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)

Tuesday 30th November 2021

Blithfield Resv

Shore Lark still at Admaston Reach, 2x ad YL Gull, 11x Goldeneye, (MSm)  -  also 7x Golden Plover, 2x Dunlin, 2x Stonechat, (GWi)

Radford Meadows

412x Wigeon, 7x Goosander, Little Egret, 

Tittesworth Water

Woodcock, Oystercatcher, 16x Common Gull, 51x Wigeon, (SGi)

Branston GPs

2x Ruff, 3x Dunlin, 7x Curlew, Redshank, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Pintail, 10x Goldeneye, 23x Pochard, 3x Little Egret, Water Rail, Green Woodpecker, Stonechat, (DBa)

Berryhill Botteslow Flash

The Whooper Swan still present, (NDP)

Hanchurch Woods

40+ Brambling, Crossbill over, (BCa)

Trentham Gardens

Great Egret at the south end, (DMi)

                                                                   By David Miller

Staffs

Monday 29th November 2021

Middleton Lakes

2x Pintail, 2x Goosander, 4x Goldeneye, 4x Snipe, Common Gull, 2x Great Egret, Stonechat, (MSm)  -  updated counts 8x Goosander, 2x Pochard, 10x Snipe, (SPA)

Tucklesholme

Marsh Harrier thru with two bright red wing tags at 13:35, (BRe)

                                                        Marsh Harrier by Ben Reavey

Branston GPs

2x Ruff, Redshank, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, 18x Curlew, 16x Snipe, 2x Pintail, 10x Goldeneye, 3x GBB Gull, 13x Egyptian Geese, Peregrine, (CEc)  -  updated counts 21x Curlew, 10x Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, 42x Snipe, Little Egret, Water Rail, 3x Pintail, 12x Goldeneye, 64x Pochard, 5x Common Gull, 16x GBB Gull, 2x YL Gull, Brambling, (JWo)

Blithfield Resv

Shore Lark still, flew into Admaston Reach this afternoon from the causeway, (JAl, AHa)

Alvecote

2x Great Egret, 6x Goosander, 4x Snipe, (MSc)

Sunday 28 November 2021

Blithfield Resv

Shore Lark (first Staffs record since 2002), at Admaston Reach, Bar-tailed Godwit briefly, (GJM,MPR),  -  ad Kittiwake over deep end at 12:30, (SRi)

                                                           Shore Lark by GJ Mant

                                                       Bar-tailed Godwit by GJ Mant

                                                         Shore Lark by Steve Edwards                  

Middleton Lakes

Grey Phalarope flew off JW towards north pit but no further sign to 10:45, Redshank, Dunlin, 2x Snipe, 5x Goldeneye, 5x Pochard, 3x Goosander, 2x Great Egret, Stonechat, (MSm)

Aqualate

1w drake Scaup this morning, 2x Marsh Tit, Willow Tit, 30x Goldeneye, 4x Water Rail, 11x Snipe, Stonechat, 50x Siskin,  (IGr, RSw)

Tittesworth Water

137x Common Gull, 2x Jack Snipe, 24x Snipe, 15x Brambling, 53x Wigeon, (SGi)

                                                       Brambling by Steve Gibson

Uttoxeter Quarry

Great Egret, Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, 8x Goldeneye, 78x Pochard, (RPo)

Dimmingsdale (Alton)

6x Goosander, 6x Mandarin, (TEy)

Berryhill Botteslow Flash

Whooper Swan again, (CWo)

                                                                   By Clive Wood

Cuckoo Bank

34x Goosander, 

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

27x Golden Plover, 2x Pintail, Brambling, 

Greensforge Rough

6x Brambling with  c200 mixed finch flock in set-aside near Navigation pub.

27th November 2021

Stoke on Trent

Common Gull at  Smithpool park, (RGi)

Gailey Resv

Goldeneye, (SRi)

Radford Meadows

250x Wigeon, 3x Goosander, imm Peregrine, (RSw)

Alvecote

2x Great Egret, (MSc)

Alrewas NMA

Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 8x Redpoll, (JWo)

Chasewater

18x Goosander, Stonechat, 

Friday 26th November 2021

Middleton Lakes

3x Great Egret, 11x Little Egret, 2x Pintail, 5x Pochard, 3x Goldeneye, 2x Goosander, 

Whitemoor Haye

Peregrine, (RBe)

                                                                   By Rob Bendelow

Freehay

Brambling, (FCa)

Branston GPs

Woodcock, 2x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 5x Redshank, 2x Dunlin, 10x Black-tailed Godwit, 21x Curlew, 8x Snipe, 2x Little Egret, 4x Pintail, 7x Goldeneye, 61x Pochard, 15x Mandarin, Snow Goose, 41x Little Grebe, Common Gull, 2x YL Gull, 8x GBB Gull, Barn Owl, 3x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Radford Meadows

3x Goosander, (IWi)

Thursday 25th November 2021

Tittesworth Water

18x Mandarin, 53x Wigeon, 2x Common Gull, 2x Willow Tit, Oystercatcher, 5x Barnacle Geese, (SGi, IF)

Middleton Lakes

6x Goldeneye, 6x Pochard, Dunlin, 2x Great Egret, (SPA)  -  updated counts 8x Goldeneye, Woodcock, 3x Great Egret, (MSm)

Trentham Gardens

Great Egret, (HF)

Branston GPs

Ruff, 2x Redshank, Common Sandpiper, 19x Curlew, 2x Pintail, (JAl)  -  Male Marsh Harrier reported on Sandy pit with red wing tags.

Doxey Marsh

Great Egret, Little Egret, 

Wednesday 24th November 2021

Middleton Lakes

6x Pintail, 7x Pochard, 6x Goldeneye, 3x Snipe, 2x Great Egret, (MSm)

Blithfield Resv

Adult Caspian Gull again late afternoon also the Scaup still, (JAl)

Branston GPs

Ruff, 4x Redshank, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, 10x Curlew, 2x Dunlin, 14x Snipe, Common Sandpiper, 3x Pintail, 3x Goldeneye, 2x GBB Gull, Peregrine, 2x Green Woodpecker, (CEc)

Alrewas NMA

3x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 4x Goosander, 30x Redpoll, also Goldeneye on Alrewas GPs, (CEc)

Jackson's Bank

Marsh Tit, (JWo)

Alvecote

3x Great Egret, (MSc)

Tuesday 23rd November 2021

Blithfield Resv

Scaup in Tad Bay with Tufties, (GJM)

Trentham Gardens

150x Pink-footed Geese over NW at 11:25, (RTo)

Hanchurch

113x Pink-footed Geese west over water tower at 11:30 also 18x Brambling, (NDP)

Sneyd Green

c90x Pink-footed Geese over west at 12:15, (JOa)

Middleton Lakes

2x Egyptian Geese, 3x Pintail, 23x Pochard, 8x Goldeneye, Snipe, Redshank, 2x Great Egret, (MSm)  -  Ruddy Shelduck briefly in flight then flew south at 14:30, (JAl)

Tittesworth Water

13x Goosander, 10x Mandarin, 43x Wigeon, Pochard, 5x Snipe, Willow Tit, 5x Barnacle Geese, (SGi)

Whitemoor Haye

Great Egret, Little Egret, Peregrine, (RBe)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Imm Marsh Harrier this afternoon, 60x Brambling, 

Monday 22nd November 2021

River Sow Meadows

2x Great Egret, Green Sandpiper, 80x Golden Plover, 4x Goosander, 25x Wigeon, (RSw)

Botteslow Flash

The Whooper Swan again 08:00 to 08:15 at least, (RTo)  -  still present at 15:38, (IBu)

Middleton Lakes

Ruddy Shelduck on JW, (@smithymik, SPA)  -  Curlew Sandpiper on JW north, 3x Snipe, Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 2x Stonechat, (AFr)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

51x Golden Plover,  15x Brambling, 

Branston GPs

3x Ruff, 5x Redshank, 2x Dunlin, 2x Green Sandpiper, 10x Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Curlew, 28x Snipe, 3x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, 4x Pintail, 24x Wigeon, 8x Goldeneye, 74x Pochard, 50x Little Grebe, 3x YL Gull, 14x GBB Gull, Peregrine, 2x Green Woodpecker, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)  -  also 4x Brambling, 3x Stonechat, Little Owl, (CEc)

Tittesworth Water

53x Wigeon, Pochard, 2x Willow Tit, 4x Barnacle Geese, (SCh)

Sunday 21st November 2021

Berryhill Botteslow Flash

Adult Whooper Swan 07:55 to 08:12 at least, Green Woodpecker, Little Egret, 2x Snipe, (RTo)

i54

Great Egret flew over west, 2x Stonechat, 2x Green Woodpecker, Water Rail, Foz)

Endon STW

Pink-footed Geese heard over also a Barn Owl, (GBr)

Stoke On Trent (Fenton Manor)

The adult Whooper Swan returned (present (til 10:05 at least), to the small pool adjacent to 6th form college, (RGi)  -  also Little Egret, (PJo)

Hanley Park

6x Goosander, (RGi)

Doxey Marsh

3x Great Egret, Little Egret, 2x Snipe, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (DM)

Foxley

65x Pink-footed Geese over NW at 10:00, (SJT)

Croxden Quarry

Red Kite over at 11:20, (RPo)

Threapwood - Greatwood

Mixed Finch flock c100x   Chaffinch and Brambling, (RPo)

Uttoxeter Quarry

12x Whooper, Swan, 60x Golden Plover, 30x Pochard, Goldeneye, 3x Snipe, (RPo, Andym)

                                                      Whooper Swans by Richard Powell

Blithfield Resv

Adult Caspian Gull in Tad Bay 15:30 to 15:45 then flew to deep end, (JAl)

Fradley Pool

7x Goosander, (BCh)

Tittesworth Water

Oystercatcher, 4x Snipe, 59x Wigeon, 6x Goosander, 4x Common Gull, 3x Willow Tit, (JOa)

Cuckoo Bank

28x Goosander, 1000+ Jackdaw this evening, 

Hanchurch

10x Brambling top  car park feeding station, (AEa)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Fem Scaup still, 4x YL Gull, 2x GBB Gull, Pintail, 

Whitemoor Haye

2x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, Green Sandpiper, Goldeneye, 2x Peregrine, (SCo)

Biddulph Grange CP

17x Goosander, (SSe)

Alvecote

Green Sandpiper, Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, (MSc)

Bottomhouse (North Staffs Moors)

c200x Lapwing, (NBr)

Branston GPs

Spotted Redshank, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, 16x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, 3x Ruff, 5x Redshank, 4x Snipe, 18x GBB Gull, 1w Common Gull, 3x ad YL Gull, 2x Brambling, 4x Pintail, 50x Pochard, 8x Goldeneye, 2x Brambling, 10x Redpoll, 3x Yellowhammer, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

                                               Odd looking LBB Gull by Dave Scattergood

Staffs

Saturday 20th November 2021

i54

250x Chaffinch, (JDu)

Branston GPS

Spotted Redshank still, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 3x Ruff, Dunlin, 5x Redshank, 8x Curlew, 30x Pochard, 4x Goldeneye, 3x Pintail, Peregrine, 2x Water Rail, Green Woodpecker, 2x Stonechat, Cetti's Warbler, Feral Snow Goose, (DSc)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Female Scaup, Stoke on Trent

Stoke on Trent

Adult Whooper Swan on small pond adjacent to 6th form college, (SJT)

Uttoxeter Quarry

152x Golden Plover, Dunlin, 2x Green Sandpiper, 5x Snipe, 5x Goldeneye, 64x Pochard, Goosander, (RPo)

Whitemoor Haye

Male Merlin by sharp bend by Sittles farm, (JAl)

Tittesworth Water

8x Common Gull, 2x Willow Tit, 59x Wigeon, 7x Mandarin, 5x Barnacle Geese, (SGi)

Blithfield Resv

27x Little Egret (site record), Great Egret, (GJM)

Middleton Lakes

3x Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 6x Pochard, 4x Goldeneye, 2x Goosander, 2x Stonechat, 

Alrewas NMA

4x Goosander, 3x Little Egret, 6x Redpoll, (JWo)

Friday 19th November 2021

Blithfield Resv

26x Little Egret, (GJM, MDJ)  -  also Pink-footed Goose, 3x Stonechat, 16x Goldeneye, (SE, HF)

                                                   Pink-footed Goose by Steve Edwards

Doxey Marsh

3x Great Egret, 2x Stonechat, 4x Cetti's Warbler, (DM)

Middleton Lakes

4x Pintail, 4x Goldeneye, 4x Pochard, 3x Great Egret, Snipe, (SPA)

Branston GPs

Spotted Redshank, 5x Redshank, 3x Ruff, Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 11x Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, 19x Curlew, 30x Snipe, 4x Little Egret, 3x Pintail, 112x Pochard, 8x Goldeneye, 14x Mandarin, 2x Water Rail, 6x YL Gull, 9x GBB Gull, Peregrine, 2x Green Woodpecker, Barn Owl, 16x Redpoll, 200x Linnet, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Alvecote

2x Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, (MSc)

Thursday 18th November 2021

Blackbank

55x Pink-footed Geese NE at 08:10, (NDP)

Whitemoor Haye

 2x Ruff, 2x Great Egret, 7x Little Egret, 90x Wigeon, 40x Skylark, Stonechat, Peregrine, (IWh)

Croxall

10x Black-tailed Godwit north at 12:58, (IWh)

Doxey Marsh

3x Great Egret, Little Egret, 2x Stonechat, 

Tittesworth Water

44x Wigeon, 10x Mandarin, 5x Snipe, 5x Barnacle Geese, (JOa, RJH)

Middleton Lakes

3x Great Egret, 7x Little Egret, 5x Goosander, 3x Goldeneye, 3x Pochard, Dunlin, 3x Water Rail, (KCl)

Branston GPs

Spotted Redshank, Woodcock, 4x Redshank, 3x Ruff, 11x Black-tailed Godwit, 21x Curlew, 22x Snipe, 2x Green Sandpiper, 8x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, 3x Pintail, 9x Goldeneye, 14x Pochard, 57x Little Grebe, Common Gull, 4x YL Gull, 16x GBB Gull, 2x Green Woodpecker, 10x Redpoll, (JWo)

                                                     Spotted Redshank by Jon Woodcock

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Adult Caspian Gull in the roost,

Whiston

c2000 Starlings over at 15:45, (GSt)

Hazelslade LNR

11x Goosander, (BCh)

Wednesday 17th November 2021

Newcastle

70x Pink-footed Geese over Basford in two skeins, (SJT)

Blackbank

175x Pink-footed Geese over, 41x Brambling thru, 196x Fieldfare, and a further 65x Pink-footed Geese over Alsagers Bank, (NDP)

Middleton Lakes

8x Dunlin Redshank, 2x Great Egret, 4x Pintail, 5x Goldeneye, Pochard, 2x Stonechat, 20x Pintail, (MSm)

Enville

Hawfinch over south at 11:11 over the Sheepwalks, (IWh)

Branston GPs

11x Black-tailed Godwit, 7x Curlew, Redshank, 3x Dunlin, 12x Snipe, Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 2x Pintail, 78x Pochard, 5x Goldeneye, Mandarin, Green Woodpecker, Yellowhammer, Cetti's Warbler, 6x Redpoll, (DSc)  -  updated  counts  Spotted Redshank (day 72), 4x Redshank, 9x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, 6x Little Egret, 3x Pintail, 8x Goldeneye, Peregrine, 2x Stonechat, 2x Green Woodpecker, (CEc)

Blithfield Resv

25x Little Egret, (GJM)

Hanchurch

20x Brambling at 13:00, (BCa, LCa)

                                                             By Brian Carthy   

                              

Alrewas NMA

Great Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese, Redpolls, (RBe)        

Dimmingsdale (Alton)

Willow Tit, 5x Redpoll, (TEy)

                                   

                                                             Willow Tit by Terry Eyre

Barton Marina

55x Pochard, 15x Wigeon, (JWo0

Tuesday 16th November 2021

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Ferruginous Duck still, 

Tittesworth Water

5x Brambling, Woodcock, 10x Snipe, 50x Wigeon, Pochard, 2x Willow Tit, (SGi)

Blithfield Resv

14x Golden Plover, Curlew, Great Egret, 14x Little Egret, Pink-footed Goose, 5x Stonechat, 11x Goosander, 

Branston GPs

Spotted Redshank still, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Redshank, Ruff, Dunlin, 10x Curlew, 15x Snipe, Great Egret, 2x Pintail, (GWi)  -  updated counts 4x Common Scoter, 24x Golden Plover, 4x Redshank, 5x Green Sandpiper, 2x Dunlin, 21x Curlew, 27x Snipe, 6x Little Egret, 10x Goldeneye, 3x Pintail, 74x Pochard, 8x Mandarin, 5x YL Gull, 19x GBB Gull, Little Owl, 2x Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler, 3x Stonechat, 200x Linnet, (JWo)

                                                        Golden Plovers by Jon Woodcock

Rudyard Lake

60x Snipe, (DCo)

Monday 15th November 2021

Middleton Lakes

2x Pink-footed Geese again, Redshank, 2x Snipe, 2x Pintail, 2x Goldeneye, (MSm)

Sneyd Green

150x Pink-footed Geese over at 10:50, (JOa)

Doxey Marsh

2x Cattle Egret, 2x Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 2x Goosander, 20x Wigeon, Stonechat, (RRa, RCB)

Tittesworth Water

8x Brambling, 13x Siskin, 2x Willow Tit, 2x Egyptian Geese, 46x Wigeon, Pochard, Oystercatcher, (SGi, IB, IF)

                                                          Bramblings by Steve Gibson

Tittensor Chase

5x Redpoll, 37x Siskin, (AR)

Wolseley SWT

Water Rail, Pintail, (RBe)

                                                     Water Rail by Rob Bendelow

Belvide Resv

Ferruginous Duck still, 

Berryhill Botteslow Flash

Belated sightings of a Dipper on the Causley brook behind the flash, (DHu)

                                                                By David Hulson

Whitmore Bent Lane

2x Pink-footed Geese still, 4x Snipe,  (PJo)  

                                                           Pinkfoots by Phil Jones

Branston GPs

Spotted Redshank, 4x Redshank, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, 20x Curlew, 8x Snipe, Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 2x Pintail, 5x Goldeneye, Peregrine, Green Woodpecker, (CEc)  -  North pit  YL Gull, - Barton Marina 53x Pochard, 14x Wigeon, (JWo)

                                                 

Sunday 14th November 2021

Endon STW

Barn Owl this am, (GBr)

Uttoxeter Quarry

250x Golden Plover, Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Goldeneye, 3x Goosander, 60x Pochard, 30x Wigeon,  Cetti's Warbler, (RPo)

Millend

Great Egret, Little Egret, 50x Snipe, 100x Lapwing, (SJT)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Vismig  178x Brambling over, Ferruginous Duck still, ad Caspian Gull, 

Trentham 

c100x Pink-footed Geese over, (JDa)

Tittesworth Water

2x Egyptian Geese, 5x Barnacle Geese, 41x Wigeon, Pochard, 10x Mandarin, 2x Goosander,  Woodcock, 2x Willow Tit, (SGi, MS)

                                                        Egyptian Geese by Steve Gibson

Doxey Marsh

c80x Pink-footed Geese over south at 12:25, Cattle Egret, 2x Great Egret, (MSm)

Middleton Lakes

2x Pink-footed Geese over JW, (SPA)  -  2x Great Egret, 

Whitmore Bent Lane

2x Pink-footed Geese, (AMa)

Kingsley Holt

Woodcock flew over Churnet Valley Road at 16:55, (RPo)

Burston Marsh

2x Green Sandpiper, 5x Snipe, Stonechat, (AEa)

Baldwins Gate

7x Whooper Swan east at 15:00, 120x Pink-footed Geese NE at 17:00, (RWh)

Newcastle

Spotted Flycatcher at Westlands, (WJL, PJ)

                                                          Spotted Flycatcher by Phil Jones

Dimmingsdale (Alton)

18x Mandarin, Willow Tit, Goosander, (TEy)

Branston GPs

18x Curlew, 10x Black-tailed Godwit, Spotted Redshank, 2x Redshank, Ruff, 2x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 4x Snipe, 50x Little Grebe, Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 3x Pintail, 9x Goldeneye, 53x Pochard, 6x Mandarin, Peregrine, 3x ad YL Gull, 10x GBB Gull, 2x Green Woodpecker, (DSc, JJH)

                                                         Great Egret by Dave Scattergood

Saturday 13th November 2021

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Ferruginous Duck still, 6x Brambling, 8x YL Gull, 

Flash

Barn Owl over the A53 at 06:40, (ABa)

Doxey Marsh

2x Cattle Egret, 2x Great Egret, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Stonechat, 2x Snipe, (DM)

Clayton

80x Pink-footed Geese SW over Bunny Hill and a further 32 over east, (SJT)

Berryhill

Jack Snipe, Woodcock, 10x Snipe, (IBu)

Blackbank

135x Pink-footed Geese over south at 08:20 also 3x Brambling, (NDP)

Radford Meadows

327x Wigeon, Little Egret, 2x Stonechat, Snipe, (RSw)

Stoke on Trent

c50x Pink-footed Geese west over Heron Cross at 12:50, (RGi)

Pool Hall - Trescott

2x Mandarin, Green Sandpiper, Brambling, Peregrine, 150x Linnet, (IMo)

Park Hall CP

154x Pink-footed Geese over at 12:07, (SFe)

Cuckoo Bank

3x Crossbill NE, 

Silverdale CP

Goldeneye on the Void at 15:00, (PCa)

Alvecote

Great Egret, 2x Stonechat, (MSc)

Alrewas NMA

Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, Goosander, 40x Greenfinch, (JWo)

Catholme

2x Green Sandpiper, Little Egret, (JWo)

Whitemoor Haye

Great Egret, Little Egret, Redpoll, (MBr)

Friday 12th November 2021

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Ferruginous Duck still, Jack Snipe, 52x Snipe, 6x Dunlin, Stonechat, 

Tucklesholme

200x Wigeon, 8x Egyptian Geese, (JWo, DSc)

Barton Marina

54x Pochard, (JWo)

Alrewas NMA

Little Egret, 5x Goosander, Redpoll, (RBe)

Branston GPs

Spotted Redshank, 21x Curlew, 4x Redshank, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, 21x Snipe, Water Rail, Little Egret, 11x Goldeneye, 3x Pintail, 60x Pochard, 4x YL Gull, 13x GBB Gull, Barn Owl, 2x Green Woodpecker, (JWo, DSc)

Thursday 11th November 2021

Whitmore Bent Lane

6x Whooper Swan low over south at 10:35 also 3x Stonechat, 5x Tree Sparrow, (NDP)

Belvide Resv (RSPB members only)

Ferruginous Duck still, fem Marsh Harrier thru west, 

Westport Lake

12x Goosander, 2x Pochard, 3x Redpoll, (AR)

Doxey Marsh

3x Great Egret, Little Egret, 4x Cetti's Warbler, (CMa)

Wednesday 10th November 2021

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Ferruginous Duck still

Trentham Gardens

9x Little Egret, Med Gull, 2x YL Gull and a Dipper on the Trent, (RTo)

Doxey Marsh

Cattle Egret, Great Egret, Little Egret, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Water Rail, 

Tittesworth Water

260x Pink-footed Geese over, Oystercatcher, 5x Snipe, 3x Willow Tit, GBB Gull, 56x Wigeon, 6x Mandarin, 14x Siskin, (SGi)

                                                          Siskins by Steve Gibson

Branston GPs

Spotted Redshank still (making  a new Staffs record of 65 days), Ruff, 2x Redshank, 10x Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, 2x Dunlin, 18x Curlew, 9x Snipe, 3x Pintail, 4x Goldeneye, Peregrine, 2x Green Woodpecker, (CEc)

Tucklesholme

Great Egret, 200x Wigeon, 4x Stonechat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

                                                        Great Egret by Jon Woodcock

Barton Marina

70x Pochard, (JWo)

Tuesday 9th November 2021

Middleton Lakes

2x Dunlin, 2x Snipe, Great Egret, Stonechat, Redpoll, (MSm)

Blithfield Resv

Curlew Sandpiper, Tad Bay, (GJM)

Hixon Airfield

200x Golden Plover, (RCB)

Belvide Resv

Ferruginous Duck still, 

Chasewater

7x Goosander, 

Hales

Ruddy Shelduck, (PJo)

Cotton

45x Pink-footed Geese over, (BBo)

Cannock Chase

120x Fieldfare, 2x Peregrine, Stonechat, (DBa)

Doxey Marsh

Great Egret, Stonechat, (RGi)

Branston GPs

Spotted Redshank ( day 64 equalling Staffs record), 2x Redshank, Ruff, Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 10x Black-tailed Godwit, 8x Curlew, 26x Snipe, 2x Goosander, 8x Goldeneye, 3x Pintail, 47x Pochard, 8x Mandarin, Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, 4x YL Gull, 6x GBB Gull, Little Owl, 2x Peregrine, 2x Green Woodpecker, Stonechat, 240x Linnet, (JWo)

Monday 8th November 2021

River Sow Meadows

c90x Pink-footed Geese over east at 08:30, (RSw)

Blithfield Resv

Great Egret, 3x Common Gull, 11x Dunlin, 10x Goldeneye, 11x Goosander, 10x Little Egret, 4x Stonechat, (SE, HF)

                                                            Great Egret by Steve Edwards

Belvide Resv (WMBC members onl)

Ferruginous Duck still, 

Burston Marsh

6x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, (AEa)