

Bolehall Moor/River Anker
Little Egret, 8x Yellowhammer, 25x Linnet, Grey Wagtail, (MSc)

Chasewater
Ad Iceland Gull, 3w Caspian Gull, ad Med Gull, 2x YL Gull in the roost

Sunday 16th February 2020

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Fem Scaup,

Middleton Lakes
Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 4x Pochard, 2x Goldeneye

Apedale
Willow Tit, (JMa)

Chasewater
Ad Iceland Gull, ad YL Gull in the roost

Eccleshall
A report received of a Hawfinch briefly in a conifer tree, (KLe)

Amington
Putative Mealy Redpoll, (TPe)

Saturday 15th February 2020

Middleton Lakes
Great Egret, Little Egret, 7x Goldeneye, 2x Goosander, 600x Lapwing, 2x Oystercatcher, 40x Shoveler, 30x Wigeon, (DCo)

Whitemoor Haye
700x Lapwing, 2x Oystercatcher, 7x Goldeneye, 31x Pochard, Golden Plover over, Tree Sparrows, (SCo)

Tittesworth Water
2x Little Egret, 23x Snipe, 4x Oystercatcher, 11x Lapwing, 13x Goosander, 9x Common Gull, 3x Barnacle Geese, (SGi, WLH, IB, CT)

Chasewater
Ad Iceland Gull, 3w Caspian Gull, 2x ad YL Gull in the roost

Dunstall (Barton under Needwood)
6x Little Egret feeding around the chicken houses, lower farm, (KBi)

Friday 14th February 2020

Drayton Bassett
Green Sandpiper still in field off Portleys Lane also 12x Yellowhammer, (MSm)

Doxey Marsh
3x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 8x Goosander, 10x Gadwall, 2x Stonechat, (GPr)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
2x Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 20x Snipe, 2x Egyptian Geese, (DBa)

Chasewater
Ad Iceland Gull, 3w Caspian Gull, 2x YL Gull in the roost

Middleton Lakes
Great Egret, 2x Pintail, Goosander, 3x Oystercatcher, (MSm)

Branston GPs
4x Ruff, Redshank, 18x Curlew, 3x Oystercatcher, 279x Lapwing, 19x Pochard, 4x Goldeneye, 80x Wigeon, 84x Teal, 30x Shoveler, 17x Gadwall, 13x Shelduck, 2x Egyptian Geese, 20x Little Grebe, 4x Little Egret, 2x YL Gull, 3x GBB Gull, Barn Owl, 2x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Thursday 13th February 2020

Chasewater
9x Goldeneye, 8x Goosander, Little Egret, 5x Common Gull, (GHa)  -  Ad Iceland Gull, 4w Caspian Gull, 3x YL Gull in the roost

Wednesday 12th February 2020

Middleton Lakes
2x Pintail, 5x Goldeneye, 12x Shelduck, 4x Oystercatcher, Great Egret, Stonechat, (MSm, SPA)

Drayton Bassett
4x Grey Partridge and a Green Sandpiper Portleys Lane, (MSm)

Tittesworth Water
Curlew, Little Egret, 3x Oystercatcher, 18x Lapwing, 3x Barnacle Geese, 6x Goosander, 3x Snipe, 2x Willow Tit, (JOa)

Holden Lane Pool
3w YL Gull this morning, (JJo)

Chasewater
2x Iceland Gull, 2w Capian Gull, ad YL Gull, 

Tuesday 11th February 2020

Blithbury
3x Whooper Swan still opposite Newlands Lane, (HKi)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Ad winter Med Gull, 70x Common Gull, (GJM)

Chasewater
2x Iceland Gull, 2x Caspian Gull, YL Gull, 

Branston GPs
Iceland Gull on the new works at Small Meadows, 3x YL Gull, 3x GBB Gull, 2x Common Gull, 2x Ruff, Green Sandpiper, 20x Curlew, 3x Oystercatcher, 55x Lapwing, 5x Goldeneye, 15x Pochard, 25x Shoveler, 82x Wigeon, 76x Teal, 16x Gadwall, 12x Shelduck, 2x Egyptian Geese, 23x Little Grebe, Stonechat, Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Iceland Gull by Jon Woodcock

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Kittiwake thru SE at 13:55

Monday 10th February 2020

Middleton Lakes
Great Egret, 2x Oystercatcher, 15x Shelduck, (KSa)

Blithbury
2x Whooper Swan still opposite end of Newlands Lane also 4x Little Egret, (PFo)

Tittesworth Water
2x Little Egret, 3x Pochard, 8x Goosander, 16x Lapwing, 6x Snipe, 4x Oystercatcher, 3x Barnacle Geese, (SGi)

Chasewater
2x Iceland Gull, ad Med Gull, 2x ad YL Gull in the roost

Branston GPs
4x Ruff, Redshank, Green Sandpiper, 17x Curlew, 12x Snipe, 5x Oystercatcher, 174x Golden Plover, 256x Lapwing, 2x Water Rail, 168x Teal, 82x Wigeon, 33x Shoveler, 16x Gadwall, 15x Pochard, 2x Egyptian Geese, 18x Little Grebe, 4x GBB Gull, 3x YL Gull, 4x Common Gull, 2x Stonechat, Barn Owl, 2x Green Woodpecker, 12x Skylark, (JWo)

By Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Sunday 9th February 2020

Hanley Forest Park
7x Goosander, (JOa)

Chasewater
Ad Iceland Gull, 1w Caspian Gull, 2x YL Gull

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
3x Caspian Gull (2ad + 3w), 3x YL Gull (2 ad + 1w), 20x Common Gull in the roost, (MPR, GJM)

Catholme (from the footpath)
6x Goosander, 2x Little Egret, (JWo)

Alrewas NMA
8x Goosander, 24x Teal, (JWo)

Saturday 8th February 2020

Gailey Resv
Brambling, 2x Goldeneye, 2x Oystercatcher, (SRi)

Doxey Marsh
2x Great Egret, 7x Little Egret, 3x Stonechat, 7x Goosander, 2x Pochard, 74x Teal, 10x Shoveler, Common Gull, (GPr)

Cannock
Red Kite over the cemetary off Pye Green Road at 11:50,

Knypersley Resv
Merlin south over the Osier beds at 09:30, 2x Willow Tit, 11x Goosander, 2x Mandarin, (GBr)

Cannock Tip
Ad Iceland Gull

Blithbury
3x Whooper Swan still opposite Newland Lane, (SRi)

Stoke on Trent
Single Waxwing again opposite the John Marston on Longton Hall Road, (WJo)

Rocester
3x Oystercatcher, 2x Goosander on JCB pool, (RPo, TEy)

Chasewater
2x Iceland Gull (ad and 2w), ad Med Gull, 2w YL Gull in the roost

Hales
Curlew, 200x Lapwing, Shelduck, (TRe)

Hanchurch
c100 Siskin, Crossbill, Redpolls, (BCa, LCa)

Whitemoor Haye
3x Great Egret, Little Egret, 600x Lapwing, Green Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, 12x Goosander, 98x Wigeon, 7x Pochard, 3x Goldeneye, 4x Shelduck, 2x Peregrine, 2x Stonechat, (SCo)

Alvecote
Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 6x Shelduck, (MSc)

Aqualate
3x ad drake Scaup, 41x Goldeneye, (PJo)

Alrewas GP
12x Chiffchaff, (SCo)

Branston GPs
270x Golden Plover, 160x Lapwing, 16x Curlew, 4x Ruff, Redshank, 3x Oystercatcher, 54x Wigeon, 60x Teal, 15x Shoveler, 10x Pochard, 6x Shelduck, GBB Gull, Common Gull, 40x Pied Wagtail, (DSc)

Branston Water Park
56x Gadwall, 3x Pochard, Water Rail, (DSc)

Tittesworth Water
2x Little Egret, 5x Oystercatcher, 21x Lapwing, 12x Snipe, 3x Barnacle Geese, 7x Goosander, 3x Pochard, 2x Willow Tit, (SGi, WLH, IB, CT)

Friday 7th February 2020

Whitemoor Haye
29x Goldeneye, 98x Pochard, 170x Wigeon, 420x Lapwing, 3x Oystercatcher, (DAb)

Gailey Resv
3x Goldeneye, 2x Pochard, Water Rail, (PCo)

Whitfield Valley
5x Little Egret still at north end, Stonechat, (TJa)  -  also Willow Tit, (RGi)

Tittesworth Water
2x Little Egret, Barn Owl, 2x Pochard, 4x Oystercatcher, 12x Snipe, 16x Lapwing, 3x Willow Tit, 2x Redpoll, (SGi)

Branston GPs
Fem Marsh Harrier, Peregrine, Barn Owl, 396x Golden Plover, 219x Lapwing, Green Sandpiper, 4x Ruff, Redshank, 16x Curlew, 4x Oystercatcher, 10x Snipe, 2x Water Rail, 2x Little Egret, 11x Shelduck, 9x Goldeneye, 26x Pochard, 50x Shoveler, 58x Wigeon, 218x Teal, 17x Gadwall, 2x Egyptian Geese, 17x Little Grebe, 2x YL Gull, GBB Gull, 2x Common Gull, Redpoll, (JWo)

Marsh Harrier by Jon Woodcock

Golden Plovers by Jon Woodcock

Thursday 6th February 2020

Middleton Lakes
Barn Owl at 11:45, Woodcock, 5x Goldeneye Dosthill NR, 3x Great Egret on JW, 6x Oystercatcher, (SPA)  -  Ringed Plover on JW south,

Doxey Marsh
2x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, Stonechat, (HKi)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Ad Caspian Gull in the roost, (GJM)

Colwich
Green Sandpiper on River Trent floods off A513, opposite Shooting Club coffee club, (MWh)

Alrewas
3000-4000x Starling murmuration, (SCo)

Branston GPs
3x Ruff, 12x Curlew, 260x Golden Plover, 170x Lapwing, 2x Oystercatcher, Redshank, Woodcock, Little Egret, 5x Goldeneye, 7x Shelduck, 3x Egyptian Geese, (CEc)

i54
2x Stonechat, (JDu)

Wednesday 5th February 2020

Chasewater
10x Whooper Swan flew on to main lake at 09:57, (GHa)

New Landywood Pool
47x Wigeon, 14x Lapwing, 2x GBB Gull, (JJO)

Gailey Resv
4x Goldeneye, 2x Pochard, 2x Oystercatcher, Shelduck, (HKi)y

Doxey Marsh
Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 8x Snipe, Common Gull, 3x Stonechat, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 7x Water Rail, 100x Lapwing, (DBa)

Ramshorn-Wootton
Red Kite at 13:00, (GSt)

By Gill Stew

Rocester
2x Whooper Swan in flooded field near south lake, (GSt)

Branston GPs
2x Ruff, 12x Golden Plover, 3x Oystercatcher, 12x Curlew, 200x Lapwing, 46x Shoveler, 16x Pochard, 13x Shelduck, 70x Wigeon, 100x Teal, 2x Egyptian Geese, Little Egret, YL Gull, 2x GBB Gull, (JWo)

Branston North Pit
5x Little Egret, 60x Wigeon, 80x Teal, (JWo)

Tucklesholme
2x Oystercatcher, 2x Goosander, 9x Pochard, (JWo)

Branston Water Park
No sign of the LT Duck, 30x Gadwall, (JWo)

Tuesday 4th February 2020

Middleton Lakes
2x Pintail, 6x Goldeneye, 2x Oystercatcher, (SPA)

Radford Meadows
400x Golden Plover, Green Sandpiper, 3x Little Egret, 2x Shelduck, (DEv)

Ladybridge-River Anker/Tame
5x Goosander, Little Egret, Grey Wagtail, (MSc)

Branston GPs
2x Ruff, 16x Curlew, Oystercatcher, Snipe, 57x Lapwing, 6x Goldeneye, 23x Pochard, 70x Wigeon, 18x Shoveler, 28x Gadwall, 175x Teal, 12x Shelduck, 2x Egyptian Geese, Little Egret, 24x Little Grebe, YL Gull, 4x GBB Gull, Common Gull, 2x Green Woodpecker, Barn Owl, (JWo)

Monday 3rd February 2020

Doxey Marsh
3x Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 200x Lapwing, 8x Snipe, 14x Gadwall, 2x Pochard, 90x Teal, 3x Stonechat, Common Gull, (GPr)

Branston Water Park
Long-tailed Duck again, 20x Gadwall, (JWo)

Bolehall Moors/R Anker
6x Goosander, 2x Yellowhammer, (MSc)

Chasewater
Ad Iceland Gull, 2x Caspian Gull, 2x ad YL Gull, 

Barton Marina
50x Wigeon, 4x Pochard, (JWo)

Newton Hurst Lane-Blithfield
10x Waxwing still, (DBa, GSt,)  -  also 20x Yellowhammer, (DBa)

Sunday 2nd February 2020

Marsh Farm B&B
11x Waxwing still on B5013 one mile north of Abbots Bromley at 10:11, (CJW)  -  10x Waxwing still off Newton Hurst Lane in farmhouse garden north of Blithfield Resv mid afternoon, (RSw)

By Steve Edwards

Radford MJeadows
787x Golden Plover, 375x Lapwing, Redshank, 232x Wigeon, 3x Little Egret, Goosander, (CDa)

Whitemoor Haye
Great Egret from Sittles farm bend ,62x Pochard, 83x Wigeon, 10x Shelduck, 2x Goldeneye, 800x Lapwing, 6x Egyptian Geese, 40x Yellowhammer, 80x Linnet, x Stonechat, 2x Tree Sparrow, (SCo) - Firecrest reported

Chasewater
Ring-tailed Hen Harier, Ad Iceland Gull, Ad Med Gull, 4x YL Gull, 

Ford Green
Jack Snipe, Little Egret, (JJo)

Alrewas GP
8x Chiffchaff, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)

Alrewas NMA
2x Goosander, Chiffchaff, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)  -  also 2x Green Sandpiper, 6x Goosander, 3x Little Egret, (JWo)

Whitmore Bent Lane
Jack Snipe, 33x Snipe, 43x Tree Sparrow, 2x Stonechat, (NDP)

Audley - Park Lane
14x Golden Plover, 420x Lapwing, 2x Snipe, Peregrine over, 21x Wigeon, Shelduck, and at Mill End Little Egret, (JHu)

Blithbury
3x Whooper Swan still, (SE, HF,)

Catholme (from the footpath)
4x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 6x Goosander, (JWo)

Saturday 1st February 2020

Marsh Farm B&B
7x Waxwing on the B5013 one mile north of Abbots Bromley at 10:40, (MCh)  -  9x at 11:00, (GJM), 11x mid-afternoon, (TPe, JJH, SJH,)

Dimmingsdale
3x Crossbill, (TEy)

Middleton Lakes
2x Pintail, Peregrine, (SPA)

Uttoxeter Quarry
5x Goldeneye, 5x Goosander, 2x Pochard, Peregrine, 4x Common Gull, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Willow Tit, (RPo)

Cannock Tip
Ad Iceland Gull

Knypersley Resv
Peregrine over, 2x Willow Tit, 2x Mandarin, 15x Goosander, (GBr)

Blithbury
3x Whooper Swan still, (TPe)

Newcastle - (Bunnyhill)
Woodcock, 9x Lapwing over, (RGi)

Tittesworth Water
29x Common Gull, 3x Oystercatcher, Little Egret, 3x Willow Tit, 4x Pochard, 7x Goosander, 6x Snipe, 13x Lapwing, 3x Barnacle Goose, (SGi, IB,)

Whitfield Valley
6x Little Egret still, (JJo)

Chasewater
Ad Iceland Gull, 3x Caspian Gull in the roost.