Sunday 31st May 2020

Blithfield Resv
Dunlin from the causeway, (KSt)  -  probable Sanderling at Admaston Reach, (JAl)

Knypersley Resv
Common Tern at 04:30 also Lesser Whitethroat, (GBr)

Whitemoor Haye
Cuckoo, Yellowhammer, Yellow Wagtail, Shelduck, LRP, (PJe)

Blithbury
Cuckoo and a Red Kite over Newlands Lane, (MCh)  -  probably the same bird over Blithfield at 10:30, (AWa)

Boundary
Red Kite at 12:30 low over freshly cut fields, (JBr)

Roach End
Cuckoo, Grey Wagtail, Redstart, (TAh)

Baranston Water Park

Cuckoo, (DSc)

Branston GPs

26x Great Grested Grebe, 30x Little Grebe, 4x Little Egret, 14x Shelduck, Mandarin, 4x (m)Shoveler, 44x Gadwall, Teal, 9x Pochard(1f), 2x Redshank, 22x Lapwing, 2x Black-tailed Godwit to 07:15 only, 2x Green Woodpecker, 6x Garden Warbler, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat,  (DSc)

Parkhall CP
Cuckoo at 17:00, (SSt)

Baldwins Gate
Red Kite at 14:00 also Cuckoo at Bent Lane, (RWh)

Uttoxeter
Cuckoo at 14:00 Kingstone Road, (TJe)

Cheddleton
Red Kite over the Cauldon canal, (MFa)

Saturday 30th May 2020

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Black Tern at west end

Blithfield Resv
Black Tern from the causeway at 09:45, (NS)

Doxey Marsh
8x Little Egret flew in from SE at 06:45, (MBo)

Whitmore Bent Lane
Red Kite this morning, (KAs)

Cheddleton
Red Kite at Ashcombe Park cricket ground

Branston GPs

Black Tern, (NS), also 2x Black-tailed Godwit,  2x Common Tern, 6x Shelduck, 2x Egyptian Geese +3 juvs, 2x Oystercatcher, Green Woodpecker. (JWo)

Forsbrook-Draycott in the Moors
Lesser Whitethroat, Yellowhammer, (AR)

Morridge
Red Kite over field being mown, (SDu)

Newcastle
Red Kite south over Westbury Park at 15:40, (RGi)

Kidsgrove
Red Kite at 13:00, (DSm)

Freehay
Red Kite over the churchyard at 15:47 - 15:53, (FC&RLC)

Rudyard Lake
Red Kite over on west side heading SE, (LR)

Downs Banks
2x pair of Spotted Flycatcher, 4x Garden Warbler, Grey Wagtail, (TRo)

Knypersley
Osprey over this afternoon, (SHa)

Billbrook
Red Kite over NW at 17:00, (PCo)

Stoke on Trent
Red Kite over Sneyd Green at 15:25, (MT)

Tittesworth Water
Redstart, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, 6x LRP, 6x Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, Goosander, (SG, IB)

Catholme
Cuckoo, (JWo)

Alrewas Arboretum
Cuckoo, (JWo)

Cannock Chase
Spotted Flycatcher, Redstart, Cuckoo, (EKi)  -  Cuckoo, Grey Wagtail, (JLy)

Baldwins Gate
Cuckoo, (RWh)

Whiston
Red Kite over at 10:15, (IKe)

Friday 29th May 2020

Blithfield Reservoir is as of today open to members of the WMBC. Hides/Toilets remain closed. If visiting please comply with the government's Covid 19 recommendations on social distancing and use of hand sanitiser etc.

Audley
2-3x Red Kite over this morning, (JMa, MJW)

Wetley Rocks 
Red Kite over field as tractor cuts grass

Downs Banks
2x Spotted Flycatcher, Garden Warbler, 2x Grey Wagtail, (TRo)

Biddulph Moor top road
Curlew and 3x Lapwing, (PGL)

Alvecote
5x Little Egret, Common Tern, 2x Wigeon, (MSc)

Branston GPs

2x Black-tailed Godwit,  20x Lapwing, 13x Shelduck, 42x Gadwall, 15x Pochard (m), 4x Shoveler (m), 2x Mandarin (m), 2x Egyptian Geese +3 juvs, 24x GC Grebe, 24x Little Grebe +1 chick, 5x Little Egret, 4x Common Tern, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 5x Large Skipper - 1st this year, 3x Black-tailed Skimmer, 1x Chicken of the Woods (Black Meadows Wood), 94x Southern Marsh Orchid. (JWo)

Biddulph-Mow Cop
Red Kite off Akesmore Lane, (MBy)

Thursday 28th May 2020

Doxey Marsh
Marsh Harrier this morning, (PDe&JTa)

Halfpenny Green
Red Kite at 09:20, (MMo)

Coven
2x Curlew over north, (JDu)

Whitfield Valley
Hobby north end at 10:30, (JJo)

Trentham
Cuckoo on eastern slopes of the park before moving into the gardens, (KDa)

Biddulph Park
Red Kite again at 12:20, (PGL)

Keele
3x Crossbill over the Science park at 06:30, (MSu)

Wetton Hills
Osprey over before drifting across border towards Hartington, (DGH)

Forsbrook
Lesser Whitethroat along Draycott Old Road, (AR)

Branston GPs

 4x Egyptian Geese +3juv, 8x Shelduck, 8x Mandarin(1pr, 5m, 1f over), 9x Shoveler, 30x Gadwall, Peregrine, 2x Curlew, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 18x Lapwing, 4x Little Egret, Snipe,  Green Woodpecker, 2x Crampball Fungus Weevils, (DSc, JWo)

Baldwins Gate
Hobby, Yellow Wagtail, (RWh)

Bishops Wood
Quail calling at 22:00, (RWh)

Wednesday 27th May 2020

North Staffs
Nightjar calling at 03:40, (DSa)

Tittesworth Water (no parking)
Cuckoo, Common Tern, LRP, Common Sandpiper, (JKe)

Gailey Resv
2x Common Tern thru, 2x Oystercatcher, Spotted Flycatcher, (HKi)

Doxey
Pair of Goosander with 10 young on the River Sow west of the marshes, (NGR)

Threapwood
2x Red Kite, (TEy)

Biddulph Park
Red Kite at 17:10, (PGL)

Ipstones
Garden Warbler, Cuckoo, 2x Swift, (SCh)

Churnet Valley
2x Garden Warbler, 8x House Martin, (SCh)

Tatenhill
Oystercatcher on airfield, (SCl)

Branston GPs

Dunlin, 9x Pochard (1f, 8m), Shoveler (m), 41x Gadwall, 16x Shelduck, Snow Goose, 2x Egyptian Geese +3 juvs, 9x Little Egret, 28x GC Grebe, 24x Little Grebe +1 new juv, 9x Common Tern, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Garden Warbler (including the one with the strange song), Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Green Woodpecker,
7x Silver Ground Carpet, Green Carpet, 12x Cinnabar, Black-tailed Skimmer - 1st this year, 52x South Marsh Orchids also Longhorne Beetle (Stenocorus meridianus) which is the 5th record for Staffs after the one in 2010 at Branston, Small Barred Long-horn Moth (Adela croescella) which is the 6th record for Staffs. (JWo)

Tuesday 26th May 2020

Uttoxeter Quarry
Greenshank, Little Egret, 5x Common Tern, 2x Pochard, Green Woodpecker, (RPo)

Almington - near Loggerheads
9x male Mandarins, (JWi)

Dunstall
2x Curlew over the crossroads, (KBi)

Hawksmoor
Red Kite, Cuckoo, (ABa)

Cannock Chase
5x Redstart, 3x Cuckoo, Tree Pipits, Grey Wagtails, (DBa)  -  2x Stonechat, (KBe)

Gailey Resv
2x Common Tern, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Oystercatcher with 3 young, Yellow Wagtail, (SRi)

Monday 25th May 2020

Doxey Marsh
3x Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, 2x Oystercatcher, (GPr)

Baldwins Gate
Cuckoo, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Hobby, (RWh)

Tittesworth Water
Red Kite over, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Redstart, 3x Common Tern, 8x LRP, 7x Oystercatcher, 5x Common Sandpiper, Goosander, (SGi)

Perton Ridge
Red Kite over Pattingham Road,

Whiston
Red Kite over mown fields before flying off north over Gimmershill, (GSt)

Hanchurch
Cuckoos, (CBa, EKi)

Drayton Bassett
Red Kite over at 15:45

Bishops Wood
2x Quail (calling between 03:00 to 04:00), Nightjar, 4x Cuckoo, 2x Crossbill, Tree Pipit, Spotted Flycatcher, 10x Garden Warbler, (HLl)

Branston GPs

22x Little Grebe, 8x Shelduck, 30x Gadwall, Shoveler, Teal, Pochard, 2x Greenshank (1flew off NW at 18.10), 3x Oystercatcher, 2x Redshank, 2x  Ringed Plover, 18x Lapwing, 3x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, 4x Little Egret, c80 Swift, Lesser Whitethroat. (DSc)

Sunday 24th May 2020

Lower Tean
3x Red Kite in fields between Checkley cricket club and Heath House, (RPo, ABa)

Gailey Resv
Fem Peregrine, 3x Oystercatcher + 3 young, Common Sandpiper, Spotted Flycatcher, (SRi)

Highgate Common
Spotted Flycatcher, (DBa)

Little Aston STW
2x Grey Partridge, Yellowhammer, (PAn)  -  2x Gropper, 

Knypersley Resv
2x Spotted Flycatcher, Green Woodpecker, (PMo)

Doxey Marsh
LRP, Common Tern, Peregrine, Cetti's Warbler, (GHa)

Branston GPs
2x Greenshank, 3x Redshank, LRP, Ringed Plover, 3x Oystercatcher, Hobby, Peregrine, 35x Gadwall, 7x Pochard, Little Egret, Green Woodpecker. (DSc)

Whitemoor Haye
Turnstone, 8x Yellowhammer, 4x Yellow Wagtail, Peregrine, Goldeneye, (DSc)

Cannock Chase
2x Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Cuckoo, 6x Tree Pipit, Woodcock, (DSc)  -  also 2x Redstart, Yellowhammer, (GHa)

Fisherwick
Corn Bunting, (DSc)

Alrewas Arboretum
Cuckoo, 2x Common Tern, 2x Grey Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Shelduck, (JWo)

Wychnor
Cetti's Warbler along the canal, (JWo)

Catholme
Hobby, Yellow Wagtail, (DSc)

Wombourne
Yellow Wagtail by the Round Oak pub, (DJo)

Saturday 23rd May 2020

Whitemoor Haye
Turnstone still, (SCo)

Knypersley Resv
Spotted Flycatcher, (GBr)

Swindon area
Red Kite over Whitehouse Lane at 09:30, (DBa)

Lichfield
Red Kite over at 11:10, (JCo)

Doxey Marsh
2x Common Tern and 2x Oystercatcher still, (GPr)

Lower Tean
Several Red Kites over, (TCo)

Hanchurch Woods
Red Kite over at 12:28, (DVi)  -  4x Cuckoo, 5x Tree Pipit, 4x Crossbill, Spotted Flycatcher, also 2x Yellowhammer Hanchurch Lane, (RGi)

Gailey Resv
Red Kite flew east at 12:55 also 3x Oystercatcher, 2x Egyptian Geese, (SRi)

Uttoxeter Quarry
3x Ringed Plover, 2x Dunlin, 6x Common Tern, Hobby, 6x Goosander, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Pochard, (RPo)

Consall
Redstart, Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Mandarin, Grey Wagtail, (TRo)

Branston GPs
Red Kite, Hobby, 2x Greenshank, 3x Dunlin, 2x LRP, 2x Ringed Plover, 3x Redshank, 3x Oystercatcher, Common Tern, (CEc)

Alton
Red Kite over at 14:00, (DBr)

Little Aston STW
Hobby also a Gropper,

Friday 22nd May 2020

Branston GPs
8x Sanderling, 7x Greenshank, 3x Redshank, 8x Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, 3x LRP, 4x Oystercatcher, 21x Lapwing, Snow Goose, 5x Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, 2x Garden Warbler, (DSc, JWo)

Bishops Wood
Nightjar and Quail present, (HLl)

Thursday 21st May 2020

Baddeley Green
Red Kite over at 11:45, (GWo)

Hanchurch
3x Tree Pipit, Cuckoo, Garden Warbler, (TRo)

Almington near Loggerheads
Red Kite over at 10:00, JWi)

Aqualate
2x Cuckoo, 30x Swift, (JWi)

Branston GPs
7x Greenshank still, Redshank, 2x Oystercatcher,  Little Egret, 3x Mandarin, Green Woodpecker, (CEc)   -  also 3x Sanderling, 5x Redshank, Ringed Plover, 11x LRP, 21x Lapwing, 5x Common Tern, 2x Little Egret, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Peregrine, Snow Goose, 4x Garden Warbler, Muntjac Deer, (JWo)

Cannock Chase
7x Cuckoo (1 seen and 6 heard), 2x Redstart, 4x Tree Pipit, 5x Spotted Flycatcher, (CEc)

Yarnfield - Swynnerton
Yellow Wagtail, 2x Yellowhammer, 6x Lapwing, Garden Warbler, (SMN)

Ipstones - Ipstones Edge
4x Garden Warbler, Curlew, (SCh)

Wednesday 20th May 2020

Chasewater
Mail Whinchat, Hobby, 3x Common Tern, Common Sandpiper, (CMa)  -  7x Greenshank flushed from the sailing shore at 07:20, (GEv)

Silverdale CP
Gropper on The Void, (PCa)

Branston GPs
7x Greenshank, 4x Redshank, 3x Oystercatcher, LRP, Ringed Plover, 3x Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, 32x Gadwall, 8x Shelduck, 5x Common Tern, (CEc, DSc)

Mavesyn Ridware
Yellow Wagtail, (PBr)

Berryhill
Wheatear - possible Greenland type, (DJL&JNL)

Baldwins Gate
2x Red Kite over at 14:30, (RWh)

Wychnor
Cuckoo calling near the fishing lake, (KBi)

Barton under Needwood
2x Red Kite swooping down over grass being cut for sileage at Bar Lane also Spotted Flycatcher and Yellow Wagtail near Dunstall cross roads, (KBi)

Fradley - Whitemoor Haye
Quail still near the crematorium early afternoon, (MWi)

Bilbrook
Hobby over, (PCo)

Hanchurch
2x Cuckoo, 2x Tree Pipit, (PEa)

Whitemoor Haye
Turnstone still new workings, (JAl)

Tuesday 19th May 2020

Penkridge - Gailey
Red Kite over Dobbies garden centre, (GCl)

Highgate Common
Spotted Flycatcher, (DBa)

Huntington
Red Kite 12:01 - 12:04 then headed west, (SRi)

Whitemoor Haye
Quail still, Dunlin, Goldeneye, Yellowhammers, Cetti's Warbler, (DBa,)  -  also 2x Grey Partridge, 5x Yellow Wagtail, Peregrine, ( JWo, CEc)  -  Turnstone and Channel Wagtail, JAl per TPe)

Cannock Chase
Redstarts, Cuckoo, Tree Pipits, (CMa)

Longsdon
Red Kite over the A53 at 14:45, (GWo)

Ipstones
Garden Warbler, (SCh)

Churnet Valley
2x Garden Warbler, 2x Mandarin, Grey Wagtail, (SCh)

Gailey Resv
3x Little Egret, 4x Oystercatcher, Spotted Flycatcher, Yellow Wagtail, (SRi)

Wetley Common 
Cuckoo this evening, (KKi)

Branston GPs
Ringed Plover, 3x Redshank, 4x Oystercatcher, 15x Lapwing, 2x LRP, 26x Gadwall, 2x Mandarin, 5x Pochard, 3x Shoveler, 12x Shelduck, 28x Little Grebe, Snow Goose, 3x Egyptian Geese + 3 juvs, 4x Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, 3x Green Woodpecker, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Garden Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, (JWo, DSc)

Softlow Wood
Cuckoo, (TJe)

Monday 18th May 2020

i54
20x Greenfinch, (JDu)

Whitemoor Haye
Quail still calling in field towards crematorium at 12:25, (RPo)

Branston GPs
4x Sanderling on Ashy Pit also 2x Avocet, Dunlin, Curlew, 13x Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, 5x Redshank, 6x Oystercatcher, Long-tailed Duck, 3x Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, Peregrine, 2x Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)  -  Arctic Tern, (M&JPa)

Tittesworth Water
2x Redshank, 6x LRP, 7x Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher + 5 chicks, 2x Mandarin + 3 chicks, (SG, IB)

Cannock Chase
4x Cuckoo, 4x Redstart, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, Tree Pipits, (DBa)

Baldwins Gate
Red Kite south at 15:00, (RWh)

Sunday 17th May 2020

Burton
Red Kite over Horninglow at 07:40, (MWo)

Chasewater
Great Egret flew from Norton Bog at 08:40

Doxey Marsh
Ruddy Shelduck, Greenshank, 2x Common Tern, (GPr)

Baldwins Gate
Cuckoo, (RWh)

Elkstone
Hobby, Cuckoo, 4x Redstart, 2x Stonechat, (DGH)

Keele
4x Spotted Flycatcher, 9x Garden Warbler, (MSu)

Whitemoor Haye
Quail in grassy field looking towards crematorium, Cuckoo, Dunlin, Redshank, 2x Oystercatcher, LRP, 2x Common Tern, 4x Yellow Wagtail, (SCo)

Maer Hills
Cuckoo near A51, (CPe)

Little Aston STW
2x Cuckoo, Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, Yellowhammer, Gropper, Lesser Whitethroat and a possible Quail, (PAn)

Wiggington (Tamworth)
2x Yellow Wagtail along Syerscote Lane

Blythe Bridge
Hobby west over Cheadle Road at 14:40, (IBr)

Consall
2x Redstart, (TRo)

Hulme End
Red Kite at 15:45, (KBr)

Gailey Resv
Little Egret, Hobby, Spotted Flycatcher, 5x Oystercatcher, (SRi)

Norbury  -  Flashbrook
3x Cuckoo, 2x Corn Bunting, 10x Yellow Wagtail, 7x Yellowhammer, 30x Skylark, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, (RSw)

Branston GPs

2x Avocet, 2x Sanderling, 3x Redshank, Common Sandpiper, 2x Dunlin, 10x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, Common Tern, 2x Green Woodpecker, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, Long-tailed Duck, 4x Little Egret, (DSc)

Uttoxeter Quarry
3x Sanderling, Ringed Plover, 3x Oystercatcher, 5x Common Tern, 2x Hobby, (ABa)

Forsbrook  - Draycott in the Moors
2x Garden Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, (AR)

Ipstones Edge
2x Tree Sparrow, Cuckoo, 2x Garden Warbler, (SCh)

Saturday 16th May 2020

Doxey Marsh
Greenshank, 2x Common Tern, Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, (GPr)

Uttoxeter Quarry
Dunlin, 2x Common Tern, Lesser Whitethroat, 7x Reed Warbler, 3x Mandarin, (RPo)

Chasewater
5x Arctic Tern, (2 north at 10:00 and a further 3 at 11:00), 2x Common Tern, Cuckoo, (CMa)

Wetley Moor
Cuckoo, (KKi)

Elford - Fisherwick
Corn Bunting on wires, (SCo)

Stafford
Fem/1st sum Black Redstart on garage roof in Park Ave near Rowley Park, flew off and not relocated, (AHa)

Alrewas Arboretum
3x Goosander + 6 ducklings, Little Egret, 2x Gadwall, Shelduck, (JWo)

Berryhill
2x Wheatear and at Botteslow Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP, (RTo)

Ashwood
Cuckoo SW of the canal bridge, (DJo)

Friday 15th May 2020

Highgate Common
3x Cuckoo, (AJo)

Tittesworth Water
Wood Sandpiper still, Cuckoo, Redstart, 2x Common Tern, 6x LRP, (SG, IB)

Downs Banks
4x Yellowhammer, 2x Redstart, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, (RGi)

Doxey Marsh
2x Common Tern, 2x Little Egret, Cuckoo, LRP, Oystercatcher, (MBo)

Hanchurch
2x Cuckoo, 4x Tree Pipit, Yellow Wagtail, (TRo)  -  also 17x Crossbill, (NDP)

Wetley Common
Cuckoo this morning, (KKi)

Tucklesholme
Whimbrel on spit to 17:45 then flew south, (TPe)

Branston GPs
Long-tailed Duck still on Ashy Pit, (TPe)  -  also Common Sandpiper, 5x Redshank, 13x Oystercatcher, 8x Ringed Plover, 9x LRP, 3x Little Egret, 2x Common Tern Hobby, 4x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Alvecote
Common Sandpiper, (MSc)

Thursday 14th May 2020

Aqualate
2x Cuckoo, 30x Swift, (JWi)

River Sow Meadows
2x Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Oystercatcher, pair of Gadwall on canal, (RSw)

Alton
Cuckoo, (TEy)

Doxey Marsh
Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, 4x Reed Warbler, (GPr)

Tittesworth Water  (From Causeway)
Wood Sandpiper, Common Sandpipers, Common Terns and 2x Spotted Flycatcher nearby

Newcastle
Red Kite SW over Lyme valley at 15:40, (RGl)

Branston GPs
2x Garganey, 2x Redshank, Little Egret, (CMa, JWo)

Whitemoor Haye
4x Grey Partridge, Yellow Wagtail, (CMa)

Hanchurch Woods
3x Tree Pipit, 3x Cuckoo, (BCa)  -  also 3x Crossbill, (TRo)

Stafford
Ring-necked Parakeet again this evening in tree near bowling green at Rowley Park, (SFi)

Cannock Chase
4x Cuckoo, Tree Pipit, Spotted Flycatcher, (DJL)

Baldwins Gate
Wheatear, (RWh)

Wednesday 13th May 2020

Stafford
Female Golden Oriole in a private garden near Stafford, (PH)

Branston GPs
2x Garganey still, 200x Swift, 12x Shelduck, 4x Oystercatcher this morning, (DSc) - also this afternoon, 2x Whimbrel, 3x Dunlin, 7x Ringed Plover, 6x Ringed Plover, 4x Redshank, 3x Dunlin, 11x Oystercatcher, 16x Lapwing, Long-tailed Duck, Hobby, 2x Common Gull, (JWo)

Baldwins Gate
Wheatear, (RWh)

Doxey Marsh
2x Arctic Tern, Hobby thru, 10x Swift, 20x House Martin, 3x Oystercatcher, (GPr)

Ipstones
3x Curlew and at Ipstones Edge, 5x Tree Sparrow, 3x Garden Warbler, (SCh)

South Hanford Farm
3x Reed Warbler, (LSt)

Bobbington
3-4x  Yellow Wagtail, 2x Cuckoo, Hobby, 

Gailey Resv
Common Tern, 2x Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, 2x Egyptian Geese, (SRi)

Tuesday 12th May 2020

Westport Lake
Adult  Kittiwake at 08:25

Doxey Marsh
Greenshank, Redshank, 50x Swift, (MBo)

Branston GPs
2x Garganey still on Ashy Pit, 9x Shelduck, c1000x Swift/H Martin,/S Martin/Swallow, (JWo)

Keele
3x Spotted Flycatcher, (MSu)

New Landywood Pool
2x LRP, Oystercatcher, (JJO)

Churnet Valley
2x Garden Warbler, Grey Wagtail, (SCh)

Baldwins Gate
2x Wheatear, 2x Swift, Hobby, (RWh)

Highgate Common
Red Kite over,

Berryhill
2x Wheatear, 9x Lapwing, 2x LRP, 2x Shelduck, (RTo)

Monday 11th May 2020

Whitemoor Haye
60x House Martin, Hobby thru, (CSo)

Doxey Marsh
Red Kite over at 09:15, (MBo)

Consall
Redstart, (TRo)

Doxey Marsh
Greenshank, Oystercatcher, (PDe &JDe)

Bignall End 
Swift over Boon Hill, (MJW)

Radford Meadows
Ruddy Shelduck, 2x Shelduck, (JWi)

Branston GPs
2x Garganey (pair on Ashy Pit), Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 5x LRP, 6x Oystercatcher, 4x Redshank, 16x Lapwing, 32x Little Grebe, 4x Little Egret, Common Gull, c300x Swift, c300x House Martin, (JWo)

Baldwins Gate
2x Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear, (RWh)

Halfpenny Green
Quail calling this evening at 21:30, (MMo)

Sunday 10th May 2020

Endon STW
Barn Owl, Lesser Whitethroat, (GBr)

Burton
Cuckoo singing in Horninglow at 04:30, (AGo)

Tucklesholme
Oystercatcher, 3x LRP, and a Hobby thru north, (DJL)

Basford Green
12x Grey-lag Geese, Dipper, 2x Grey Wagtail, (SCh)

Ford Green
3x Common Sandpiper, (JJo)

Hales
Oystercatcher, Mandarin, Gadwall, (TRe)

Branston GPs
2x Garganey, (MPa & JPa)

Gnosall
Cuckoo at Broadhill, (JLy)

Saturday 9th May 2020

Wood Lane-Bignall Hill
Cuckoo, Green Woodpecker, Garden Warbler, (KAs)

Stoke
 2x Swift over Campbell Road, (ASt)

Chase Terrace
Red Kite over Ironstone Road at 11:10, (SMG)

Walton-Baswich (along the canal)
Grasshopper Warbler, 2x Garden Warbler, 5x Reed Warbler, 7x Sedge Warbler, (GHa)

Branston GPs
Long-tailed Duck still, 3x Greenshank, 9x Dunlin, 6x Oystercatcher, 4x Redshank, 14x Lapwing, 4x Little Egret, Common Gull, 2x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Blythe Bridge (Foxfield Railway area)
4x Garden Warbler, (IBr)

Chasewater,
Cuckoo, Common Tern, Shelduck, Common Sandpiper, 

Biddulph
Peregrine circling at 13:00, (RMa)

Doxey Marsh
9 Warbler species inc 35x Sedge Warbler, 2x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 2x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, 16x Swift, (MBo)

Little Aston STW
Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, (PAn)  -  also 2x Grey Partridge, Cuckoo, (GEv)

Stafford
2x Hobbies circling over Park Ave at 16:55, (AHa)

Gentleshaw Common
Cuckoo and 2x Stonechat, (SMG)

Berryhill
2x Wheatear, 18x Sedge Warbler amongst ten Warbler species, Yellow Wagtail, 6x Swift

Church Lea
Grey Wagtail on River Blithe, (CTa)

Sneyd Green
2x Swift, (JOa)

Alrewas Arboretum (footpath)
Common Tern 3x Goosander, 2x Little Egret, 2x Oystercatcher, Cetti's Warbler, c25x Banded Demoiselle-1st this year, (JWo)

Catholme
Cuckoo, (JWo)

Ipstones
2x Swift, (SCh)

Baldwins Gate
2x Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear, (RWh)

Friday 8th May 2020

Aqualate
Male Marsh Harrier at 09:45, (KHa)  -  3x Cuckoo, (MWy)

Doxey Marsh
2x Arctic Tern also several Swifts, (NGR)

Tean
Wheatear in ploughed field at Breach Lane, (RPo)

Halfpenny Green
Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear next to the golf course, (MMo)

South Hanford Farm
9 species of Warbler present also 7x Swift, (RGi)

River Sow Meadows
7x Reed Warbler, 19x Sedge Warbler, 2x Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Hobby, Little Egret, 2x Shelduck, (RSw)

Little Aston
Wheatear, 3x Yellow Wagtail, Yellowhammer, (PAn)

Florence Hill
Grasshopper Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Willow Tit, (AMa)

Baswich
Reed Warbler in garden for 15 mins, (GHa)

Churnet Valley
2x Garden Warbler, (SCh)

Thursday 7th May 2020

Doxey Marsh
2x Bar-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, Osprey, (MBo)

Botteslow Flash
3x Curlew flew south at 06:30, 2x LRP, Common Sandpiper, (RTo)

Biddulph
16x Swift Braddock Hay, (SSe)

Hawksmoor
Cuckoo, Lesser Whitethroat, (IBr)

i54
Red Kite over, (MFo)

Meir 
Red Kite over at 12:30, (JLS)

Drayton Bassett
Whinchat on Drayton Lane

South Hanford Farm
3x Garden Warbler, 6x Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, (LSt)

Baldwins Gate
Probable Black Kite heading north at 17:55 then lost to view, also Wheatear and a Cuckoo, (RWh)

Apedale
Cuckoo at 19:30, (KAs)

Forsbrook
Garden Warbler, (AR)

Norton Heights
Red Kite over at 11:56, (SGi)

Branston GPs
Grey Plover, 3x Greenshank, 20x Dunlin, 4x Redshank, 8x LRP, 3x Ringed Plover, 16x Lapwing, Long-tailed Duck, 9x Little Egret, Common Gull, 5x Garden Warbler, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Peregrine, (JWo)

Stone
2x Yellowhammer, (SMcN)

Wednesday 6th May 2020

Knypersley Resv
Hobby over lake, Yellow Wagtail over Lodge Barn road, Wheatear, Water Rail, Mandarin, 3x Swift, Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Branston GPs
Wood Sandpiper, Grey Plover, 3x Greenshank, (CEc), also 5x Whimbrel, 9x Dunlin, 15x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 4x Redshank, 7x Oystercatcher, Common Gull, Red-crested Pochard, 2x Common Tern, Long-tailed Duck, Yellow Wagtail, Peregrine, (JWo)

Ford Green-Whitfield Valley
Gropper, 2x Reed Warbler, 2x Sedge Warbler, 2x Sand Martin, (JJo)

Caverswall - Blythe Bridge
Wheatear by the Foxfield railway crossing, (AR)

Penn
Yellow Wagtail in horse paddocks Pennwood Farm, (DJa)

South Hanford Farm
9x Sedge Warbler, 2x Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 10x House Martin, (LSt)

Ipstones Edge
3x Cuckoo, 6x Tree Sparrow, (SCh)

Baldwins Gate
Wheatear, (RWh)

Tuesday 5th May 2020

Whitfield Valley
2x Wheatear north end, (JJo)

Stafford
Swifts at nest site on Oxford Gardens, (PDy)

South Hanford Farm
2x Wheatear, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, 7x Sedge Warbler, 10x Whitethroat, Swift, (DCo)

Newcastle
Swift over Basford at 13:00, (PCa)

Lichfield
Peregrine over Boley Park at 15:20, (ARu)

Stone (Common Plott)
Spotted Flycatcher at the edge of woodland on the northern edge of Common Plott, (BJo)

Burton
Groups of Swifts  over Horninglow (AGo)

Baldwins Gate
4x Arctic Tern north at 18:30 also a Wheatear, (RWh)

Caverswall
3x Swift near the castle, (AR)

Barlaston
Goosander with chicks on the Trent, (MWi)

Branston GPs
Grey Plover, 3x Whimbrel, 3x Greenshank, 4x Redshank, 8x Dunlin, 22x LRP, 15x Ringed Plover, 10x Oystercatcher, Snipe, Long-tailed Duck still, 15x Little Egret, Common Gull, 150x Swift, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Garden Warbler, (JWo)

Monday 4th May 2020

Baddeley Green
Cuckoo calling at 04:35, (GBr)

Baldwins Gate
4x Wheatear, (RWh)

Doxey Marsh
2x Grasshopper Warbler, (NGR)

Penkridge
Pair of Goosander + 7 chicks from A449 bridge over River Penk and from Preston Vale Lane pair of Gadwall + 5 chicks, (JPr)

Florence Hill
Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, (IBr)

Blythe Bridge
Swift over Cheadle Road, (IBr)

Ipstones Edge
2x Cuckoo, 3x Tree Sparrow, Curlew, Redstart, Garden Warbler, (SCh)

Cannock
Red Kite over Kingswood at 16:10 also Lesser Whitethroat, (GCl)

Berryhill
9x Wheatear, Willow Tits, 12x Sedge Warbler, 4x Lesser Whitethroat, Cetti's Warbler, 3x Garden Warbler, Reed Warbler, 31x Whitethroat, 3x Lapwing, Yellow Wagtail,  (RTo)

South Hanford Farm
Garden Warbler, 6x Sedge Warbler, (LSt)

Stoke on Trent
Whimbrel over Milton early morning at 00:18, (ALa)

Yoxall
Hobby over, (TSl)

Sunday 3rd May 2020

Highgate Common
Tree Pipit, (MMo)

Halfpenny Green
Wheatear on the airfield, Yellow Wagtail, (MMo)

Endon STW
Yellow Wagtail, Lesser Whitethroat, (GBr)

Cheddleton
Male Whinchat on hedge/wall between rail station and Basford, (DSc)

Landywood Pool
3x LRP, (JJO)

Warslow-Upper Elkstones
Cuckoo, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, Gropper, (DGH)

Little Aston
3x Groppers, Garden Warbler, 3x Yellow Wagtail, Lesser Whitethroat, (PAn)

Cocknage
Garden Warbler, Willow Tit, (AMa)

Gnosall
Red Kite over south at 15:10, GCa)

Westport Lake
Peregrine, Common Sandpiper, (KBr)

Stafford
Ring-necked Parakeet again in Rowley Park next to the bowling green, (SFi)

Doxey Marsh
Short-eared Owl again behind Creswell Flash 19:00 to 19:30, (JPe)

Baldwins Gate
5x Wheatear, (RWh)

Saturday 2nd May 2020

i54
2x Yellow Wagtail over, (JDu)

Westport Lake
Whimbrel thru at 06:20

Berryhill
18x Wheatear also a Whinchat, still ten Warbler species present, Willow Tits, (RTo)  -  Hobby thru at 18:35, (IBu)

Radford Meadows
Dunlin, 2x Swift, Lesser Whitethroat, Reed Warbler, (RSw)

Tucklesholme
2x Bar-tailed Godwit, 7x Dunlin, 2x Common Sandpiper, LRP, Ringed Plover, (TWy)

Alton
3x Garden Warbler, (TEy)

Drointon
Red Kite at 13:15, (PBe)

Hanley Park
4x Goosander, Grey Wagtail, (RGi)

South Hanford Farm
2x Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 5x Sedge Warbler, (LSt)  -  also Swift, Reed Warbler, (RGi)

Churnet Valley
2x Garden Warbler, (SCh)

Branston GPs
Long-tailed Duck still, 6x Dunlin, 5x Redshank, 6x LRP, 4x Ringed Plover, 9x Oystercatcher, Common Gull, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, Yellow Wagtail, Peregrine, 3x Green Woodpecker, 

Doxey Marsh
Short-eared Owl hunting behind Creswell Flash 20:00 to 20:30, (JPe)

Baldwins Gate
7x Wheatear, Swift, Garden Warbler, (RWh)

Stafford
Ring-necked Parakeet in Rowley Park next to the bowling green this evening, (SFi)

Friday 1st May 2020

Doxey Marsh

5x Dunlin, 4x LRP, Curlew, Peregrine, Gropper, Cetti's Warblers, (MBo)

Knypersley Resv

Common Sandpiper, Mandarin, 2x Water Rail, Garden Warbler, (GBr)

Berryhill
18x Wheatear early morning, Whimbrel over low calling at 22:40 and at Botteslow 3x LRP, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Grey Wagtail, (RTo)

Landywood Pool
LRP, (JJO)

Biddulph
Hobby over garden, (SSe)

Almington (near Loggerheads)
4x Mandarin, House Martins, Green Woodpecker, (JWi)

Rocester
2x Dipper, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 20x House Martin, (JDr)

Trentham
Swift over at 14:15, (DVi)

Branston GPs
Long-tailed Duck still, 27x Dunlin, 15x Ringed Plover, 17x LRP, 4x Redshank, 11x Oystercatcher, 20x Lapwing, 4x White Wagtail, 4x Yellow Wagtail, 100x Swift, 200x House Martin, 200x Sand Martin, (JWo)

Baldwins Gate
8x Wheatear, Sedge Warbler, (RWh)

Cannock Chase
Nightjar found in a puddle and taken into care