Friday 31 July 2020

Friday 31st July 2020

Doxey Marsh
Cattle Egret, 2x Great Egret , 2x Little Egret, (MGo)

Brewood
7x Yellow Wagtail, Marsh Tit, Yellowhammer, 2x Green Woodpecker, (PCo)

Branston GPs
Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Dunlin, 2x Green Sandpiper, 5x Common Sandpiper, Redshank, 15x Curlew, 2x Ringed Plover, 51x Lapwing, YL Gull, 20x Common Tern, 21x Little Egret, Peregrine, 19x Pochard, (JWo)


Thursday 30 July 2020

Thursday 30th July 2020

Middleton Lakes
3x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 8x Little Egret, Hobby, (MSm)

Uttoxeter Quarry
Great Egret, Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, 4x Common Sandpiper, 8x Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, YL Gull, (ABa)

Little Haywood
Red Kite at 11:00, (VLa)

Tittesworth Water
9x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 82x Lapwing, 2x Redstart, (JOa, TMe)

                                                                Redstart by Tammy Mellor

Longnor
3x Red Kite, (SMo)

Wednesday 29 July 2020

Wednesday 29th July 2020

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Osprey 13:25 - 13:40 the drifted south, 5x Crossbill over south

Berryhill
2x Whinchat still, juv Redstarts, 2x juv Stonechat, (NDP, RTo)

                                                            Whinchat by Nick Pomiankowski

Branston GPs
Black-tailed Godwit, 15x Curlew, 12x Ringed Plover, 9x Dunlin, 5x Common Sandpiper, 5x LRP, 31x Lapwing, 16x Little Egret, 51x Common Tern, YL Gull, 3x Mandarin, 2x Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, (CEc, JWo, DSc)

                                                   Black-tailed Godwit by Dave Scattergood

Tittesworth Water
Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, (TMe)

Doxey Marsh
Great Egret, Little Egret, Common Sandpiper, Mandarin, 70x Lapwing, (RRa)

Uttoxeter Quarry
Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Green Sandpiper, 6x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, (ABa)

Morridge
Red Kite, (SCh)

Tuesday 28 July 2020

Tuesday 28th July 2020

Middleton Lakes
Garganey on JW south, 4x Green Sandpiper, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Hobby, (MSm)  -  40x Black-tailed Godwit on JW at 15:30, (MCh)

Ford Green
Juv Med Gull to 11:05 only, (JJo)

Berryhill
2x Whinchat still, 4x juv Redstart, juv Stonechat, Peregrine, (NDP)

Blithfield Resv
3x Sanderling, 17x Dunlin, 2x Common Sandpiper, YL Gull, Wheatear, (TJa, DRo)  -  also juv Cuckoo, 15x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x LRP, Curlew, 2x Little Egret, (DBa)  -  also Arctic Tern, Blackwits increased to 26, Ringed Plover, (PDo)

Uttoxeter Quarry
Green Sandpiper, 7x Curlew, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Common Sandpiper, (TJa, DRo)

Gailey Resv
Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 3x Grey Wagtail, (PCo)

Tittesworth Water
3x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 8x LRP, 8x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 3x Common Tern, 157x Lapwing, (JOa, LH)

Drayton Bassett
Juv Cuckoo this afternoon, (MSm)

Baldwins Gate
2x juv Yellow Wagtail, (RWh)

Branston GPs
12x Little Egret, 46x Common Tern, 15x Curlew, LRP, 3x Ringed Plover, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 2x Mandarin, (DSc)

Monday 27 July 2020

Monday 27th July 2020

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
3x Sanderling, 42x Dunlin, 8x Common Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, 18x Oystercatcher, 8x LRP, Ringed Plover, 2x Curlew, 2x Arctic Tern, c50 Common Tern, (ABa)

Middleton Lakes
Wheatear on east scrape, 8x Little Egret, 4x Green Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 250x Lapwing, (MSm)  -  4x Black-tailed Godwit thru, 

Tittesworth Water
6x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 136x Lapwing, Common Tern, 2x Redstart, 4x Mandarin, (SGi, WLH)

Uttoxeter Quarry
Great Egret dropped onto the main pit at 18:25, (ABa)

Berryhill
2x Whinchat, 2x Redstart, 2x Stonechat, (SE,HF)

Whinchat by Steve Edwards

Branston GPs
Juv Med Gull, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, LRP, 3x Ringed Plover, 8x Curlew, 38x Lapwing, 44x Common Tern, ad YL Gull, 10x Little Egret, (JWo)


Sunday 26 July 2020

Sunday 26th July 2020

Middleton Lakes
4x Black-tailed Godwit, 6x LRP, 2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Pintail, (MSm)

Whitemoor Haye
2x Tree Sparrow, (SCo)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
2x Red Kite, 21x Dunlin, 7x Common Sandpiper, 2x Curlew, Ringed Plover, 6x LRP, Redshank, Wheatear, 2x Little Egret, ad YL Gull at deep end, (JJH, SJH)  -  Turnstone Blithe Bay, (AMa)  -  Whimbrel, 4x Sanderling, 30x Dunlin, 3x Redshank, Green Sandpiper,  (DOu, LOu)  -  6x Arctic Tern, Redstart, Willow Tit, (MPR)

                                                           Sanderlings by Steve Edwards

                                                                            
                                                           Turnstone by Steve Edwards

Berryhill
2x Whinchat, Stonechat, 2x Redstart, (NDP)

Knypersley Resv
Hobby, 3x Willow Tit, Mandarin, (GBr)

Aqualate
Hobby, Spotted Flycatcher, Redstart, (TGM)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only
2x imm Pied Flycatcher along southeast bay, 3x Arctic Tern thru SW at 11:25, 1s Caspian Gull

Radford Meadows
600x Swift, Hobby, 2x Little Egret, 20x Lapwing, (RSw)

Brewood area
Little Owl, Yellowhammers, (PCo)

Branston GPs
Imm Marsh Harrier South Lake then flew towards Sandy pit, 40x Common Tern, 14x Little Egret, 8x Ringed Plover, LRP, 18x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, Mandarin, 2x Peregrine, ad YL Gull, Yellow Wagtail, (DSc)

Tittesworth Water
Common Tern, 9x LRP, 4x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 146x Lapwing, 6x Mandarin, 2x Goosander, (JOa)

Uttoxeter Quarry
Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 15x Curlew, 6x LRP, 3x Green Sandpiper, 7x Common Sandpiper, 8x Oystercatcher, (ABa)

Doxey Marsh
2x Common Tern, 3x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Mandarin, (RRa)

Saturday 25 July 2020

Saturday 25th July 2020

Middleton Lakes
3x Black-tailed Godwit, Snipe, 3x LRP, 3x Green Sandpiper, (MSm)  -  also 2x Ringed Plover, 264x Lapwing, (MercianBirding)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Drake Common Scoter, Whimbrel thru, (GJM)

Uttoxeter Quarry
Great Egret, YL Gull, 12x Little Egret, 11x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, 11x Common Sandpiper, 5x LRP, Dunlin, 3x Oystercatcher, Peregrine, (NDP)

Tittesworth Water
Redshank, 110x Lapwing, 5x LRP, 4x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Gull, 3x Mandarin, Goosander, 2x Redstart, 3x Grey Wagtail, (SGi, IB,CT)

Alvecote
8x Little Egret, 4x Common Tern, (MSc)

Burston
7x Green Sandpiper, Red Kite, Tree Sparrows, Yellowhammer, (AHa)

Alrewas Arboretum
3x Green Sandpiper, also 12x Buffalow in the field between the A38  and the signal box at Alrewas, (JWo)

By Jon Woodcock

Branston GPs
Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, 15x Curlew, 14x Ringed Plover, LRP, 4x Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, 36x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, 40x Swift, Peregrine, Green Woodpecker, (DSc)

Whitemoor Haye
Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, Yellow Wagtail, Yellowhammer, (SDA, TDA)

Upper Tean
Red Kite over the A50, (DMo)


Friday 24 July 2020

Friday 24th July 2020

Burston
6x Green Sandpiper still, (AEa)

Stafford
Hobby over Park Avenue, (AHa)

Berryhill
Redstart, Lesser Whitethroat, 40x Swifts around the mast, (IBu)

Doxey Marsh
Great Egret, Little Egret, 4x Common Tern, 

Tittesworth Water
YL Gull, Common Tern, 7x LRP, 4x Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, 65x Lapwing, (JOa)

Ramshaw Rocks
Juv Cuckoo, (KMa)

Drayton Bassett
Peregrine over this evening, 

Branston GPs
13x Curlew, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 30x Lapwing, Oystercatcher, 20x Common Tern, 8x Little Egret, Peregrine, (DSc)


Thursday 23 July 2020

Thursday 23rd July 2020

Middleton Lakes
Black-tailed Godwit, 4x LRP, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Snipe, Hobby, Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)

Uttoxeter Quarry
10x Little Egret, 2x Dunlin, 10x Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, (RPo)

Tittesworth Water
Dunlin, 9x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, Curlew, 65x Lapwing, Spotted Flycatcher, Grey Wagtail, (JOa)  -  also YL Gull, Common Tern, 3x Mandarin, Goosander, (SGi)

Branston GPs
Cattle Egret still on Ashy pit, Greenshank, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x Redshank, 11x Ringed Plover, 10x Curlew, 4x Oystercatcher, 36x Common Tern, 12x Little Egret, 42x Little Grebe + 16 juvs, (JWo)

Ellaston
Little Egret flying down the River Dove, (PBu)

Burston
7x Green Sandpiper, (STu)

Doxey Marsh
2x Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, (KMa)


Wednesday 22 July 2020

Wednesday 22nd July 2020

Branston GPs
Cattle Egret on Ashy pit, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, 9x Curlew, 3x Ringed Plover, 2x Redshank, 2x Common Sandpiper,  4x Oystercatcher, 38x Common Tern, 14x Little Egret, YL Gull, Marsh Tit, Hobby, (CEc, JWo)

                                                               Cattle Egret by Jon Woodcock

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
8x Arctic Tern northwest, (MPR,GJM)

Doxey Marsh
Great Egret, 2x Common Tern, Mandarin, (NGR)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
3x Med Gull, 

Middleton Lakes
Marsh Harrier, Hobby, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, LRP, (ARa)  -  also 3x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, (SPA)

Bottleslow Flash
Green Sandpiper early morning, Little Egret, (RTo)

Morridge
Red Kite over at 11:00, (JOa)

Butterton
Osprey over SW, Whinchat, Spotted Flycatcher, Redstarts, (DGH)

Keele
7x Crossbill over, (MSu)


Tuesday 21 July 2020

Tuesday 21st July 2020

Berryhill
4x Redstart (3 juvs), Tree Pipit, Garden Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, Little Egret, (RTo, NDP)

Brewood
2x Spotted Flycatcher, Yellowhammer, Green Woodpecker, (PCo)

Pool Hall
Juv Redstart, (GCl)

Enville
Redstart at Mere Farm, (DBa)

Tittesworth Water
Dunlin, 5x Common Sandpiper, 9x LRP, 3x Oystercatcher, 93x Lapwing, 3x Mandarin, (JOa)

Swallow Moss
Cuckoo, Peregrine, (JOa)

Gailey Resv
Great Egret in tree on fishing pool at 20:05, (SRi)

Stoke 
Hobby over west end at 20:06, (NDP)

Uttoxeter Quarry
17x Little Egret, Green Sandpiper, 6x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP,  (ABa)

Branston GPs
5x Black-tailed Godwit, 13x Curlew, 5x Ringed Plover, 2x Oystercatcher, 23x Lapwing, 4x Mandarin, 16x Common Tern, 21x Little Egret, Peregrine, Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
4x Med Gull


Monday 20 July 2020

Monday 20th July 2020

Middleton Lakes
5x Dunlin, Snipe, LRP, (MSm)

Doxey Marsh
Great Egret, Little Egret, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, (DBa)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
20x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Dunlin, 2x Redshank, also 5x Whinchat, ad Med Gull, 

Tittesworth Water
YL Gull, 13x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, 102x Lapwing, 2x Oystercatcher, Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, 10x Mandarin, (SGi)

Stafford
2x Peregrine over Aldi car park, (ABa)

Botteslow Flash
2x Common Sandpiper

Sunday 19 July 2020

Sunday 19th July 2020

Middleton Lakes
6x LRP, 2x Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, 2x Redshank, 2x Oystercatcher, Water Rail, (MSm)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
8x Redshank, 3x Dunlin, 

Knypersley Resv
Barn Owl along Lodge Barn Road, (GBr)

Doxey Marsh
Great Egret, 2x Common Tern, Peregrine, Little Egret, (GPr, TWi)

Audley Meadows
Juv Whinchat, Lesser Whitethroat, (PDo)

Branston GPs
Crossbill over west at 10:49 (site tick), 5x Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Dunlin, 9x Curlew, 12x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 3x Oystercatcher, Mandarin, 20x Common Tern, 10x Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, Green Woodpecker, 2x Southern Hawker, (DSc)

Southern Hawker by Dave Scattergood

Tittesworth Water
Black-tailed Godwit, 9x LRP, 3x Curlew, 4x Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, 103x Lapwing, 4x Common Tern, 5x Mandarin, Spotted Flycatcher, Redstart, (JOa)

Tittensor Chase
Hobby, Yellowhammer, (AR)

Saturday 18 July 2020

Saturday 18th July 2020

Middleton Lakes
4x Green Sandpiper, 13x Oystercatcher, 4x LRP, Ringed Plover, (SPA)  -  Common Sandpiper, 

Knypersley Resv
Greenshank over, Common Tern, (GBr)

Tittesworth Water
Ad YL Gull, 4x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, (SGi)

By Steve Gibson

Berryhill
2x Whinchat, 3x Stonechat, Little Egret, (RTo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
2s Med Gull, 14x Common Sandpiper, 

Uttoxeter Quarry
3x Red Kite near the A50, Caspian Gull, 12x Little Egret, 6x Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, 16x Curlew, 3x LRP, 9x Goosander, 2x Mandarin, (ABa)

By Andy Barker

                                                               Caspian Gull by Andy Barker
                                                                     
Branston GPs
Turnstone, 5x Oystercatcher, 3x Dunlin, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, 13x Curlew, 5x Ringed Plover, ad YL Gull, 10x Little Egret, 50x Swift. 3x Mandarin, (DSc)

Friday 17 July 2020

Friday 17th July 2020

Middleton Lakes
5x Green Sandpiper, 4x Ringed Plover, 6x LRP, Hobby, (MSm)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Knot from the area of the closed Cliffs hide, 15x Common Sandpiper, 6x Dunlin, 12x LRP, Redshank, YL Gull,  (GWi)

Rocester
Red Kite drifting west at 08:10, (JDr)

Doxey Marsh
Great Egret, Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, LRP, 

Branston GPs
6x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Dunlin, 14x Curlew, 4x Oystercatcher, 4x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 25x Lapwing, 7x Little Egret, 15x Common Tern, YL Gull, Common Gull, Peregrine, 2x Green Woodpecker, 12x White-letter Hairstreak, 10x Purple Hairstreak, 16x Gatekeeper, 3x Holly Blue, (JWo)


Thursday 16 July 2020

Thursday 16th July 2020

Middleton Lakes
5x Black-tailed Godwit to 07:30 only, Ringed Plover, LRP, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Redshank, (MSm)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
8x Crossbill NE thru Blithe Bay, (GJM)

Brewood
4x Yellow Wagtail, Spotted Flycatcher, (PCo)

Berryhill
Whinchat, 2x Stonechat, Redstart, - Bottleslow Flash, Little Egret and ad YL Gull this evening, (RTo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
4x Whinchat off west lane track

Doxey Marsh
Great Egret still, Common Tern, Common Gull, 

Branston GPs
6x Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, 2x Dunlin, 2x Redshank, 4x Curlew, 4x Oystercatcher, 6x Ringed Plover, 32x Lapwing, 15x Common Tern, YL Gull, Common Gull, 10x Little Egret, 2x Hobby, Peregrine, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Ashley
Quail singing in wheat field, (RSu)

Wednesday 15 July 2020

Wednesday 15th July 2020

i54
Redshank briefly before flying off north, (MFo)  -  3x Common Sandpiper, (JDu)

Middleton Lakes
Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)

Rudyard
Cattle Egret over the lake at 08:00, LRa)

Enville
LRP, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Egyptian Geese, (DBa)

Branston GPs
6x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 9x Little Egret, 15x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, (CEc)  -  also drake Common Scoter, 15x Black-tailed Godwit, 9x Curlew, Redshank,  (BAS, AMS)  -  also Common Scoter still at 21:00, 24x Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, 8x Shoveler (one juv) = first breeding success here, (DSc)

Uttoxeter Quarry
13x Little Egret on main pit, 21x Curlew, (ABa)

Barton Gate
Red Kite over at 16:12, (KBi)

Brankley Pastures
Plenty of Gamekeepers and Small Skippers, (JWo)


Tuesday 14 July 2020

Tuesday 14th July 2020

Middleton Lakes
Greenshank on JW, (MSm)

Trentham Gardens
2x Common Tern, 2x Oystercatcher, 12x Mandarin, Little Egret, Redstart, (RTo)

Brewood
Hobby, 2x Yellowhammer, Spotted Flycatcher, (PCo)

Tittesworth Water
9x LRP, 4x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 78x Lapwing, Curlew, 5x Mandarin, Goosander, Redstart, (JOa)

Radford Meadows
Gropper this morning, (PDe, JTa)

Branston GPs
13x Curlew, 4x Ringed Plover, 3x Oystercatcher, 20x Lapwing, 8x Little Egret, 18x Common Tern, (JWo)

Alvecote
Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, 6x Little Egret, (MSc)

Stilecop (near Rugeley)
Unconfirmed report of a Golden Eagle over

Doxey Marsh
4x Common Tern on Creswell Flash, (SCa)

Monday 13 July 2020

Monday 13th July 2020

Middleton Lakes
2x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, Redshank, 2x LRP, 9x Little Egret, Gropper, (SPA)

Doxey Marsh
Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, Gropper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Common Tern, 2x Peregrine, (DBa)

Cannock Chase
Spotted Flycatcher, (CMa)x Mandarin, 2x Common Gull,

Tittesworth Water
Little Egret, 73x Lapwing, 11x LRP, 7x Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, Goosander, Willow Tit, (SGi)

Sunday 12 July 2020

Sunday 12th July 2020

Whitemoor Haye
Hobby flew thru, 3x Common Tern, Goldeneye, 4x Little Egret, 7x Yellow Wagtail (3ad + 4juvs), 14x Egyptian Geese, (SCo)

Middleton Lakes
Green Sandpiper, 3x LRP, 3x Ringed Plover, 2x Redshank, Snipe, (MSm)

Doxey Marsh
Great Egret, Common Sandpiper, Common Tern, (RRa)

Knypersley Resv
Common Sandpiper, Mandarin, (GBr)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Spoonbill in Tad Bay at 15:15, (JAl)  -  5x Dunlin, LRP, Common Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail, Ruddy Shelduck, 30x Common Tern, 6x Little Egret, (DOu, LOu)

Branston GPs
2x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, (DOu, LOu)

Silverdale CP
Redstart, 2x Reed Warbler, (EKi)

Branston GPs
10x Little Egret, 3x Mandarin, Peregrine, 11x Curlew, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 13x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, Common Gull, ad YL Gull, 8x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, (DSc)


Saturday 11 July 2020

Saturday 11th July 2020

Whitemoor Haye
Hobby, Dunlin, 5x Little Egret, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, (SCo)

Stafford
3x Peregrine over at 09:20, (MBo)

Gailey Resv
2x Crossbill flew NW at 09:13, 2x Common Sandpiper, Common Tern, 4x Yellow Wagtail, (SRi)

Cuckoo Bank
Quail calling this morning,

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Marsh Tit, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Tree Sparrow, Peregrine, (KCl)

Branston GPs
3x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Curlew, (TPe)  -  also ad/sum Med Gull, ad YL Gull, 8x Ringed Plover, 13x Curlew, 40x Lapwing, 3x Oystercatcher, 8x Common Tern, Southern Hawker, 3x Purple Hairstreak, (DSc)

Tucklesholme
4x Common Sandpiper, (TPe)

Whitfield Valley
2x Gropper, 3x Reed Warbler, (PMo)

Tittesworth Water
16x LRP, 7x Common Sandpiper, 46x Lapwing, 3x Oystercatcher, Redstart, Willow Tit, Grey Wagtail, Mandarin, (SG, IB, CT)

Ball Green
Red Kite over at 19:00, (JKe)

Tameside NRover at 11:30
2x Oystercatcher, (MSc)

Wheaton Aston
Red Kite low over, Yellowhammers, TMG)



Friday 10 July 2020

Friday 10th July 2020

Middleton Lakes
Curlew thru, 2x Green Sandpiper, Peregrine thru, Hobby on Dosthill NR, (MSm)

Trentham
Osprey over golf club at 09:31, (JB)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
3x drake Common Scoter, 

Berryhill
Whinchat and a Redstart from the Palletstacks track this morning, also 2x Lesser Whitethroat, (RTo)

Uttoxeter Quarry
Black-tailed Godwit, 10x Common Sandpiper, 5x Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, Mandarin, (RPo)

Doxey Marsh
Great Egret, also a Gropper, (PDe, DEm, JTa)

Tucklesholme
4x Black-tailed Godwit north at 10:26, Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, 10x Common Sandpiper, 5x Little Egret, Peregrine, (IWh)

Churnet Valley
2x Mandarin, (SCh)

Branston GPs
12x Black-tailed Godwit on Ashy pit, 2x Oystercatcher, 8x Ringed Plover, 12x Common Tern, 5x Little Egret, (JWo)

Chasewater
3x Common Scoter (drake + 2 females), (JHu)

Thursday 9 July 2020

Thursday 9th July 2020

Middleton Lakes
Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 3x Redshank, (MSm)

Branston GPs
Juv Med Gull, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Curlew, (RPo)  -  also 12x Curlew, Redshank, 13x Ringed Plover, 5x LRP, 5x Oystercatcher, 44x Lapwing, 14x Little Egret, 15x Common Tern, (JWo)

Redshank by Jon Woodcock

Uttoxeter Quarry
Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, 6x Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 2x Little Egret, (NDP)

Tittesworth Water
Little Egret, 18x LRP, 6x Common Sandpiper, 7x Oystercatcher, 46x Lapwing, 5x Curlew, 5x Common Tern, (SG, IB, JOa)

i54
2x Common Sandpiper along the canal, (AEv)


Wednesday 8 July 2020

Wednesday 8th July 2020

Middleton Lakes
9x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x LRP, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, (MSm)

Wheaton Aston
Quail calling at 03:30, (TMG)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Drake Common Scoter still

Dimmingsdale
35x Siskin, 3x Green Woodpecker, (TEy)

Branston GPs
Juv Med Gull, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Common Sandpiper, 6x Curlew, 9x Ringed Plover, 7x LRP, 4x Oystercatcher, 46x Lapwing, 11x Little Egret, 12x Common Tern, 2x Green Woodpecker, 2x Cetti's Warbler,  Polecat dragging Rabbit across the footpath, (JWo)

Juv Med Gull by Jon Woodcock

Staffs



Tuesday 7 July 2020

Tuesday 7th July 2020

Knypersley Resv
Crossbill in flight at Lodge Barn road also Mandarin on lake, (GBr)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Whimbrel thru north west, (GJM)

Middleton Lakes
8x Black-tailed Godwit, 6x LRP, Ringed Plover, Redshank, Dunlin, (MSm)

Hanchurch Woods
20+ Crossbill, 50+ Siskin, (PFo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Drake Common Scoter still,

Uttoxeter Quarry
4x Green Sandpiper, 8x Common Sandpiper, 2x Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, (RPo)

Tittesworth Water
8x LRP, 4x Oystercatcher, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Curlew, 2x Common Tern + 3 juvs, 61x Lapwing, (JOa)

Monday 6 July 2020

Monday 6th July 2020

Middleton Lakes
Little Tern thru at 07:35 but no further sign, 7x Black-tailed Godwit, 7x LRP, Ringed Plover, (MSm)

Tittesworth Water
Black-tailed Godwit, 22x Curlew, 9x LRP, 7x Oystercatcher, 4x Common Sandpiper, 47x Lapwing, 3x Goosander, Tufted Duck with 7 ducklings, (SGi)

By Steve Gibson

Gailey Resv
6x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, (PCo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
4x Whimbrel at the west end briefly

Barton GPs
Ad Med Gull, 5x Little Egret, 2x Redshank, 2x LRP, Oystercatcher, 3x Common Tern, (CMa)

Barton - Whitemoor Haye
Corn Bunting on wires on the road to the rail crossing, (CMa)

Alvecote
Yellow Wagtail, 3x Common Tern, 3x Little Egret, (MSc)

Wheaton Aston
Crossbill calling heading SE, (TMG)

Sunday 5 July 2020

Sunday 5th July 2020

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Drake Common Scoter still, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, Redshank, Green Sandpiper, Dunlin, 6x Common Sandpiper, 

Doxey Marsh
Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 2x LRP, Common Sandpiper, Peregrine, 3x Common Tern, (MBo, PDy, GPr)

Stoke on Trent
Hobby over Blurton, (PFo)

Tittesworth Water
2x Common Tern, 3x Common Sandpiper, 8x Oystercatcher, 8x LRP, 54x Lapwing, (JOa)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
7x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Common Sandpiper, 15x Common Tern, 2x Little Egret, (MCH)

Saturday 4 July 2020

Saturday 4th July 2020

Middleton Lakes
5x Black-tailed Godwit, 7x LRP, Redshank, 2x Green Sandpiper, (MSm)

Hanchurch Woods
100+ Crossbill, 150+ Siskin, (NDP)

Whitemoor Haye
Cuckoo, Peregrine, Hobby, 70x Lapwing, (SCo)

Uttoxeter Quarry
Green Sandpiper, 6x Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, Mandarin, (RPo)

Tittesworth Water
6x Common Tern, 9x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, 52x Lapwing, 4x Oystercatcher, Goosander, Grey Wagtail, 2x Redstart, Willow Tit, (SG, IB, CT)  -  also 3x Curlew, (JOa)

Longsdon Mill pool
2x Oystercatcher, Lesser Whitethroat, (SG)

Knypersley Resv
Little Egret, (GBr)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
10x Ringed Plover, (GSa)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Common Scoter still, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, LRPs, (SMG)

Branston GPs
Ad Med Gull, 8x Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, 5x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, Peregrine, (DSc)

Friday 3 July 2020

Friday 3rd July 2020

Uttoxeter Quarry
Dunlin, 2x Green Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 6x Little Egret, 4x Common Tern, Gropper, Hobby, Green Woodpecker, (NDP)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Drake Common Scoter, Green Sandpiper, 

Branston GPs
8x LRP, 5x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 2x Curlew, Redshank, 13x Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, (RCB)  -  also 8x LRP, 14x Ringed Plover, 19x Curlew, 2x Redshank, Dunlin, 20x Lapwing, 6x Oystercatcher, 14x Little Egret, 17x Common Tern, Hobby, 2x Peregrine, 2x Green Woodpecker, (JWo

Thursday 2 July 2020

Thursday 2nd July 2020

Middleton Lakes
Ad YL Gull, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Green Sandpiper, 6x LRP, 3x Ringed Plover, 3x Redshank, (MSm, SPA)

Mere Farm
2x Green Sandpiper, (MMo)

Tittesworth Water
5x Common Tern, 4x Common Sandpiper, 8x LRP, 4x Oystercatcher, 6x Lapwing, 2x Goosander, 7x Mandarin, 2x Garden Warbler, (JOa, LH, SG)

Uttoxeter Quarry
12x Black-tailed Godwit, 7x Curlew, 6x Green Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 3x Little Egret, (ABa)

Wednesday 1 July 2020

Wednesday 1st July 2020

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
1st sum Laughing Gull flew off SE at 08:29 and no sign since

Middleton Lakes
Ad YL Gull briefly, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 7x LRP, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Redshank, Green Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, Hobby, (MSm)

Doxey Marsh
Great Egret, 2x Common Tern, (SCa)

Tameside NR
6x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Oystercatcher, (MSc)

Trentham Gardens
4x Little Egret, 2x Oystercatcher, 5x singing Reed Warbler, (PFo)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
6x Common Sandpiper, 6x LRP, 8x Oystercatcher, (CEc)

Trescott
Quail calling in field at Furnace Grange farm, (JM)

Whitemoor Haye
8x juv Yellow Wagtail, (SCo)

Halfpenny Green
Corn Bunting, also Green Sandpiper on the Mere, (MMo)

Gailey Resv
3x Common Sandpiper, Mandarin, (SRi)

Branston GPs
Ad Med Gull, 7x Curlew, 7x Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, 58x Lapwing, 7x Oystercatcher, 15x Little Egret, 15x Common Tern, 60x Gadwall, Mandarin, 2x Peregrine, 3x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Med Gull by Jon Woodcock

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