Tuesday 31st August 2021

Stanley Pool

Black-tailed Godwit this morning, (ALa)

Knypersley Resv

Whinchat in fields west side of Barn Lodge Road, (GBr)

Middleton Lakes

Spoonbill still, Ruff, Ringed Plover, 15x Snipe, 2x Green Sandpiper, Great Egret, Pintail, 26x Wigeon, 2x Goosander, (MSm)  -  Marsh Harrier thru, (NWa)

Tittesworth Water 

Greenshank, juv Med Gull, 2x Little Egret, 12x Mandarin, (SGi, RJH)

                                                          Greenshank by Steve Gibson

Enville

Goshawk, 85x Greenfinch,  4x Spotted Flycatcher, Redstart, Tree Pipit, (IWh)

Audley

Wheatear still in garden, (JMa)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Little Stint, Cuckoo, Garganey, 

Alvecote

Spotted Flycatcher. Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, (MSc)

Doxey Marsh

Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 

Castlecroft

Hobby over Bhylls pool, (IMo)

Blithfield Resv

Osprey, Black Tern, 2x Little Stint, Greenshank, Ruff, Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, LRP, (PFo)

Monday 30th August 2021

Hixon Airfield

9x Grey Partridge, Wheatear, 4x Whinchat, 50x Linnet, (RSw)

Middleton Lakes

Spoonbill still, 3x Great Egret, 20x Little Egret, 2x Green Sandpiper, LRP, 12x Snipe, Pintail, 6x Wigeon, Yellow Wagtail, (DCo)

                                                         Spoonbill by Rob Bendelow

Otherton

Wheatear, Redstart, Yellow Wagtail, 

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

3x Spotted Redshank to 13:55, Knot, 2x Ruff, Turnstone thru, 

Cuckoo Bank

Wheatear, Whinchat, Spotted Flycatcher, Tree Pipit, Yellow Wagtail, Gropper, Redstart, Hobby, 12x Swift, 

Alrewas NMA

2x Green Sandpiper, Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, GPS, Hobby, (SCo)

Whitemoor Haye

6x Tree Sparrow, 3x Little Egret, Snipe, Cetti's Warbler, 106x Lapwing, (SCo)

Alvecote

Spotted Flycatcher, 20x Swift, (TPe)  -  updated count - 3x Spotted Flycatcher, (MPo)

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Green Sandpiper, 2x Swift, 

Branston GPs

8x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Greenshank, 6x Green Sandpiper, 2x Dunlin, 13x Curlew, 16x Snipe, 8x Little Egret, 3x Pintail, 2x Wigeon, Mandarin, Water Rail, 2x Green Woodpecker, (CEc)  -  additional - 2x Garganey, 32x Mandarin, 4x YL Gull, 2x Ruff, Common Sandpiper, 14x Curlew, Hobby, Peregrine, (DSc)

Berryhill

Tree Pipit, (IBu)

Knypersley

Spotted Flycatcher at Newpool Road village green, (SHi)

                                                     Spotted Flycatcher by Sylvia Hill

Blithfield Resv

2x Little Stint from the causeway at 16:00, (MBa)

Sunday 29th August 2021

Middleton Lakes

Spoonbill still, Wood Sandpiper, 4x Green Sandpiper, 17x Snipe, 3x Great Egret, Pintail, 6x Wigeon, (MSm)

Blithfield Resv

Black Tern Blithe Bay, (GJM, MPR)  -  3x Ruff, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, 6x Snipe, 4x Dunlin, 3x Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, Pintail, 5x Little Egret, Wheatear, (RPo)  -  updated counts 6x Common Sandpiper, 9x Dunlin, 3x Greenshank, 23x Ringed Plover, 5x Common Tern, 16x Little Egret, 6x Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, (SE, HF)

                                                         Wheatear by Steve Edwards

Doxey Marsh

Bearded Tit at Boundary Flash reedbed from Warren's Lane, (MBo)

Gailey Resv

Tree Pipit, Hobby, Yellow Wagtail 3x Spotted Flycatcher and at Otherton Redstart, Wheatear, (SRi)

Cuckoo Bank

Nightjar flew across heath at 12:05, Pied Flycatcher, 4x Redstart, Tree Pipit, Spotted Flycatcher, 

Uttoxeter Quarry

6x Green Sandpiper, 3x LRP, 28x Wigeon, 9x Pochard, 2x Willow Tit, Peregrine, Swift, (RPo)

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Barn Owl, Hobby, Water Rail, Swift, (MFo)

Branston GPs

Ruff, 8x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Greenshank, 4x Green Sandpiper, 2x Dunlin, 14x Curlew, 6x Snipe, Wheatear, 12x Little Egret, Wigeon, 70x Linnet, (CEc)  -  additional - Male Marsh Harrier roosted at Sandy pit this evening, 3x Pintail, 10x Mandarin, 2x Wigeon, 80x Pochard, 20x Snipe, Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Gull, ad YL Gull, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Peregrine, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Tittesworth Water

2x Little Egret, 2x LRP, 13x Mandarin, 4x Goosander, Common Gull, 102x Lapwing, (JOa, RJH)

Rudyard Lake

2x Little Egret, 4x Snipe, Grey Wagtail, 43x Lapwing, (JOa)

Barton under Needwood

Peregrine over north , (JWo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

3x Garganey, juv Cuckoo, 

Saturday 28th August 2021

Middleton Lakes

Spoonbill still on east scrape, (MSm)  -  Ruff, Green Sandpiper, (DCo,)  -  Wood Sandpiper, Dunlin, (TPe)

Whitmore Bent Lane

Marsh Harrier this morning, (EC per NDP)

Cuckoo Bank

6x Redstart, 8x Tree Pipit, 3x Spotted Flycatcher, 3x Hobby, 2x Gropper, c100 Whitethroat,

Tittesworth Water

Med Gull, 3x Little Egret, 87x Lapwing, 10x Goosander, 14x Mandarin, (SGi, IB, KH)

                                                             Med Gull by Steve Gibson

Rudyard Lake

2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x Little Egret, (SGi)

Hawkshutt's Hill

2x Whinchat, Redstart, Stonechat, Goshawk, 2x Swift, Yellowhammer, (RSw)

Hixon Airfield

3x Whinchat still, (RCB)

Alvecote

3x Spotted Flycatcher in old Orchard area, (TPe)

Huntington

5x Swift over, (SRi)

Branston GPs

16x Curlew, 8x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Greenshank, 2x Ruff, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Dunlin, 6x Snipe, Common Sandpiper, Green Woodpecker, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (DSc)

Tucklesholme

2x Little Egret, Pintail, 44x Gadwall, Ringed Plover, (DSc)

Bobbington

2x Wheatear at Leaton Lane, (WN)

Chatterley Whitfield

Barn Owl at 20:50, (PMo)

Friday 27th August 2021

Middleton Lakes

Spoonbill on JW north, Spotted Redshank still, Wood Sandpiper, 5x Ruff, Dunlin, 15x Snipe, 3x Green Sandpiper,  Bittern, Black Tern, 3x Great Egret, 30x Little Egret, (MSm)  -  Ad Med Gull, Short-eared Owl, (ARa)

Blithfield Resv

Purple Sandpiper at the dam, (MDJ, SE, HF), (the last Blithfield  record was in 1998 source GJM),  -  also Greenshank, Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Ruff, 4x Dunlin, 12x Ringed Plover, Hobby, 6x Yellow Wagtail, (PDe, JTa)  -  updated counts  2x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Common Sandpiper, 7x Dunlin, 4x LRP, 22x Ringed Plover, 4x Ruff, Greenshank, 15x Little Egret, Pintail, 2x Redstart, Wheatear, Green Woodpecker, (SE, HF)

                                                      Purple Sandpiper by Steve Edwards

Hixon Airfield

5x Whinchat, 3x Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, 35x Linnet, 48x House Sparrow, (RSw)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

3x Avocet north shore, 2x Garganey,

Alvecote

Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 5x Wigeon, (MSc)

Branston GPs

6x Greenshank, Ruff, 17x Snipe, 16x Curlew, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, 9x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 109x Lapwing, 12x Little Egret, 6x Water Rail, Pintail, Wigeon, 2x YL Gull, Hobby, Peregrine, 3x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

                                                            Pintail by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Thursday 26th August 2021

Middleton Lakes

Spotted Redshank on east scrape this morning, Ruff, Ringed Plover, Pintail, Common Gull, (MSm), -  2x Greenshank, 2x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, LRP, 2x Great Egret, Wigeon, (SPA),  -   Evening update Spotted Redshank still, Wood Sandpiper,  Ruff, 2x Dunlin, 3x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper,  Med Gull, ad Common Gull, juv Black Tern JW south, Pintail, 3x Great Egret, Yellow Wagtail,  (TPe, JAl)

                                                   Spotted Redshank by Mark Smiles

Berryhill

5x Redstart, 2x Wheatear, 2x Tree Pipit, (NDP)

River Sow Meadows

2x Whinchat from Walton canal bridge, (RSw)

Blithfield Resv

Whinchat, Stonechat, (AMa)  -  7x Ruff, 4x Dunlin, 18x Ringed Plover, Greenshank, Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, Osprey, 2x Wheatear, 2x Whinchat, 10x Little Egret, 5x Yellow Wagtail, Green Woodpecker, 2x YL Gull, 3x Spotted Flycatcher, 5x Yellow Wagtail, Green Woodpecker, (IGr DBa)

Little Hay

4x Yellow Wagtail, (PAn)

Tittesworth Water

4x Little Egret, 14x Mandarin, 2x Goosander, Swift, 79x Lapwing, Grey Wagtail, (JOa, RJH, LH)

Rudyard Lake

3x LRP, 2x Little Egret, (JOa, LH)

Cuckoo Bank

Redstarts, Wheatear, Spotted Flycatcher, Tree Pipit, Crossbill south,

Enville

8x Spotted Flycatcher, Hobby, Redstart, 18x Raven (IWh)

Stafford Castle

Spotted Flycatcher, (AHa)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Garganey also Greenshank, 

Elkstone Hill - sky watch

Merlin, Hobby, Red Kite, 4x Redstart, Tree Pipit, (DGH)

Branston GPs

16x Curlew, 4x Common Sandpiper, 11x Green Sandpiper, 5x Greenshank, 2x Ruff, 4x Ringed Plover, 4x Dunlin, 20x Snipe, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, 108x Lapwing, Great Egret, 16x Little Egret, 4x Water Rail, 3x YL Gull, 3x Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, (JWo)

                                                              Ruff by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Wednesday 25th August 2021

Middleton Lakes

Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, 2x Dunlin, 13x Snipe, 3x Green Sandpiper, 3x Great Egret, 6x Wigeon, (MSm)  -  Ruff, Common Sandpiper, Wheatear, (TPe)

Berryhill Botteslow Flash

Greenshank to 07:35 at least, (RTo)

Blithfield Resv

Curlew Sandpiper at Pastry Point, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Common Sandpiper, 10x Dunlin, 3x Greenshank, 6x LRP, 23x Ringed Plover, 4x Ruff, 18x Little Egret, Wheatear, 25x Yellow Wagtail, Peregrine, (HF, SE)  -  also Marsh Harrier in Blithe Bay, (KCl)

                                                      Curlew Sandpiper by Steve Edwards

Hixon Airfield

4x Wheatear, (RCB)

Cuckoo Bank

3x Whinchat, 2x Stonechat, 4x Redstart, 11x Tree Pipit, Hobby, 

Bobbington

Wheatear on the logs at Leaton Lane also 2x Crossbill over, (WN)

Forsbrook

Hobby over the square, (AR)

Branston GPs

4x Redstart in hedge at North pit, Spotted Flycatcher at sewage pump north of Ashy, (JWo)  -  7x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Greenshank, 7x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x Dunlin, juv Ruff, 3x Ringed Plover, 14x Snipe, 16x Curlew, 90x Lapwing, ad YL Gull, juv Med Gull, Peregrine, (DSc)

Trescott area - Bhylls Pool

2x Whinchat, Spotted Flycatcher, 3x Green Sandpiper, 2x Hobby, (IMo, GCl, CVa)

Tuesday 24th August 2021

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

2x Spotted Redshank to 11:45 only, Osprey thru south, 

Middleton Lakes

LRP, Ruff, Dunlin, 2x Snipe, 3x Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, 2x Redshank, 2x Great Egret, 5x Wigeon, (MSm)

Cuckoo Bank

Whinchat, 2x Stonechat, 3x Tree Pipit, 4x Redstart, Hobby, 

Castlecroft - Bhylis Pool

Green Sandpiper, 10x Lapwing, (IMo)

Enville

Green Sandpiper on the Mere, (DBa)

Rudyard Lake

2x Little Egret, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, Grey Wagtail, (SGi, JOa, DO)

Tittesworth Water

3x Little Egret, 3x Mandarin, 2x Goosander, 72x Lapwing, (SGi)

Otherton

Wheatear in the paddocks also 3x Yellow Wagtail and at Manty Lane juv Stonechat, (SRi)

Branston GPs

2x Ruff, 11x Greenshank, 10x Green Sandpiper, 6x Common Sandpiper, 3x Dunlin, 6x Ringed Plover, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, 16x Curlew, 14x Snipe, 155x Lapwing, 16x Little Egret, 3x Water Rail, 2x Garganey, 2x Wigeon, 73x Pochard, 73x Little Grebe, Common Tern, 2x Common Gull, 2x YL Gull, 4x Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, Spotted Flycatcher, 4x Redstart, (JWo)  -  also juv Med Gull, 6x Mandarin, 5x Water Rail, ad YL Gull, 3x Yellow Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

                                                    Spotted Flycatcher by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Monday 23rd August 2021

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2x Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 14x Grey Wagtail, 

Middleton Lakes

3x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Ruff, 3x Dunlin, LRP, 3x Snipe, 4x Green Sandpiper, 3x Great Egret, Common Gull, 5x Wigeon, (MSm)

Berryhill

8x Wheatear, 2x Whinchat, 2x Redstart, Tree Pipit, Spotted Flycatcher, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, Willow Tit, Yellow Wagtail, (RTo)

Blithfield Resv

3x Osprey, Red Kite, Bar-tailed Godwit, 9x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 8x Dunlin, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew, Ruff, ad YL Gull, 30+ Common Tern, 10x Yellow Wagtail, (SRi)  -  also Wood Sandpiper, 15x Little Egret, Green Woodpecker,  (DBa)  - evening update 3x Wood Sandpiper, Greenshank, 4x Ruff, 4x Spotted Flycatcher, Peregrine, 2x ad YL Gull, (RSw)

Norton Bog - north Chaswater

Wheatear, 2x Stonechat, Green Woodpecker, Common Tern, 5x Pochard, (SCa)

Gailey Resv

Fem Shoveler, 7x Teal, Hobby, 2x Common Tern 2x Yellow Wagtail, 4x Spotted Flycatcher in hedge NW of the sailing lake, (SRi)

Alvecote

5x Little Egret, Lesser Whitethroat, (MSc)

Branston GPs

Ruff, 10x Black-tailed Godwit, 7x Greenshank, 3x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 7x Ringed Plover, 2x Dunlin, 16x Curlew, 6x Snipe, 9x Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, (CEc)

Cuckoo Bank

2x Redstart, 3x Spotted Flycatcher, 3x Tree Pipit, 6x Garden Warbler, 100+ Willow Warbler, 

Mere Farm

Redshank, Green Sandpiper, (MMo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Possible Juv Caspian Gull mid afternoon

Dimmingsdale

3x Spotted Flycatcher, (TEy)

Sunday 22nd August 2021

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Black-necked Grebe, 

Little Aston 

Redstart, 2x Green Woodpecker, 

Middleton Lakes

2x Ruff, 3x Dunlin, Ringed Plover, LRP, 2x Snipe, 7x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Garganey, 2x Wigeon, 3x Great Egret, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (MSm, DCo)

Cuckoo Bank

Pied Flycatcher, Spotted Flycatcher, 4x Redstart, 5x Tree Pipit, 3x Hobby, 2x Gropper, Willow Tit, Lesser Whitethroat, 

Enville

11x Spotted Flycatcher, Tree Pipit, (IWh),  -  3x Green Sandpiper at the Mere, (DBa), 

Aqualate

Juv Marsh Harrier at 11:30, (RPo)

Burston

6x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Snipe, (AEa)  -  10x Green Sandpiper this even

Alvecote

2x Spotted Flycatcher and 2x Redstart in old Orchard area, (TPe)

Doxey Marsh

Great Egret, (RRa)

Blithfield  Resv

2x Osprey, (RBe)  -  Bar-tailed Godwit still in Blithe Bay also Red Kite briefly, (JAl)

Saturday 21st August 2021

Rudyard Lake

10x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x Little Egret, (SGi)

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Redstart, 2x Green Sandpiper, 

Uttoxeter Quarry

Greenshank, 7x Green Sandpiper, 4x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, 4x Little Egret, 7x Pochard, (RPo)4x Wigeon, 

Middleton Lakes

3x Great Egret, 32x Little Egret, 6x Golden Plover thru, 6x Ringed Plover thru, Ruff, 5x Dunlin, 12x Snipe, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, (MSm)

Blithfield Resv

Bar-tailed Godwit still,  2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Ruff, 34x Ringed Plover, 8x LRP, 6x Dunlin, Redshank, 2x Osprey, Hobby, 10x Little Egret, 2x Wheatear, (RPo)

Alrewas NMA

2x Hobby, Common Sandpiper. 2x Common Tern, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Catholme

6x Little Egret, (JWo)

Branston GPs

15x Curlew, 14x Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff, 3x Greenshank, 5x Green Sandpiper, 3x Dunlin, 10x Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Snipe, 4x Water Rail, 7x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 12x Little Egret, 2x Garganey, 50x Little Grebe, Hobby, (DSc)

Friday 20th August 2021

Middleton Lakes

4-5x Great Egret, 2x Dunlin, 4x Green Sandpiper, Ruff,  2x LRP, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (SPA)

Burston

Ruff still, 

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

2x Spotted Flycatcher, 

Blithfield Resv

Sanderling, 2x Ruff, 10x Little Egret, 2x Crossbill, 2x Redstart, 3x Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, Red Kite, (MDJ)  -  Bar-tailed Godwit, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 7x Common Sandpiper, 12x Dunlin, Greenshank, 8x LRP, Redshank, 37x Ringed Plover, 2x Ruff, 14x Little Egret, Red Kite, 20x Yellow Wagtail, (SE, HF)

Branston GPs

Ruff, 16x Curlew, 15x Black-tailed Godwit, 8x Greenshank, 12x Green Sandpiper, 7x Common Sandpiper, 18x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 2x Snipe, 105x Lapwing, 6x Water Rail, Great Egret, 12x Little Egret, 2x Garganey, 84x Pochard, 5x Wigeon, 84x Little Grebe, Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, (JWo)

Thursday 19th August 2021

Middleton Lakes

Ruff, LRP, 3x Dunlin, 12x Snipe, Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, 3x Great Egret, Garganey, 2x Wigeon,  (MSm)

Berryhill

Redstart, 2x Tree Pipit, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Gropper, (NDP)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Osprey thru SSE at 14:30, 

Blithfield Resv

Bar-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, Ruff, 10x Dunlin, LRP, Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Common Tern, Little Egret, Yellow Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, (IGr)  -  2x Osprey over this causeway, (BRo, SDa)

Branston GPs

2x Garganey, Ruff, 5x Greenshank, 15x Black-tailed Godwit, 17x Curlew, 13x Ringed Plover, 4x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, 2x Water Rail, (KCl)  - evening counts 17x Black-tailed Godwit, 18x Curlew, 8x Greenshank, 7x Dunlin, 19x Ringed Plover, 11x Green Sandpiper, 6x Common Sandpiper, 86x Lapwing, Great Egret, 15x Little Egret, 9x Water Rail, 36x Mandarin (site record count), 62x Little Grebe, 4x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, Common Gull, 2x Green Woodpecker, 26x Swift, (JWo)

Tittesworth Water

3x Dunlin, 6x LRP, 68x Lapwing, Little Egret, 16x Mandarin, (JOa, LH)

Rudyard Lake

10x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x Little Egret, (JOa, LH)

Gunn Hill

Hobby, (JOa, LH)

Burston Marsh

Ruff, Green Sandpiper, Little Egret, (AEa)

Wednesday 18 August 2021

Middleton Lakes

Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, LRP, 4x Dunlin, 8x Snipe, Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, Ringed Plover,  Garganey, 2x Wigeon, 3x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, (MSm)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

2x Little Gull still, 

Blithfield Resv

2x Osprey,  28x Common Tern, YL Gull, 11x Swift, Common Sandpiper, (SCa)  -  2x Arctic Tern and 80+ Common Tern this evening, (MPR)  -  Bar-tailed Godwit, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Common Sandpiper, 15x Dunlin, Greenshank, 11x LRP, 47x Ringed Plover, 2x Hobby, Peregrine, Wheatear, 15x Yellow Wagtail, 6x Little Egret, (SE, HF)  -  Ruff, (PDe)

                                                    Bar-tailed Godwit by Steve Edwards

Burston Marsh

Ruff, 2x Green Sandpiper, (AEa)

Branston GPs

14x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Greenshank, 7x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 9x Ringed Plover, Redshank, 4x Dunlin, 17x Curlew, Water Rail, 8x Little Egret, Garganey, 2x Wigeon, Common Tern, Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, Peregrine, 3x Green Woodpecker, (CEc)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Greenshank, Redshank, Common Sandpiper, 2x Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, Yellow Wagtail, (SCo)

Tuesday 17th August 2021

Rudyard Lake

Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 7x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 2x LRP, 4x Little Egret, Grey Wagtail,  (SGi)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only

2x Little Gull, 2x Arctic Tern, Sandwich Tern 14:00 to 14:28 only, 2x Common Tern,

Blithfield Resv

2x Arctic Tern thru, (GJM)  -  Bar-tailed Godwit still, Greenshank, 49x Ringed Plover, 14x Dunlin, (GWi)  -  3x Osprey, Peregrine, Swifts, (RBe)

                                                           Osprey by Rob Bendelow

Tittesworth Water

3x Sandwich Tern on island from first car park, Arctic Tern, 3x Common Tern, 2x LRP, 4x Dunlin, Little Egret, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, 6x Mandarin, (SGi)

Middleton Lakes

Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Ruff, 3x Dunlin, 8x Snipe, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, 3x Great Egret, 7x Little Egret, Garganey, Wigeon, Goosander, (MSm)

Branston GPs

Juv Marsh Harrier east over Sandy pit, 2x Garganey, 2x Great Egret, Ruff, 14x Black-tailed Godwit, 12x Curlew, 5x Greenshank, 3x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 15x Ringed Plover, 5x LR Plover, 3x Dunlin, 6x Little Egret, 2x Wigeon, 3+ Water Rail, 2x YL Gull, 17x Mandarin, (KCl)  -  Marsh Harrier returned at 19:20, also Sanderling, 7x Green Sandpiper, 5x Greenshank, 2x Hobby, Peregrine,  (DSc)

Monday 16th August 2021

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Osprey thru NW, 2x Little Gull, 2x Black Tern,

Rudyard

Osprey, Green Sandpiper, 2x LRP, Dunlin, 45x Lapwing, 2x Little Egret, Gadwall, (SGi)

Tittesworth Water

7x LRP, Dunlin, Little Egret, 4x Mandarin, (SGi)

Blithfield Resv

Bar-tailed Godwit still at 12:00, (GJM)  -  also 50+ Ringed Plover, 9x Dunlin, 4x Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, 3x Little Egret, 6x Yellow Wagtail, 6x Tree Sparrow, Green Woodpecker, (DBa)  -  updated totals, Bar-tailed Godwit still, 61x Ringed Plover, 15x LRP, 23x Dunlin, 9x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 21x Yellow Wagtail, 6x Little Egret, (SE, HF)

                                                         Ringed Plover by Steve Edwards

Branston GPs

2x Garganey, 17x x Black-tailed Godwit, 10x Curlew, 5x Greenshank, Snipe, 2x Redshank, 9x Ringed Plover, 3x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 6x LRP, Dunlin, 3x Little Egret, 5x Common Tern, 2x Swift, Hobby, Peregrine, 2x Green Woodpecker, (CEc, CMa, RFe)  -  updated totals this evening, 8x Greenshank, 14x Curlew, 5x Green Sandpiper, 8x Common Sandpiper, 11x Ringed Plover, 148x Lapwing, 5x Snipe, 17x Little Egret, 4x Water Rail, 66x Pochard, 56x Gadwall, 34x Shoveler, 2x Wigeon, 76x Little Grebe, YL Gull, 18x Swift, 4x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Middleton Lakes

Garganey, 3x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 5x Common Tern, (GCl)  -  Hobby, (RBe)

                                                  Black-tailed Godwit by Rob Bendelow

Doxey Marsh

Female Garganey on Creswell Flash this evening, (RRa)

Alvecote

3x Little Egret, 3x Common Tern, (MSc)

Lightwood

Hobby over this afternoon, (IBr)

Gailey Resv

3x Common Tern, 5x Swift, (SRi)

Sunday 15th August 2021

Blithfield Resv

Fem Common Scoter at deep end, (MPR, GJM)  -  also 2x Osprey, 3x ad YL Gull, 50+ Common Tern, 25x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 7x Dunlin, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Greenshank, 3x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 20+ Yellow Wagtail, (SRi)

Middleton Lakes

4x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, 7x Snipe, 3x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, Garganey, 

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

4x Arctic Tern and 11x Common Tern thru, 

Little Aston

5x Yellowhammer, Green Woodpecker, (SWa)

Cuckoo Bank

Pied Flycatcher, 7x Redstart, 3x Tree Pipit, Spotted Flycatcher, Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Arctic Tern over SW

Wombourne

2x Redstart Pickles Hill, (AMp)

Tittesworth Water

Little Egret, Dunlin, 5x LRP, 2x Snipe, 72x Lapwing, Mandarin, (JOa, RJH)

Rudyard Lake

2x Little Egret, (JOa, RJH)

Uttoxeter Quarry

3x Green Sandpiper, Little Egret, Common Tern, 7x Pochard, (RPo)

Astonfields Balancing Lake

Little Egret, (LBu)

Branston GPs

2x Garganey, 3x YL Gull, Common Gull, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Greenshank, 9x Green Sandpiper, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 15x Curlew, 12x Ringed Plover, 2x Dunlin, 2x Common Tern, 4x Water Rail,  (KCl)

Saturday 14th August 2021

Endon STW

Redstart, 10x Chiffchaff, 30x Pied Wagtail, 2x Grey Wagtail, 

Doxey Marsh

Arctic Tern over Creswell Flash for 10mins, (DM)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Garganey, YL Gull, 7x Common Sandpiper, Green Woodpecker, 

Cuckoo Bank

Whinchat, 

Blithfield Resv

Turnstone (new adult),  7x Common Sandpiper, 4x Dunlin, 4x Greenshank, 22x LRP, 19x Ringed Plover, Lesser Whitethroat, Redstart, Wheatear, 25x Yellow Wagtail, 8x Little Egret, 4x Tree Sparrow, (SE, HF)

                                                          Turnstone by Steve Edwards

Branston GPs

2x Garganey, Whimbrel thru south at 14:03, 14x Curlew, 16x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Greenshank, 4x Green Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, 8x Little Egret, ad YL Gull, 8x Common Tern, (DSc)  -  Marsh Harrier thru this am (AMa)

                                                          Garganey by Dave Scattergood

Lightwood

Hobby over this afternoon, (IBr)

Friday 13th August 2021

Middleton Lakes

Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 2x Dunlin, 2x Snipe, Ringed Plover, LRP, 3x Great Egret, (SPA)  -  also Hobby, (MSc)

Blithfield Resv

Turnstone and Sanderling north of Admaston Reach, (GWi)  -  also Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Common Sandpiper, 6x Dunlin, 4x Greenshank, 25x LRP, 19x Ringed Plover, Snipe, Wheatear, Cuckoo, 4x Spotted Flycatcher, 10x Yellow Wagtail, Hobby, 6x Little Egret, (SE,HF)

                                                        Sanderling by Steve Edwards

                                                             Cuckoo by Steve Edwards

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Garganey still, Wheatear, 

Branston GPs

2x Garganey, 8x Greenshank, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 10x Common Sandpiper, 6x Green Sandpiper, 11x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 14x Curlew, 16x Snipe, 124x Lapwing, 13x Little Egret, 58x Little Grebe, 16x Pochard, 12x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, 3x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Thursday 12th August 2021

Cuckoo Bank

Osprey over, (NWa), Hobby, Redstart, Tree Pipit, 

Berryhill

Whinchat, Spotted Flycatcher, Tree Pipit, Redstart, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, (RTo)

Tittesworth Water

8x LRP, Snipe, Little Egret, 7x Mandarin, (JOa, LH)

Rudyard Lake

Greenshank still, Little Egret, (JOa, LH)

Blithfield Resv

4x Greenshank, 6x Dunlin, 22x LRP, 19x Ringed Plover, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, Wheatear, 20+ Yellow Wagtail, (MWh)  -  also 9x Goosander, 7x Common Sandpiper, (GWi)

Norton Bog

5x Hobby, (CWG)

Wednesday 11th August 2021

Blithfield Resv

3x Wheatear, Osprey, Greenshank, 2x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, 8x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Little Egret, Goosander, (MJa)  -  Turnstone in Blithe Bay, (HF, SE)  -  also 24x LRP, 17x Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, 7x Common Sandpiper, 4x Greenshank, 7x Little Egret, 4x Spotted Flycatcher, 26x Yellow Wagtail, 12x Barnacle Geese, (HF, SE, GWi)

                                                      Turnstone by Steve Edwards

Berryhill

Great Egret over west at 11:30, (CSi)  -  Common Sandpiper at Botteslow Flash, 

Cuckoo Bank

Redstart, 

Gailey Resv

Juv Med Gull, 6x Common Tern, 3x Spotted Flycatcher, (SRi)

Branston GPs

Fem/imm Marsh Harrier, 2x Garganey, 2x Greenshank, 2x Bar-tailed Godwit, 10x Curlew, 5x Green Sandpiper, 8x Common Sandpiper, 9x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 4x Snipe, 118x Lapwing, Great Egret, 25x Little Egret, 18x Pochard, 26x Shoveler, 153x Teal,24x Gadwall, 16x Shelduck, 4x Water Rail, 61x Little Grebe, YL Gull, 12x Common Tern, 3x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Tuesday 10th August 2021

Rudyard Lake

Greenshank,  Green Sandpiper,  3x Ringed Plover, 2x Little Egret, (EWi, SGi)

Tittesworth Water

5x LRP, Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, 11x Mandarin, 2x Goosander, Willow Tit, (SGi)

Branston GPs

2x Garganey still, 10x Curlew, 4x Ringed Plover, 2x Dunlin, Green Woodpecker, (BSt, ASt)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Imm Pied Flycatcher in car park, Garganey still, 

Stoke

Ring-necked Parakeet west end, (NDP)

Monday 9th August 2021

Blithfield Resv

3x Greenshank, Redshank, Common Sandpiper, 2x Dunlin, 15x LRP, Ringed Plover, Osprey, Peregrine, 4x Little Egret, Yellow Wagtail, (MJa)

Middleton Lakes

Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Dunlin, 2x Snipe, 2x Great Egret, (SPA)  

Rudyard Lake

Greenshank, 3x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Little Egret, (SGi)

                                                        Greenshank by Steve Gibson

                                                         Ringed Plovers by Steve Gibson

Alvecote

Hobby, 7x Common Tern, Grey Wagtail, (MSc)

Branston GPs

2x Garganey, 22x Curlew, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, LRP, 6x Snipe, 102x Lapwing, 6x Water Rail, 15x Little Egret, 56x Little Grebe, 6x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, 4x Green Woodpecker, 5x Reed Warbler, (JWo)

                                                            Garganeys by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Sunday 8th August 2021

Doxey Marsh

7x Little Egret, Great Egret, Ringed Plover, 60x Lapwing, (DM)

Knypersley Resv

Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Greenshank, 2x Little Egret, White Wagtail, (GBr)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Turnstone thru SW at 12:05 and a further 3x Turnstone SW at 14:45, also Wood Sandpiper, Garganey, 

Blithfield Resv

Turnstone at top end of Blithe Bay, 2x Common Scoter, (IBu)  -  2x Osprey, 4x Dunlin, YL Gull, juv Yellow Wagtails, Common Terns, Little Egret, (PAn)

Cuckoo Bank

2x Gropper, Tree Pipit, Hobby, 

Branston GPs

2x Garganey on Ashy pit, (TPe)  -  Wood Sandpiper, 2x Greenshank, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 11x Curlew, 2x Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, 6x Green Sandpiper, 4x Snipe, ad YL Gull, 4x Little Egret, 78x Pochard, 3x Water Rail, 2x Green Woodpecker, 4x Common Tern, Gropper, (DSc)

Middleton Lakes

18x Little Egret, 2x Great Egret, Ruff, Dunlin, 3x LRP, 4x Snipe, Peregrine,

Whitemoor Haye

5x Little Egret, Wigeon, LRP, (SCo)

Croxall GP

Green Sandpiper, 4x Common Tern, 2x Green Woodpecker, Mandarin, (SCo)

Yarnfield

2x Barn Owl at dusk in fields behind the BT centre, (SMN)

Saturday 7th August 2021

Rudyard Lake

Black-tailed Godwit, Little Egret, (SGi)

Tittesworth Water

7x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, (SGi)

Uttoxeter Quarry

8x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, LRP, 3x Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, (RPo)

Halfpenny Green

2x Redstart, (MMo)

Blithfield Resv

Black Tern still north of the causeway at 12:35, Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Greenshank, 19x LRP, 12x Ringed Plover, 4x Dunlin, (RPo)  -  6x YL Gull, Osprey, Hobby, 

Cuckoo Bank, 

Ruff, Pied Flycatcher, 2x Tree Pipit, juv Redstart, 4x Hobby, 

Branston GPs

3x Green Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 11x Curlew, 18x Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, (EWi)  -  also Wood Sandpiper still at BM pit, Common Sandpiper, LRP, 2x Ringed Plover, 60x Lapwing, 4x Snipe, 2x ad YL Gull, 4x Common Tern, (DSc)

Middleton Lakes

Wood Sandpiper, Ruff, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Garganey, juv Med Gull, Dunlin, 9x Common Sandpiper, 3x Goldeneye, 

Alrewas NMA

Hobby, 3x Green Woodpecker, 2x Common Tern, 2x Little Egret, (JWo)

Friday 6th August 2021

 Blithfield Resv

3x Greenshank, Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Dunlin, 17x LRP, 4x Common Sandpiper, Peregrine, Little Egret, (MJa)  -  Black Tern north of the causeway, (MDJ)  -  also Redshank, Ruff, Green Sandpiper, 9x Dunlin, 22x LRP, 7x Ringed Plover, 2x Curlew, 6x Yellow Wagtail, (SE,HF)

                                                        Black Tern by Steve Edwards

Branston GPs

Wood Sandpiper  on Black Meadows pit, (NJS)  -  also 6x Snipe, 5x Green Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, 17x Little Egret, 3x Common Sandpiper, 4x Ringed Plover, 15x Curlew, 89x Lapwing, 4x Water Rail, 32x Pochard, 92x Gadwall, 27x Shoveler, 48x Little Grebe, 6x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, 3x Green Woodpecker, (JWo, CEc, Dean, Stu, Bob)

                                                      Wood Sandpiper by Jon Woodcock

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

4x Common Sandpiper, Snipe, LRP, (CMa)

Berryhill Botteslow Flash

Common Sandpiper, Redstart, 4x Grey Wagtail inc 2 juvs, (RTo)

Alvecote

Little Egret, 6x Common Tern, Grey Wagtail, (MSc)

Rudyard Lake

Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Little Egret, Grey Wagtail, (EWi)

Thursday 5th August 2021

Middleton Lakes

31x Little Egret, 3x Great Egret, 12x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, LRP, Garganey, (MSm)

Branston GPs

2x Garganey on Ashy Pit, 14x Curlew, 6x Green Sandpiper, 4x Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, LRP, Snipe. 82x Lapwing, 5x Water Rail, 22x Little Egret, 29x Pochard, 6x Common Tern, 5x YL Gull, 49x Little Grebe, 4x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

                                                             Garganey by John Woodcock

Blithfield Resv

2x Osprey, 3x Greenshank, 8x Dunlin, 3x LRP, 3x Common Sandpiper, Peregrine, 18x Common Tern, (DOu, LOu)

                                                        Osprey By Dave Oulsnam

Staffs

Wednesday 4th August 2021

Middleton Lakes

11x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Green Sandpiper, Ruff, 2x LRP,  Great Egret, 16x Little Egret, Garganey, (SPA)  -  also Common Sandpiper, 4x LRP, 19x Little Egret, juv Common Gull, 2x Great Egret, (MSm)

Blithfield Resv

Ruff, 2x Greenshank, Redshank, Green Sandpiper, 5x Dunlin, Osprey, 3x Little Egret, 3x Yellow Wagtail, (MJa)  -  in addition - Marsh Harrier thru Blithe Bay, 12x Dunlin, 12x LRP, 15x Ringed Plover, 10x Common Sandpiper, Peregrine, (HF,SE)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Wood Sandpiper, Greenshank, 6x Common Sandpiper,, Garganey, 3x juv Goldeneye, 

Berryhill

3x Redstart, Yellow Wagtail, Willow Tit, (NDP)

                                                    Redstart by Nick Pomiankowski

Drointon Pool

Greenshank, (PBe)

Tuesday 3rd August 2021

Middleton Lakes

Ruff, Curlew, Greenshank, 4x Snipe, 2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x Great Egret, (MSm)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Wood Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, Garganey, 

Branston GPs

3x Green Sandpiper, 6x Common Sandpiper, 17x Curlew, 2x Ringed Plover, 92x Lapwing, Snipe, 21x Little Egret, 5x Water Rail, 29x Pochard, 32x Gadwall, 16x Shoveler, 19x Shelduck, 54x Little Grebe, Med Gull, 4x YL Gull, 7x Common Tern, 4x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Monday 2nd August 2021

Middleton Lakes

Garganey, 2x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret,  Snipe, Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, (MSm)

Knypersley Resv

LRP, Common Sandpiper, Mandarin and a fem Tufted Duck with a duckling, only the 2nd ever breeding record for the Resv, (GBr)

Mere Farm

Wheatear in the Alpaca field viewed from the Staffs way, (MMo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

3x Ruddy Shelduck dropped in at 14:43 from the north, Wood Sandpiper, Garganey,  -  juv Med Gull still

Blithfield Resv

5x Ringed Plover, 16x Dunlin, 4x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 2x Greenshank, Redshank, 2x Red Kite, 2x Little Egret, (MJa)  -  also Wheatear, 21x Barnacle Geese briefly, (CEv)

Tittesworth Water

Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, 10x LRP, Dipper, 9x Mandarin, 2x Goosander, Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Grey Wagtail, (SGi)

Doxey Marsh

Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, Stonechat, Cetti's Warbler, (DBa)

Branston GPs 

North Pit only, Ad Med Gull, 2x Green Sandpiper, 4x Common Sandpiper, 25x Lapwing, 2x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)  -  Marsh Harrier briefly at 14:15, 3x Ringed Plover, 4x Green Sandpiper, Redshank, 12x Curlew, 9x Little Egret, GBB Gull, 6x Common Tern, (CEc)

Sunday 1st August 2021

Knypersley Resv

2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x Dunlin, 2x Little Egret, (GBr)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Wood Sandpiper, Avocet, 2x Redshank, 9x Common Sandpiper, 7x LRP, Ringed Plover, Garganey, Black Tern still, juv Med Gull, 

Middleton Lakes

5x Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, Redshank, 2x Great Egret, Garganey, (MSm)

Uttoxeter Quarry

7x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 3x Common Tern YL Gull, Willow Tit, 

Blithfield Resv

3x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Greenshank, Ruff, 18x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, LRP, Redshank, Red Kite, (RPo)

Tittesworth Water

3x Redshank, Dunlin, 2x Common Sandpiper, 9x LRP, Curlew, 6x Mandarin, 2x Goosander, 2x Redstart, (JOa, RJH)

Alvecote

7x Common Tern, 14x Swift, (MSc)

Branston GPs

Ruff, 10x Curlew, Purple Hairstreak, (AS, BS)  -  15x Curlew, 2x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, Snipe, 4x YL Gull, 6x Common Tern, 20x Little Egret, 50x Pochard, 20x Shelduck, 5x Water Rail, 40x Little Grebe, (DSc)

                                                      Purple Hairstreak by A & B Staley

Staffs