Wednesday 31st March 2021

Mere Farm - Bobbington

Ring Ouzel on Staffs Way, (WN)

Codsall

Tree Pipit over north, 

Doxey Marsh

Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Willow Warbler, 4x Cetti's Warbler, (DM)  -  2x LRP on Creswell Flash, (THi)

Parkhall CP

Red Kite over at 11:00, Wheatear, 3x Willow Tit, Green Woodpecker, (RGi)

Longbridge Hayes

Female Goshawk over at 12:45, (PJo)

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Wheatear, (Foz)

Berryhill

Willow Warbler, 2x Wheatear, 2x Stonechat, 2x Sand Martin, Curlew over, Peregrine,

Ford Green

Red Kite over, Willow Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, (JJo)

Highgate Common

2-3x Willow Warbler, (DBa)

Swallow Moss

Osprey over north at 11:00, (JOa,SFe)

Hanley Park

8x Goosander, (AR)

Baldwins Gate

Osprey over north, (RWh)

Whitmore Bent Lane

2x Tree Sparrow, (RRa)

Pool Hall

Osprey over at 15:55, (GCl)

Branston GPs

Sandwich Tern on North pit 17:20 to 17:34 only, 8x Avocet, 7x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Ruff, 2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 8x Redshank, 9x Curlew, 4x LRP, 4x Snipe, 3x Ringed Plover, 3x Water Rail, Green Woodpecker, Swallow, (DSc)  -  Lower farm Green Sandpiper, 2x Mandarin, Egyptian Geese + 3x Gosling, 4x LRP on SMP2, (JWo)

                                                      Sandwich Tern by Dave Scattergood

                                                  Blackwits and a Ruff by Jon Woodcock

Hixon 

Red Kite over south at 16:30, (CDa)

Hanbury

Wheatear, (ASt)

Middleton Lakes

4x Avocet,  4x Oystercatcher, 4x LRP, 3x Snipe, Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew, 10x Redshank, Green Sandpiper, 7x Shelduck, Goosander, (MSm)

Tittesworth Water

3x LRP, 8x Snipe, Swallow, 2x Barnacle Geese, 5x Goosander, Green Woodpecker, (SGi)

Hopton

2x Brambling, (ABr)

Huntington  (Mantsy Lane- Cocksparrow Lane)

Wheatear, Swallow, (SRi)

Chatterley Whitfield

Barn Owl at 19:30, (PMo)

Tucklesholme

3x Little Egret, 2x Goosander, Green Woodpecker, 2x Shelduck, 3x Wigeon, (JWo)

Tuesday 30th March 2021

                            First Spring Ring Ouzel and Tree Pipits this morning

Berryhill 

Ring Ouzel in paddock at the bottom end of the Palletstacks at 07:07, (RTo)  -  also a Wheatear and 5x Sand Martin, (RGi), 

                                                         By Nick Pomiankowski

Tittesworth Water

2x Osprey thru north, also 2x LRP, 41x Snipe, 6x Oystercatcher,  5x Swallow,  8x Wigeon, 5x Goosander, Dipper, 4x Grey Wagtail, SGi)

Middleton Lakes

Short-eared Owl over at 08:40. 12x Avocet, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, LRP, Ringed Plover, 10x Redshank, 2x Green Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher,4x Snipe, Wheatear, 4x Shelduck, (MSm)

Gailey Resv

Little Egret, 4x Gadwall, Goldeneye, 2x Pochard, 4x Oystercatcher, (SRi)

Alrewas NMA

Singing Willow Warbler, Great Egret on Junction pit, (SCo)

Croxall GP

Great Egret, (SCo)

Little Aston

9x Wheatear, (KWh)

Flash

2x Curlew, (SJT)

Radford Meadows

Wheatear still, 11x Wigeon, Little Egret, 8x Shoveler, LRP, Cetti's Warbler, (CDa)

Bobbington

2x Wheatear, Swallow, (WN)

Uttoxeter Quarry

2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Curlew, 14x Goosander, 4x Pochard, 4x Mandarin, Green Woodpecker. (RPo)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Gadwall, 2x Goldeneye, 5x Shelduck, 2x Oystercatcher, 8x Lapwing, Peregrine, (SCo)  -  4x Grey Partridge, Willow Warbler, 2x Snipe, Yellowhammers, Peregrine, (DBa)

Cannock Chase

2x singing Tree Pipit, Willow Warbler, 5x Crossbill, (CMa, MPa, JPa)

Audley

Red Kite over west at 14:36, (JHu)

Branston GPs

5x Redshank, Ruff, 2x Avocet, Curlew, 2x Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, 3x Snipe, Pintail, 2x Pochard, Shelducks, 2x Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, (DBa)  -  7x Black-tailed Godwit, (MPi)  -  additional - female Marsh Harrier thru north at 19:00, 9x Oystercatcher, 6x Curlew, 2x Ruff, 9x Redshank, 8x Snipe, 4x Ringed Plover, 40x Shelduck, 2x Mandarin, 48x Wigeon, 36x Shoveler, 38x Gadwall, 70x Teal, 8x Pochard, 15x Goldeneye, 4x Water Rail, Green Woodpecker, Swallow, (DSc)

North Staffs Moors

11x Wheatear, (NDP)

Holden Lane

Red Kite over west at 16:55, (JJo)

Cannock (Kingswood)

Ring Ouzel flew across road next to Apc factory at 18:12, (GCl)

Hopton

4x Brambling, (ABr)

Hill Chorlton

3x Swallow, (MJH)

Barton under Needwood

14x Wigeon at the marina, (JWo)

Baldwins Gate

Swallow, (RWh)

Monday 29 March 2021

Gailey Resv

Red Kite flew low north at 07:05, 2x Little Egret, Goldeneye, (SRi)

Berryhill

3x Wheatear on the Palletstcks mound this morning, (RGi), 5x Wheatear early afternoon, three near the grey shed and a further two on the top mound, Stonechat still, (RTo)  -  Botteslow Flash, 3x LRP at 07:00, Little Egret, RTo)

Middleton Lakes

4x Oystercatcher, 2x Avocet, 4x LRP, 9x Redshank, Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 4x Shelduck, 6x Goosander, (MSm)

Radford Meadows

Wheatear, 4x LRP, 2x Little Egret, 8x Shoveler, 2x Shelduck, 31x Wigeon, (RSw)

Caverswall

Swallow near Green farm, (RGi)

Branston GPs

9x Avocet, 2x Ruff, 7x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Ringed Plover, LRP, 7x Pink-footed Geese, (CMa, RFe)  -  9x Avocet (site record count), 7x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Ruff, 8x Redshank, 2x Dunlin, 9x LRP, 5x Ringed Plover, 4x Snipe, 12x Curlew, 18x Lapwing, 4x Oystercatcher, Little Egret, 6x Water Rail, 7x Pink-footed Geese, Pintail, 10x Goldeneye, 56x Wigeon, 78x Teal, 32x Gadwall, 28x Shoveler, 14x Pochard, 2x Mandarin, 43x Shelduck, 23x Little Grebe, Swallow, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

                                                        Shelduck by Jon Woodcock

Blithfield Resv

3x Wheatear (two behind Anglers club and one below dam), 2x Curlew, Swallow thru, (RCB)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Wheatear, 2x Swallow, 6x Goldeneye, Peregrine, 4x Snipe, Cetti's Warbler,  (IWh)

Freehay

9x Brambling, (RCa)

Alvecote

Great Egret,, 4x Little Egret,,9x Goosander, 7x Shelduck, (MSc)

Tittesworth Water

2x LRP on the dam wall, (Nmck)

Parkhall CP

Red Kite over at 14:44, (SFe)

Whitfield Valley

Barn Owl at 19:40, (JJo)

Sunday 28th March 2021

Branston GPs

2x Sandwich Tern low thru Ashy pit at 09:45, Dunlin, 3x LRP, 2x Ringed Plover, 5x Redshank, 2x Ruff, Pintail, 10x Sand Martin, DSc)  -  Ad male Marsh Harrier over Sandy pit, 7x Avocet, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Curlew, (ASt, BSt)  -  also 7x Redshank, 2x Ruff, 5x LRP, 6x Ringed Plover, 5x Oystercatcher, 3x Curlew, 2x Snipe, Water Rail, 11x Goldeneye, 48x Wigeon, 6x Pochard, Mandarin, 26x Shelduck, 100x Sand Martin, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Little Egret, 70x Linnet  (JWo)  -  Up dated counts this evening, the Marsh Harrier went to roost in the reeds at 18:32, Common Sandpiper, 8x Curlew, 7x Ringed Plover, 4x Ruff, 5x Snipe, 4x Water Rail, 40x Shelduck, 54x Wigeon, 34x Shoveler, 38x Gadwall, 100x Teal, 2x Green Woodpecker, (DSc)

                                                                     By Jon Woodcock

Blithfield Resv

2x Sandwich Tern NW thru the deep end, Wheatear, 2x LRP, Swallow, 50x Sand Martin, (MPR, GJM)  -  Wheatear by Fishermans cottage, (AMa)

Hanbury

Red Kite over just east of Jacksons Bank at 07:27

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LRP, (JDu)  -  Swallow, (Foz)

Audley (Millend)

Green Sandpiper, (SJT)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Adult Kittiwake thru north at 10:18, 50x Sand Martin, 5x Snipe, Black-tailed Godwit, Peregrine, 

Middleton Lakes

4x Oystercatcher, 2x LRP, Snipe, Dunlin, 10x Redshank, 8x Shelduck, 3x Goldeneye, 12x Sand Martin, Peregrine, (MSm)  -  also Great Egret, Goosander and a third LRP, (DCo)  -  2x extra Dunlin later, (MYa)

Endon STW

3x White Wagtail, 2x Grey Wagtail, (GBr)

Doxey Marsh

3x Sand Martin, 4x Cetti's Warbler, Little Egret, 4x Gadwall, 56x Teal, 2x Shoveler, 3x Goosander, (DM)

Hanley Park

29x Goosander, Grey Wagtail, (RGi)

Whitemoor Haye

Wheatear, 30x Sand Martin, 2x Swallow,  2x Little Egret, Redshank, 2x Oystercatcher, 13x Wigeon, 5x Goldeneye, 4x Tree Sparrow, Peregrine, (SCo)

Pool Hall (Furnace Grange Road - Castlecroft)

2x Wheatear, Corn Bunting, White Wagtail, Little Egret, Peregrine, LRP, 10x Yellowhammer, (IMo)

Hopton

2x Brambling, (ABr)

Little Aston STW

2x Grey Partridge, Jack Snipe, Gadwall, (PAn)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Swallow, 50x Sand Martin, Little Egret, 10x Goosander, 2x Pochard, (RPo)

Gailey Resv

Little Egret, 4x Oystercatcher, Swallow, 95x Sand Martin, (SRi)

Rocester

Red Kite over JCB lakes at 13:45, (TDu)

Maer Hills

Male Crossbill, (KLe)

Bilbrook

Osprey over north at 16:05

Drointon pool

27x Shelduck, 13x Shoveler, (PBe)

Alvecote

15x Goosander, 5x Shelduck, 2x Little Egret, (MSc)

Radford Meadows

3x LRP, 3x Snipe, Oystercatcher, 3x Shelduck, 38x Wigeon, (CDa)

Saturday 27th March 2021

Middleton Lakes

2x LRP, 8x Avocet, 1-2x Dunlin, (MSm)

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Red Kite drifting south at 08:45, (JDu)

Aqualate

10x Sand Martin, (KHa)

Gailey Resv

10x Golden Plover, Swallow, 50x Sand Martin, 2x Goldeneye, (SRi)

Little Aston

Merlin, 4x Grey Partridge, (SWa)

Stoke on Trent

LRP on Carmountside Flash River Trent, 18x Teal, (RGi)

Radford Meadows

200x Golden Plover over SW, 28x Wigeon, Goosander, 2x Peregrine, (RSw)

Tittensor Chase (from Chase Lane)

7x Crossbill, (IBr)

Dimmingsdale

Red Kite over east, 40x Siskin, (TEy)

                                                           Red Kite by Terry Eyre

Knypersley Resv

2x Oystercatcher, Mandarin and the escaped Alexandrine Parakeet, (GBr)

Chatterley Whitfield

Red Kite over at 13:25, (KBr)

Chasewater

Swallow, 4x Sand Martin, (CMa)

Uttoxeter Quarry

2x LRP, Green Sandpiper, 3x Swallow, 21x Sand Martin, Common Gull, 2x Pochard, Dipper, (Andym)

Baddeley Green

LRP on the flood, 2x Grey Wagtail, (JOa)

Hopton 

Brambling still, (TBr)

Cuckoo Bank

Red Kite over, (SMG)

Alvecote

2x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 8x Goosander, 3x Shelduck, Snipe, (MSc)

Tittesworth Water

Sand Martin, 34x Snipe, 5x Oystercatcher, 12x Goosander, 2x Mandarin, Willow Tit, 50x Fieldfare, (SGi, IB)

Branston GPs

4x Avocet, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Oystercatcher, 6x Curlew, 4x Ringed Plover, LRP, 4x Ruff, 6x Redshank, Common Sandpiper, Swallow, 50x Sand Martin, 26x Shelduck, Pintail, 48x Wigeon, 30x Shoveler, 100x Teal, 5x Goldeneye, (DSc)

Tucklesholme

LRP, 4x Ringed Plover, 18x Wigeon, 30x Teal, Goldeneye, 2x Goosander, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Whitemoor Haye

Wheatear, Swallow, Green Sandpiper, (Kay)

Norton Green

2x Little Egret, (JGr)

Friday 26th March 2021

                                 First Staffs Spring Swallows this morning     

Middleton Lakes

Red Kite over south at 07:15, Curlew, 2x Avocet, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x LRP, 4x Snipe, 3x Dunlin, 10x Redshank, 4x Shelduck, Goldeneye, 2x Goosander, (MSm) 

New Landywood pool

2x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, (JJO)

Radford Meadows

Great Egret, 65x Wigeon, 5x Shoveler, 2x Shelduck, 3x Sand Martin, Cetti's Warbler, (RSw)

Blithfield Resv

2x Swallow, 15x Sand Martin, (MDJ, GJM) - 4x Golden Plover immediately west of Admaston Reach, (RCB)  -  Red Kite over at 15:15, (RBe)

Pool Hall

38x Sand Martin, 4x Corn Bunting, 2x White Wagtail, (GCl)

Uttoxeter Quarry

LRP, Green Sandpiper, 6x Sand Martin, 4x Goosander, 3x Pochard, (RPo)

Freehay

14x Brambling, (FCa)

Holden Lane

4x Sand Martin, 4x Snipe and Cetti's Warbler still at Ford Green, (JJo)

Branston GPs

5x Avocet 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Ruff, 6x Redshank, 13x Curlew, 15x Lapwing, 4x Ringed Plover, 3x Oystercatcher, 3x Snipe, Little Egret, 15x Goldeneye, 6x Pochard, 30x Shoveler, 54x Wigeon, 24x Shelduck, Pintail, 32x Gadwall, 64x Teal, 4x Mandarin, 4x Egyptian Geese, 34x Little Grebe, 3x Water Rail, 70x Sand Martin, (JWo, CEc, Dean, also a Swallow, (CEc, Dean),

Hanchurch

10-12x Brambling at the feeding station, (PJo)

                                                                     By Phil Jones

Tittesworth Water

Swallow, (AEd)

Gentleshaw Common

Red Kite over, 

Thursday 25th March 2021

                      An early Whinchat was a new Spring arrival this morning

Middleton Lakes

Grey Plover on JW north, Bittern booming from the Staffs section of Fishers Mill reedbed, 4x Oystercatcher, 5x Avocet, LRP, Dunlin, 11x Redshank, 6x Shelduck, Pochard, 3x Goldeneye, (MSm)

Berryhill

An early Whinchat from the Palletstacks track at 07:09,  but no further sign by 07:15, (NDP)

Gailey Resv

68x Golden Plover, 8x Oystercatcher, Shoveler, 2x Goldeneye, 5x Sand Martin, (SRi)

Cannock

3x Curlew north over the A460 at 07:23, (SRi) 

Audley

Millend - LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, 6x Shelduck, Park Lane - 15x Wigeon, 2x Shoveler, (PDo)

Parkhall

Barn Owl this morning, 

Bateswood

20x Redpoll, (JHu)

Doxey Marsh

Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 2x Shelduck, (DB)

Tittesworth Water

10x Curlew, 7x Snipe, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Mandarin, 2x Barnacle Geese, (SGi)

Dimmingsdale

30x Siskin, 2x Redpoll, 2x Green Woodpecker, (TEy)

Ipstones

Curlew, 26x Pied Wagtail, (SCh)

Branston GPs

2x Avocet, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Ruff, 6x Redshank, 2x LRP, 7x Ringed Plover, 11x Snipe, 7x Oystercatcher, 15x Curlew, 33x Lapwing, 6x Pink-footed Geese, 14x Goldeneye, Pintail, 56x Wigeon, 26x Shoveler, 6x Pochard, 16x Gadwall, 128x Teal, 4x Mandarin, 4x Egyptian Geese + 4x Goslings, 43x Shelduck, 56x Little Grebe, 3x Water Rail, YL Gull, 2x Green Woodpecker, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Sand Martin, 2x Brimstone, (JWo)

                                                   Egyptian Geese by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Wednesday 24th March 2021

                     A Willow Warbler was a new Spring migrant this morning

Gailey Resv

3x Sand Martin, 200x Golden Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, 4x Shoveler, 2x Goldeneye, (SRi) 

Middleton Lakes

2x Black-tailed Godwit, 9x Oystercatcher, 2x LRP, Snipe, 8x Redshank, 8x Shelduck, Pochard, 3x Goldeneye, 4x Goosander, 8x Sand Martin, (MSm), also 2x Dunlin, (SPA)

Freehay

14x Brambling, 3x Siskin, (RCa, FCa)

Himley Great Pool

6x Sand Martin, (DBa)

Holden Lane

Water Rail near the pool, (DWa)

                                                                      By Donna Walker

Cuckoo Bank

Singing Willow Warbler. this morning,

Alvecote

3x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, (MSc)

Tittesworth Water

25x Curlew, Willow Tit, (DGH)

North Staffs Moors

8x Dunlin briefly before flying off north, (DGH)

Tucklesholme

8x Sand Martin, 4x LRP, (GSt)

Branston GPs

4x Avocet again on Sandy pit, 14x Curlew, 2x Ruff, 4x Redshank, 4x Egyptian Geese plus 4x Gosling, Pintail, 75x Wigeon, 30x Shoveler, 4x Goldeneye, Water Rail, 20x Sand Martin, (DSc)

Tuesday 23rd March 2021

Middleton Lakes

2x Curlew, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Avocet, 6x Oystercatcher, 7x Redshank, Dunlin, Snipe, 6x Shelduck, 3x Goldeneye, 2x Pochard, (MSm)

Branston GPs

6x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Avocet, LRP, 3x Ringed Plover, 4x Ruff, 5x Oystercatcher, 12x Curlew, 4x Redshank, 24x Shelduck, 4x Goldeneye, 5x Little Egret, Water Rail, 2x Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler, (CEc, PCo)  -  updated counts - 100x Golden Plover, 6x Redshank, 10x Oystercatcher, 4x Ringed Plover, 2x Green Sandpiper, Snipe, 30x Lapwing, 4x Water Rail, Pintail, 9x Goldeneye, 37x Shelduck, 6x Pochard, 78x Wigeon, 27x Shoveler, 57x Gadwall, 2x Egyptian Geese, 41x Little Grebe, YL Gull, 36x Sand Martin, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

                                                         Avocet by Jon Woodcock

Berryhill

2x Curlew dropped in field by the small scrape, (AJo)

Whitemoor Haye

Grey Partridge, Peregrine, Yellowhammer, (PCo)

Mavesyn Ridware

Red Kite over this afternoon, (PJo)

Hopton

2x Brambling, (ABr)

Stafford

Red Kite over Sainsbury's car park at 10:25, (SHu)

Freehay

8x Brambling, (FCa)

Wetley Rocks

Curlew, 

Monday 22nd March 2021

Middleton Lakes

2x Avocet, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 9x Redshank, and a Med Gull over Dosthill NR, (KSa)  -  also 7x Oystercatcher, 4x Snipe, 2x Dunlin, 6x Shelduck, 5x Goldeneye, Pochard, (MSm)

Berryhill - vismig 06:15 to 09:25

1151x Meadow Pipit over north also 1020x Wood Pigeon, 3x Siskin, Fieldfare, 6x Linnet, (NDP)

Doxey Marsh

6x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Oystercatcher, (NGR)

Uttoxeter Quarry

3x Sand Martin, 7x Goosander, 4x Pochard, 4x Shelduck, Curlew, Little Egret, 2x Redpoll,  (RPo)

Rockend Knypersley

Red Kite over, 2x Redpoll, (ALo)

Hopton

Brambling, (ABr)

Branston GPs

8x Curlew, 3x Ringed Plover, Black-tailed Godwit, Oystercatcher, (CMa, RFe)  -  6x Black-tailed Godwit, LRP, 5x Ringed Plover, Ruff, 6x Oystercatcher, 14x Curlew, 4x Redshank, 22x Shelduck, 7x Goldeneye, Pintail, 3x Little Egret, 2x Green Woodpecker, (CEc)

Radford Meadows

Great Egret, (AWa)

Baldwins Gate

Small flock of Common Scoter heard calling heading east at 19:15, (RWh)

Sunday 21st March 2021

 First report of a Staffs Lesser Spotted Woodpecker I have received so far in 2021 which   indicates how scarce they are getting these days.

Millend (Audley)

2x LRP, 4x Shelduck, 2x Wigeon, 12x Lapwing, Tree Sparrow, (SJT)

Middleton Lakes

Curlew over, 10x Redshank, 2x Dunlin, 4x Shelduck, Goldeneye, 2x Goosander, Stonechat, (MSm)  -  Knot, (ARa)

Hatherton Resv

Small flock of Sand Martin, (SB)

Betley Mere

3x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Willow Tit, (MSu)

Doxey Marsh

Oystercatcher, 3x Goosander, 4x Cetti's Warbler 8x Gadwall,  2x Little Egret, (DM)

Radford Meadows

134x Wigeon, 2x Goosander, Shelduck, Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, (RSw)

Blithfield Resv

Female Merlin over the causeway, (MPR, GJM)

Audley (Park Lane)

Pintail, 26x Wigeon, 5x Shoveler,  Great Egret (PDo, JHu)

                                                          Pintail by Phil Jones

Endon STW

Barn Owl at 08:30, (GBr)

Cuckoo Bank

Curlew over north

Alrewas NMA

3x Oystercatcher, Goosander, Shthru, elduck, Grey Wagtail, Junction pit Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)

Whitemoor Haye

Merlin, Redshank, 12x Snipe, 2x Oystercatcher, 67x Wigeon, 3x Goldeneye, 2x Gadwall, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)

Uttoxeter Quarry

12x Sand Martin, 2x Green Sandpiper, Curlew, 3x Oystercatcher, 4x Pochard, Goldeneye, 2x Mandarin, Peregrine, (AdM)

Chasewater

Jack Snipe, Curlew flew North, 3x Green Woodpecker, (SRi)

Alvecote

Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 16x Goosander, Green Woodpecker, Stonechat, (MSc)

Tittesworth Water

Woodcock, 35x Snipe, 6x Oystercatcher, 14x Wigeon, Mandarin, 3x Pochard, 9x Goosander,  Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, Little Egret, (SGi)

Elford - Fisherwick

Corn Bunting, (AP)

                                                                     By AP

Branston GPs

6x Pink-footed Geese, 2x Avocet, 9x Curlew, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff, 5x Redshank, 3x Dunlin, 4x Ringed Plover, 5x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 28x Shelduck, Pintail, 80x Wigeon, 32x Shoveler, 14x Goldeneye, 12x Sand Martin thru, Green Woodpecker, Little Egret, 2x Peregrine, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Saturday 20th March 2021

Middleton Lakes

9x Redshank, 4x Avocet, 2x Dunlin, 3x Snipe, (SPA)  -  4x Oystercatcher, Curlew, Peregrine, 

Westport Lake

Curlew over, 2x Shelduck over, 2x Goosander, Peregrine, (NS)

Little Aston

2x Grey Partridge, (SWa)

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Jack Snipe, (Foz)

Doxey Marsh

Red Kite over, Redshank, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Little Egret, 12x Gadwall, (DM)

Downs Banks Barlaston

Curlew, (MJa)

Gailey Res

7x Gadwall, 4x Goldeneye, 5x Pochard, 5x Oystercatcher, (SRi)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Redshank, Curlew, Goldeneye, 3x Goosander, 4x Pochard, 4x Shelduck, 108x Wigeon, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, (RPo)

South Staffs Railway walk near Castlecroft

Woodcock, 2x Shoveler, 2x Green Woodpecker, Grey Wagtail, (KCl)

Cuckoo Bank

2x Willow Tit, Stonechat, Yellowhammer, 

Elford-Fisherwick

2x Corn Buntings on wires, (SCo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Sand Martin, 9x Golden Plover, 2x Dunlin, Redshank, 4x Pochard, Goosander, 3x Yellowhammer, (RSw)

Trescott

12 to 20x Corn Bunting still with 40x Yellowhammer at Furnace Grange farm, (IMo)

Radford Meadows

2x Little Egret, Snipe, Cetti's Warbler, 50x Wigeon, (GHa)

Tittesworth Water

29x Snipe, 4x Oystercatcher, Woodcock, 3x Pochard, 8x Goosander, Willow Tit, 2x Common Gull, Lichen Ramalina Fraxianea,  (SGi, IB)

Tuckleshome

22x Sand Martin, (Kay)  -  4x Ringed Plover, LRP, 52x Wigeon, Goosander, Goldeneye, Willow Tit, (DSc)

Audley  Park Lane

LRP, Curlew, 26x Wigeon, 3x Shoveler, (JHu)

Branston GPs

6x Redshank, 4x Oystercatcher, Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Ruff, Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, 7x Curlew, 5x Snipe, 6x Pink-footed Geese, 28x Shelduck, Pintail, 86x Wigeon, 28x Shoveler, 8x Pochard, 12x Goldeneye, 2x Water Rail, Grey Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Ipstones Edge

3x Curlew, (TEy)

Chasewater

4x Dunlin, Oystercatcher, 6x Sand Martin, 2w YL Gull, 

Pool Hall - Langley Road

12x Yellowhammer, (JCa)

Knypersley Resv

2x Mandarin, 4x Goosander, 2x Willow Tit, (GBr)

Lightoaks Stoke on Trent

Whimbrel over by sound recordings.

Friday 19th March 2021

Middleton Lakes

Bar-tailed Godwit to 07:20 only, 3x Avocet, 5x Oystercatcher, Ringed Plover, 2x Dunlin, 4x Redshank, 8x Shelduck, 9x Goldeneye, Goosander, Common Gull, (MSm)  -  Great Egret over, (SPA)

Barlaston-Tittensor

2x Mandarin, 2x Goosander, 2x Grey Wagtail along the Trent, (RGi)

Radford Meadows

Little Egret, Snipe, 100x Wigeon, 2x Shoveler, (DEv)

Branston GPs

4x Avocet, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, LRP, 4x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Ruff, 5x Oystercatcher, 9x Curlew, 2x Redshank, 8x Snipe, 29x Shelduck, 3x Goldeneye, Pintail, 6x Pink-footed Geese, Egyptian Goose, 3x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, Peregrine, Green Woodpecker, 45x Linnet, 3x Sand Martin over, Cetti's Warbler, CEc) - UPDATED COUNTS -7x Ringed Plover, 3x Ruff, 3x Dunlin, 8x Redshank, 23x Snipe, 14x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, 7x Oystercatcher, 48x Lapwing, 16x Goldeneye, 34x Shelduck, 4x Mandarin, 12x Pochard, 40x Shoveler, 106x Wigeon, 28x Gadwall, 160x Teal, 40x Little Grebe, 10x Water Rail, 3x Green Woodpecker, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)  -  2x Goosander, North pit, 600x Starling, (DSc)

                                               Black-tailed Godwits by Jon Woodcock

                                                         Avocets by Jon Woodcock

Chatterley Whitfield

Red Kite over at 12:20, Peregrine over at 12:25, 

Cannock Chase

2x Brambling, Yellowhammers near Glacial boulder, (ASu

Freehay

4x Mandarin, 4x Brambling, 26x Fieldfare, (FCa, RCa)

Hanley Park

30x Goosander, 

Cheadle

Red Kite over the A522 north of the JCB factory, (DSc)

Branston Water Park, 

3x Pochard, (DSc)

Lightoaks Stoke on Trent

c200x Common Scoter over by sound recordings

Thursday 18th March 2021

Whitemoor Haye

Great Egret, Peregrine, 2x Oystercatcher, 11x Snipe, Redshank, 2x Shelduck, 6x Tree Sparrow, Green Woodpecker, 30x Skylark, (SCo)

Alrewas NMA (Junction pit)

Great Egret, Little Egret, 2x Shelduck, Goosander, (SCo)

Branston GPs

9x Black-tailed Godwit, Merlin, 7x Pink-footed Geese on Ashy pit, LRP, 6x Ringed Plover, 2x Ruff, 10x Redshank, Green Sandpiper, 6x Curlew, 6x Oystercatcher, 44x Lapwing, 5x Snipe, Pintail, 10x Goldeneye, male Merlin, 32x Shelduck, 136x Wigeon, 26x Shoveler, 15x Pochard, 32x Gadwall, 200x Teal, Water Rail, 2x Egyptian Geese, 47x Little Grebe, 3x YL Gull, 2x Common Gull, 2x Peregrine, 2x Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

                                                         Merlin by Jon Woodcock  

                                                            Ruff by Jon Woodcock
                                   

Freehay

4x Brambling, 4x Mandarin, (FCa)

Chasewater

1w Caspian Gull, 2w YL Gull, 

Middleton Lakes

10x Avocet this evening, 5x Redshank, 4x Oystercatcher, 5x Shelduck, Pochard, 9x Goldeneye, 12x Goosander,  Common Gull, (MSm)

Enville

Red Kite over, (PBo)

Wednesday 17th March 2021

Branston GPs

2x Avocet still on Sandy pit, 2x Sand Martin, 2x Ruff, 12x Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, 3x Ringed Plover, 4x Redshank, 6x Pink-footed Geese, 2x Mandarin, 3x Goldeneye, Water Rail, (SCo)  -  also Black-tailed Godwit, (CEc)

Middleton Lakes

4x Avocet, LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, 3x Snipe, 4x Redshank, 8x Shelduck, 2x Pochard, 9x Goldeneye, 3x Goosander, Stonechat, (MSm)  -  7x Redshank mid morning, (SPA)  -  adult Med Gull, (JWi)  -  37x Wigeon, 32x Shoveler, (MSc)

Knypersley Resv

2x Mandarin, Water Rail, 5x Goosander, Willow Tit, Woodcock, also a escaped imm Alexandrine Parakeet, (not a Ring-necked Parakeet as previously reported), (GBr)

Barton under Needwood

Brambling, 3x Blackcap, 4x Redpoll, (JWo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

9x Sand Martin, thru north

New Landywood pool

LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, (DBa)

Whitemoor Haye

Merlin from Sittles farm bend, 2x Redshank, 14x Snipe, 5x Dunlin, Oystercatcher, Great Egret, 12x Goosander, 12x Tree Sparrow,  Peregrine, (SCo)

Forsbrook - Draycott in the Moors

Merlin at 15:30, Woodcock, 2x Lapwing, (AR)

Alvecote

2x Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, (MSc)

Baswich  -  Two Water bridges

Mandarin, Little Egret, (GHa)

Alrewas NMA

Great Egret, Little Egret, Goosanders, 4x Oystercatchers, Green Woodpecker, (RBe)

                                               Oystercatchers by Rob Bendelow

Ipstones

Brambling, (SCh)

Barton Marina

44x Wigeon, 3x Pochard, (JWo)

Branston WP

5x Pochard, (JWo)

Tuesday 16th March 2021

Trescott - Pool Hall

22x Corn Bunting, (GCl)

Uttoxeter Quarry

19x Curlew, 3x Oystercatcher, Green Sandpiper, Dipper, Pochard, 6x Shelduck, 9x Wigeon, Cetti's Warbler, (RPo)

Branston GPs

2x Avocet on Sandy pit, Black-tailed Godwit, 10x Redshank, 4x Ringed Plover, 12x Snipe, 15x Curlew, 3x Ruff, 2x Green Sandpiper, 50x Lapwing,  5x Oystercatcher, 7x Pink-footed Geese,  Pintail, 9x Goldeneye, 39x Shelduck, 38x Gadwall, 122x Wigeon, 24x Shoveler, 10x Pochard, 212x Teal, 44x Little Grebe, 3x Water Rail, 2x Common Gull, 3x Green Woodpecker, Peregrine,  (JWo)

                                                        Avocets by Jon Woodcock

Croxall

4x Redshank, Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, 4x Shelduck, 2x Goosander, Goldeneye, Cetti's Warbler, Egyptian Goose, (PCo)

Whitemoor Haye

4x Tree Sparrow, 6x Yellowhammer, 10x Snipe, Oystercatcher, Lapwing, (PCo)

Ford Green

Cetti's Warbler at north end, (JJo)

Freehay

4x Mandarin, 3x Brambling, (FCa)

Doxey Marsh

4x Cetti's Warbler, Jack Snipe, Great Egret, Little Egret, 3x Goosander, Stonechat, (PBe)

Middleton Lakes

Avocet, 4x Oystercatcher, 3x Redshank, 2x Common Gull, YL Gull, 10x Shelduck, 11x Goldeneye, 8x Goosander, (MSm)

Wolseley SWT

Water Rail, (RBe)

Dimmingsdale

4x Crossbill, 4x Redpoll, (TEy)

                                                           Redpoll by Terry Eyre

Staffs

Monday 15th March 2021

Middleton Lakes

2x Oystercatcher, 2x Redshank, Common Gull, 4x Shelduck, 2x Goldeneye, 2x Goosander, (MSm)

Stone 

Red Kite over this morning, 

Meaford

Red Kite over this morning, (Ed)

Branston GPs

7x Golden Plover, 2x Green Sandpiper, Dunlin, Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Ringed Plover, 2x Ruff, 3x Oystercatcher, 10x Curlew, 6x Redshank, 2x Snipe, 35x Shelduck, 10x Goldeneye, Pintail, 6x Pink-footed Geese. 3x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, (CEc)

Tittesworth Water

2x Curlew over, Lapwing, 4x Oystercatcher, 6x Pochard, 4x Goosander, (EWi)

Trent Washlands Burton

4x Common Gull, Little Egret, Cettis' Warbler, (PCo)

Keele

4x Crossbill on pines at the Uni, (MSu)

Sunday 14th March 2021

Berryhill

Botteslow Flash - 8x Little Egret over (7+1), -  LNR, 3x Stonechat, Willow Tit, (RGi)

Doxey Marsh

Red Kite over, 2x Adult Med Gull, 2x Water Pipit, Common Gull, 5x Little Egret, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Shelduck, 15x Gadwall, Chiffchaff, (MBo, PDy)

i54

2x Jack Snipe, Snipe, 2x Goosander, Stonechat, Green Woodpecker, 7x Chiffchaff, (JDu)

Uttoxeter Quarry

20x Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, 4x Goldeneye, 4x Pochard, 6x Shelduck, 5x Goosander, 2x Willow Tit, 3x Chiffchaff, Cetti's Warbler, Grey Wagtail, (AMa)

Branston GPs

Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Ruff, 2x Oystercatcher, 20x Curlew, Redshank, Snipe, Pintail, 31x Shelduck, Egyptian Goose, 6x Little Egret, 3x Green Woodpecker, 2x Water Rail, 7x Lesser Redpoll, Chiffchaff, (CEc)  -  also 6x Pink-footed Geese, Mandarin, 116x Wigeon, 7x Goldeneye, 6x Ringed Plover, 4x Redshank, 3x Snipe, Jack Snipe, (DSc)

Hanchurch Woods

5x Snipe, 2x Jack Snipe, (TRo)  -  4x Crossbill, (RWh)

Knypersley Resv

Shelduck, 2x Mandarin, 3x Goosander, Willow Tit, Ring-necked Parakeet still, (GBr)

Hopton

12x Siskin, (ABr)

Wychnor

6x Sand Martin, (JWo)

Alvecote

Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, Stonechat, (MSc)

Saturday 13th March 2021

Middleton Lakes

1w Med Gull still on JW, 2x Redshank, Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, 2x Oystercatcher, Snipe, 8x Shelduck, 7x Goldeneye, 3x Common Gull, 2x Stonechat, (MSm)  -  In the roost, Ad Med Gull, 2x YL Gull, 6x Common Gull, also Goosander, (MSm)

Berryhill

Wheatear in gully at top mounds, (RTo)

Tucklesholme

2x Ringed Plover, 2x Shelduck, (SCa)

Chasewater

Juv Glaucous Gull flew in at 13:00, 12x Goldeneye, 3x Goosander, (CMa)  - in the roost, juv Glaucous Gull, ad Med Gull, 2x YL Gull

Gailey Resv

Redshank, 2x Little Egret, 5x Pochard, 4x Goldeneye, (SRi)

i54

3x Goosander, 6x Lapwing, 2x Snipe, 2x Green Woodpecker, (JDu)

Clayton Wood

2x Mandarin, Grey Wagtail, (RGi)

Branston GPs

7x Pink-footed Geese, 60x Lapwing, 20x Curlew, 2x Ringed Plover, 3x Ruff, Dunlin, 8x Redshank, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, Black-tailed Godwit, 35x Shelduck, Pintail, 110x Wigeon, 28x Shoveler, 46x Gadwall, 150x Teal, 6x Pochard, 10x Goldeneye, 2x Common Gull, Peregrine, 2x Water Rail, Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler, 20x Linnet, (DSc)

Dimingsdale

Red Kite over west at 15:00, Willow Tit, 40x Siskin, 4x Redpoll, (TEy)

Alvecote

Great Egret, Little Egret, 2x Goosander, Snipe, Stonechat, (MSc)

Alrewas NMA

Great Egret, 6x Goosander, also 2x Goosander Alrewas Lock, (JWo)

Baldwins Gate

Brambling, (RWh)

Whitemoor Haye

Barn Owl this evening, (SAl)

Friday 12th March 2021

Middleton Lakes

1w Med Gull still also Curlew over, Avocet, Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Snipe, 4x Oystercatcher, LRP, 2x Redshank, 8x Shelduck, Pintail, 8x Goldeneye, 2x Stonechat, (MSm), also Dunlin, (JJH, SJH)

Uttoxeter

Short-eared Owl across the A50 at 07:20, (HWa)

Codsall

Red Kite over Moatbrook Ave, (HLT)

Tameside NR

2x Oystercatcher, (MSc)

Branston GPs

Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Ringed Plover, 3x Ruff, 4x Oystercatcher, 19x Curlew, 4x Redshank, Green Sandpiper, 100x Wigeon, 5x Goldeneye, 41x Shelduck, 6x Pink-footed Goose, 13x Little Egret, 2x Green Woodpecker, 2x Water Rail, Cetti's Warbler, (CEc)  -  also Dunlin, 9x Redshank, 23x Curlew, 4x Ruff, 100x Lapwing, 2x Snipe, Pintail, 15x Goldeneye, 142x Wigeon, 8x Pochard, 46x Shoveler, 36x Gadwall, 180x Teal, 2x Egyptian Geese, 49x Little Grebe, 3x Water Rail, 2x YL Gull, Common Gull, (JWo, DSc)

                                               Black-tailed Godwit by Jon Woodcock

Chasewater

Juv Glaucous Gull still, (HKi)  -  additionally in the roost, ad Kittiwake, Ad Med Gull, 2x YL Gull, 

Berryhill

Shelduck over,  2x Stonechat, Goosander, (RTo)

Yarnfield

Tree Sparrow, 2x Yellowhammer, 10x Lapwing, (RRa)

Okeover Hall

2x Red Kite over west at 14:45, (TJe, LJe)

Hanchurch Woods

6x Brambling around the feeders, (BR)

Blithfield Resv

Common Sandpiper on causeway, (RCB)

Thursday 11th March 2021

Middleton Lakes

2x Oystercatcher, 2x Redshank, Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, LRP, 2x Snipe, 6x Shelduck, 6x Goldeneye, 2x Goosander, YL Gull, Stonechat, adult and 1w Med Gull on JW, (MSm) - also Curlew, Pochard, (SPA)

Chasewater

Glaucous Gull on small raft at 12:30, also 2x Kittiwake, (GHa) - also 2w YL Gull in the roost

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Adult Little Gull briefly at 13:20 then flew west, 1w Kittiwake thru, 1w Caspian Gull, 

Uttoxeter Quarry

1w Kittiwake from 14:20 to 14:30, 50x Curlew, 3x Oystercatcher, 3x Goosander, 25x Wigeon, (RPo)

Branston GPs

Bar-tailed Godwit on Ashy pit sheepfield, 6x Pink-footed Geese, 22x Curlew, 2x Ringed Plover, 4x Ruff, 13x Redshank, Common Sandpiper, 6x Snipe, 4x Oystercatcher, 100x Lapwing, 6x Little Egret, Pintail, 7x Goldeneye, 134x Wigeon, 4x Pochard, 31x Shoveler, 53x Gadwall, 226x Teal, 38x Shelduck, Egyptian Goose, 43x Little Grebe, 2x YL Gull, Common Gull, Cetti's Warbler, 3x Chiffchaff, (JWo)

Berryhill

3x Stonechat, (RGi)

Stafford

Peregrine over, (AR)

Barton under Needwood

Blackcap, 4x Redpoll, 8x Siskin, (JWo)

Wednesday 10th March 2021

Middleton Lakes

2x Redshank, 2x Oystercatcher, LRP, Snipe, 2x Dunlin, 7x Shelduck, 2x Pintail, 12x Goldeneye, Great Egret, 2x Curlew, Black-tailed Godwit, (MSm)

Blithfield Resv

Red Kite briefly over Blithe Bay, (GJM)

Chasewater

Juv Glaucous Gull at 16:40 at least, (KCl)

Branston GPs  - North Pit/Sandy Pit

Avocet, 5x Redshank, 3x Ruff, 4x Oystercatcher, ad YL Gull, Common Gull, Cetti's Warbler, 24x Shelduck, (DSc)

Tuesday 9th March 2021

New Landywood pool

15x Goosander, 34x Wigeon, 16x Teal, (JJO)

Blithfield Resv

2x Sand Martin, (GJM)

Audley (Millend)

Great Egret, Little Egret, 2x Shelduck, MBa)

Middleton Lakes

Curlew, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Redshank, LRP, 2x Snipe, 4x Dunlin, Great Egret, 7x Shelduck, 3x Pochard, 8x Goldeneye, Goosander, Stonechat, (MSm)

Radford Meadows

Pair of Med Gulls from first signed viewpoint at 11:20, (CDa)

Ramshorn

2x Red Kite over Wooton Lodge, (JDr)

Branston GPs

Avocet on North pit, 8x Pink-footed Geese, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 4x Ruff, 7x Redshank, 6x Ringed Plover, 18x Curlew, 4x Oystercatcher, 84x Lapwing, 2x Little Egret, 17x Goldeneye, 38x Shelduck, 137x Wigeon, 16x Shoveler, 12x Pochard, 34x Gadwall, 231x Teal, 4x Mandarin, 52x Little Grebe, 4x YL Gull, Common Gull, 6x Chiffchaff, Cetti's Warbler,  (JWo)

                                                         Avocet by Jon Woodcock

Yarnfield - Swynnerton

2x Yellowhammer, 2x Lapwing, (SMN)

Chasewater

Juv Glaucous Gull, 2w Caspian Gull, 5x YL Gull, 5x ad Med Gull in roost

Dimmingsdale  (near Alton)

22x Mandarin, (TEy)

                                                                By Terry Eyre

Barton under Needwood

Blackcap, 4x Redpoll, 14x Siskin, (JWo)

Knypersley (Rockend)

Blackcap, 2x Siskin, Redpoll, (ALo)

Monday 8th March 2021

Middleton Lakes

Bittern on small pool behind west screen, 2x Avocet, 9x Oystercatcher, Curlew over, Ringed Plover, LRP, 2x Snipe, 4x Dunlin, 4x Redshank, Great Egret, Common Gull, 9x Goldeneye, 6x Shelduck, Pochard, Stonechat, (MSm)  -  Marsh Harrier heading north at 13:45, (PFo)  -  30x Wigeon, 3x Little Egret, 30x Shoveler, Egyptian Goose, 110x Lapwing, (MSc)

Cheddleton Water Meadows

2x Oystercatcher, 4x Shoveler, 2x Shelduck, 12x Red-legged Partridge, (EWi)

Uttoxeter Quarry

20x Curlew, Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, Little Egret, Goldeneye, 8x Goosander, 6x Shelduck, 14x Wigeon, Chiffchaff, 2x Willow Tit, Green Woodpecker, (RPo)

Ford Green

Cetti's Warbler at the pool, 4x Snipe, Shoveler, (JJo)

Dimmingsdale

20x Siskin, 6x Redpoll, (TEy)

Branston GPs

6x Pink-footed Geese, 7x Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, 3x Redshank, 3x Ruff, Dunlin, 3x Ringed Plover, Snipe, 3x Chiffchaff, (CMa)  -  also 6x Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, 3x Snipe, 10x Curlew, 10x Goldeneye, 5x Shelduck, Green Woodpecker, (CEc)

Croxall

6x Oystercatcher, Curlew, 2x Green Sandpiper, 8x Shelduck, (SCa)

Tucklesholme

2x Oystercatcher, 2x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, (SCa)

Alrewas NMA

Great Egret, Little Egret, Goosander, Shelduck, (RBe)

                                                                Egrets by Rob Bendelow

Whitemoor Haye

Peregrine, (RBe)

Biddulph Moor

3x Snipe at Beckfields farm, (SHi)

Forsbrook - Draycott in the Moors

Merlin at 12:00, Grey Wagtail, (AR)

Sunday 7th March 2021

Middleton Lakes

LRP, 4x Dunlin, 4x Redshank, 11x Pintail, 9x Goldeneye, 2x Chiffchaff, (PAn)

Hanchurch, 

35x Crossbill, 8x Brambling, 100x Siskin, 320x Chaffinch, (MSu)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Short-eared Owl over south at 11:25, 5x Black-tailed Godwit

Audley

Park Lane flash - Curlew, Lapwings, Common Gull, Shoveler, 2x Shelduck, 11x Wigeon, - Mill End - Little Egret, Oystercatcher, - Eardleyend Road - 22x Yellowhammer, 3x Tree Sparrow, Curlew, (JMa)

Berryhill

Golden Plover over, (RTo)

Rocester

2x Dipper on the Churnet, (JDr)

Alvecote

2x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 3x Goosander, 5x Shelduck, Stonechat, (MSc)

Great Haywood

2x Siskin, Reed Bunting, (ASu)

Huntington

Woodcock this evening, (SRi)

Whitemoor Haye

146x Wigeon, 5x Goldeneye, 9x Shelduck, 3x Chiffchaff, Cetti's Warbler, 4x Oystercatcher, 7x Snipe, 2x Grey Partridge, 40x Linnet, (SCo)

Branston GPs

14x Curlew, 6x Ringed Plover, 2x Ruff, 2x Redshank, Dunlin, 3x Oystercatcher, 4x Pink-footed Geese, 127x Wigeon, Peregrine, (SCo)

Catholme

Green Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 6x Shelduck, 2x Goosander, 4x Goldeneye, 6x Little Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese, (JWo)

Alrewas NMA

Great Egret, Little Egret, 2x Oystercatcher, 6x Shelduck, Goldeneye, Goosander, (JWo)

Barton under Needwood

2x Green Woodpecker, 5x Yellowhammer, (JWo)

Maer Hills

6x Crossbill, (RWh)

Baldwins Gate

Woodcock over, (RWh)

Ebstree - Trescott

Ebstree farm - Yellowhammers, Little Egret, Chiffchaff, - Langley Lane 15x Yellowhammer, 80x Linnet, (CVa)

Baswich

Blackcap, (GHa)

Saturday 6th March 2021

i54

10x Yellowhammer, 26x Skylark, 31x Linnet, 8x Greenfinch, 2x Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, Water Rail, Jack Snipe, 5x Snipe, Gadwall, Du)

Whitfield Valley

Cetti's Warbler still, 2x Goosander, Shoveler, 2x Chiffchaff, Little Egret, (SGi)

Mill End

Great Egret, Little Egret, 2x Shelduck, Chiffchaff, (SJT)

Gailey Resv

7x Pochard, 2x Goosander, 4x Gadwall, 4x Goldeneye, Snipe, (SRi)

Barton under Needwood

2x Blackcap, 12x Siskin, (JWo)

Botteslow Flash

Gadwall, Goosander, (RTo)

Hanley Park

21x Goosander, Chiffchaff, 2x Grey Wagtail, (RGi)

Middleton Lakes

LRP still, 

Maer Hills

4x Woodcock, (TRe)

Baswich

Blackcap, (GHa)

Alvecote

2x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 6x Goosander, Stonechat, (MSc)

Horton

Curlews near the school, (SHi)

Branston GPs

7x Pink-footed Geese still this pm, 72x Lapwing, 16x Curlew, 3x Oystercatcher, 3x Redshank, 2x Ruff, 3x ad YL Gull, 4x Common Gull, 30x Shelduck, 16x Shoveler, Mandarin, 26x Gadwall, 14x Pochard, 13x Goldeneye, 2x Peregrine, Green Woodpecker, (DSc)

Rudyard Lake

Little Egret, (LRa)

Friday 5th March 2021

Branston GPs

4x Ringed Plover, 4x Ruff, 3x Dunlin, 2x Snipe, 5x Oystercatcher, 22x Curlew, 3x Redshank, Pink-footed Goose, 7x Goldeneye, 12x Shelduck, 2x Green Woodpecker, 8x Siskin, 2x Redpoll, (CEc)  -  also 8x Pink-footed Geese, 4x Snipe, 137x Lapwing, 2x Water Rail, 18x Goldeneye, 4x Mandarin, 16x Pochard, 40x Shoveler, 26x Selduck, 200x Teal, 38x Gadwall, 47x Little Grebe, 4x YL Gull, 4x Common Gull, Peregrine, 40x Linnet, 5x Chiffchaff, Cetti's Warbler, Egyptian Goose, (JWo)  -  additionally North Pit, Goosander and a 6th Chiffchaff, (DSc)

                                                            Pinkfoots by Jon Woodcock

                                                           Ruff by Jon Woodcock

Whitfield Valley

3x Little Egret, (JOa)

Drointon Pool

11x Shelduck, (PBe)

Milton-Carmountside

24x Teal on small scrape near the Trent, (RGi)

Branston WP

2x Pochard, Egyptian Goose, Goldeneye, (DSc)

Thursday 4th March 2021

Radford Meadows

Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 314x Wigeon, 183x Teal, 2x Shelduck, 2x Stonechat, Cetti's Warbler. (RSw)

Blithfield Resv

LRP high over the causeway, (GJM)

Tittensor - Barlaston

2x Oystercatcher, 4x Goosander, 18x Teal, 3x Grey Wagtail, also a further 2x Oystercatcher on the flood at Strongford farm, (RGi)

Audley - Park Lane

21x Wigeon, Grey Wagtail, also Shoveler at Mill End, (PDo)

Cuckoo Bank

2x Wheatear this afternoon, Green Sandpiper, Curlew, 4x Goosander, 24x Wigeon, 2x Chiffchaff,   4 to 5000x Fieldfare NE between 16:00  and 17:00

Alvecote

2x Great Egret, Little Egret, 13x Goosander, 4x Shelduck, 5x Wigeon, (MSc)

Barton under Needwood

Redpoll, Siskin, (APa)

Cheddleton

5x Shoveler, 14x Teal, Wigeon, Goosander, 2x Oystercatcher, 110x Lapwing, 2x Grey Wagtail,  16x Raven, (DSc)

Consall Woods

2x Dipper, (DSc)

Wednesday 3rd March 2021

Middleton Lakes

LRP, 2x Dunlin, 2x Redshank on JW, (CWa)

Radford Meadows

2x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 2x Oystercatcher, Dunlin, Cetti's Warbler, (CDa)

Madeley Pool

4x Goosander, (TRe)

Branston GPs

26x Golden Plover, 4x Ringed Plover, 4x Ruff, 4x Redshank, 2x Dunlin, 2x Green Sandpiper, 22x Curlew, 5x Oystercatcher, 152x Lapwing, 8x Snipe, 13x Goldeneye, 35x Shelduck, 134x Wigeon, 40x Gadwall, 34x Shoveler, 14x Pochard, 200x Teal, 51x Little Grebe, 4x YL Gull, 2x Common Gull, 2x Peregrine, Green Woodpecker, 2x Chiffchaff, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

                                                             Ruff by Jon Woodcock

Longdon

Great Egret at Brook End, (SWe)

Tuesday 2nd March 2021

                               LRP was another Spring migrant  at Middleton Lakes                

Tittesworth Water

14x Curlew, 7x Lapwing, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Shelduck, 6x Pochard, Yellowhammer, 17x Redwing, (EWi)

Middleton Lakes

LRP reported on JW this morning,

Brereton

Redshank over, (SCa)

Codsall

Green Woodpecker, 3x Lapwing-Watery Lane, (PCo)

Botteslow Flash

Oystercatcher early am, YL Gull briefly, (RTo)

Audley  -  Park Lane

2x Oystercatcher, 40x Lapwing, Yellowhammer, 25x Wigeon, (JMa)

Freehay

8x Brambling, Siskin, (FCa)

Hoar Cross

3x Brambling at Roost hill, (JWo)

Branston WP

2x Egyptian Geese, (JWo)

Barton Marina

56x Wigeon, 4x Pochard, 8x Little Grebe, (JWo)

Ipstones

2x Siskin, Greenfinch, (SCh)

Trentham Gardens

2x Oystercatcher, 5x Pochard, 2x Goosander, 4x Mandarin, 2x Little Egret, 

Monday 1st March 2021

Wetley Rocks

Red Kite over at 10:45,

Berryhill

2x Curlew, Woodcock, 3x Willow Tit, 9x Reed Bunting, 8x Skylark, 7x Greenfinch, 6x Linnet, Chiffchaff, 68x Redwing, and at Botteslow Flash  -  Wigeon, Goosander, Little Egret, (RTo)

Hopton

8x Siskin, 

Tittesworth Water

Curlew, 3x Oystercatcher, 2x Shoveler, 2x Pochard, (EWh)

Middleton Lakes

2x Ringed Plover, 3x Redshank, 120x Lapwing, 2x Pintail, 35x Siskin, 49x Wigeon, (MSc)

Barlaston - Tittensor  along the River Trent

Green Sandpiper, 3x Mandarin, 3x Grey Wagtail, 16x Teal, (RGi)

Alrewas NMA

Great Egret, Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, Grey Wagtail, Goosander, (RBe)

Branston GPs

8x Ringed Plover, 6x Dunlin, 4x Ruff, Green Sandpiper, 15x Curlew, 3x Redshank, 2x Oystercatcher, 106x Lapwing, 2x Water Rail, 13x Goldeneye, 25x Shelduck, 16x Pochard, 12x Gadwall, 135x Wigeon, 36x Shoveler, 180x Teal, 41x Little Grebe, 4x YL Gull, Common Gull, Peregrine, Green Woodpecker, Chiffchaff, (JWo)

Bobbington

2x Egyptian Geese just west of the Mere Lane / Lutley Lane junction, (WNa)

Stanley Pool

2x Oystercatcher, (KBu)