Monday 31st August 2020

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Marsh Warbler trapped and ringed at 07:30

Middleton Lakes
2x Garganey, 4x Pintail, Wigeon, 2x Great Egret, Green Sandpiper, 4x Snipe, Hobby, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)

Cuckoo Bank
Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Redstart, Tree Pipit, 2x Wheatear, Whinchat, (MCh)  -  afternoon update, 9x Redstart, 4x Whinchat, 3x Tree Pipit, Hobby, Stonechat, 2x Swift,

Knypersley Resv
Whinchat by Lodge Barn Road, Willow Tit, 2x Swift, Peregrine, 5x Tawny Owl, (GBr)

Doxey Marsh
4x Little Egret, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 

Blithfield Resv
2x Little Stint,  also the escaped White-naped Crane, (HF,SE)  -  also Osprey over, 3x Dunlin, 7x Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, 6x Common Sandpiper, 5x ad YL Gull, 30x Common Tern, 7x Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear, (SRi)

                                                            Little Stints by Steve Edwards
                                                                                   

                                            White-naped Crane escapee by Steve Edwards

Enville
Marsh Harrier briefly at 12:35,

Uttoxeter Quarry
Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail, Willow Tit, Cetti's Warbler, 37x Barnacle Geese, Green Woodpecker, (NDP)

Berryhill

2x Whinchat, 2x Stonechat, 3x Redstart, Spotted Flycatcher 2x Swift, and a briefly calling Quail, (IB, RTo, NDP)

Drayton Bassett

3x Whinchat still, (MSm)

Westport Lake

Common Sandpiper, 4x Grey Wagtail, Willow Tit, (BCa)

Tittesworth Water

30x Lapwing, 7x Goosander, YL Gull, 2x Redstart, (DGH)

Branston GPs

Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, Ringed Plover, 3x Snipe, 8x Curlew, 4x Spotted Flycatcher, 3x Green Woodpecker, c100x Little Grebe, 10x Little Egret, 60x Shoveler, Hobby, 2x Peregrine, (DSc)

Alvecote

Redstart, (MSc)

Whittington Farm

Little Owl, Peregrine, c550x Swallow roosted in maize fields, (Jon)

Sunday 30th August 2020

Cuckoo Bank
Marsh Harrier drifted over, 4x Redstart, 3x Whinchat, Wheatear, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, 6x Tree Pipit, Yellow Wagtail, 3x Crossbill over, c1000x House Martin thru NE  -  10x Whimbrel over this afternoon

Doxey Marsh
3x Great Egret, 28x Gadwall, 140x Lapwing, (DM)

Middleton Lakes
Whinchat, 2x Great Egret, Garganey, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)

Gailey Resv
2x Common Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail, 4x Grey Wagtail, sev Swifts, 2x Siskin over, SRi)

Berryhill
4x Whinchat, 3x Redstart, 2x Tree Pipit, 2x Stonechat, Spotted Flycatcher, (NDP, IB)

Otherton
Wheatear, 3x Yellow Wagtail, (SRi)

Branston GPs
2x Greenshank flew north at 12:05, 5x Ringed Plover, (RPo)  -  also Hobby, Peregrine, 11x Curlew, Ruff, Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Green Woodpecker, Spotted Flycatcher, Yellow Wagtail, Siskin, (DSc)

Knypersley Resv
Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Willow Tit, (GBr)

Tittesworth Water
2x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 23x Lapwing, 2x Goosander, 2x Barnacle Geese, Grey Wagtail, (JOa, RJH)

Drayton Bassett

5x Whinchat moving thru south, (MSm)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Gropper, Spotted Flycatcher, Garganey, Green Woodpecker, 

Blithfield Resv

6x Little Egret, Common Terns, Yellow Wagtail, (GHa)

Uttoxeter Quarry

3x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, Green Sandpiper, 14x Goosander, Mandarin, (ABa)

Whitemoor Haye

Goldeneye, Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, 4x Swift,  -  Arboretum - Little Egret, Goosander, (SCo)

Saturday 29th August 2020

Whitemoor Haye
Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Goldeneye, (SCo)

Middleton Lakes
Garganey, 2x Great Egret, 2x Hobby, Yellow Wagtail, Spotted Flycatcher, (MSm)

Uttoxeter Quarry
Fem Common Scoter, 2x Great Egret, 3x Green Sandpiper, (RPo)

Berryhill
Redstart, Whinchat, 2x Stonechat, Spotted Flycatcher, (DWa,PMo)  -  also 2x Willow Tit, Hobby, 2x Grey Wagtail, (IBu)  -  also 3x Redstart, Green Woodpecker, (BCa)

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

Tittesworth Water

2x Redstart, Green Woodpecker, 2x Goosander, 5x Mandarin, Grey Wagtail, 17x Lapwing, 2x Barnacle Geese, (SGi, IB, CT, KH)  -  also 4x Shoveler, (JOa)

Cuckoo Bank

2x Redstart, 4x Spotted Flycatcher, Hobby, Tree Pipit, Wheatear, 13x Swift, 

Blithfield Resv

2x juv Curlew Sandpiper in Tad Bay at 15:00, 6x Little Egret, 5x Ringed Plover, 2x Redshank, 3x Curlew, YL Gull,  (RPo)

Branston GPs

8x Little Egret, Hobby, Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, Snipe, 3x Swift, (DSc)

Tucklesholme

Common Sandpiper, 3x Common Tern, (DSc)

Branston WP

Hobby, Swift, (DSc)

Amington Fields-Bolehall Moor

Peregrine, Lesser Whitethroat, 100x Linnet, (MSc)

Catholme

2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, (JWo)

Alrewas NMA

Goosander, (JWo)

Friday 28th August 2020

Middleton Lakes
2x Great Egret, Green Sandpiper, Snipe, Hobby, (MSm)

Mere Farm
Peregrine, (MMo)

Berryhill, 
5x Wheatear, Whinchat, 5x Redstart, 2x Stonechat, 3x Tree Pipit, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, Swift, (RTo, NDP)

Tittesworth Water

Common Sandpiper, Snipe, 100x Lapwing, 18x Mandarin, Willow Tit, 2x Barnacle Geese, (SGi)

Branston GPs

11x Curlew, 2x Dunlin, 2x Common Sandpiper, 8x Ringed Plover, 79x Lapwing, 521x Mallard, 10x Little Egret, 2x YL Gull, 111x Little Grebe, 2x Hobby, 40x Swift, Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Thursday 27th August 2020

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Corncrake flushed and seen at west end at 07:20 but no further sign, (NTa)

Uttoxeter Quarry
2x Great Egret, Dunlin, 3x Ringed Plover, 7x Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, 8x Curlew, Hobby, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (NDP)

Middleton Lakes
3x Great Egret, 2x Garganey, Green Sandpiper, Hobby, Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)

Whitemoor Haye
19x Tree Sparrow, 15x Yellowhammer, Hobby and at the Arboretum  a Great Egret flew over, also a Goosander at Watersmeet, (CEc)

Trescott Ford

2x Green Sandpiper, (CVa)

Branston GPs

2x Whimbrel, 14x Curlew, Greenshank, 4x Dunlin, 6x Ringed Plover, 3x Common Sandpiper, 80x Lapwing, 101x Little Grebe, 43x Gadwall, 22x Pochard, 105x Teal, 27x Shoveler, 16x Little Egret, 2x YL Gull, 2x Swift, 3x Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

                                                            Dunlin by Jon Woodcock

                                    

Staffs

Wednesday 26th August 2020

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Juv Curlew Sandpiper still, 34x Ringed Plover, 8x Dunlin, Greenshank, 3x LRP, juv Arctic Tern,  - also Ruff

Radford Meadows
Great Egret, 3x Snipe, 25x Lapwing, (CDa)

Middleton Lakes
2x Great Egret, 4x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Hobby, (MSm)

                                                                By Rob Bendelow

                                                                    

Berryhill
13x Wheatear, 4x Whinchat, 2x Stonechat, 3x Redstart, 2x Tree Pipit, Hobby Peregrine, (RTo, NDP)

Enville
4x Green Sandpiper at Mere farm pools, (DJa)

Blithfield Resv

Turnstone this am, (GJM)

Cuckoo Bank

2x Whinchat, Redstart, Willow Tit, (CWG)  -  also Spotted Flycatcher, Hobby Peregrine, (JWo)

Tittesworth Water

2x Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 93x Lapwing, 2x Mandarin, 2x Goosander, 2x Barnacle Geese, Green Woodpecker, (JOa, RJH))

Rudyard Resv

3x Dunlin, 3x Ringed Plover, LRP, (CL)

Trescott Ford

2x Green Sandpiper, Little Egret, (IMo)

Tuesday 25th August 2020

Blithfield Resv
Juv Black Tern, juv Arctic Tern, (GJM)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Juv Curlew Sandpiper, 9x Dunlin, 33x Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, Ruff, 3x Green Sandpiper, 11x Common Sandpiper,  juv Arctic Tern, 4x Common Tern, Whinchat, Wheatear, 

                                                Curlew Sandpiper by Steve Edwards

Uttoxeter Quarry
2x Great Egret still, Ruff, 10x Ringed Plover, 2x Dunlin, 2x Common Sandpiper, (RPo)  -  also 6x Dunlin, 6x Common Sandpiper, 4x Green Sandpiper, (NDP)

Middleton Lakes
Greenshank thru, Ruff, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Garganey, juv YL Gull, 3x Great Egret, Peregrine, Snipe, (MSm)

Burton - Branston Locks
3x Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, 4x Little Egret, (CEc)

Berryhill

2x Whinchat, 5x Wheatear, 2x Stonechat, Redstart, (NDP)

Tittesworth Water

2x Redshank, 3x Ringed Plover, LRP, Common Sandpiper, 104x Lapwing, 15x Mandarin, Peregrine, 2x Barnacle Geese, (SGi)

Gailey Resv

Ad Kittiwake on sailing lake, (SRi)

Branston GPs

2x Greenshank, 4x Dunlin, 11x Ringed Plover, 11x Curlew, 5x Common Sandpiper,  56x Lapwing, 4x Little Egret, 3x Pochard, 26x Shoveler, 99x Gadwall, 31x Teal, 10x Shelduck, 71x Little Grebe, 4x Common Tern, Hobby, 6x Swift, (JWo)

                                                             Curlews by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Monday 24th August 2020

Drayton Bassett
Red Kite over at 07:45. (MSm)

Middleton Lakes
Wryneck still at 09:10, (CEc)  also Ringed-necked Parakeet, 2x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 5x Cetti's Warbler, (DBa)

Berryhill
Botteslow Flash - Redshank flew off at 06:27, (RTo), also nearby 3x Whinchat, 4x Wheatear, 2x Stonechat, 2x Redstart, Tree Pipit, 2x Willow Tit, (RTo)

Blithfield Resv
7x Turnstone thru deep end, (GJM)  -  juv Marsh Harrier drifted up Blithe Bay, (MPR)  - 2w Little Gull Blithe Bay 19:15, c50x Common Tern, 4x YL Gull, 4x Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, 4x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, sev Goosander, (SRi)

Mere Farm
Green Sandpiper, 4x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Redstart, Peregrine, (MMo)

Hatherton Resv
Willow Tit, (SB)

Uttoxeter Quarry
2x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 3x Greenshank, 4x Dunlin, 10x Ringed Plover, 2x Redshank, 4x Curlew, 7x Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, (RPo)

Sunday 23rd August 2020

Cuckoo Bank
GREENISH WARBLER in mixed Tit/Warbler flock late morning, (IWa), also 11x Spotted Flycatcher, 3x Redstart, 2x Tree Pipit, Hobby, 

Middleton Lakes
Wryneck again in canalside hedge near west screen, Garganey, Ruff, 3x Green Sandpiper, 8x Snipe, 3x Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)  -  3x Whinchat, Wheatear, 

                                                           By Steve Atkinson

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Juv Black-necked Grebe, juv Arctic Tern and 2x juv Black Tern,   -  also 3x Whinchat, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Green Sandpiper, Redshank, 11x Ringed Plover, 4x Dunlin, 16x Common Sandpiper, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, 35x Swift, (SE, HF)

                                                            Whinchat by Steve Edwards
Blithfield Resv
Juv Arctic Tern, (GJM)  -  2x Red Kite, 16x Ringed Plover, 2x Dunlin, Ruff, 
3x Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, (BAS, AMS)

Mere Lane
Wheatear on bales on south side, (MMo)

Berryhill
6x Wheatear, 6x Redstart, Whinchat, 2x Stonechat, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, Tree Pipit, Gropper, Peregrine, 2x Swift, (RTo, NDP)

Uttoxeter Quarry
2x Great Egret still, 2x Little Egret, 3x Dunlin, 7x Ringed Plover, 11x Common Sandpiper, 4x Green Sandpiper, (RPo)

River Sow Meadows
4x Ringed Plover, (RSw)

Radford Meadows
Little Egret, calling Redshank, 91x Lapwing, (CDa)

Branston GPs
Turnstone, Dunlin, 11x Ringed Plover, Curlew, Common Sandpiper, 3x Common Tern, 10x Little Egret, Wheatear, (DSc)

Little Aston STW
6x Grey Partridge, (PAn)

Croxden Quarry
One Knot (ABa)

Tittesworth Water

3x LRP, 2x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, 13x Mandarin, 2x Barnacle Geese, Green Woodpecker, (JOa, LH)

Doxey Marsh

Great Egret, Little Egret, 3x Common Sandpiper, Mandarin, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 10x Water Rail, 19x Snipe, Swift, 38x Gadwall, (MBo, WeBS team)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Little Egret, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 4x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Grey Partridge, 10x Tree Sparrow, Goldeneye, (SCo)

Saturday 22nd August 2020

Middleton Lakes
Garganey, Ruff, 2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)

New Landywood pool
Wood Sandpiper still, (JJO)

Whitemoor Haye
2x Dunlin, Great Egret over, 4x Little Egret, Goldeneye, Yellow Wagtails, Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, (SCo)

Radford Meadows
Juv Ruff, Greenshank, 38x Lapwing, 2x Swift, (RSw)

Tittesworth Water
2x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 44x Lapwing, 10x Mandarin, 2x Barnacle Geese, (SGi, IB, CT)

Berryhill
Willow Tit, Whinchat, Stonechat, (DWa)

Mow Cop
Tree Pipit over south into Staffs, (MBa)

Blithfield Resv
Juv Cuckoo, 4x Curlew, Sanderling, 2x Dunlin, 20x Ringed Plover, (DOu, LOu)  -  Peregrine, Hobby, 16x Barnacle Geese, (DSc)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
2x juv Black Tern still, Turnstone, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, 17x Common Sandpiper, 12x Ringed Plover, 72x Lapwing, 

Branston GPs
Imm Peregrine, 5x Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, 20x Swift, (DSc)

Froghall

3x Hobby, (MBr)

Friday 21st August 2020

Middleton Lakes
2x Wood Sandpiper flew off North pit at 08:00, 2x Garganey, 5x Snipe, 4x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Hobby, 4x Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)

New Landywood pool
Wood Sandpiper still, 49x Lapwing, 2x Green Woodpecker, (JJO)

Uttoxeter Quarry
4x Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, 6x Curlew, 10x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 3x Oystercatcher, 2x Little Egret, (SCh)

Blithfield Resv
Great Egret, Redshank, Greenshank, 22x Ringed Plover, 9x LRP, 2x Dunlin, 10x Common Sandpiper, (SE,HF)

 

                                                          Great Egret by Steve Edwards

Radford Meadows
Greenshank, 53x Lapwing, (CDa)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Whimbrel, juv Arctic Tern, 2x juv  Black Tern, 

Branston GPs
Greenshank, Redshank, 2x Green Sandpiper, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x Curlew, 5x Ringed Plover, 25x Lapwing, 7x Little Egret, 2x YL Gull, Wheatear, 60x Swift, 2x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Thursday 20th August 2020

Tittesworth Water
2x Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, 3x Common Sandpiper, 85x Lapwing, Green Woodpecker, 10x Mandarin, 9x Goosander, Willow Tit, 2x Barnacle Geese, (SGi)

                                                   Green Woodpecker by Steve Gibson

New Landywood Pool
Wood Sandpiper still, (JJO)

Middleton Lakes
2x Garganey, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff, 2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Snipe, (MSm)

                                                                Ruff by Rob Bendelow

Swallow Moss
Red Kite, Hobby, (JOa)

Knypersley Resv
Spotted Flycatcher, Lesser Whitethroat, Willow Tit, (GBr)

Four Ashes
Marsh Harrier over NE, (JDu)

Cuckoo Bank
5x Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Redstart, Tree Pipit, Grasshopper Warbler, 

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Juv Osprey thru at 09:40, Garganey, 2x juv Black Tern,  1w Med Gull, 

Berryhill
Whinchat, 2x Redstart, Stonechat, Tree Pipit, 

Blithfield Resv
Ringed Plover, 5x Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, Grey Wagtail, (DBa)

Wednesday 19th August 2020

Middleton Lakes
Wryneck in causeway east of west screen then flew into marsh behind east scrape, 2x Whinchat, Wheatear, 2x Garganey, Great Egret, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff, 6x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 10x Snipe, Hobby, 4x Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)

                                                            Wryneck by Mark Smiles
                                                                         

                                                              Whinchat by Mark Smiles             

Uttoxeter Quarry
3x Greenshank, Dunlin, 10x Ringed Plover, 8x Green Sandpiper, 11x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, Oystercatcher, 2x Little Egret, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 15x Barnacle Geese, (NDP)

Tittesworth Water

Little Egret, 2x LRP, Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, 43x Lapwing, 2x Barnacle Geese, (JOa, TMe)  -  Great Egret at 15:00, (KBr)

Cresswell

20x Lapwing near Blythe cricket ground, (AR)

Gailey Resv

Common Sandpiper, Mandarin, (SRi)

Branston GPs

Greenshank, 2x Green Sandpiper, 7x Common Sandpiper, 5x Ringed Plover, 11x Curlew, 32x Lapwing, 2x Snipe, 3x Mandarin, 11x Little Egret, 2x Green Woodpecker, 2x Peregrine, 15x Swift, (JWo)

Tuesday 18th August 2020

Middleton Lakes
2x Garganey, Ruff, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Snipe, 3x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Great Egret, Hobby, 4x Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)

Blithfield Resv
Red Kite over Tad Bay, juv Black Tern, (GJM)

Brewood 
Little Owl, Marsh Tit, 8x Yellow Wagtail, 30x Siskin over, (PCo)

Mere Farm
Yellow Wagtails, Lesser Whitethroat, Yellowhammer, (MMo)

Ipstones Edge
4x Wheatear, (RPo)

Tittesworth Water
Ringed Plover,  LRP, Common Sandpiper, 90x Lapwing, 2x Mandarin, 3x Goosander, 2x Barnacle Geese, Hobby, (JOa)

Berryhill
2x Wheatear, Whinchat, Redstart, 2x Stonechat

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
2x juv Black Tern still, fem Garganey

Gailey Resv

Tree Pipit, 3x Yellow Wagtail, Common Sandpiper, (SRi)

Branston GPs

Whimbrel, 9x Curlew, 7x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 5x Ringed Plover, 21x Little Egret, 3x YL Gull, 267x Tufted Duck, 26x Pochard, 42x Gadwall, 98x Teal, 31x Shoveler, 14x Shelduck, 3x Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, (JWo)

                                                            Whimbrel by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Monday 17th August 2020

Tittesworth Water
Turnstone, 2x Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, 124x Lapwing, Wheatear, 11x Goosander, 9x Mandarin, Willow Tit, (SGi)

                                                        Wheatear by Steve Gibson

Middleton Lakes
2x Great Egret, 2x Garganey, Black-tailed Godwit, LRP, Ruff, 10x Snipe, Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, Hobby, 6x Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)  -  Whinchat reported,

Uttoxeter Quarry
2x Great Egret, Little Egret, Turnstone, Sanderling, Greenshank, 13x Ringed Plover, 9x Common Sandpiper, 10x Barnacle Geese, 3x Swift, (NDP)

Belvide Resv
2x juv Black Tern, 

Branston GPs
Little Stint still, Sanderling, 25x Ringed Plover, Redshank, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 12x Little Egret, (CMa, RFe)  -  also Greenshank, 3x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 11x Snipe, 7x Curlew, 40x Lapwing, 22x Little Egret, 2x Wheatear, 2x Peregrine, 4x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Blithfield Resv
Black Tern, Turnstone, 4x Curlew, 4x Oystercatcher, (RPo)  -  5x Turnstone, (SE,HF)

Black Tern by Steve Edwards

Turnstone by Steve Edwards

Baldwins Gate
Hobby, (RWh)

Berryhill
Willow Tit, Stonechat, (DSc)

Sunday 16th August 2020

Blithfield Resv
Little Stint briefly Tad Bay,  juv Arctic Tern, Cuckoo, (MPR, GJM) - later this evening Black Tern, Turnstone, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 25x Ringed Plover thru, (MPR)

Middleton Lakes
4x Garganey, Great Egret, Ruff, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, Dunlin, Redshank, 8x Snipe, 4x Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, Hobby, 7x Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Sanderling, Whimbrel, 11x Ringed Plover, 9x Dunlin,  2x juv  Black Tern

Branston GPs
Little Stint on Ashy pit also Sanderling, 14x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 2x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 11x Curlew, 2x Common Sandpiper, 12x Little Egret, Common Tern, juv Wheatear, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Green Woodpecker,  Marsh Harrier again at 17:05, (DSc)

                                                                                                                      

                                                      Little Stint by Jon Woodcock                 

                                                                                 

                                                            

Uttoxeter Quarry
Sanderling, Greenshank, 11x Ringed Plover, 11x Common Sandpiper, 4x Green Sandpiper,  Golden Plover, Curlew, 2x Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, Hobby, Peregrine, (RPo, NDP)

Berryhill
3x Whinchat, 4x Redstart, 2x Stonechat, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, Tree Pipit, (RTo, NDP)

Little Aston STW
Yellow Wagtail, 4x Redstart, Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, (PAn)

Tittesworth Water

3x LRP, 87x Lapwing, 11x Goosander, 2x Mandarin, 2x Barnacle Geese, Hobby, Green Woodpecker, Grey Wagtail, (JOa, LH, RJH, KH)

Knypersley Resv

Common Sandpiper, Mandarin, (GBr)

Barton

Hobby over, (JWo)

Radford Meadows

9x Black-tailed Godwit on Rickerscote side of the river, (CDa)

Cheslyn Haye

Red Kite over west at 17:15, (JJO)

Saturday 15th August 2020

Middleton Lakes
2x Garganey, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff, 3x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, LRP, Snipe, Great Egret, 4x Yellow Wagtail, Hobby, (SPA, MSm)

Cuckoo Bank
Pied Flycatcher still, Whinchat, juv Cuckoo, Wheatear, 3x Tree Pipit, 2x Redstart, 

Berryhill
3x Little Egret over, 2x Whinchat, Wheatear, Redstart, 2x Stonechat, 4x Spotted Flycatcher, 4x Tree Pipit, Yellow Wagtail, also Common Sandpiper at Botteslow, (et al.)

Gunstone
2x Red Kite Peregrine, (PCo)echat,

Pattingham,
Red Kite over Clive Road

Uttoxeter Quarry
2x Great Egret still, Little Egret,, Greenshank, 6x Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, 2x Swift, (RPo)

Branston GPs
Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 12x Little Egret, (CEc)  -  3x Hobby, (BAS,AMS)

Doxey Marsh
Great Egret, Green Sandpiper, (DM)

North Staffs Moors

4x Wheatear at the Mermaid, (JOa), and a Hobby at Goldsitch, (LH)

Friday 14th August 2020

Middleton Lakes
Great Egret, 20x Little Egret, 3x Garganey, Pintail, 14x Redshank flew thru, 2x LRP, Black-tailed Godwit, Snipe, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)  -  also 8x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Green Sandpiper, Dunlin, 8x Snipe, (MercianBirding)

Berryhill
13x Wheatear, 5x Whinchat, 4x Redstart, 3x Stonechat, Yellow Wagtail, Tree Pipit, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, Snipe, Swift, Grey Wagtail, and at Botteslow, Gadwall, Common Sandpiper, (RTo, NDP, RGi, DWa)

Drayton Bassett
Golden Plover over high, (MSm)

Uttoxeter Quarry
2x Great Egret, Little Egret, Ringed Plover, 6x Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, (RPo)

Denstone
3x Red Kite feeding over new cut meadow near college, (THe)

Ford Green
Gadwall on main pool, (JJo)

Stourton

2x Wheatear (AHa)

Blithfield Resv

Little Stint, Sanderling, 7x Redshank, 12x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, 6x Barnacle Geese, (RGa)

Cuckoo Bank

Turtle Dove feeding with 2 Stock Doves in northern harvested fields, also a  Pied Flycatcher, Redstart, 

Doxey Marsh

2x Great Egret, Mandarin, (RRa)

Branston GPs

Sanderling, 4x Dunlin, 2x Redshank, Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, Snipe, 3x Mandarin, 8x Little Egret, 7x Common Gull, Peregrine, 23x Swift, (JWo, DSc, JAl)

Whittington Farm

2x Wheatear, Little Owl, Yellow Wagtail, Peregrine, (JLi)

Thursday 13th August 2020

The Spotted Redshank was the 200th reported species in Staffs in 2020

Middleton Lakes
Spotted Redshank, 3x Garganey, Great Egret, 22x Little Egret, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Dunlin, 2x LRP, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 6x Snipe, (MSm)

                                                 

                                                               

                                                   Spotted Redshank by Mark Smiles

Penkridge

Red Kite west over the A449, (JPr)

Berryhill

3x Whinchat, 3x Tree Pipit, 3x Redstart, 2x Stonechat, Lesser Whitethroat, (NDP, DWa)  -  also 2x Spotted Flycatcher, 

Tittesworth Water

Juv Arctic Tern, Red Kite, 4x Common Sandpiper, 7x LRP, 2x Mandarin, 2x Barnacle Geese, Redstart, Grey Wagtail, (JOa)

Branston GPs

Marsh Harrier again on BM pit this afternoon also Red Kite over, 2x Common Sandpiper, (CEc)  -  also Sanderling, Dunlin, 2x Green Sandpiper, 5x Common Sandpiper, Snipe, 42x Lapwing, 58x Pochard, 76x Gadwall, 116x Teal, 16x Little Egret, 118x Little Grebe (44 juvs), 2x YL Gull, 2x Peregrine, 4x Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Radford Meadows

2x Black-tailed Godwit, Little Egret, (CDa)

Wednesday 12th August 2020

Cheddleton
3x Crossbill over south at 07:50, (DSc)

Middleton Lakes
Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 3x Garganey, Pintail, 5x Snipe, LRP, 2x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)

Berryhill
6x Tree Pipit, 3x Yellow Wagtail, Whinchat. Wheatear, Redstart, 2x Stonechat, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, 4x Lesser Whitethroat, 48x Whitethroat (inc juvs), Garden Warbler, Willow Tit, (RTo, NDP)

Burston Marsh
8x Green Sandpiper, 60x Lapwing, (AEa)

Tittesworth Water
Green Sandpiper, 7x Common Sandpiper, 7x LRP, 93x Lapwing, 2x Mandarin, Spotted Flycatcher, Redstart, (JOa)

Branston GPs

90x Little Grebe (28juvs), 4x Little Egret, 2x Mandarin, 32x Shoveler, 38x Gadwall, 50x Teal, 42x Pochard, 2x Peregrine, 9x Curlew, Dunlin, 45x Lapwing, 3x Common Gull, Common Tern, (DSc)

Tuesday 11th August 2020

Middleton Lakes
2x Great Egret, Pintail, 3x Garganey, 2x LRP, 2x Dunlin, 2x Snipe, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)

Hatherton Resv
Willow Tit, (SB)

New Landywood Pool
Wood Sandpiper, (JJO)

Blithfield Resv
3x Golden Plover, Greenshank, 9x Ringed Plover, 6x Dunlin, 2x Curlew, YL Gull, (TJa)  -  also Red Kite, 2x Common Sandpiper, (BPu)

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

Branston GPs

Marsh Harrier still at Black Meadows pit, also Red Kite over, 6x Hobby, 2x Peregrine, 11x Curlew, Dunlin, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x Ringed Plover, 85x Lapwing, 12x Little Egret, 41x Shoveler, 42x Pochard, 74x Gadwall, 76x Teal, 101x Little Grebe (31 juvs), 2x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

                                                            Marsh Harrier by Jon Woodcock

Tittesworth Water

3x Common Sandpiper, 5x LRP, 77x Lapwing, 2x Mandarin, 5x Goosander, (JOa)

Monday 10th August 2020

Tittesworth Water
Dunlin, 5x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 113x Lapwing, 5x Mandarin, 3x Goosander, Redstart, Peregrine, (SGi)

Gradbach Hill
28x Stonechat (mainly juvs), 2x Redstart, Wheatear, Spotted Flycatcher, (NDP)

Stafford

2x Peregrine high over Sainsburys, (ABa)

Blithfield Resv 

Arctic Tern, 11x Common Tern, 2x Little Egret, Hobby, Peregrine, 3x Golden Plover, 7x Ringed Plover, 4x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, (CMa, RFe)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Garganey along southeast bay

Middleton Lakes

Pintail, 2x Garganey, 7x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, (TPe)

Berryhill

Whinchat, Redstart, 2x Stonechat, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, (RTo)

Gailey Resv

Little Egret, juv YL Gull, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 

Sunday 9th August 2020

Berryhill
Marsh Harrier 08:05 - 08:10 then dropped down in cover, 4x Tree Pipit, Wheatear, Redpoll,  (RTo, NDP)

Blithfield Resv
Great Egret, Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Curlew, (CRy)  -  Wheatear, Green Sandpiper, (ESm)  -  Redstart, (AMa)  -  Sanderling, Ruff, 7x Dunlin, 4x Curlew, 7x Ringed Plover, LRP, Common Sandpiper, Peregrine, (TPe)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Osprey 09:05 - 09:17 then flew south, Ringtail Hen Harrier again at 10:15, 15x Turnstone thru at 09:45, Spotted Flycatcher, Wheatear, 

Middleton Lakes
Great Egret, 3x Garganey, Black-tailed Godwit, 3x LRP, 3x Common Sandpiper, 4x Green Sandpiper, Peregrine, 4x Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)  -  also 2x Dunlin, Redshank, Hobby, (SPA)  -  Marsh Harrier thru south, (MercianBirding)

Uttoxeter Quarry
Turnstone flew north at 11:05, 2x Great Egret, 4x Green Sandpiper, LRP, Hobby, 6x Egyptian Geese, (RPo)

Branston GPs
Imm Marsh Harrier hunting around BM pit mid morning, Hobby, Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Ringed Plover, 3x Snipe, 2x Curlew, Oystercatcher, c111 Little Grebe,(40 juvs), 12x Little Egret, 20x Shoveler, 55x Gadwall, 90x Teal, 50x Pochard, ad YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, (DSc)

Hanchurch Woods
40x Crossbill, 

Whitmore Bent Lane
Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, - Acton Yellow Wagtail, 

Gunstone
3x Spotted Flycatcher, Yellowhammers, (PCo)

Doxey Marsh

2x Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 13x Common Sandpiper, 2x Redshank, Green Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Snipe, 3x Water Rail, 28x Gadwall, Mandarin, (MBo, BLo)

Tittesworth Water

Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, 12x Common Sandpiper, 7x LRP, Curlew, 121x Lapwing, 11x Mandarin, Redstarts, (JOa, LH)

Longnor

Red Kite, (JOa)

Middle Hills

Hobby, (JOa)

Ipstones

Red Kite, (SCh)

Saturday 8th August 2020

Middleton Lakes
Red Kite at 07:50, Great Egret, (SPA)  -  3x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP, 2x Garganey, Hobby,  -  also Ruff, Mandarin, (TPe)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Ring-tailed Hen Harrier off the west track 10:00 - 10:05 then  again at 12:50,

Tittesworth Water
Green Sandpiper, 4x Common Sandpiper, 6x LRP, 122x Lapwing, Common Tern, 14x Mandarin, 2x Barnacle Geese, 3x Goosander, (SG, IB, WLH, CT)

Berryhill
Spotted Flycatcher, Yellow Wagtail, Redstart, Stonechat, (NDP)  -  Tree Pipit, Peregrine, (IBu)

Doxey Marsh
2x Great White Egret still, 8x Little Egret, (CRy)

Tittensor
2x Red Kite in field just north of the village hall, (JBi)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Black Tern from the causeway, (@Ochruros)  -  3x Little Egret, 2x Curlew, 6x Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, 3x Common Tern, ad YL Gull, Common Gull, (DSc)  -  Redshank, 2x Dunlin, 15x Common Tern, (TRo)

                                               Black Tern by Tim Rowley

Gailey Resv
Common Tern, Common Sandpiper, 3x Spotted Flycatcher, 3x Yellow Wagtail, Lesser Whitethroat, (SRi)

Beamhurst
Red Kite over at 11:36, (RLC)

Branston GPs

54x Little Grebe, 8x Little Egret, 14x Shelduck, 25x Shoveler, Peregrine, 11x Curlew, Snipe, 3x Oystercatcher, Common Gull, Common Tern, (DSc)

Alrewas NMA

Fem Marsh Harrier flew from  Croxall over the river towards Catholme, 6x Green Sandpiper, Little Egret, (JWo)

Catholme

12x Yellow Wagtail and 6x Little Egret, (JWo)

Friday 7th August 2020

Brewood area
 5x Yellow Wagtail, Yellowhammer, 2x Green Woodpecker, (PCo)

Branston GPs
Fem Marsh Harrier on BM pit still at 18:20, Great Egret, 15x Curlew, 2x Ringed Plover, 14x Little Egret, (CEc)  -  also Green Sandpiper, ad YL Gull, 6x Mandarin, 30x Pochard, 65x Gadwall, Peregrine, Green Woodpecker, (DSc)

Baldwins Gate
Osprey over at 13:15, (RWh)

Middleton Lakes

Red Kite this afternoon, (KAs)

Uttoxeter Quarry

2x Great Egret, 7x Little Egret, 6x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, LRP, (ABa)

Thursday 6th August 2020

Middleton Lakes

Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Hobby, Mandarin, (MSm)  -  Ruff dropped in at 16:45

Uttoxeter Quarry

2x Great Egret, Green Sandpiper, Dunlin, 5x Common Sandpiper, LRP, Little Egret, 3x Yellow Wagtail, (NDP)

Longnor

Red Kite over Newtown, (TMe)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only

Juv Little Tern from 16:44

Tittesworth Water

5x LRP, 3x Common Sandpiper, 30x Lapwing, 5x Mandarin, (JOa)

Baldwins Gate

2x Hobby, (RWh)

Wednesday 5th August 2020

Middleton Lakes

3x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Common Sandpiper, 11x Little Egret, 6x Yellow Wagtail, Mandarin, (MSm)

Aston - Burston pool

Green Sandpiper, 120x Lapwing, (CBr)

Doxey Marsh

Great Egret still on Tillington Flash, (CBr)

Billbrook

Hobby over Jubilee Wood, (PCo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Quail calling off the west lane track at 15:50, also 4x juv Whinchat

Tittesworth Water

6x LRP, 3x Common Sandpiper, 57x Lapwing, 5x Mandarin, Redstarts, (JOa)

Berryhill

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

Branston GPs

6x Curlew, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, 41x Lapwing, 11x Little Egret, YL Gull, 10x Common Tern, 4x Mandarin, 2x Hobby, Peregrine, 20x Swift, 2x Green Woodpecker, (JWo, CEc)

Tuesday 4th August 2020

Codsall

Ring-necked Parakeet, (MFo)

Breech Road Moorlands

Red Kite over also 5x Willow Ttt, (DGH)

Enville

Green Sandpiper, Redstart, (DBa)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)

2x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Common Terns, (PFo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)SRi)

3x juv Arctic Tern 

Burslem

Ring-necked Parakeet over Chemical Lane, (SO)

Middleton Lakes

4x Garganey on JW south also Mandarin, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, Redshank, Common Sandpiper, (MercianBirding)

Branston GPs

9x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 52x Lapwing, 14x Little Egret, 12x Common Tern, 5x Common Gull, Hobby, Peregrine, 60x Swift, 2x Green Woodpecker, 9x Pochard, 53x Gadwall, 22x Teal, 2x Mandarin, 41x Little Grebe + 31x juvs, (JWo)

Dimmingsdale

Crossbill over Serpentine Drive, (ABa)

Gailey Resv

Juv YL Gull,  also Mandarin, (SRi)

Stafford

Red Kite over Beacon Hill and Hopton, 

Monday 3rd August 2020

Middleton Lakes

2x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x LRP, 4x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Snipe, 2x Garganey,  Mandarin, Yellow Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, Hobby, (MSm)

Brewood area

Little Owl, 5x Yellow Wagtail, Yellowhammer, Crossbills over, (PCo)

Trentham Gardens

1s Med Gull, 2x Common Tern, (RTo)

Doxey Marsh

2x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, LRP, (CBr)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)

Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 2x Curlew, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x Ringed Plover, 4x Dunlin, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Peregrine, Common Terns, (DBa)

Tittesworth Water

5x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, 112x Lapwing, Common Gull, 2x Mandarin, 2x Barnacle Geese, (SGi)

Baldwins Gate

Hobby, (RWh)

Branston GPs

Juv Black Tern still, 11x Common Tern, 8x Curlew, Redshank, 5x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 2x Dunlin, 9x Little Egret, 4x Mandarin, (CEc)

Sunday 2nd August 2020

Radford Meadows

Wood Sandpiper still, 2x Green Sandpiper, 9x Snipe, (ESm)

Whitemoor Haye

Grey Partridge, 3x Tree Sparrow, 8x Yellow Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler, Goldeneye, 5x Little Egret, Peregrine, (SCo)

Middleton Lakes

Ruff, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, (MSm)  -  2x Garganey JW south, (TPe)

Branston GPs

Juv Black Tern still to 10:40 at least, 8x Common Tern, Redshank, 6x Curlew, 2x Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, 3x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 12x Little Egret, 2x Hobby, 3x Green Woodpecker, Mandarin, (DSc)  -  also ad YL Gull, (JWo)

                                                          Black Tern by Dave Scattergood

                                                                             

Black Tern by Jon Woodcock

Alrewas NMA

Green Woodpecker, Hobby, 2x Goosander, Little Egret, Junction Pit - 11x Green Sandpiper, (SCo)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Great Egret still, 5x Little Egret, 3x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 11x Curlew, 6x Oystercatcher, (RPo)

Berryhill

2x Whinchat, 4x Redstart, Stonechat, (RTo, NDP)  -  2x Little Egret on Bottleslow early am

Knypersley Resv

Spotted Flycatcher, Lesser Whitethroat, Willow Tit, Little Owl, fem Mandarin, (GBr)

Baddeley Green

Hobby over Leek New Road at 13:20, also Crossbills heard flying over(GBr)

Doxey Marsh

2x Great Egret, Little Egret, Common Gull, (RRa)

Aston by Stone - Burston pool

2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Common Sandpiper, 300x Lapwing, (@fisherandbirder)  -  also 3x Green Sandpiper, 4x Snipe, (AEa)

Tittesworth Resv

7x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, 176x Lapwing, juv Redstarts, (JOa)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)

Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, Greenshank, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, 8x Oystercatcher, ad YL Gull, 10x Common Tern, (NMo)

Knighton

Quail calling at SJ746273, (RSu)

Whitfield Valley

Redstart, (RGi)

Saturday 1st August 2020

Middleton Lakes

3x Garganey by benches, 2x Dunlin, 3x LRP, Green Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper flew over JW, (MSm)  also YL Gull (SPA)  -  Mandarin Duck, Ruff

Radford Meadows

Wood Sandpiper on BMW scrape, (RSw)

Gailey Resv

Ad YL Gull to 10:30 only also a Hobby, (SRi)

Knypersley Resv

Osprey over also a Hobby, (GBr)

Branston GPs

Black Tern at Ashy pit, (TPe)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Great Egret, 13x Little Egret, 4x Green Sandpiper, 4x Common Sandpiper, 7x Curlew, 4x LRP, Oystercatcher, YL Gull, (RPo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Whimbrel south, Pied Flycatcher briefly,

Silverdale CP

Gropper at Victory pool area, (PCa)

Tittesworth Water

Hobby, YL Gull, Common Gull, 2x Common Tern, Redstart, Spotted Flycatcher, 170x Lapwing, 6x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, Snipe, 3x Goosander, Mandarin, (SGi, IB, KH)

Goldsitch Moss

Grey Partridge, Whinchat, (JOa)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)

2x juv Med Gull, 2x Whimbrel, Greenshank, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, (SE,HF)

Med Gulls by Steve Edwards

Alrewas Arboretum

7x Green Sandpiper, 4x Little Egret, (JWo)

Catholme (footpath)

5x Little Egret, (JWo)

Baldwins Gate

Hobby, (RWh)