Friday 30th April 2021

Parkhall CP

Wood Warbler still this am, 2x Crossbill, 2x Willow Tit, Green Woodpecker, (RGi)

Cuckoo Bank

2x Ring Ouzel, Redstart, Whinchat, Wheatear, 

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

2x Whimbrel, Redshank, 4x LRP, 3x Common Sandpiper, 3x Dunlin, 4x Whinchat, Lesser Whitethroat, 

Longsdon Mill

4x Wheatear, 2x Green Sandpiper, (JJo)

Blithfield Resv

Osprey, Greenshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP, 4x Arctic Tern, Great Egret, 2x Mandarin, 7x Yellow Wagtail, (BPu)

Bishops Wood

Woodcock, 2x Cuckoo, 45x Crossbill, Tree Pipit, 9x Garden Warbler, (HLl)

Tittesworth Water

8x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, 5x Snipe, 2x Mandarin, (EWi)

Bobbington

Whinchat from Leaton Lane, (HKi)  -  also Wheatear, 5x Yellow Wagtail, (MMo)

Alvecote

Great Egret, Little Egret, Common Tern, Common Sandpiper, (MSc)

Cannock Chase

Pied Flycatcher, Cuckoo, Redstart, (SRi)

Otherton

2x Wheatear, (SRi)

Kingstone

2x Mandarin on River Blythe, (PBe)

Middleton Lakes

Hobby, Avocet, Garden Warbler, Gropper, Cuckoo, (RBe)

                                                     Garden Warbler by Rob Bendelow

Knypersley

Hobby at Rockend, (ALo)

Branston GPs

Greenshank, 2x Ruff, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, 7x Dunlin, 3x Redshank, Curlew, 2x Little Egret, Water Rail, 3x Pochard, Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear, Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Reed Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo, DSc, CEc, Dean)

Thursday 29th April 2021

                                Wood Warbler was a new Spring arrival today

Middleton Lakes

Whinchat on North pit, 6x Avocet, Black-tailed Godwit, Ringed Plover, 6x LRP, Cuckoo, Swift, Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, (MSm)  - also 3x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, 2x Cuckoo, (SPA)  -  2x Arctic Tern thru, (KSa)  -  Hobby, 2x Great Egret, 7x Goosander, (JDr)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

3x Black-necked Grebe, 

Cuckoo Bank

Marsh Harrier thru SE

Knypersley Resv

Pied Flycatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Mandarin, (PMo)

Blithfield Resv

Black Tern still, Common Sandpiper, LRP, Swift, (RBe)

Shenstone

Red Kite at 13:00, (SDa)

Cannock Chase

Redstart, (KWh)

Parkhall CP

Wood Warbler in pines near pool at north end, (SFe)

Tucklesholme and Branston Leas

Common Sandpiper, 4x Ringed Plover, 6x LRP, 2x Common Tern, 2x Goosander, Little Egret, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Berryhill

2x Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP, Yellow Wagtail, Grey Wagtail at Botteslow and 6x Wheatear off the Palletstacks, (RTo)

Little Aston

Whinchat, 6x Wheatear, (KWh)

Shenstone - Footherley

8x Wheatear, 2x Grey Partridge, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (PAn)

Tittesworth Water

11x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, 4x Snipe, Common Tern, Mandarin, Garden Warbler, (JOa, DC)

Morridge

Red Kite, (JOa)

Wednesday 28th April 2021

                          A major movement of Arctic Terns across the region

Blithfield Resv

265x Arctic Tern counted by 14:25, Black Tern, 16x Common Tern, 2x Great Egret, 2x Greenshank, (GJM, MPR)   -  Whimbrel over (SRi)  -  Osprey, (AWa)

                                                       Arctic Tern by Steve Edwards

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

101x Arctic Tern, Bar-tailed Godwit, 3x Greenshank, 9x Dunlin, 2x Whimbrel thru, Little Gull, Osprey 15:20 to 15:35 before flying off WSW

Middleton Lakes

2x Kittiwake and a Whimbrel to 06:00 only, 40x Arctic Tern thru by 08:20, 10x Dunlin, (MSm)  -  also 2x Greenshank, 2x Cuckoo, 4x LRP, Ringed Plover, Common Tern, 3x Goosander, Swifts,  (SPA)

Branston GPs

Bar-tailed Godwit, 7x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Ruff, 2x Redshank, Curlew, 4x Ringed Plover, Common Tern, Lesser Whitethroat, Yellow Wagtail, (DSc)  -  8x Arctic Tern briefly Ashy pit at 13:00, (NJS)  -  11x Black-tailed Godwit early afternoon, Gropper, 2x Mandarin, c20x Swift, (DOu, LOu)  -  also 3x Dunlin, ad Common Gull, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear, 60x Swift, 30x House Martin, 6x Pochard, ((JWo)

                                                Bar-tailed Godwit by Dave Scattergood

Cuckoo Bank

3x Ring Ouzel still, 

Chasewater

15x Swift, (GHa)

Whitfield Valley

Hobby, (JJo)

Alrewas NMA

Swift, (RBe)

Berryhill

8x Wheatear and at Botteslow Flash 3x LRP, Common Sandpiper, (RTo)

Footherley

7x Wheatear, (PAn)

North Staffs Moors

Pied Flycatcher, Brambling, (ACo)

Barton under Needwood

Barn Owl, (AP)

Little Hay

Whinchat, Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, 

Church Eaton

Wheatear, 2x Curlew, (RSw)

Tuesday 27th April 2021

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only

Bar-tailed Godwit still, Greenshank, Dunlin, 2x Curlew, 2x LRP, Peregrine, 12x Swift, 

Tittesworth Water

Bar-tailed Godwit still, 2x Dunlin, 10x LRP, 6x Common Sandpiper, 9x Curlew, Snipe, Common Tern, Mandarin, White Wagtail, (SGi)

Middleton Lakes

Greenshank, 2x Avocet, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Ringed Plover, 6x LRP, 10x Redshank, 2x Swift, 2x Cuckoo, all ten Warblers, (MSm)  -  Wood Sandpiper dropped in north pit this evening, also 4x Dunlin, (MSm)

Bishops Wood

2x Cuckoo, 35x Crossbill, 10x Garden Warbler, 66x Redpoll, (HLl)

Blithfield Resv

Black Tern, (Andm), -  also Osprey, Greenshank, 2x LRP, 5x Yellow Wagtail, (BPu,)  -  Great Egret Tad Bay, (MPi)

                                                           Black Tern by Bob Pugh

                                                           Greenshank by Bob Pugh

Branston GPs

Bar-tailed Godwit still, 7x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Ruff, 4x Redshank, 7x Ringed Plover, 2x Curlew, 2x Snipe, 6x Pochard, 6x Mandarin, Pink-footed Goose, Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, 20x Swift, 30x House Martin, 2x Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, Wheatear, Garden Warbler, Wheatear, Gropper, Lesser Whitethroat,  3x Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc, JWo)

Cuckoo Bank

3x Ring Ouzel still, Wheatear, 2x Curlew north, 

Doxey Marsh

2x LRP, Yellow Wagtail, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x GBBG, (RJS)

Westport Lake

Common Sandpiper, (KBr)

Botteslow Flash

3x LRP, Common Sandpiper, (RTo)

Monday 26th April 2021

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

3x Black-necked Grebe, Bar-tailed Godwit, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Arctic Tern, Hobby

                                                Black-necked Grebes by Steve Edwards

Cuckoo Bank

3x Ring Ouzel, 4x Wheatear, Whinchat, 3x Whimbrel over NW, 15x Gropper,

Middleton Lakes

2x Greenshank still, Black-tailed Godwit, Ringed Plover, 5x LRP, 2x Snipe, 7x Redshank, 2x Avocet, 7x Common Tern, Cuckoo, 2x Swift, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)

Tittesworth Water

Bar-tailed Godwit still, Dunlin, Snipe, 2x Barnacle Geese, 2x Mandarin, (SGi)  - 6x Common Sandpiper, 12x LRP, (EWi)

Branston GPs

Bar-tailed Godwit still Ashy pit,  2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (CMa)  -  Wood Sandpiper still on Ashy pit this afternoon, (RPo)  -  Little Stint on North pit showing from bridleway, (JWo), - male Ring Ouzel (1st site record), (CEc, Dean, Stu), 7x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Curlew, 6x Redshank, 4x Ringed Plover, 2x Ruff, Dunlin, Snipe, 4x Mandarin, Pink-footed Goose, 3x Little Egret, Peregrine, Garden Warbler, (CEc, Dean, Stu, JWo)

                                                      Little Stint by Jon Woodcock

Blithfield Resv

Greenshank, 2x Arctic Tern, 20x Common Tern, 2x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, 7x Yellow Wagtail, (BPu)

Cannock Chase

Red Kite, 2x Brambling, 3x Cuckoo, 5x Tree Pipit, Redstart, Swift, (RSw)

Stafford Common

White Wagtail, (RJS)

Draycott in the Moors

Lesser Whitethroat, (AR)

Coombes Valley RSPB

Pied Flycatcher, Redstart, Grey Wagtail - and a Red Kite at Cheddleton, (RBe)

                                                   Pied Flycatcher by Rob Bendelow

Doxey Marsh

3x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, Gropper, 5x Swift. 5x Cetti' Warbler, Little Egret, (DBa)

Alvecote

Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 4x Yellow Wagtail, (MSc)

Hanchurch Woods

Cuckoo, (CBa)

Great Bridgeford

Cetti's Warbler at Tixall Wide moorings, (BBo)

Bobbington

11x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Wheatear off Leaton Lane, (WN)

Sunday 25th April 2021

A Osprey seen at Blithfield Resv on 22nd April 2021 was one of two chicks ringed at the Manton Bay nest at Rutland Water on 21st June 2017. The first sighting of this bird back in the UK after its first migration  was actually at Blithfield Resv on 28th August 2019. It was then seen back at Rutland Water for the first  time last year on the 14th June 2020. The bird has a blue ring on its right leg with a white inscription  2AM. If any further sightings of this bird are observed would you please forward to  www.roydennis.org  or email to tim@roydennis.org  mobile 07739314794.   With thanks to Bob Pugh for follow up action.

Middleton Lakes

Curlew Sandpiper on JW, Knot Greenshank, Ringed Plover, (MSm) - Cuckoo, Lesser Whitethroat, now 2x Greenshank, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x LRP, 2x Avocet, Yellow Wagtail, SPA)

Tittesworth Water

Bar-tailed Godwit still, Dunlin, (SGi)

Pool Hall area

Merlin, Gropper, Sedge Warbler, 

Cuckoo Bank

Ring Ouzel still, 

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Bar-tailed Godwit still, 5x Swift, Garden Warbler, 

New Landywood pool

4x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, (JJO)

Merelake

54x Fieldfare, Redstart, (MBa)

Knypers;ey Resv

Pied Flycatcher, Water Rail, 122x Fieldfare, 2x Mandarin, 3x Oystercatcher, also Whitethroat on Marshes Hill, (GBr)

Silverdale CP

2x Gropper, Sedge Warbler, Whitethroats, (PCa)

Branston GPs

Bar-tailed Godwit, Adult Little Gull, Ruff, 4x Redshank, 4x Ringed Plover, 3x Mandarin, Gropper, (JWo)  -  Wood Sandpiper still on Ashy pit at 15:00, (DDa)  -  7x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Curlew, Snipe, Dunlin, 2x Swift, (CEc), -  Little Stint on North pit 18: 52 to dusk also 3x Dunlin, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x House Martin, Garden Warbler, (DSc)

                                                            Little Gull by Jon Woodcock

                                                            Little Gull by Jon Woodcock

Doxey Marsh

LRP, Common Sandpiper, Garden Warbler, Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Gropper, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Stonechat, House Martin, (GHa)

                                                    Octagonal hide by Graham Halden

Aqualate

2x Hobby, (AM, EH)

Blithfield Resv

4x Arctic Tern, Greenshank, (MYa)

Shoal Hill Common - Littleton pit

2x Stonechat, House Martin, 4x Reed Warbler, 3x Whitethroat, (SRi)

Yoxall

Hobby over at 18:30, (TSl)

Hanchurch Woods

Cuckoo, 2x Tree Pipit, 5x Crossbill, Green Woodpecker, (RGi)

Trentham Gardens

Swift, 35x House Martin, Oystercatcher, 2x Goosander, 8x Mandarin, Little Egret, Reed Warbler, (RGi)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Med Gull, Corn Bunting, 6x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Common Tern, 4x Tree Sparrow, Pochard, 6x Sedge Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)

Saturday 24th April 2021

                                    The first Swifts of the Spring arrived today        

Branston GPs

Wood Sandpiper on Ashy pit to 10:40 at least, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Curlew, Redshanks, Common Tern, (SRi)  -  Bar-tailed Godwit on Ashy pit to 14:15 at least, 3x Gropper, (JWo) - 12x Little Gull  dropped in at 14:15, Wood Sandpiper still, 5x Ringed Plover, 3x Ruff, 4x Redshank, 3x Curlew, (DSc)

                                                     Wood Sandpiper by Jon Woodcock

                                                  Bar-tailed Godwit by Jon Woodcock

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Bar-tailed Godwit, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, Little Stint, Dunlin, 2x Swift. 21x Barnacle Geese thru at 10:44, 

Cuckoo Bank

2x Ring Ouzel in paddock, 21x Barnacle Geese east at 11:05,

Doxey Marsh

Ring Ouzel briefly, also a Swift, (DM, MBo)

Whitemoor Haye

Common Tern, Lesser Whitethroat, 6x Yellow Wagtail, Pink-footed Goose, Redshank, 4x Oystercatcher, Peregrine, (SCo)

Blithfield Resv

Great Egret Tad Bay, Red Kite over 11:35, (SRi)  -  Whimbrel briefly this afternoon, Channel Wagtail, 7x Yellow Wagtail, (JAl)

Aqualate

Cuckoo, Gropper, Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, 4x Mandarin, (KHa)

Tittesworth Water 

Bar-tailed Godwit, 6x Common Sandpiper, 8x LRP, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Redstart, White Wagtail, Garden Warbler, 2x Barnacle Geese, (SGi, IB)

                                                   Bar-tailed Godwit by Steve Gibson

Berryhill

Botteslow Flash Egyptian Goose briefly at 07:15, (DWa),  -  LNR/paddocks, 4x Wheatear, Green Woodpecker, 3x Sedge Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 

Lower Foxley

13x Wheatear, 7x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Yellowhammer, (MBa)

Chatterley Whitfield

Large influx of Whitethroat also Willow Tit, 2x Sedge Warbler, (PMo)

Stoke on Trent - Carmountside scrape

Wheatear, White Wagtail, LRP, (COs)

Knypersley Resv

Pied Flycatcher, Common Sandpiper, Water Rail, 20x Fieldfare, (GBr)

Ford Green

Egyptian Goose at 08:30, Gropper, Sedge Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, (JJo)

Cannock Chase

Cuckoo, 6x Crossbill, (KBa)

Alrewas  NMA

Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, Gropper, 2x Goosander, 22x Fieldfare, (SCo)

Huntington

4x House Martin over, (SRi)

Pool Hall area - Ebstree

Gropper, Redstart, Whitethroat, 3x Wheatear, 4x Yellow Wagtail, (GCl, CVa, IMo) - this evening Short-eared Owl, Cuckoo, 3x Groppers,

Apedale

Red Kite over(ABu)

                                                                 By Ali Burdon

Catholme (from footpath)

Common Tern, (JWo)

Croxall - NMA

2x Common Tern, 2x Goosander, LRP, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Alrewas - Wychnor

2x Common Tern, (JWo)

Tucklesholme

White Wagtail, 5x Yellow Wagtail on spit, (TPe)

Elford - Fisherwick

Presumed Channel Wagtail with 10x Yellow Wagtail, (TPe)

Draycott in the Clay

Hobby this evening, (IBu)

Friday 23rd April 2021

                             Lesser Whitethroat was a new Spring arrival this morning

Middleton Lakes

3x Bar-tailed Godwit dropped in at 08:10 and flew off after 10mins, Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Avocet, 6x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 3x Snipe, 8x Redshank, Ringed Plover, 2x Common Tern, 5x Groppers, Wheatear, (SPA, MSm)

                                                             Gropper by Rob Bendelow

Berryhill

Botteslow Flash - 2x Green Sandpiper, Redstart, 2x Whitethroat, (RTo)  -   Lesser Whitethroat between Palletstacks and the cemetery, Reed Warbler, Whinchat, 2x LRP, (RGi), - 2x Wheatear, 

Cuckoo Bank

2x Cuckoo, Ring Ouzel still, 8x Wheatear, Tree Pipit, 5x Gropper, 

Bishops Wood, 

Cuckoo, 5x Garden Warbler, 19x Crossbill, 2x Tree Pipit, (HLl)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Bar-tailed Godwit, Whimbrel, 2x Black-necked Grebe still, (RPo)

Branston GPs

5x Knot 08:30 to 08:48,  3x Ruff, 5x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, 1w Little Gull, Pink-footed Goose, Gropper, Lesser Whitethroat, 4x Reed Warbler,  DSc)  - also  still one Knot on Ashy pit at mid day, 4x Redshank, 7x Ringed Plover, 3x Curlew, 2x Snipe,  Common Tern, 2x Green Woodpecker, Goldeneye, 8x Pochard, 4x Mandarin, 4x Sedge Warbler, Peregrine, (JWo)

                                             Knot and Common Tern by Jon Woodcock

                                                         Little Gull by Jon Woodcock

                                              Lesser Whitethroat by Jon Woodcock

Doxey Marsh

Greenshank, Ringed Plover, 2x Reed Warbler, 2x Whitethroat, (DM)

Gailey Resv

9x Yellow Wagtail, (SRi)

Hanchurch

2x Wheatear at fishing pool area, (SHi)

                                                                    By Sylvia Hill

Bignall Hill

2x Wheatear, Curlew, (SJT)

Tittensor Chase

2x Garden Warbler, 2x Whitethroat, Yellowhammer, (AR)

Baswich

Whitethroat, (GHa)

Thursday 22nd April 2021

Middleton Lakes

6x Avocet, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, Ringed Plover, 5x LRP, Ruff, 3x Yellow Wagtail, Groppers, (MSm)

Berryhill

Whinchat from the Palletstacks track, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Wheatear, (NDP)

                                                 Whinchat by Nick Pomiankowski

Hanchurch Woods

Cuckoo, 2x Tree Pipit, 2x Brambling, 16x Crossbill, Green Woodpecker, Curlew over, (RGi)

Uttoxeter Quarry

2x Black-necked Grebe (site tick), 2x Whimbrel, Gropper, Reed Warbler, 3x Goldeneye, (RPo)

Lower Foxley

9x Wheatear, 6x Yellow Wagtail, Whitethroat, (MBa)

Tittensor - Barlaston (River Trent)

2x Yellow Wagtail, Common Sandpiper, Mandarin, 3x Goosander, 2x Gadwall, (RGi)

Branston GPs

1w Little Gull still on Ashy pit, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Ruff, 6x Redshank, Common Sandpiper, 3x Curlew, 5x Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, 3x Snipe, Water Rail, Little Egret, 2x Goldeneye, 3x Pochard, Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, Gropper, 2x Reed Warbler, 5x Sedge Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, Wheatear, Peregrine, (JWo)

                                                           Little Gull by Jon Woodcock

Blithfield Resv

Osprey, Red Kite, Channel Wagtail 5x Yellow Wagtail, 3x White Wagtail, 4x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 2x Great Egret, BPu)

                                                    Channel Wagtail by Bob Pugh

Cannock Chase

7x Redstart, 3x Cuckoo, 2x Pied Flycatcher, 3x Crossbill, 4x Stonechat, 2x Grey Wagtail, 2x Mandarin, 20x Redpoll, (DBa, IGr), 

Doxey Marsh

Whinchat at first pool from car park, (KPo)

Little Aston STW

Gropper, 

Biddulph Valley

Hobby over, (SHi)

Tittesworth Water

White Wagtail, 6x Common Sandpiper, 6x LRP, 5x Oystercatcher, Snipe, (SGi)

Longsdon - Devils Lane

3x Wheatear, 3x Oystercatcher, (EWi)

Wednesday 21st April 2021

Middleton Lakes

Fem Marsh Harrier thru north at 07:50, 6x Avocet, Ruff, 3x Oystercatcher, 7x Black-tailed Godwit, Ringed Plover, 5x LRP, 2x Snipe, Common Sandpiper, 8x Redshank, 5x Yellow Wagtail, 7x Groppers, Common Tern, (MSm, SPA)  -  Cattle Egret roosted in Willows near east scrape, (KCl)

Blithfield Resv

10x Arctic Tern, Whimbrel in Tad Bay, (GJM)

Branston GPs

Greenshank, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Ringed Plover, Little Egret, (GCl)  -  2x 1w Little Gull on Ashy pit, Marsh Harrier, 2x Ruff, 4x Redshank, 2x Dunlin, 4x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 6x Oystercatcher, Snipe, 5x Ringed Plover, Pink-footed Goose, 2x Goldeneye, 6x Mandarin, 8x Pochard, Wheatear, 2x Gropper, 8x Sedge Warbler, 3x Reed Warbler, White Wagtail, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, (JWo, CEc, Dean)

                                                      Little Gull by Jon Woodcock

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Arctic Tern, 3x Common Tern, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Dunlin, Whinchat, Wheatear,

Silverdale CP

Fem Ring Ouzel still, (JHu)

Cuckoo Bank

Whinchat, Ring Ouzel, (GHa)

Tittesworth Water

5x LRP, 3x Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, 2x Snipe, 5x Oystercatcher, 2x Curlew, 3x Goosander, (JOa)

Longdon Mill pool

2x Wheatear, Redstart, 45x Fieldfare, (ALa)

Alrewas NMA

2x Common Tern, LRP, Oystercatcher, 2x Goosander, House Martin, (RBe)

                                                    Common Tern by Rob Bendelow

Hanchurch Woods

15x Crossbill, (CBa)

Furnace Grange Road

Fem Merlin thru SW, 6x Wheatear, 12x Yellow Wagtail, (IMo)

Alvecote

Great Egret, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (MSc)

Chasewater

90x Black-tailed Godwit thru this evening, 

Cannock Chase

Cuckoo by Glacial boulder, 

Tuesday 20th April 2021

                                First Garden Warblers of the Spring this morning                     

Radford Meadows

4x Wheatear, 2x Little Egret, (RSw)

Dilhorne

2x Wheatear, 400x Fieldfare at Littlebank top farm, (RPo)

Berryhill

8x Whitethroat, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Wheatear, (NDP, RTo)

Bishops Wood

2x Garden Warbler, (HLi)

Cuckoo Bank

10x Wheatear, Garden Warbler, Whitethroats,

Sideway - South Hanford

2x Sedge Warbler, 3x Whitethroat, Gropper, (RGi)

Essington Quarry pool

Wheatear, 3x Whitethroat, Yellowhammers, (DBa)

Silverdale CP

Fem Ring Ouzel on plateau also Whitethroat, (JHu)

Cannock Chase

Cuckoo, Whitethroat, 20x Crossbill, 11x Tree Pipit, 2x Pied Flycatcher, 2x Redstart, (ABl)

Whitfield Valley

3x Whitethroat, Cetti's Warbler, (JJo)

Burston

6x LRP, Green Sandpiper, (AEa)

Tamworth - Alvecote

Ring Ouzel in paddocks opposite Alvecote Priory entrance. (@birdsofalvecote),  -  2x Great Egret, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Common Sandpiper, MSc)

North Staffs Moors

3x Pied Flycatcher, 2x Redstart, Dipper, 2x Goosander, Grey Wagtails, (ACo)

Gailey Resv

2x Little Egret, 4x Common Sandpiper, 7x Yellow Wagtail, (SRi)

Branston GPs

2x Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, Ruff, 2x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 4x Ringed Plover, 4x Redshank, 3x Curlew, Snipe, 5x Oystercatcher, 8x Pink-footed Geese, 3x Mandarin, 3x Goldeneye, 4x Pochard, Wheatear, Reed Warbler, 3x Sedge Warbler, 3x Whitethroat, 2x Cetti's Warbler, White Wagtail, Peregrine, 2x Green Woodpecker, (JWo, DSc)

Monday 19th April 2021

Middleton Lakes

3x Avocet, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Oystercatcher, Ringed Plover, 5x LRP, 4x Snipe, 8x Redshank, Common Tern thru, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)  -  Whitethroat, (MSc)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Fem Common Scoter at 13:45, (RPo)

Berryhill

3x Tree Pipit, 2x Wheatear, (RTo)

Oakamoor

Red Kite, (CBa)

Branston GPs

3x Whimbrel on North pit, Curlew, 8x Redshank, (JWo)

Doxey Marsh

9x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, (RRa)  -  Great Egret, Little Egret, Green Sandpiper, Sedge Warbler, (DB)

Tittesworth Water

9x LRP, 4x Common Sandpiper, 7x Oystercatcher, Dipper, Grey Wagtail, (SGi)

Blithfield Resv

Great Egret, (SHi)

Sunday 18th April 2021

Middleton Lakes

2x Whimbrel on JW, Curlew, 4x Avocet, 4x Oystercatcher, 3x Black-tailed Godwit,  6x LRP, 2x Ringed Plover, 6x Snipe, 8x Redshank, Groppers, Mandarin briefly, MSm)

Whitemoor Haye

Whimbrel flew north from main lake, 6x Oystercatcher, 6x Snipe, 4x Redshank, Wheatear, 5x Yellow Wagtail, Goldeneye, Sedge Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)

Lower Foxley

5x Yellow Wagtail, 5x Wheatear, 2x Snipe, (NDP, MBa)

Endon STW

2x Barn Owl, Wheatear, Fieldfare, (GBr)

Bishops Wood

54x Crossbill, Redstart, (HLl)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Gropper, Whitethroat, Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 8x Goosander, Goldeneye, (RPo)

Cuckoo Bank

Ring Ouzel at north end, 2x Gropper, 2x Whitethroat, 8x Brambling,

Catholme (from footpath)

6x Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, 2x Green Sandpiper, 6x LRP, 2x Goldeneye, JWo)

                                                    Whitethroat by Jon Woodcock

Baswich 

Whitethroat off Cornwall Drive, (GHa)

Doxey Marsh

Gropper at Creswell copse, (DM)

Cannock Chase

Cuckoo, Redstarts, Yellowhammer,

Little Aston

7x Whitethroat, Yellow Wagtail, Yellowhammers, (KWh)

Stoke on Trent - Carmountside scrape

Green Sandpiper, 2x LRP, (COs)

Blithfield Resv

Bar-tailed Godwit in Ten Acre bay, 3x Common Sandpiper, LRPs, 4x Yellow Wagtail, 2x White Wagtail, 2x Wheatear, 2x Common Tern, YL Gull, Mandarin, (MYa, Kay)  -  also Great Egret, 10x Oystercatcher,  Curlew, 2x Snipe, 3x Wheatear, 10x Yellow Wagtail, 4x White Wagtail, 3x Mandarin, (SE, HF)  -  Osprey thru, (AG)

                                                     Bar-tailed Godwit by Steve Edwards

Coombes Valley RSPB

6x Pied Flycatcher, Redstart, (EWi)

Tittesworth Water

12x LRP, 3x Common Sandpiper, 7x Snipe, 8x Oystercatcher, Redstart, 2x Barnacle Geese, (SGi)

Barton under Needwood

Curlew, 2x Green Sandpiper, Peregrine, (JWo)

Brankley Pastures

11x Yellowhammer, 2x Green Woodpecker, (JDr)

Woodhouses

12x Yellowhammer, (JWo)

North Staffs Moors

2x migrating Ring Ouzels, 3x Wheatear, also 60x Golden Plover over, (TMe)

Ebstree

5x Yellow Wagtail,

Saturday 17th April 2021

River Sow Meadows

4x Green Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, Barn Owl, Goosander, Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, (RSw)

New Landywood Pool

4x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, Yellow Wagtail over, (JJO)

Huntington

House Martin over, (SRi)

Middleton Lakes

3x Black-tailed Godwit, Redshanks, Snipe, Groppers.

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LRP, 2x Green Woodpecker, (Foz)

Titteswoth Water

Redstart, Fieldfare, 7x LRP, 4x Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, 8x Snipe, 2x Goosander, 2x Barnacle Geese, (SGi, IB)

                                                                By Steve Gibson

Drayton Bassett

Red Kite over north at 16:20, also House Martin, (MSm)

Blithfield Resv

Newlands Lane - 2x Great Egret around River Blithe behind the dam (MCh)  -  2x Common Tern, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, LRP, 7x Oystercatcher, 5x Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, 2x Wheatear, (DBa)

Longsdon Mill pool

2x Wheatear, 2x Oystercatcher, (JJo)

Burston

6x LRP, 3x Green Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, (AEa)

Audley Meadows

Red Kite, 40x Fieldfare, (PDo)

Whitemoor Haye

Pink-footed Goose, 2x Whitethroat, Goldeneye, 5x Oystercatcher, Little Egret, (SCo)

Radford Meadows

2x LRP, Cetti's Warbler, (GHa)

Consall RSPB

3x Pied Flycatcher, (TRo)

Catholme

Wheatear along the railway Line, (JWo)

Berryhill

Wheatear, (RGi)

Blythe Bridge

2x Mandarin on the river behind Uttoxeter Road, (AR)

Alvecote

2x Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 3x Yellow Wagtail, (MSc)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

2x ad Med Gull, 

Friday 16th April 2021

Middleton Lakes

3x Cattle Egret  on JW to 08:00 when they moved into Warks, Greenshank, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper 4x LRP, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Avocet, 2x Groppers, 2x Goosander, (SPA)

Blythe Bridge

2x Great Egret on the river behind Uttoxeter Road, (AR)

Hanchurch Woods

15x Brambling, 2x Crossbill, Tree Pipit, Stonechat, Green Woodpecker, 50x Redpoll, (NDP)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Common Tern, male Ring Ouzel briefly at 15:30 off west lane track

Doxey Marsh

2x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, Snipe, 2x Little Egret, (DM)

Lower Foxley

4x Wheatear, Peregrine, (MBa)

Pool Hall

Goshawk drifted over, Yellow Wagtail, 3x Whitethroat, (GCl)

Blithfield Resv

2x Whimbrel in Tad Bay this afternoon, (MDJ, GJM)

Warslow Valley

Red Kite over north at 15:00, 2x Redstart, (DGH)

Coombes Valley RSPB

Pied Flycatcher, (SHi)

                                                               By Silvia Hill

Burston

5x LRP, 3x Green Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, 2x Shelduck, (AEa)

Branston GPs

2x Wheatear, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 3x Ruff, 5x Oystercatcher, 8x Ringed Plover, 3x Snipe, 4x Curlew, 26x Lapwing, 7x Pink-footed Geese, 7x Goldeneye, 9x Mandarin, 2x Little Egret, Peregrine, 8x White Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler, Sedge Warbler, (JWo, CEc, Dean)

Cuckoo Bank

14x Yellow Wagtail, 2x White Wagtail, Whinchat, 

Thursday 15th April 2021

Middleton Lakes

2x Avocet, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 6x Snipe, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 8x Redshank, Curlew, Yellow Wagtail, 4x Gropper, (MSm)

Radford Meadows

Whinchat, 12x Snipe, 4x Goosander, Cetti's Warbler, (CDa)  -  2x LRP, 

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Osprey thru north at 11:15,

Pool Hall - Dimmingsdale

Corn Bunting, 2x LRP, Little Owl, Green Woodpecker, (IMo) - Green Sandpiper, Wheatear, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (GCl, CVa, JMo)

Lower Foxley

2x Wheatear, 2x Tree Sparrow. Yellowhammers, (MBa)

Baddeley Green

2x LRP, Redstart, 2x Grey Wagtail, Green Woodpecker, (JOa)

Alvecote

2x Black-tailed Godwit, Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 3x Goosander, (MSc)

Burston

3x LRP, 2x Green Sandpiper, (AEa)

Ipstones Edge

3x Curlew, Tree Sparrow, (SCh)

Cannock Chase

Male Redstart, Common Lizzard, (ARu)  -  Pied Flycatcher, 3x Redstart, 2x Tree Pipit, 2x Wheatear, (JMa)

Branston GPs

Jack Snipe, 6x Snipe, 3x Ruff, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, 7x Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 4x Curlew, Great Egret, Little Egret, 7x Pink-footed Geese, 6x Goldeneye, 2x Pochard, 4x Mandarin, 2x Peregrine, 2x Green Woodpecker, Yellow Wagtail, 4x White Wagtail, Sedge Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

                                                      Mandarin by Jon Woodcock

Sideway - South Hanford

Whitethroat, Goosander, (RGi)

North Staffs Moors

Ring Ouzel, Golden Plover, (SHi)

Doxey Marsh

2x Common Sandpiper, 5x LRP, Snipe, 4x House Martin, Little Egret, 3x Goosander, (DSc)

Wednesday 14th April 2021

                                 Pied Flycatcher was a new Spring bird this morning

Middleton Lakes

8x Avocet, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x LRP, 5x Snipe, Common Sandpiper, 10x Redshank, Curlew, 3x Pochard, 3x Goosander,  (MSm)  -  Wheatear, 2x Whitethroat, (SPA)

Consall Woods

Singing Pied Flycatcher this morning, (DSc)

Berryhill

Male Ring Ouzel briefly from the Palletstacks track, (NDP)

                                                           By Nick Pomiankoski

Bignal Hill - Red Street

Male Redstart on approach to the covered reservoir, (SJT)

Belvide Res (WMBC members only), 

Ring Ouzel still from West Lane track, also Red Kite, 

Cannock Chase

Cuckoo, Redstart, 15x Crossbill, Tree Pipits, 4x Yellowhammer, Peregrine, (DBa)

Ford Green pool

Common Sandpiper, Cetti's Warbler, (GBr)

Burston

3x LRP, 3x Mandarin, 2x Shelduck, (BBo)

Oakamoor

22x Crossbill, (TEy)

Branston GPs

2x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Curlew, Ruff, Ringed Plover, 7x Pink-footed Geese, White Wagtail, Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, Goldeneye, Mandarin,  House Martin, (PAn)

Gailey Resv

Yellow Wagtail, 6x Oystercatcher and at Manty Lane 98x Fieldfare, (SRi)

Alvecote

2x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, (MSc)

Tuesday 13th April 2021

Middleton Lakes

6x Avocet, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 3x Snipe, Common Sandpiper, 6x Redshank, (MSm)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

2x Greenshank north shore, 6x Ring Ouzel off West Lane track, Wheatear, Red Kite, Common Sandpiper, 

Berryhill

Redstart, 4x Wheatear, LRP over, (RTo, NDP)

Cuckoo Bank

10x Wheatear, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 

Pool Hall area

Redstart, 2x Wheatear, (GCl)

Tittesworth Water

8x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, 7x Oystercatcher, 8x Snipe, 2x Grey Wagtail, 2x Barnacle Geese, (SGi)

Doxey Marsh

Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 5x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 

Badderley Green

4x LRP still near the canal, (JOa)

Branston GPs

Redstart, 3x Wheatear, 8x White Wagtail, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 8x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Ruff, 2x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, 10x Curlew, 7x Ringed Plover, 7x Snipe, 5x Oystercatcher, 14x Lapwing, Little Egret, 6x Water Rail, 7x Pink-footed Geese, Pintail, 8x Goldeneye, Pochard, x Mandarin, Peregrine, Sedge Warbler, Brambling, (JWo)

                                                      Brambling by Jon Woodcock

Lower Hatton

2x Wheatear, (NDP)

Mill Meece

Yellow Wagtail, LRP, by pumping station, (NDP)

Audley Meadows

Fem Ring Ouzel this evening, (PDo)

Monday 12th April 2021

Pool Hall area

3x Redstart, 2x Wheatear, 2x White Wagtail, Whitethroat, Green Sandpiper, Little Owl, (GCl, IMo)

Middleton Lakes

Reed Warbler, 3x Sedge Warbler, 6x Avocet, 4x Oystercatcher, Black-tailed Godwit, 4x LRP, 5x Snipe, Common Sandpiper, 10x Redshank, (MSm)  -  Yellow Wagtail, Ringed Plover, (MSc)

Berryhill

Grasshopper Warbler this morning, Tree Pipit, (NDP), Redstart, 9x Wheatear, (DWa), - Botteslow Flash -  Male Ring Ouzel still, (SMa, JK, PJ)

Trentham

Redstart, at Kingswood Bank, (SJT)

Himley Great Pool

Osprey over NE at 09:50, (PSm)

Cuckoo Bank

Ring Ouzel, Yellow Wagtail, 5x Redstart, 11x Wheatear, Grasshopper Warbler, Whitethroat, 

Knypersley

Osprey over Newpool Meadows at 12:30, (MSv)

                                                             By Michael Sveikutis

Chatterley Whitfield

2x Willow Tit, 2x Redpoll, Green Woodpecker, (PMo)

Cannock Chase

Cuckoo, (DLe)

Freehay

32x Brambling, (FCa)

Baldwins Gate

Red Kite, 2x Brambling, (RWh)

Blithfield Resv

8x White Wagtail, 12x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Grey Wagtail, 11x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Dunlin, 31x Snipe, 8x Oystercatcher, 10x Wheatear, Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, (SE,HF)  -  Redstart, (DBa)

                                                      White Wagtail by Steve Edwards

Caverswall - Blythe Bridge

2x Mandarin, on the river east of the castle, (AR)

Mosshouse

60x Fieldfare, 2x Tree Sparrow, (NDP)

Sunday 11th April 2021

Berryhill

2x Ring Ouzel, male at Botteslow Flash and a Ouzel west of Botteslow (from track Trentmill Road to Fenton Rd), (RGi)  -  19x Wheatear this morning, 15 from the Palletstacks, (RTo) and a further 3 from the Fenpark track, (IBu), also one on the top mound, (NDP), also Botteslow Flash - 2x Shoveler at 07:30, Common Sandpiper, LRP,  (RTo)  -  Redstart, (DBl)

                                                         By Nick Pomiankowski

Whitemoor Haye

Wheatear in flight from rough track, Yellow Wagtail, 3x Oystercatcher, Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, Peregrine, (SCo)  -  Short-eared Owl flew south down the workings at 11:00, Common Sandpiper, LRP, (DOu)

Blithfield Resv

Channel Wagtail, 8x Yellow Wagtail, 7x White Wagtail, (MPR, GJM)

                                                      Channel Wagtail by GJ Mant

Cannock Chase

Cuckoo, also c1000x flock of Bramblings, Siskins, Redpolls Goldfinch, (RSw)

Chasewater

Fem Common Scoter, (RSo)

Middleton Lakes

6x Avocet, 5x Oystercatcher, Black-tailed Godwit, Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 2x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 8x Redshank, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, (MSm)

Uttoxeter Quarry

2x Wheatear, White Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail, Common Sandpiper, 4x Goldeneye, (RPo)

Cuckoo Bank

10x Wheatear, 2x Redstart, Curlew, House Martin, 2x Fieldfare, 

Catholme

Wheatear opposite side of the rail line, Great Egret over, (SCo)

Doxey Marsh

Whitethroat, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 8x Water Pipit, Curlew, 6x LRP, 3x Common Sandpiper, 9x Cetti's Warbler, Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 4x House Martin, Mandarin, (DM, MBo, RRA, PDy, 

Furnace Grange Road

2x Redstart,  3x Yellow Wagtail, 2x White Wagtail, Wheatear, House Martin, Stonechat, (IMo)

Sheepwash

Redstart, (DBl)

Tittesworth Water

Redshank, 7x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 4x Snipe, Dipper, Grey Wagtail, 2x Barnacle Geese, 2x Goosander, (SGi)

Alvecote

Common Sandpiper, 3x Snipe, 2x Goosander, 2x Shoveler, Little Egret, (MSc)

Silverdale CP

2x Wheatear, Common Sandpiper, (DVe)

Gailey Resv

3x Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, 2x Wheatear, 3x Common Sandpiper, 3x Goosander, 2x Shoveler, Little Egret, (SRi)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Osprey thru at 15:54,

Alrewas Arbouretum pit

9x Little Egret, 3x Snipe, 4x Redshank, Green Sandpiper, (SCo)

Rudyard

3x Common Sandpiper at Cliffe Park, (BBo)

Weston Coyney

2x Little Egret by River Blythe, (BBo)

Lower Foxley

5x Wheatear in field by the Audley Road opposite track to Lower Foxley, (MBa)

Saturday 10th April 2021

                                     A Cuckoo was a new Spring arrival                       

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Male Redstart this morning also 2x Wheatear, (Foz)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Ring Ouzel flew towards west end at 07:30, also drake Garganey north shore, Osprey thru north at 15:00, Reed Warbler, 

Middleton Lakes

Med Gull on west scrape, 6x Avocet, Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Oystercatcher, Snipe, Dunlin, 2x LRP, 9x Redshank, 4x Common Sandpiper, Sedge Warbler, 8x Shelduck, 3x Goosander, (MSm, SPA)

Berryhill

Fem Ring Ouzel in paddocks above the Viewpoint but mobile also a Wheatear, (IBu)  -  Botteslow Common Sandpiper still and 2x LRP nearby, (IBu)

Radford Meadows

8x Pink-footed Geese, male Redstart, 2x Shelduck, Common Sandpiper, Cetti's Warbler, (RSw)  -  also 2x LRP, (DEv)

Tucklesholme

2x LRP, Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Redshank, 3x Oystercatcher, 2x Mandarin, (SCa)

Wombourne

2x Wheatear still by Billy Buns/School Road crossroads

Cuckoo Bank

Redstart, 2x Grey Partridge, 7x Golden Plover east

Enville

2x Redstart, 65x Fieldfare, (IWh)

Baddeley Green

4x LRP near the canal, (JOa)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Grey Partridge, Redstart, 16x Yellowhammer, Tree Sparrow, LRP, (PCo)

Branston GPs

7x Black-tailed Godwit, 8x Curlew, Ruff, Green Sandpiper, 6x Redshank, 5x Ringed Plover, 6x LRP, Snipe, 7x Pink-footed Geese, 30x Shelduck, Mandarin, 8x Goldeneye, Peregrine, 2x Water Rail, Yellow Wagtail, Sedge Warbler, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)  

Drayton Bassett

Redstart this afternoon, (MSm)

Stone Downs Banks

6x Brambling, (MJa)

Tittesworth Water

Common Sandpiper, 6x LRP, 4x Oystercatcher, 3x Snipe, Curlew, Lapwing, 3x House Martin, 4x Goosander, 2x Mandarin, 2x Barnacle Geese, 3x Redpoll, Green Woodpecker, (SGi, IB, KH)

Upper Longdon

Cuckoo

Alvecote

Great Egret, 2x Goosander, Oystercatcher, 40x House Martin, (MSc)

Furnace Grange Road

Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, Wheatear, (MMo)

Dimmingsdale

Redstart, 50x Siskin, (TEy)

Blythe Bridge

Little Egret on river behind Uttoxeter Road, (AR)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Wheatear at 14:00,  (MBr)

Friday 9th April 2021

Croxall Lakes

Great Egret, Redshank, Curlew, 3x Oystercatcher, (SCa)

Blithfield Resv

Sandwich Tern briefly then flew NW, (MDJ, GJM)  -  3x Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, 2x Common Sandpiper, (RCB)  -  9x White Wagtail, 7x LRP, Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Wheatear, 2x House Martin, (GHa)  -  Osprey thru north

Middleton Lakes

6x Avocet, 3x Oystercatcher, Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Ringed Plover, 3x LRP,  6x Dunlin, 2x Common Sandpiper, 12x Redshank, 11x Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, (MSm, SPA)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

10x Common Sandpiper, Short-eared Owl over at 13:05, Osprey thru north at 17:05, 

Branston GPs

7x Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff, 8x Avocet, 6x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Great Egret, (GCl)

Berryhill

4x Wheatear - and at Botteslow Flash, 2x LRP, Common Sandpiper, (RTo)  -  also White Wagtail, (IBu)

Audley Meadows

Tree Pipit, 22x Fieldfare, 50x Linnet, (PDo)

Silverdale CP

Wheatear at The Void, (GSa)

River Sow Meadows

Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, Barn Owl, (RSw)

Ford Green

3x Common Sandpiper, 3x Goosander, Cetti's Warbler, (JJo)

Thursday 8th April 2021

                       Grasshopper Warbler and Reed Warbler were new arrivals today

Middleton Lakes

12x Avocet, Black-tailed Godwit, LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, 10x Redshank, Yellow Wagtail, Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, (MSm) - also male Redstart, (KCl) 

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Osprey, 13:05 to 13:15 before flying off NW

Freehay

 23x Brambling, (RCa)

Tittesworth Water

4x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, (TMe)

Chasewater

Little Gull, Redshank, (IWh)

Branston GPs

Grasshopper Warbler at Black Meadows pit, Sedge Warbler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Avocet, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Green Sandpiper, 5x Curlew, 4x Ruff, 11x Redshank, Dunlin, 12x Ringed Plover, 14x LRP, 8x Oystercatcher, 11x Lapwing, 5x Snipe, 2x Water Rail, 7x Pink-footed Geese, Pintail, 34x Wigeon, 46x Gadwall, 6x Mandarin, 14x Goldeneye, 60x Teal, 35x Shelduck, 46x Little Grebe, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

                                                        Sedge Warbler by Jon Woodcock

Botteslow Flash

2x LRP, White Wagtail, (RTo)

Oakamoor

Dipper, Grey Wagtail, (RRa)

Cannock Chase

Redstart, Yellowhammer, 3x Brambling, Crossbill, 2x Stonechat, 10x Redpoll, Siskins, (DBa)

Alvecote

Yellow Wagtail, House Martins, 3x Goosander, (MSc)

Hopton

Mealy Redpoll on feeders, (TOH)

Wednesday 7th April 2021

Sideway

Cetti's Warbler still from the canal bridge near the bet365 stadium, (RGi)

Middleton Lakes

6x Avocet, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x LRP, Ringed Plover, Snipe, 10x Redshank, Yellow Wagtail, Sedge Warbler, (MSm)

Blithfield Resv

2x Shelduck, 6x Oystercatcher, 2x Yellow Wagtail, YL Gull, 100x Swallow, (RBe)  -  4x House Martin, (RCB)

                                                    Yellow-legged Gull by Rob Bendelow

                                                         Yellow Wagtail by Rob Bendelow

Katyn memorial - Chase corner CP

Large Siskin/Redpoll flock also a Brambling, (CDa)

Radford Meadows

8x Pink-footed Geese flew south at 14:50, 3x Little Egret, 4x LRP, (DEv)

Alvecote

Yellow Wagtail, Great Egret, 6x Goosander, Swallow, (MSc)

Dimmingsdale

3x Redpoll, 20x Siskin, (TEy)

Hanchurch Woods

Bramblings still at the feeding station, (SDA)

Branston GPs

12x Avocet, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Green Sandpiper, Dunlin, 11x Redshank, 2x Ruff, 10x Ringed Plover, 20x LRP, 3x Oystercatcher, 8x Curlew, 4x Snipe, 12x Lapwing, 7x Pink-footed Geese, Pintail, 10x Goldeneye, 58x Shelduck, 54x Gadwall, 54x Shoveler, 34x Wigeon, Pochard, 84x Teal, 6x Mandarin, 37x Little Grebe, Sedge Warbler, 4x White Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail, Brambling, 50x Swallow, 2x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Tuesday 6th April 2021

Middleton Lakes

6x Avocet, 2x Oystercatcher, Black-tailed Godwit, 3x LRP, 4x Snipe, 10x Redshank, 4x Yellow Wagtail, (MSm) - also 4x Ringed Plover, (SPA), - Short-eared Owl flew south along the river, 

                                                   Black-tailed Godwit by Rob Bendelow

Sideway

Cetti's Warbler singing from canal bridge by bet365 stadium, (RGi)

Patshull Estate

Osprey over this morning, GCl)

Branston GPs

12x Avocet, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Green Sandpiper, 19x LRP, 7x Ringed Plover, 2x Dunlin, 9x Curlew, 10x Redshank, 4x Ruff, 6x Oystercatcher, 7x Pink-footed Geese, 2x White Wagtail, Pintail, 13x Goldeneye, 44x Shelduck, Pochard, 5x Mandarin, 34x Gadwall, 43x Shoveler, 34x Wigeon, 84x Teal, 42x Little Grebe, Brambling, 12x House Martin, 100x Swallow, 500x Sand Martin, 4x Green Woodpecker,  (JWo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Garganey still, Sedge Warbler, House Martin, 5x Tree Sparrow, (Andym)

Chase Road

Red Kite over at 12:50, (CEv)

Radford Meadows

2x Little Egret, 2x Oystercatcher, Cetti's Warbler, (IWi)

Baddeley Green

4x LRP, from the canal also 2x Swallow, (JOa)

Endon

2x Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, Swallow, (KKi)

Cannock Chase

2x Crossbill, Redstart, (PCo)

Blithfield Resv

3x Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, (PCo)  -  LRP, Common Sandpiper, 8x House Martin, (RPu)

                                                        White Wagtail by Bob Pugh

Westport Lake

Imm Iceland Gull this afternoon, (NS)

Monday 5th April 2021

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

2x Garganey still, Redstart, Red Kite over, Redshank, juv Goshawk

Middleton Lakes

Knot on JW north, 6x Avocet, 4x LRP, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 8x Redshank, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Swallow, 2x Willow Warbler, (MSm)

Doxey Marsh

2x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 5x Goosander, 2x Shelduck, 8x Gadwall, (DM)

Radford Meadows

2x Little Egret, 2x Shoveler, Cetti's Warbler, Willow Warbler, 20x Swallow, (RSw)

Tittesworth Water

White Wagtail, Willow Warbler, 6x LRP, 6x Oystercatcher, 2x Dipper, 2x Grey Wagtail, 5x Goosander, (SGi)

Wombourne

2x Wheatear, (AMP)

Hawkesyard Golf club

Hobby over the T&M, (SCo)

Rugeley

Osprey over this afternoon

Blithfield Resv

2x Wheatear, (SE,HF)

                                                                By Steve Edwards

Branston GPs

2x House Martin, 2x Whitethroat, 2x Med Gull, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, 8x Avocet, 2x Green Sandpiper, Dunlin, 5x Ringed Plover, 6x LRP, 2x Ruff, 9x Oystercatcher, 9x Curlew, 7x Redshank, Pintail, 7x Pink-footed Geese, 3x Green Woodpecker, Common Gull, (CEc, Dean) - also Little Egret, 34x Shelduck, 2x Mandarin, Pintail, 34x Wigeon, 46x Gadwall, 40x Shoveler, 12x Goldeneye, 4x Ruff, 3x Green Sandpiper, 12x LRP, 2x Snipe, 40x Swallow, Redstart, 4x Willow Warbler, (DSc)  -  Common Sandpiper, (JWo)

Yarnfield

Hobby this afternoon, (RRa)

Oakamoor

16x Crossbill, (TEy)

                                                                    By Terry Eyre

Alvecote

Yellow Wagtail, 15x Swallow, Little Egret, 2x Shoveler, (MSc)

Mere Lane

Redstart

Sunday 4th April 2021

                                         A Whitethroat was a new Spring arrival

Highgate Common

Tree Pipit, (MMo)

Doxey Marsh

Great Egret, 2x LRP, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 2x Shelduck, 

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

2x Garganey still, 3x Little Gull, 

                                                       Little Gulls by Steve Edwards

Middleton Lakes

Sedge Warbler, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 6x Avocet, Oystercatcher, 3x LRP, Black-tailed Godwit, 7x Snipe, 8x Redshank, (MSm)  -  Med Gull heard calling over JW, (PAn)  -  Osprey over at 12:30, (KAs)

Whitemoor Haye

Whitethroat, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Pink-footed Goose, 2x Goldeneye, 14x Wigeon, 4x Shelduck, Willow Warblers, 2x Tree Sparrow, LRP, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)  -  Grey Partridge, 4x Yellowhammer, (Andym)

                                                       Yellowhammer by Rob Bendelow

Little Aston

24x Yellowhammer, 2x Gadwall, (SWa)

Endon STW

Male Redstart, House Martin, White Wagtail, (GBr)

Blithfield Resv

2x LRP, 3x Common Sandpiper, Snipe, 3x Goldeneye, 20x Swallow, (SCa)

Baldwins Gate

16x Brambling, Water Rail, (RWh)

Radford Meadows

7x Pink-footed Geese, (IWi)

                                                                 By Ian Williams

Cannock Chase

Redstart, (TMG)

Meir Heath - Stallington

Red Kite, 4x Yellowhammer, Swallow, (AR)

Cuckoo Bank

Redstart still, 

Botteslow Flash

2x Swallow this evening, (RGi)

Oakamoor

17x Crossbill, 2x Green Woodpecker, (TEy)

Newlands Lane - Colton

2x Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 4x Yellowhammer, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 200x Fieldfare, (MCH)

Wetley Common - Werrington -Rownall

Swallow, Barn Owl, Curlew, (JWh)

Branston GPs

8x Avocet, 5x Oystercatcher, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Ruff, 5x Ringed Plover, 6x LRP, 10x Redshank, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 7x Snipe, Little Egret, 7x Pink-footed Geese, 30x Shelduck, Pintail, 2x Mandarin, 34x Wigeon, 40x Shoveler, 38x Gadwall, 50x Teal, 19x Goldeneye, Water Rail, 4x Swallow, Wheatear, (DSc)

                                                            Ruffs by Dave Scattergood

Alvecote

2x Little Egret. 2x Shelduck, 7x Goosander, 2x Shoveler, (MSc)