Friday 31st December 2021

Blithfield Resv

14x Goldeneye, 3x Pintail, 4x Goosander, 2x Shelduck, (SCa)  -  also 31x Goosander roosted in Tad Bay tonight, (GJM)

Branston GPs

3x Ruff, 19x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, 2x Redshank, 30x Snipe, 7x Goldeneye, 8x Shelduck, 10x Little Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese, Green Woodpecker, 4x Stonechat, 60x Linnet, (CEc, TWy, SSo, Dean)

Radford Meadows Stafford

34x Goldeneye, 12x Shelduck, 7x Goosander, 11x Pintail, c500 Lapwing, (CDa)

Middleton Lakes

Pink-footed Goose, 4x Shelduck, 7x Pochard, 14x Goldeneye, Great Egret, (MSm)

Drointon Pool

8x Shelduck, 22x Shoveler, (PBe)

Chasewater

1w Caspian Gull, 6x YL Gull in the roost,

Thorswood

4-500x Fieldfare, (TEy)

Alvecote

3x Goosander, 36x Wigeon, (MSc)

Uttoxeter

Peregrine at 08:15, (AR)

Tucklesholme

2x Black-tailed Godwit, 50x Wigeon, 2x Goosander, Little Egret, (DSc)

Thursday 30th December 2021

Gailey Resv

Ruddy Shelduck, 9x Goldeneye, 19x Pochard, 2x Goosander, Peregrine, (SRi)

Trescott area

c300 Linnet, 55x Stock Dove, (IMo)

Holden Lane Pool

3x Ring-necked Parakeet, (SGi)

                                                               By Steve Gibson

Radford Meadows

400x Lapwing, (IWi)

Tittesworth Water

30x Snipe, Oystercatcher, 7x Common Gull, 3x Goosander, Willow Tit, (JOa, LH)

Teddersley Park

Great Egret at 13:30, 

Chasewater

1w Caspian Gull, 4x YL Gull in roost, 

Reapsmoor

Snow Bunting north side of Swallow Moss at dusk, (DGH)

Branston GPs

48x Golden Plover, 20x Curlew, 3x Ruff, Redshank, 3x Snipe, 9x Little Egret, 8x Goldeneye, 9x Shelduck, Goosander, 3x ad YL Gull, 3x Common Gull, 6x GBB Gull, (DSc)

Wednesday 29th December 2021

Middleton Lakes

2x Pintail, Pink-footed Goose, Peregrine, (SPA)

Newcastle

100x Greenfinch went to roost in the Lyme Valley near the Trent Vale end Car park, (BCa, LCa)

Tucklesholme

2x Black-tailed Godwit, Great Egret, (CMa, RFe)  -  additional 6x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Little Egret, 100x Wigeon, 12x Pochard, 2x Stonechat, (JWo)

                                                    Black-tailed Godwits by Jon Woodcock

                                                           Great Egret by Jon Woodcock

Branston GPs

3x Ruff, 6x Snipe, c700 Lapwing, 8x Little Egret, 22x Pochard, 11x Goldeneye, 6x Shelduck, ad YL Gull, 2x GBB Gull, 6x Common Gull, (DSc)  -  also 22x Curlew, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Dunlin, (per TWy)

Greenway Bank CP

Ring-necked Parakeet on the Serpentine, (KBr)

Tuesday 28th December 2021

Whitemoor Haye

2x Bewick's Swan this morning, Goldeneye, 33x Pochard, 76x Wigeon, 8x Golden Plover, Great Egret, 60x Yellowhammer, 11x Redpoll,  (SCo)  -  Bewick's Swans still at 15:15 also 2x Goldeneye, (DSc)

Aqualate

Ferruginous Duck and 3x Scaup still, (IGr)

Tittesworth Water

33x Snipe, Oystercatcher, 7x Pochard, 5x Mandarin, 2x Goosander, 2x Willow Tit, GBB Gull, (SGi, IB)

Blithfield Resv

Great Egret, 8x Pintail, 16x Goosander, (RPo)

Codsall

Redpolls, Green Woodpecker, 70x Siskin, (NMo)

Bateswood

Red-crested Pochard on mini pit lake, (JMa)

Doxey Marsh

200x Golden Plover flooded fields other side of Motorway, 8x Dunlin, 60x Wigeon, Great Egret, Little Egret, (GHa)

Tucklesholme

Great Egret, Little Egret, 10x Pochard, 2x Goosander, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Alvecote

4x Goosander, (MSc)

Monday 27th December 2021

Tuckleshome   (The SWT car park is closed)

2x Bewick's Swan with 50 Mutes this morning, also Great Egret, (DOu, LOu)  -  still present this afternoon.

                                                       Bewick's Swans by Dave Oulsnam

                                                               By Jon Woodcock

Doxey Marsh

2x Great Egret, 4x Goosander, Pochard, (DM)

Radford Meadows Stafford

3x Pintail, 150x Wigeon, 4x Goosander, also Great Egret off Rickerscote Hall Lane, (CDa)

Gailey Resv

Ruddy Shelduck still in field to N of lane looking towards Otherton, 23x Pochard, 8x Goldeneye, 35x Skylark, (SRi)

Middleton Lakes

200x Wigeon, 14x Pochard, 17x Goldeneye, 12x Shelduck, Great Egret, 10x Snipe, Pink-footed Goose, Stonechat, (MSm)

Codsall

2x 100 flocks of Redpoll Watery Lane, (PCo)

Hammerwich

Red Kite over the A5 at 12:45, (DBa)

Chasewater

2x Caspian Gull, 5x YL Gull in the roost, 

Barton under Needwood

4x Woodcock flew from Barton Park wood at dusk, (JWo)

Sunday 26th December 2021

Endon SWT

Barn Owl this am, Chiffchaff, 75x Lapwing, (GBr)

Aqualate

3x Scaup still, (IGr)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Ferruginous Duck still, 1w Caspian Gull, 15x Brambling, 7x Dunlin, 17x Shelduck, 11x Pintail, 

Branston GPs

2x Ruff, 2x Redshank, 12x Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Snipe, YL Gulls, GBB Gulls, 3x Goldeneye, 2x Shelduck, 8x Little Egret, (PAn)  -  additional 26x Pochard, 10x Goldeneye, 6x Shelduck, 2x Egyptian Geese, 3x Ruff, 12x Snipe, Common Gull, Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Middleton Lakes

2x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 10x Golden Plover, Dunlin, 20x Snipe, 13x Pochard, 6x Goldeneye, 

Radford Meadows

Pintail, Goosander, 3x Shelduck, (CDa)

Tittesworth Water

Little Egret, 7x Pochard, 8x Mandarin, 2x Goosander, 24x Wigeon, (SGi)

Trentham Gardens

Great Egret still, (PBi)

Ipstones Edge

7x Snipe, (EWi)

Blithfield Resv

Red-breasted Merganser still, (GJM)

Saturday 25th December 2021

Blithfield Resv

Green-winged Teal Blithe Bay, first seen in the fog Thursday and identity confirmed this morning, (GJM, MPR)

Middleton Lakes

Merlin dashing across JW this am, Bittern Dosthill NR, Dunlin, Golden Plover, Pochard, 11x Goldeneye, 9x Shelduck, Great Egret, Pink-footed Goose, (MSm)

Stoke

Common Gull and 4x Goosander Smithpool park, (RGi)

Chasewater

Ad Caspian Gull, 5x YL Gull, ad Med Gull, 145x Common Gull, 

Branston GPs

22x Golden Plover, 11x Black-tailed Godwit, 20x Curlew, 3x Redshank, 2x Ruff, Snipe, 20x Pochard, 32x Wigeon, ad YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, (DSc)

Friday 24th December 2021

Aqualate

3x Scaup still from the hide, (TPe)

Alvecote

Great Egret, Little Egret, 2x Goosander, 15x Redpoll, (MSc)

Branston GPs

3x Ruff, 2x Redshank, 12x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Green Sandpiper, 28x Snipe, Little Egret, 4x Water Rail, Goosander, 9x Goldeneye, 56x Pochard, 5x Shelduck, Snow Goose, 5x YL Gull, 14x GBB Gull, 2x Green Woodpecker, 3x Brambling, (JWo)

Thursday 23rd December 2021

Aqualate

9x Whooper Swan and the 3x Scaup still, (IGr)

Blithfield Resv

Red-breasted Merganser still Tad Bay, (SMG)

Doxey Marsh

Cattle Egret behind Creswell Flash, (AHa)  -  Great Egret Creswell Flash, (HKi)

Cannock Chase

8x Snipe at Womere, (IWi)

Tucklesholme

Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 15x Pochard, 100x Wigeon, 2x Green Woodpecker, 2x Stonechat, 15x Little Grebe, (JWo)

Middleton Lakes

4x Barnacle Geese, 1-2x Great Egret, 2x Shelduck, (CMa, RFe)

Branston GPs

10x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Curlew, 3x Ruff, 2x Green Sandpiper, 12x Snipe, 3x Pintail, 4x Goldeneye, Common Gull, 10x GBB Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, (DSc)

Wednesday 22nd December 2021

Aqualate

No sign of the Baikal Teal, but Ferruginous Duck and 3x Scaup still, (IGr)  -  also 21x Pintail, YL Gull, (IMo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

1w/fem Garganey still, 

Chasewater

Ad Caspian Gull, 4x YL Gull, ad Med Gull in the roost, 

Radford Meadows

Little Egret, 31x Wigeon, (CDa)

Middleton Lakes

4x Barnacle Geese, Pink-footed Geese, 4x Goldeneye, Stonechats, (DSh)

Gailey Resv

80x Golden Plover, Ruddy Shelduck, 2x Little Egret, 10x Pochard, (CVa)

Tuesday 21st December 2021

Aqualate

Drake BAIKAL TEAL to 14:30 at least, please view only from the hide, (IGr)  -  3x Scaup reported this afternoon, 

Blithfield Resv

Drake Red-breasted Merganser still Tad Bay, (KCl)

Uttoxeter Quarry

41x Barnacle Geese, 8x Goosander, 6x Goldeneye, 93x Pochard, 4x Shelduck, (KCl)

Middleton Lakes

33x Barnacle Geese, Pink-footed Goose, 14x Goldeneye, 11x Pochard, 4x Shelduck, Dunlin, 2x Great Egret, (MSm)  -  female Merlin on east side of Dosthill NR, (SPA)

Churnet Valley

2x Goosander, Little Egret, 240x Lapwing at Basford, (SCh)

Alrewas NMA

Great Egret, Little Egret, 2x Goosander, Redpolls, Shelducks, (RBe)

                                                     Great Egret by Rob Bendelow

Forsbrook

2x Little Egret along stream  behind Birch Grove, (AR)

Branston GPs

2x Ruff, 2x Redshank, 12x Black-tailed Godwit, 20x Curlew, 2x Green Sandpiper, 12x Snipe, 2x Little Egret, 14x Goldeneye, 42x Pochard, 3x Pintail, 2x Shelduck, 7x Common Gull, 5x YL Gull, 6x GBB Gull, Peregrine, (JWo)

                                                        Goldeneyes by Jon Woodcock

Perton

25-30x Goosander upper pool, 

Shenstone

3x Brambling, 150x Linnet, 3x Stonechat, (THi)

Monday 20th December 2021

Blithfield Resv

Drake Red-breasted Meganser Tad bay, (GJM)

                                               Very distant shot of the Merganser by GJ Mant

Aqualate 

Female Ferruginous Duck, (IGr)

Trescott area

17x Golden Plover, 2x Stonechat, 40x Skylark, (IMo)

Tittesworth Water

67x Pink-footed Geese over, 61x Common Gull, GBB Gull, 27x Snipe, 21x Mandarin, 8x Goosander, 6x Pochard, 37x Wigeon, 4x Barnacle Geese, (SGi)

Croxall

4x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 5x Redshank, Brambling, (IWh)

Sunday 19th December 2021

Endon STW

Barn Owl this am, (GBr)

Gailey Resv

2x Water Rail, 16x Pochard, (SRi)

Middleton Lakes

33x Barnacle Geese still, (MSm)  -  also Pink-footed Goose still, Great Egret, Dunlin, 2x Goldeneye, Stonechat,  (PAn)

Baswich

Drake Mandarin in the pool near the Canal bridge Baswich Lane, (IWi)

Cuckoo Bank

2x Stonechat, 2x Green Woodpecker, Redpolls, 

Rocester JCB

2x Goosander on North lake, (JDr)

Branston GPs  (Despite foggy conditions)

12x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Ruff, 20x Curlew, Redshank, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 4x Snipe, Woodcock, 5x YL Gull, 24x GBB Gull, 2x Pintail, 36x Wigeon, 24x Pochard, 12x Goldeneye, (DSc)

Branston Water Park,

2x Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 39x Goosander, (DSc)

Saturday 18th December 2021

Knypersley Resv

Barn Owl, Woodcock, 10x Goosander, 2x Mandarin, (GBr)

Middleton Lakes

33x Barnacle Geese, Pink-footed Goose in fields west of JW,  Dunlin, Black-tailed Godwit, 9x Pochard, 8x Goldeneye, 3x Great Egret, 

Uttoxeter Quarry

Great Egret, 140x Golden Plover, Dunlin, Goldeneye, 108x Pochard, 112x Wigeon, Cetti's Warbler, (RPo)

Whitemoor Haye

Green Sandpiper, 8x Golden Plover, Snipe, 376x Wigeon, 52x Pochard, 14x Goldeneye, 3x Goosander, Great Egret, Little Egret, (SCo)

Doxey Marsh

2x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 70x Golden Plover over, Pochard, (RRa)

Tittesworth Water

21x Mandarin, 5x Goosander, 6x Pochard, 24x Wigeon, 28x Snipe, Oystercatcher, 2x Willow Tit, (SGi, IB)

Alrewas NMA

Great Egret, 8x Goosander, Shelduck, (JWo)

Perton

Drake Mandarin still at Lower lake, (IMo)

Branston Water Park

Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 28x Goosander, (DSc)

Friday 17th December 2021

Middleton Lakes

Pink-footed Goose, 12x Pochard, 5x Goldeneye, 6x Snipe, Peregrine, 

Alvecote

Great Egret, Little Egret, 5x Goosander, (MSc)

Branston GPs

2x Ruff, 2x Redshank, Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 22x Curlew, 10x Black-tailed Godwit, 504x Lapwing, Little Egret, 11x Goldeneye, 2x Pintail, 39x Pochard, ad Caspian Gull, 5x YL Gull, 6x Common Gull, 14x GBB Gull, Peregrine, 2x Stonechat, Cetti's Warbler, 16x Redpoll, (JWo)

Silverdale CP

Common Gull on the Void, (PCa)

Thursday 16th December 2021

Morridge

Snow Bunting at the Mermaid pool early afternoon, (DMo)

                                                                By Dave Moore

Uttoxeter Quarry

140x Golden Plover, 3x Snipe, 118x Pochard, Pintail, 3x Goldeneye, 3x Shelduck,, 15x Barnacle Geese, Brambling, 850x Lapwing, (NDP)

Milwich

51x Pink-footed Geese over west at 11:40, (CDa)

Tittesworth Water

19x Snipe, Oystercatcher, 2x Mandarin, 4x Common Gull, 2x Willow Tit, (JOa, LH)

Blithfield Resv

Adult Caspian Gull Tad Bay, Great Egret, 4x Mandarin, 27x Goosander, (JAl)

Perton 

Mandarin at Little lake, (RJL)

Alvecote

Great Egret, Little Egret, Barnacle Goose, 6x Goosander, (MSc)

Branston Water Park

3x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 56x Goosander, 12x Pochard, (JWo)

                                                           Great Egrets by Jon Woodcock

Barton Marina

12x Pochard, 24x Wigeon, (JWo)

Wednesday 15th December 2021

Hales pools

Ruddy Shelduck, 23x Shelduck, 4x Stonechat, Snipe, (NDP)

Dimmingsdale (Alton)

5x Woodcock over at dusk, (TEy)

Alrewas  NMA

2x Goosander, Redpolls, (RBe)

                                                           Redpoll by Rob Bendelow

Blurton

Mandarin on the mill pond, (JRu)

                                                                By Jim Rushton

Branston GPs

3x Green Sandpiper, 18x Curlew, 2x Ruff, 5x Goldeneye, Snow Goose, Peregrine, 2x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

                                                      Green Sandpiper by Jon Woodcock

Branston Water Park

3x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 16x Goosander, 10x Pochard, (JWo)

Knotbury

Snow Bunting reported before flying off towards the Roaches, 

Tuesday 14th December 2021

Blithfield Resv

Shorelark still Admaston Reach, 

Doxey Marsh

13x Snipe, Pochard, 7x Cetti's Warbler, (DM)  -  also c500 Golden Plover, 2x Great Egret, 2x Goosander, (RRa)

Branston Water  Park

55x Goosander, 3x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, (JAl)

Branston GPs

58x Golden Plover thru south, 2x Ruff, Redshank, 10x Black-tailed Godwit, 18x Curlew, 11x Snipe, Little Egret, Water Rail, 2x GBB Gull, 2x Pintail, 5x Goldeneye, Green Woodpecker, (CEc)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

2x Caspian Gull this afternoon

Tittesworth Water

45x Common Gull, adult YL Gull, 19x Snipe, Oystercatcher, 4x Pochard, 4x Goosander, 3x Willow Tit, (SGi)

Monday 13th December 2021

Blithfield Resv

Adult Caspian Gull in Tad Bay at 15:40, (JAl)  -  Shorelark still this afternoon, (DFr)

Branston GPs

12x Black-tailed Godwit, 21x Curlew, 2x Ruff, 3x Redshank, 14x Snipe, 4x Little Egret, 4x Water Rail, 13x Goldeneye, 3x Pintail, 36x Pochard, 9x Shelduck, 5x YL Gull, 3x Common Gull, 22x GBB Gull, Peregrine, 2x Green Woodpecker, 2x Brambling, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Barlaston - Meaford

Little Egret along the canal, (AR)

Sunday 12th December 2021

Doxey Marsh

Great Egret, 2x Water Rail, 5x Cetti's Warbler, Pochard, 4x Goosander, Stonechat,  (DM)  -  Black-tailed Godwit Creswell flash, (MSm)  -  also 20x Golden Plover, (RRa)

Gailey Resv

3x Goldeneye, 9x Pochard, Little Egret, 35x Skylark, (SRi)

Trescott area

8x Goosander, c75 Linnet, Yellowhammer, (IMo)

Blithfield Resv 

The Shorelark still Admaston Reach, Great Egret, Little Egret, Goldeneye, Goosander, Common Gull, Stonechat, 

Branston GPs

21x Curlew, 2x Ruff, Redshank, 13x Snipe,  2x Pintail, Stonechat, (CPr)  -  additional 2x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 10x Black-tailed Godwit, 10x GBB Gull, 6x YL Gull, 5x Common Gull, 12x Goldeneye, Goosander, 3x Stonechat, Peregrine, (DSc)

Endon STW

Chiffchaff and 74x Lapwing, (GBr)

Forsbrook

Little Egret behind Brook Close, (AR)

Hanchurch Woods

Between 50 and 70 Bramblings at the feeding station, (SSe)

                                                                 By Steve Seal

Radford Meadows

18x Pintail, 400x Wigeon, Goosander, 500x Lapwing, Great Egret, Stonechat, (RSw)

Biddulph

Great Egret on pools, (SHi)

Tamworth

2x Little Egret, 2x Stonechat at Broadmeadow, (MSc)

Saturday 11th December 2021

Middleton Lakes

2x Great Egret, 12x Goldeneye, 9x Pochard, (SPA)

River Sow Meadows

Green Sandpiper, 100x Wigeon, 3x Stonechat, (RSw)

Blithfield Resv

Shorelark still Blithe Bay 150 yards down from causeway, (IGr, DBa), Great Egret, Little Egret, Pink-footed Goose, 2x YL Gull, 2x Stonechat, (DBa)

Barton -Tucklesholme

Marsh Harrier at Barton north pit then circled Tucklesholme, 

Millend - Audley STW

Great Egret, Little Egret, Goosander, 900x Lapwing, Mosshouse 40x Yellowhammer, (NDP)

                                                   Great Egret by Nick Pomiankowski

Branston WP

46x Goosander, 3x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese, (CEc)

Consall

6x Goosander, (PGu)

Whitemoor Haye

Merlin at 12:10, (RBe)

Tittesworth Water

Woodcock, 35x Snipe, 5x Goosander, 4x Pochard, 9x Mandarin, 2x Willow Tit, (SGi, IB)

Branston GPs

10x Black-tailed Godwit, 20x Curlew, 3x Redshank, 2x Ruff, Woodcock, 15x Snipe, Pintail, 25x Pochard, 12x Goldeneye, 8x Goosander, 2x Shelduck, 21x Egyptian Geese, 6x GBB Gull, 5x Common Gull, 3x YL Gull, Peregrine, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Stoke

Great Egret and Little Egret over the Bet365 stadium this afternoon, (RTo)

Alvecote

Great Egret, 7x Goosander, (MSc)

Cuckoo Bank

2x Goosander, 30x Redpoll, 

Friday 10th December 2021

Hanchurch Woods

The  Brambling flock now up to 58 birds, (BCa)

Blithfield Resv

The Shorelark still at 11:20 half way up Blithe Bay, (PFo)  -  also adult Caspian Gull in Tad Bay at 15:30,  (JAl)

Branston GPs

Male Merlin Black Meadows pit, 21x Curlew, 11x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Ruff, Redshank, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 18x Snipe, 3x Little Egret, 11x Goldeneye, 2x Pintail, 66x Pochard, YL Gull, 3x GBB Gull, Barn Owl, 2x Green Woodpecker, 2x Stonechat, 14x Redpoll, (JWo)

Chasewater

2x Caspian Gull, 4x YL Gull in the roost, 

Thursday 9th December 2021

Blithfield Resv

Shorelark still at Admaston Reach, Great Egret, Little Egret, (JWo, CM, RF)  

                                                                   By Terry Eyre

Middleton Lakes

Dunlin, Pintail, 7x Goldeneye, 4x Pochard, 2x Shelduck, Goosander, 2x Great Egret, (SPA)

Rudyard

Ring-tailed Hen Harrier Green Lane, (LHa)

Alvecote

5x Goosander, Stonechat, Barnacle Goose, (MSc)

Brankley Pastures

2x Green Woodpecker, 5x Yellowhammer, 20x Redpoll, (JWo)

                                                           Redpoll by Jon Woodcock

Tittesworth Water

11x Mandarin, 3x Goosander, 31x Snipe, 3x Common Gull, 2x Willow Tit, (JOa, LH,)

Wednesday 8th December 2021

Radford Meadows

c300 Golden Plover, c400 Wigeon, 2x Goosander, Little Egret, (CDa)

Blithfield Resv

Shorelark again Admaston Reach, (SDA)

Middleton Lakes

Pintail, 4x Pochard, 12x Goldeneye, Goosander, Snipe, Dunlin, (MSm)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Imm Garganey still, 

Alvecote

Great Egret, 5x Goosander, 2x Pochard, Stonechat, (MSc)

Tuesday 7th December 2021

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Imm/fem Garganey still,

Monday 6th December 2021

Blithfield Resv

Shorelark still this am,

Berryhill Botteslow Flash

5x Mandarin (inc 3 drakes) present to mid afternoon at least, also the Whooper Swan still, Green Woodpecker, (RTo)

Burton

Ring-necked Parakeet at Horninglow, (AGo)

                                                           By A Gordon

Trentham Gardens

Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 4x Mandarin, 3x Goosander, SE, HF)

                                                          Great Egret by Steve Edwards

Chasewater

2x Caspian Gull, ad Med Gull and 7x YL Gull in the roost

Branston GPs

Woodcock, 4x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 3x Redshank, 2x Ruff, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, 18x Curlew, 12x Goldeneye, 76x Pochard, Pintail, 4x Water Rail, 3x YL Gull, Common Gull, 14x GBB Gull, Barn Owl, Peregrine, 4x Green Woodpecker, 2x Stonechat, 2x Brambling, 8x Greenfinch, (JWo)

Middleton Lakes

3x Great Egret, 8x Goldeneye, 3x Pintail, 7x Pochard, 4x Goosander, 2x Water Rail, 

Sunday 5th December 2021

Blithfield Resv

Woodlark Blithe Bay then flew off SW, which was the first Blithfield record, (GJM, MPR)  -  also the Shorelark still,

                                                              Shorelark by Steve Seal

Gailey Resv

4x Goldeneye, Pochard, Little Egret, 120x Siskin, (SRi)

Doxey Marsh

5x Water Pipit, (DM, DB)

Cannock Wood 

Hawfinch this morning

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Imm/fem Garganey, 5x YL Gull, 4x GBB Gull, 

Alrewas A38 pit

Common Scoter, (Whi)

Uttoxeter Quarry

92x Golden Plover, Dunlin, Snipe, 126x Pochard, 3x Goldeneye, Goosander, (RPo)

Trentham Gardens

Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 17x Mandarin, 26x Gadwall, (PBi)

Middleton Lakes

5x Great Egret, 9x Pochard, 10x Goldeneye, 2x Goosander, Dunlin, Stonechat, (MSm)

Tittesworth Water

Woodcock, 14x Snipe, 45x Wigeon, Pochard, 2x Goosander, (SGi)

Blithfield Resv

Shore Lark still,

Cuckoo Bank

9x Brambling, Red Kite, 70x Redpoll, 2x Stonechat, 24x Goosander, 2x Common Gull, 

Saturday 4th December 2021

Doxey Marsh

Great Egret, Pochard, 5x Goosander, 8x Snipe, Water Rail, Cetti's Warbler, (DM)

Blithfield Resv

Shore Lark still 

Middleton Lakes

3x Pintail, 14x Pochard, 6x Goldeneye, 2x Goosander, Dunlin, 2x Great Egret, (MSm)

Whitemoor Haye

3x Great Egret, Dunlin, 18x Pochard, 3x Goldeneye, 2x Goosander, (SCo)  -  also 60x Golden Plover, 2x Green Sandpiper,  (IWh)

Trentham Gardens

Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, (MJW)

Weston on Trent

c250 Golden Plover from lay-by on A51 half mile south of Weston,  (RCB)

Tittesworth Water

3x Willow Tit, 8x Common Gull, 43x Wigeon, Goosander, (SGi, IB)

Branston GPs

Wing-tagged Marsh Harrier roosted in Sandy pit at 15:45, (SCo)  -  also 18x Curlew, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, Redshank, 2x Ruff, 7x Snipe, 30x Pochard, 2x Pintail, 10x Goldeneye, 3x ad YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Stonechat, (DSc)

Perton

19x Goosander, Mandarin, (IMo)

Cuckoo Bank

28x Goosander, 16x Wigeon, 2x Stonechat, 

Friday 3rd December 2021

Whitemoor Haye

Merlin this morning, 2x Green Sandpiper, 16x Pochard, 157x Wigeon, Goldeneye, Great Egret, Stonechat, (SCo)

Blithfield Resv

Shore Lark still

Tucklesholme

2x Great Egret, 2x Goosander, 200x Wigeon, 30x Pochard, (JWo)

Doxey Marsh

5x Goosander, Pochard, 8x Snipe, Water Rail, Great Egret, Cetti's Warbler, (Doxey Marshes)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Female Red-breasted Merganser this afternoon, 

Berryhill Botteslow Flash

The Whooper Swan still, (RGi)

Cannock Chase

c8 Crossbill, 100+ Siskin, (MSm)

Branston GPs

9x Black-tailed Godwit, 19x Curlew, 2x Ruff, Redshank, Green Sandpiper, 2x Woodcock, 5x Snipe, 3x Pintail, 40x Pochard, 10x Goldeneye, 3x ad YL Gull, 10x GBB Gull, 3x Water Rail, Peregrine, Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler, 4x Brambling, (DSc)

Thursday 2nd December 2021

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

The juv Iceland Gull flew off west at 07:35, 2x Great Egret briefly, adult Caspian Gull in the roost

Blithfield Resv

Shore Lark still at the causeway, (DJa)  -  ad Caspian Gull in Tad Bay (GJM),  -   Great Egret, 8x Goosander, 

Middleton Lakes

6x Goldeneye, 4x Pintail, 7x Pochard, Dunlin, Great Egret, Stonechat, (SPA)

Berryhill Botteslow Flash

Whooper Swan still, (IBu)

Tittesworth Water

17x Snipe, Oystercatcher, 4x Common Gull, 3x Willow Tit, (JOa, LH)

Alvecote

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

Trentham Gardens

Great Egret still at the weir, (DMi)

Branston GPs

The wing tagged imm /fem Marsh Harrier flew into Sandy pit at 15:40 to roost in the reed bed, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, 21x Curlew, 2x Ruff, Redshank, 5x Snipe, 2x Pintail, 40x Pochard, 10x Goldeneye, Common Gull, 2x YL Gull, 4x Brambling, Peregrine, (DSc)

                                                      Marsh Harrier by Dave Scattergood

Staffs

Wednesday 1st December 2021

Middleton Lakes

3x Pintail, 7x Pochard, 7x Goldeneye, Goosander, Dunlin, 2x Great Egret, 3x Redpoll, (MSm)

Blithfield Resv

Shore Lark still south side of the causeway at 14:00, (JAl)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Juv Iceland Gull dropped in at 14:47

Tucklesholme

2x Great Egret, Little Egret, 200x Wigeon, 30x Pochard, 2x Stonechat, (JWo)

Branston GPs

2x Golden Plover, 3x Dunlin, 2x Ruff, 4x Snipe, 11x Black-tailed Godwit, 7x Curlew, 2x Redshank, (GWi)