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Monday, 31 May 2021

Monday 31st May 2021

Middleton Lakes

Wood Sandpiper on JW north, (MSm)  -  Hobby, Common Tern Little Egret, (RBe)

                                                            Hobby by Rob Bendelow

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Cuckoo, 

Ramshaw 

Cuckoo this am, (LRa)

Caunsall

Osprey over north at 16:45, Red Kite over south, (CRe)

Baswich

Red Kite over at 18:45, (RSw)

Ipstones Edge

Cuckoo, (SCh)

Branston GPs

2x Redshank, 2x Little Egret, (JWo)

Gailey - Penkridge

Red Kite over the A449, (MJL)

Sunday, 30 May 2021

Sunday 30th May 2021

Brown Edge

Quail half way up Broad Lane at 03:30, (GBr)

Doxey Marsh

Red Kite early am

Gailey Resv

Spotted Flycatcher, (SRi)

Saturday, 29 May 2021

Saturday 29th May 2021

Whitemoor Haye

35x Common Tern, 5x Yellow Wagtail, Corn Bunting, 2x Pochard, Little Egret, (SCo)

Middleton Lakes

1st sum Arctic Tern, 7x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, Dunlin, (MSm)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Sandwich Tern briefly, 7x Sanderling, 2x Ringed Plover, 2s YL Gull, 

Tittesworth Water

3x Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Redstart, 5x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, 2x Mandarin, (SGi, IB)

Enville

2x Redstart, 14x Crossbill, (PJo)

Berryhill

Hobby over at 16:30, (RGi)

Cheadle

Poss Osprey NE over at 11:00, also a Hobby, (LEH)

Catholme

2x Little Egret, 2x Grey Wagtail, (JWo)

Alrewas NMA

3x Goosander, 2x Common Tern, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Wychnor

Hobby, Common Tern, (JWo)

Highgate Common 

Red Kite over, (TWo)

Friday, 28 May 2021

Friday 28th May 2021

Middleton Lakes

Wood Sandpiper on JW south also 2x Ringed Plover, (MSm)

Alrewas NMA

Osprey 11:45 to 12:00, Goosander, 2x Common Tern, (RBe)

                                                             Osprey by Rob Bendelow
                                         

Cannock Chase

5x Cuckoo, Spotted Flycatcher, 3x Tree Pipit, 2x Grey Wagtail, (JWo)

Ash Bank

Nightjar calling at dusk in field from footpath downhill off New Road (access from Ashbank Road) - (MBr)

Thursday, 27 May 2021

Thursday 27th May 2021

Pool Hall area

2x Grey Partridge, LRP, Cuckoo, (GCl)

Knypersley Resv

Cuckoo by the lake, (Gbr)

Ipstones Edge

2x Cuckoo, Tree Sparrow, (SCh)

Forsbrook - Draycott in the Moors

Willow Tit, Yellowhammer, (AR)

Swallow Moss

Cuckoo, (JOa)

Tittesworth Water

Spotted Flycatcher, LRP, (JOa)

Cannock Chase

2x Cuckoo, 6x Tree Pipit, Hobby, 3x Woodcock, Nightjar, Yellowhammer, (TMG)

North Staffs

Pied Flycatcher, (JWo)

                                                              By Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Wednesday, 26 May 2021

Wednesday 26th May 2021

Chasewater

Arctic Tern briefly, 

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Sanderling, Dunlin, 4x Ringed Plover, Great Egret, Little Egret, 

Branston GPs

2x Sanderling, 12x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Gailey Resv

Spotted Flycatcher, (SRi)

Blithfield Resv

Turnstone still, (PCo)

Tuesday, 25 May 2021

Tuesday 25th May 2021

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Sanderling, 2x Dunlin, 

Branston GPs

5x Sanderling, 5x Dunlin, (TJa)  - also Turnstone, 6x Ringed Plover, 3x Common Sandpiper, Wigeon, 7x Pochard, 12x Common Tern, 2x Green Woodpecker, 2x Cetti's Warbler, c800x Swift, (JWo)

Church Lea

Spotted Flycatcher, (CTa)

Amington - River Anker

Yellow Wagtail, Yellowhammer, Little Egret, (MSc)

Monday, 24 May 2021

Monday 24th May 2021

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

3x Sanderling, 

Stoke

Hobby over at 12:00, (NDP)

Tittesworth Water

2x Spotted Flycatcher, Redstart, Cuckoo, 6x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, (SGi)

Branston GPs

3x Turnstone, 3x Sanderling, 12x Dunlin, 2x Redshank, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Water Rail, 12x Common Tern, Wigeon, 3x Pochard, c1000x Swift, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Whitemoor Haye

Corn Bunting, 6x Yellow Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)

Sunday, 23 May 2021

Sunday 23rd May 2021

Blithfield Resv

7x Sanderling and 3x Ringed Plover from Admaston car park, (GJM, MPR)  -  Osprey, 2x Hobby, (Andym)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

2x Turnstone, Dunlin, 4x Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, Curlew, 2s Med Gull, 8x Common Tern, 5x Yellow Wagtail, 

Chasewater

2x Common Tern, LRP, 

Middleton Lakes

2x Whimbrel, 2x Redshank, Ringed Plover, 5x LRP, Hobby, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 9x Common Tern, 

Endon STW

Barn Owl, (GBr)ton GPs

Branston GPs

3x Turnstone, 10x Common Tern, c1000x Swift, also Red Kite over Tatenhill, (DSc)

Alrewas

Red Kite over, (SCo)

Doxey Marsh

Spotted Flycatcher, LRP, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Common Tern, (MBo, WeBS team)


Saturday, 22 May 2021

Saturday 22nd May 2021

Chasewater

Turnstone flew north, 10x Dunlin flew north, Sanderling, 

Whitemoor Haye

Redshank, 2x Goldeneye, Little Egret, Yellow Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)

Tittesworth Water

2x Spotted Flycatcher, Redstart, 10x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, Goosander, Grey Wagtail, (SGi)

Middleton Lakes

7x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, 5x LRP, 2x Redshank, 10x Common Tern, Wigeon, Cuckoo, 4x Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)

Branston GPs

2x Sanderling, 10x Dunlin, 6x Ringed Plover, 18x Common Tern, 2x Little Egret, Wigeon, 3x Pochard, Yellowhammer, Peregrine, Cetti's Warbler, (CEc)

Doxey Marsh

Spotted Flycatcher, Hobby, Yellow Wagtail, Common Tern, LRP, (GHa)

Rudyard Lake

Osprey fishing 16:30 to 17:05 then flew off north, (SSe)

Friday, 21 May 2021

Friday 21st May 2021

Middleton Lakes

Sanderling, Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, 3x Redshank, Wigeon, 3x Pochard, (MSm)  -  11x Dunlin, 5x LRP this afternoon, (SPA)

Blithfield Resv

Sanderling this am, (GJM)

Branston GPs

12x Turnstone on Small Meadows pit, 7x Sanderling, 6x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 10x Ringed Plover, 3x Arctic Tern, 14x Common Tern, 2x Mandarin, Wigeon, 3x Pochard, 49x Gadwall, 40x Shelduck, 2x Water Rail, (JWo)

                                                        Turnstones by Jon Woodcock

Tittesworth Water

8x LRP, Common Sandpiper, Willow Tit, (SCh)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

2x Sanderling, 2x Ringed Plover, Redshank, 14x Dunlin, 2x LRP, Great Egret, Arctic Tern, 11x Common Tern, 

Thursday, 20 May 2021

Thursday 20th May 2021

Blithfield Resv

Turnstone briefly on causeway, (GJM)

Alvecote

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

Branston GPs

3x Sanderling, 2x Redshank, 3x Ringed Plover, 2x Water Rail, Wigeon, 5x Pochard, 12x Common Tern, Wheatear, 2x Green Woodpecker, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Wednesday, 19 May 2021

Wednesday 19th May 2021

Doxey Marsh

Turnstone still at Creswell flash, (AHa)

Cuckoo Bank

Female Merlin, 3x Wheatear, 

Middleton Lakes

Sanderling Cuckoo, (MSc)  -  Dunlin, 

Tittesworth Water

9x LRP, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, Spotted Flycatcher, (JOa)  

Cannock Chase

4x Cuckoo, 4x Redstart, 4x Spotted Flycatcher, 3x Tree Pipit, (DBa)  -  also 8x Tree Pipit, Yellowhammer, Stonechat, (JWo)

                                                       Tree Pipit by Jon Woodcock

Highgate Common

Cuckoo, (AJo)

Bishops Wood

Nightjar, 2x Cuckoo, 2x Woodcock, (HLl)

Tuesday, 18 May 2021

Tuesday 18th May 2021

Middleton Lakes

3x Whimbrel to 06:25 only, 2x Dunlin, 5x LRP, Common Sandpiper, Hobby, 20x Common Tern, 5x Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)  -  10x Turnstone, on JW, (KAs)  -  Ringed Plover, 

Doxey Marsh

Turnstone, Sanderling, 3x LRP, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, (RRa)

Branston GPs

Turnstone on Ashy pit, Sanderling, 6x Ringed Plover, 2x Redshank, Curlew, Little Egret, 4x Pochard, Wigeon, 16x Common Tern, 4x Green Woodpecker, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Uttoxeter Quarry

5x Sanderling, 3x Dunlin, (RPo)

Highgate Common

9x Crossbill in golf course pines, (KWh)

Cuckoo Bank

2x Wheatear, Redstart,

Whitemoor Haye

Common Tern, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Yellowhammer, also a Common Tern at the NMA, (RBe)

                                                    Common Tern by Rob Bendelow

Staffs

Monday, 17 May 2021

Monday 17th May 2021

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Drake Long-tailed Duck still

                                                              By Steve Edwards

Pool Hall

Whinchat, (GCl)

Little Aston

2x Grey Partridge, (KWh)

Whitemoor Haye

Redshank, 2x Goldeneye, (RGr)

Branston GPs

Turnstone, 2x Common Sandpiper, Redshank, 4x Ringed Plover, Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, Pink-footed Goose, 5x Pochard, Wigeon, 14x Common Tern, 2x Green Woodpecker, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Cuckoo Bank

Female Merlin, 


Sunday, 16 May 2021

Sunday 16th May 2021

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Drake Long-tailed Duck,  

Middleton Lakes

Garganey, 3x Whimbrel flew off at 05:30, Avocet, Black-tailed Godwit, 6x LRP, Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)

Cannock Chase

3x Cuckoo, (PJe)

Tittesworth Water

8x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, 2x Common Tern, (JOa)

North Staffs Moors

2x Wheatear, Cuckoo, (JOa)

Bishops Wood

Quail sound recorded at 22:28, (HLl)


Saturday, 15 May 2021

Saturday 15th May 2021

Middleton Lakes

4x Whimbrel flew south at 05:50, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x LRP, Ringed Plover, 4-5x Avocet, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (SPA), Drake Garganey, (MSm, DCo)

Radford MJeadows

Great Egret on the River Penk, (RSw)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Arctic Tern, Ringed Plover, 

Knypersley Resv

Barn Owl, Redstart, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, (GBr)

Berryhill

2x Wheatear, LRP still from the Palletstacks and a LRP at Botteslow, (PBi)

Stoke to Hanford

Little Egret, 2x Grey Wagtail along the Trent, (AR)

Castlecroft

2x LRP, Grey Wagtail, (IMo)

Rudyard Lake

2x Mandarin at north end, (LRa)

Weeford - Whittington

Corn Bunting, Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, Yellowhammers, Tree Sparrow, 

Alrewas NMA

Cuckoo, 2x Goosander + 5 ducklings, Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Branston GPs

Sanderling, 2x Dunlin, 3x Ringed Plover, Pink-footed Goose, 4x Pochard, 2x Peregrine, 14x Common Tern, 4x Yellow Wagtail, (DSc)


Friday, 14 May 2021

Friday 14th May 2021

Middleton Lakes

Drake Garganey briefly, on east scrape, Sanderling, Black-tailed Godwit, , 5x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Pochard, (SPA), also Dunlin, Avocet, 8x Common Tern, Hobby(MSm)

Highgate Common

2x Spotted Flycatcher, (DBa)

Dimmingsdale

2x Cuckoo, (TEy)

Doxey Marsh

2x Common Tern still, 

Enville

2x Crossbill at The Million, 

Uttoxeter Quarry

2x Common Tern, Little Egret, (RPo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Sanderling, Great Egret, Spotted Flycatcher, 

Blithfield Resv

Red Kite, Hobby, 6x Yellow Wagtail, (BBo)

Branston GPs

2x Redshank, 4x Ringed Plover, 3x Water Rail, 12x Common Tern, Little Egret, 6x Pochard, (JWo)

North Staffs

2x Wood Warbler this evening, (DPo, TEy)

                                                                 By Terry Eyre

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2x Wheatear, LRP, (JDu)

The Roaches

Cuckoo, (DPo)

Bishops Wood

Nightjar sound recorded at 22:05, (HLl)

Thursday, 13 May 2021

Thursday 13th May 2021

Middleton Lakes

Sanderling, 3x Dunlin, 6x LRP, 3x Ringed Plover, Avocet, (SPA)  -  also 2x Redshank and at Dosthill NR 2x Cuckoo, (JWo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Wood Sandpiper briefly, Sanderling, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Ringed Plover, Great Egret, 

Kinver

Spotted Flycatcher, (MMo)

Doxey Marsh

2x Common Tern, (RRa)

Meir Heath

Hobby over the Windmill, at 17:30, (AR)

Tameside NR

Common Tern, Cetti's Warbler, (MSc)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Sanderling, 2x Dipper, (JDr)

Branston GPs

Fem Marsh Harrier briefly then flew south at 17:25, 11x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 2x Wheatear, Hobby, Peregrine, 12x Common Tern, Water Rail, Cetti's Warbler, (CEc)

Barton under Needwood

Hobby, (JWo)

Wednesday, 12 May 2021

Wednesday 12th May 2021

Branston GPs

Imm Spoonbill 10:00 to 10:49 when it flew off high south, (DSc)  -  3x Whimbrel flew off south at 13:20, Sanderling, 16x Ringed Plover, 2x Redshank, 3x Common Sandpiper, 14x Common Tern, Whinchat, 3x Little Egret,6x Pochard, 2x Green Woodpecker, (JWo, CEc)

                                                             By Dave Scattergood

                                                         Whimbrels by Jon Woodcock

                                                          Whinchat by Jon Woodcock
   

Middleton Lakes

Sanderling, 3x Dunlin, 5x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, Yellow Wagtail, (SPA)  -  Spoonbill over south early afternoon, (KAs)

Doxey Marsh

Common Tern at Boundary Flash, (SHu)

Enville

4x Crossbill flew west, (IWh)

Silverdale CP

Hobby, Cuckoo, Whinchat, (JHu)

Drayton Bassett

Hoopoe still this afternoon

Cannock Chase

5x Cuckoo, 8x Redstart, 7x Tree Pipit, 7x Stonechat, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, (DBa)

Blithfield Resv

2x Whinchat, 2x Wheatear, (BPu)

                                   Wheatear watching birders from a hide by Bob Pugh

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Red Kite, LRP, Green Woodpecker, (Foz)

Belvide Resv (WMBC memnbers only)

Marsh Harrier over north wood

Tittesworth Water

6x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, 2x Mandarin, (JOa)

North Staffs Moors

6x Wheatear, (JOa)

Whitemoor Haye

Corn Bunting, Yellow Wagtail Hobby, (AJo)

Tuesday, 11 May 2021

Tuesday 11th May 2021

Branston GPs

2x Turnstone on Ashy pit, 2x Sanderling, 18x Ringed Plover, 14x Dunlin, 4x Redshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x Mandarin, 12x Common Tern, 5x Pochard, 3x Yellow Wagtail, Green Woodpecker, 2x Cetti's Warbler (CEc, JWo)

Codsall - Brewood

Female Marsh Harrier SW over Port Lane at 13:10, (KCl)

Drayton Bassett

Hoopoe still north end of paddocks, (MDu, MSc)

Whitemoor Haye

3x Wheatear, 2x Whinchat, 10x Yellowhammer, Yellow Wagtail, (PCo)

Middleton Lakes

Dunlin, 5x LRP, 4x Ringed Plover, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Hobby, (SPA)

Gailey Resv

Spotted Flycatcher, Little Egret, Yellow Wagtails, (SRi)

Monday, 10 May 2021

Monday 10th May 2021

Halfpenny Green

Ringtail Hen Harrier came up from roost at 06:15 and flew west, (MMo)

Drayton Bassett

Hoopoe still in paddocks at 07:45, (MSm)  -  also Corn Bunting, Yellow Wagtails, (CMa, RFe)

Middleton Lakes

3x Avocet, Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 3x Dunlin, (MSm)

Radford Meadows

3x Black-tailed Godwit, Great Egret, (CDa)

Cannock Chase

Wheatear near Glacial boulder, several Cuckoo, Redstarts Tree Pipits, (SCo)

Hanchurch Woods

3x Spotted Flycatcher, Cuckoo, 2x Crossbill, 40x Lesser Redpoll, (NDP)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

1s Little Gull still,  ad Kittiwake 16:00 to 16:11 only, 

Stoke on Trent

Cuckoo east over Sandford Hill, (CSi)

Tittensor Chase

2x Yellowhammer at Cumberstone Wood, (AR)

Chasewater

Ad Med Gull flew north at 16:00

Blithfield Resv

2x Hobby and a Osprey, (RCB)

Little Aston

Hobby, Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, (swa)

Otherton

Whinchat, 2x Wheatear, 5x Yellow Wagtail, (SRi)

Branston GPs

2x Sanderling, 18x Dunlin, 39x Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Redshank, 2x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, Pink-footed Goose, 5x Pochard, 2x Wigeon, 6x Mandarin, 10x Common Tern, Peregrine, Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (JWo)

                                                           Sanderling by Jon Woodcock

Barton under Needwood

Hobby over this evening, (JWo)

Sunday, 9 May 2021

Sunday 9th May 2021

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

3x Sanderling, 30x Ringed Plover, 19x Dunlin, 2x Greenshank, 3x Arctic Tern thru, 1s Little Gull,

Blithfield Resv

1s Kittiwake, 1w Little Gull, Sanderling, (GJM, MPR)  -  Whimbrel, Admaston Reach, (AMa)  -  2x Sanderling this afternoon, (HF,SE)

                                                       Sanderlings by Steve Edwards

Chasewater

Turnstone, 2x Dunlin, 2x Common Sandpiper, 13x Common Tern, 

Drayton Bassett

Hoopoe still, (Kay)  -  Wheatear, 

Berryhill

Ring Ouzel, 4x Whinchat, 18x Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, (RTo, NDP)

Middleton Lakes

3x Wood Sandpiper, (TPe, HF,SE), 4x Sanderling,  5x Dunlin, 

Cuckoo Bank

Osprey over, 12x Wheatear, 3x Whinchat, 

Doxey Marsh

White-fronted Goose, Creswell Flash, (DM)

Whitemoor Haye

Whimbrel, Wheatear, 2x Ringed Plover, Corn Bunting, 4x Yellow Wagtail, Goldeneye, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)

Radford Meadows

3x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x LRP, 2x Little Egret, (CDa)

Copmere

2x Hobby, (AEa)

Endon SWT

Little Egret, 2x Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, (GBr)

Halfpenny Green

Ringtail Hen Harrier low over  west, returned back over Leaton Lane, (MMo)

Branston Leas

3x Whinchat, (SGa)

Gailey Resv

Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, several Yellow Wagtails and at Otherton 2x Wheatear, (SRi, IMo)

Maer Hills

25x Crossbill, Cuckoo, Tree Pipit, Garden Warbler, (RWh)

Baldwins Gate

3x Wheatear, (RWh)

Branston GPs

6x Dunlin, 18x Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, Arctic Tern, 6x Common Tern, Yellow Wagtail, 50x Swift, (DSc)

Saturday, 8 May 2021

Saturday 8th May 2021

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Little Tern, Whimbrel, 2x Greenshank, Avocet, Grey Plover,  Sanderling, 68x Dunlin, 15x Ringed Plover, 3x Redshank, 2x RP, 15x Common Tern, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Hobby, 

Middleton Lakes

6x Avocet, 7x Ringed Plover, 6x LRP, 20x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Redshank, 3x Sanderling, Wood Sandpiper,  (MSm)  -  Now 2x Wood Sandpiper, (TPe)

Branston GPs

160x Dunlin on Ashy pit (site record), 4x Sanderling, Grey Plover, 29x Ringed Plover, Redshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, 7x Pink-footed Geese, 3x Mandarin, c200x Swift, 6x Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail,  Wheatear, 5x Garden Warbler, (DSc)  -  222x Dunlin on Ashy pit at 15:00, Hobby, (JAl)

Silverdale CP

Fem Whinchat, 2x Garden Warbler, (JHu)

Doxey Marsh

2x Dunlin, 2x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 3x Yellow Wagtail, Hobby, (DM, RRa)

Knypersley Resv

Willow Tit, Dipper, Goosander, (KWe)

Blithfield Resv

Black Tern, 3x Sanderling, 30x Dunlin, 3x Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Wheatear, 7x Yellow Wagtail, Hobby, Mandarin, (Kay, MYa)

Whitemoor Haye

Wheatear, (SCo)

Drayton Bassett

Hoopoe reportedly still from footpath running southwest from Portleys Lane

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Wheatear, (JDu)

Knypersley Reservoir

Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, Mandarin, (GBr)

Friday, 7 May 2021

Friday 7th May 2021

Drayton Bassett

Hoopoe  again in paddocks, from Portleys Lane take footpath towards Middleton.  (MSm)

Branston GPs

Wood Sandpiper still on Black Meadows pit, (CEc) -  also Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Redshank, 10x Dunlin, 21x Ringed Plover, 4x Common Sandpiper, 7x Common Tern, Wigeon, 3x Pochard, Mandarin,  Pink-footed Goose, 2x Wheatear, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Peregrine, White Wagtail, 5x Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 70x Swift, Green Woodpecker, (JWo, DSc)

Chasewater

Dunlin, below the dam, (KWh)

Middleton Lakes

2x Whinchat, 2x Dunlin, 3x Common Sandpiper, 5x LRP, 2x Avocet, (SPA)  -  Redshank, Common Tern, Cuckoo, (RBe)

                                                         Common Tern By Rob Bendelow

Berryhill

Ring Ouzel in paddock NE of the mast, Whinchat, 2x female Redstart, 10x Wheatear and at Botteslow, Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, (RTo)  -  2x Little Egret over, (CSi)  -  Ring Ouzel still at 11:00, (PSa)

Burntwood

Cuckoo, Tree Pipit, (HLl)

Knypersley Resv

Male Redstart, 2x Mandarin, (GBr)

Bhyllis pool Castlecroft

2x LRP, Common Sandpiper, (IMo)

Penn Common

Red Kite over, (MM)

Bateswood

Redstart, Spotted Flycatcher, 3x Garden Warbler, (JMa)

Thursday, 6 May 2021

Thursday 6th May 2021

Chasewater

Dunlin, 5x Common Sandpiper, 3x Common Tern, 

Tittesworth Water

6x LRP, Dunlin, 2x Snipe, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Mandarin, 2x Goosander, 2x Garden Warbler, (JOa)

Ford Green - Whitfield Valley

Spotted Flycatcher, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Groppers, (JJo)

Swallow Moss

Cuckoo, (JOa)

Pool Dam - Lymebrook

Hobby over at 14:00, (DSa)

Middleton Lakes

6x Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 6x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Common Tern, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Whimbrel, 4x Dunlin, LRPs, 6x Common Sandpiper, 15x Common Tern, Red Kite, Osprey thru, 

Tucklesholme - Branston Leas

3x Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 3x Common Tern, 3x Garden Warbler, (JWo)

Cannock Chase

3x Cuckoo, 6x Redstart, 8x Stonechat, Red Kite, (DBa)

Lichfield

Common Sandpiper, Stowe pool, (JHo)

Rudyard Lake

2x Common Tern, (LRa)

Wednesday, 5 May 2021

Wednesday 5th May 2021

Middleton Lakes

Greenshank, 4x Avocet, 6x Ringed Plover, 6x LRP, 3x Dunlin, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Redshank, Whinchat, 2x Common Tern, Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)  -  Osprey over. (KAs)

Chasewater

Little Stint, Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, Whimbrel, Arctic Tern.

Smestow Valley, 

Cuckoo, Common Sandpiper, (GCl)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Black Tern, 3x Arctic Term, Common Tern, 

Blithfield Resv

Whimbrel thru, Turnstone, 8x Ringed Plover, 4x Dunlin, (GJM)  -  Whinchat, 2x Wheatear, 3x Greenshank, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Hobby, (SE, HF)

                                                         Turnstone by Steve Edwards

New Landywood Pool

3x LRP, Yellow Wagtail, (JJO)

Branston GPs

Wood Sandpiper on Black Meadows, 2x Whimbrel, 54x Dunlin, 46x Ringed Plover, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Common Sandpiper, Redshank, 2x Whinchat, 3x Wheatear, 14x Yellow Wagtail, Pink-footed Goose, 5x Common Tern, (JWo)  

                                                    Wood Sandpiper by Jon Woodcock

Uttoxeter Quarry

Greenshank, 8x Dunlin, 3x Little Egret, (RPo)

Bishops Wood

3x Cuckoo, 6x Crossbill, 10x Garden Warbler, Tree Pipit, and Cuckoo at Burntwood (HLl)

Chatterley Whitfield

2x Little Egret, Willow Tit, (PMo)

Alvecote

2x Common Sandpiper, Great Egret, Lesser Whitethroat, Little Egret, (MSc)

Stafford

Hobby over the hospital, (RCB)

Gailey Resv

15x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, (SRi)

Drayton Bassett

Belated news of a Hoopoe present since the 2nd May

Tuesday, 4 May 2021

Tuesday 4th May 2021

                                  The first Spotted Flycatcher of the Spring this morning

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Spotted Flycatcher, Whimbrel, Sanderling, 31x Dunlin, 6x Ringed Plover, 

Tittesworth Water

Turnstone, 20x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, 9x LRP, 8x Common Sandpiper, Cuckoo, 3x Common Gull, 2x Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, 8x Mandarin, (SGi)

Middleton Lakes

Whinchat still, 3x Avocet, Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 17x Dunlin, 2x Common Sandpiper, 5x Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)

New Landywood pool

Hobby, 4x LRP, (JJO)

Blithfield Resv

Turnstone, 20x Dunlin, 7x Ringed Plover thru, (GJM)  -  Osprey, (RBe)  -  Channel Wagtail still, 2x Wheatear, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Greenshank, Great Egret, (MWh)

Doxey Marsh

13x Dunlin, 2x LRP, Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, (RRa)

Uttoxeter Quarry

8x Dunlin, 2x White Wagtail, (RPo)

Branston GPs

Sanderling, 70x Dunlin, 25x Ringed Plover, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, Redshank,  Pink-footed Goose, 3x Mandarin, Pochard, 2x White Wagtail, 14x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, Whinchat, Wheatear,  (JWo, JAl, PSt)

                                                      Sanderling by Jon Woodcock

Baggeridge CP

Red Kite, (MMu)

Monday, 3 May 2021

Monday 3rd May 2021

Middleton Lakes

2x Whinchat on JW, 4x Dunlin, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Ringed Plover, 5x LRP, 6x Yellow Wagtail, MSm)

Gailey Resv

Lesser Whitethroat, 4x Common Tern, 3x Common Sandpiper, 5x Yellow Wagtail, Little Egret, (SRi)

Blithfield Resv

c110x Arctic Tern,  c40x Common Tern, Whimbrel, (GJM, MPR, MW)  -  Osprey, (RBe)

Doxey Marsh

2x Dunlin, 6x LRP, Lesser Whitethroat, (DM)

Chasewater

Sanderling, 2x Turnstone north

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Kittiwake thru, 8x Dunlin, 9x Ringed Plover, 5x LRP, 2x Snipe, 16x Common Tern, 6x Yellow Wagtail, 

Cuckoo Bank

Cuckoo, (KWh)

Branston GPs

4x Arctic Tern, 5x Common Tern, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff, 7x Dunlin, 14x Ringed Plover, 4x Redshank, 4x Pochard, 5x Mandarin, 5x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Sunday, 2 May 2021

Sunday 2nd May 2021

Little Aston

11x Wheatear, 4x Yellow Wagtail, (SWe)

Cuckoo Bank

Ring Ouzel still, Red Kite, 3x Wheatear, 2x Redstart, 2x Hobby, Whinchat, 

Tittesworth Water

Red Kite, 2x Dunlin, 12x LRP, 8x Common Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail, Redstart, 4x Garden Warbler, 7x Mandarin, (SGi)

                                                          Red Kite by Steve Gibson

Berryhill

Ring Ouzel still, 6x Wheatear, still, Lesser Whitethroat,  (AM, PS,)

Bignall Hill

8x Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail (SJT)

Knypersley Resv

Pied Flycatcher, (PMo, GBr) - Redstart, Common Sandpiper, Water Rail, (GBr)

Cannock Chase

2x Cuckoo, (MJL)

Bearda

Redstart, (JOa)

Swallow Moss

Red Kite, (KH)

Alvecote

3x Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, Garden Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, (MSc)

Highgate Common

Cuckoo, (BJo)

                                                                   By Barry Jones

Doxey Marsh

Yellow Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, Common Sandpiper, LRP, Gropper, Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler,  (GHa)  -  2x Whinchat this afternoon, (IBr)

Branston GPs

3x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Ruff, 2x Ringed Plover, Red Kite over, 8x Common Tern, 3x Pochard, Peregrine, Yellow Wagtail, 50x Swift, 4x Lesser Whitethroat, (DSc)  -  2x Med Gull briefly, (NJS)

Saturday, 1 May 2021

Saturday 1st May 2021

Branston GPs  -  (All Dayer count 103)

6x Whimbrel, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, 2x Ruff, 4x Common Tern, Whinchat, 4x Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Yellowhammer, Pink-footed Goose, 6x Mandarin, 2x Hobby, 

Middleton Lakes  -  (All Dayer count 101)

4x Whimbrel to 07:45 only2x Sanderling,  3x Avocet, 3x Ringed Plover, 6x LRP, Curlew, 2x Snipe, Common Sandpiper, Great Egret, 2x Hobby, 11x Yellow Wagtail, Peregrine, 

Cuckoo Bank

Ring Ouzel still, 

Whitemoor Haye  -  (All Dayer count 75)

Corn Bunting, Grey Partridge, Channel Wagtail, Hobby, Peregrine, Common Sandpiper, (SCo), 4x Whimbrel, LRP,  Pink-footed Goose, (MYa, Kay)

Berryhill

Male Ring Ouzel in top paddocks between mast and Palletstacks, (PMo) - 3x Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Swift, 5x Wheatear still, (IBu)  -  3x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, Snipe, Grey Wagtail at Botteslow, (RTo)

Uttoxeter Quarry

2x Whimbrel, 2x Common Tern, Swift, (RPo)

Chasewater  -  (All dayer count 91)

Great Egret, 6x Common Sandpiper, 3x Common Tern, Garden Warbler, Reed Warbler, (CMa)

Tittesworth Water

2x Whimbrel, 10x LRP,  6x Common Sandpiper, 6x Snipe, 5x Curlew, 6x Mandarin, 4x Garden Warbler, Willow Tit, Yellow Wagtail, Common Tern, Redstart, (SGi, IB)

                                                        Whimbrel by Steve Gibson

Blithfield Resv

Arctic Tern 2x Greenshank, Dunlin, 7x Common Sandpiper, Whinchat, Wheatear, YLG, 2x Hobby, Garden Warbler, (Kay, MYa)  -  Whinchat, Channel Wagtail, (SE,HF)

                                                        Whinchat by Steve Edwards
                                                     Channel Wagtail by Steve Edwards

Doxey Marsh  -  (All Dayer count 76)

Wood Warbler briefly, (PDy, DTo)  -  Jack Snipe, (AHa)  -  Gropper, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Goosander, 2x LRP, Snipe, 2x Common Sandpiper, Garden Warbler, (RRa, MBo, DM, BMa), also 2x Grey Wagtail, 4x Swift, Reed Warbler, (ABe)

Smestow Valley

Corn Bunting, Gropper, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (IM)

Aqualate

Common Sandpiper, Garden Warbler, Green Woodpecker, 6x Cetti's Warbler, (KHa)

Silverdale CP

Gropper at waste farm pools, also Reed Warbler nearby, DSa)

Chatterley Whitfield

2x Gropper, (SHi)

Alvecote

2x Great Egret, Little Egret, (MSc)