Monday 28th February 2022

Middleton Lakes

2x Shelduck, 2x Pochard, 13x Goldeneye, 2x Goosander, 7x Oystercatcher and a Red Kite south over Drayton Bassett, (MSm)

Branston GPs

3x Avocet still on Sandy pit, 8x Oystercatcher, 5x Ringed Plover, 60x Golden Plover, Dunlin, 3x Ruff, 63x Snipe, Black-tailed Godwit, 8x Curlew, 7x Redshank, 2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 294x Lapwing, 2x Goosander, 15x Goldeneye, 15x Pochard, 32x Gadwall, 68x Wigeon, 26x Shoveler, 26x Shelduck, 2x Mandarin, 6x Egyptian Geese, Water Rail, 3x Little Egret, 3x Green Woodpecker, (JWo, GWi)

                                                               Avocet by Jon Woodcock

Audley

Mill End pool - 2x Great Egret, 2x Shelduck, also 12x Golden Plover at Park Lane flood, (BCa, LCa, DK)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Med Gull this am, 

Sunday 27th February 2022

Uttoxeter Quarry

43x Curlew, 3x Oystercatcher, 3x Goldeneye, 5x Goosander, 154x Wigeon, (RPo) 

Marchington Woodlands

Thorney Lanes - 10x Brambling, Yellowhammer, (RPo)

Doxey Marsh

2x Great Egret, Little Egret, Water Rail, 2x Pochard, 12x Gadwall, 4x Goosander, 5x Cetti's Warbler, (DM)

Tittesworth Water

2x Woodcock, 25x Snipe, 4x Willow Tit, 15x Mandarin, 5x Wigeon, 2x Pochard, (SGi)  -  8x Common Gull, (JOa)

Burntwood

Red Kite over Larks Rise Wood, (GHa)

Pool Hall

Jack Snipe, (IMo)

Audley

Mill End pool - 2x Great Egret, 2x Shelduck, (KSt)

Middleton Lakes

Redshank, (SRo)

Endon STW

Barn Owl this morning, (GBr)

Trentham 

Red Kite south at 10:03, (JGl)

Little Aston STW

Water Rail, Barn Owl, 6x Golden Plover, (PAn)

Hollington

Red Kite heading towards Croxden, (CBu)

Branston GPs

3x Avocet, Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Ruff, 5x Redshank, Dunlin, 3x Ringed Plover, 50x, Golden Plover, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 9x Curlew, 5x Snipe, Pintail, 2x Mandarin, 32x Shelduck, 50x Wigeon, 10x Goldeneye, ad YL Gull, 2x Common Gull, imm GBB Gull, Little Egret, (DSc)

Branston

2w Caspian Gull at Trentside cricket club off Faldo Close, (STi)

Saturday 26th February 2022

Middleton Lakes

First Avocet back on JW, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Dunlin, Redshank,  also Pintail, 2x Shelduck, Pochard, 10x Goldeneye, 2x Stonechat,  (MSm)

Gailey Resv

25x Pochard, 2x Oystercatcher, also 2x Shelduck at Micklewood Lane, (SRi, IMo)

Branston GPs

First  Avocet on Sandy pit, (TWy)  -  also Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Ruff, Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Redshank, 8x Curlew, 55x Snipe, 330x Golden Plover, 4x Ringed Plover, 30x Shelduck, 16x Goldeneye, Mandarin, Goosander, 50x Wigeon, 4x Little Egret, Chiffchaff, 2x ad YL Gull, 3x Common Gull, Green Woodpecker, Stonechat, (DSc)

                                                          Avocet by Dave Scattergood

Whitemoor Haye

111x Wigeon, 42x Pochard, 2x Goldeneye, 3x Oystercatcher 40x Yellowhammer, Tree Sparrow, 3x Stonechat, numerous singing Skylark and a Little Egret, (SCo)

Tittesworth Water

4x Curlew, 29x Snipe, 4x Oystercatcher, 6x Pochard, 5x Mandarin, 4x Goosander, Gadwall,  Willow Tit, (SGi, IB)

                                                            Gadwall by Steve Gibson

Berryhill

2x Jack Snipe, 15x Snipe, 2x Linnet, (IBu)

Catholme

5x Shelduck, 42x Gadwall, Goosander, (JWo)

Alrewas NMA

6x Goosander, Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, Wychnor 2x Oystercatcher, (JWo)

Gnosal

Red Kite over St Lawrence School, (GCa)

Friday 25th February 2022

 Middleton Lakes

Dunlin, Oystercatchers, 2x Egyptian Geese, 2x Goosander, (PAn)

Hanchurch

6x Crossbill, 60x Siskin, (RRa)

Chasewater

Ad Iceland Gull, 1w Caspian Gull, 5x YL Gull, also Oystercatcher at dusk, 

Alrewas NMA

Great Egret, Little Egret, 6x Goosander, (RBe)

Marchington Woodlands (Thorney Lanes)

4x Brambling, 3x Yellowhammer - Barton under Needwood  Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Tixall Wide (Staffs & Worcester canal)

4x Pintail, Shoveler, 2x Gadwall, Cetti's Warbler, Oystercatcher, 70x Lapwing, (ISm)

Thursday 24th February 2022

Middleton Lakes

8x Shelduck, 5x Pochard, 22x Goldeneye, 2x Curlew, Oystercatcher, (MSm)

Chasewater

Adult Iceland Gull and 3x YL Gull in the roost, 

Branston GPs

Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 3x Ruff, 6x Ringed Plover, 3x Redshank, 6x Dunlin, 178x Golden Plover, 860x Lapwing, 2x Oystercatcher, 14x Snipe, 12x Curlew, 19x Goldeneye, 19x Pochard, 24x Wigeon, 39x Shelduck, 4x Egyptian Geese, 9x Little Egret, 3x Water Rail, ad Caspian Gull, 4x YL Gull, 3x Common Gull, 5x Stonechat, 50x Linnet, (JWo)

                                                     Green Woodpecker by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Wednesday 23rd February 2022

Stafford

Imm White-tailed Eagle at 14:30 following the River Sow at Fairway and past the Cricket club then lost to view heading towards the town. It was mobbed by a Buzzard, 2x LBB Gulls and several corvids. (RBr)

Ford Green

Cetti's Warbler calling at the pool, (RGi)

Cannock Chase

Red Kite drifting NE from the boulder area, (KPo)

Baggeridge CP

Brambling, Green Woodpecker, (IMo)

Aqualate

2x fem Scaup, Marsh Tit, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (PJo)

Drointon Pool

8x Shelduck, 24x Shoveler, (PBe)

Barton Marina

6x Goosander, 8x Pochard, 22x Wigeon, Common Gull. No sign of yesterdays reported possible Belted Kingfisher in the area, 

                                                     Common Gull by Jon Woodcock

Barton Village pond 

5x Goosander, (JWo)

Chasewater

Ad Iceland Gull, 1w Caspian Gull, 4x YL Gull, 

Tuesday 22nd February 2022

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Kittiwake at west end to 14:37, 

Branston GPs

4x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Ruff, 4x Dunlin, 3x Redshank, 2x Oystercatcher, 6x Curlew, 10x Snipe, 200x Golden Plover, 5x Goldeneye, 4x Egyptian Geese, 34x Shelduck, 12x Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, 4x Stonechat, (CEc, TWy, SBI)

Uttoxeter Quarry

5x Oystercatcher, 5x Goldeneye, (JDr)

Marchington Woodland (Thorney Lanes)

16x Brambling, 60x Chaffinch, 6x Yellowhammer, 30x RL Partridge, (JWo)

Chasewater

Adult Iceland Gull, 2w Kittiwake, ad Med Gull, 2x YL Gull in the roost, 

Monday 21st February 2022

Audley

Millend pool - Great Egret, 500x Golden Plover, 300x Lapwing, Oystercatcher, 2x Shelduck. (SJT)

Branston GPs

2x Kittiwake and adult Caspian Gull on Ashy pit mid afternoon, 9x Kittiwake on south pit late afternoon, 4x YL Gull, 14x Common Gull, Woodcock, 8x Snipe, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Ruff, 3x Dunlin, 2x Redshank, 7x Ringed Plover, 5x Oystercatcher, Green Sandpiper, 14x Curlew, 1047x Lapwing, 11x Goldeneye, 12x Pochard, 24x Wigeon, 42x Shelduck, 2x Egyptian Geese, Barn Owl, 2x Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

                                                           

                                                        Kittiwakes by Jon Woodcock

Middleton Lakes

18x Goldeneye, 9x Goosander, 2x Pochard, 2x Shelduck, 3x Oystercatcher, 3x Dunlin, 2x Stonechat, YL Gull, Peregrine,  (MSm)

Chasewater

2x Iceland Gull (ad and juv) still, ad Med Gull, 3x YL Gull, 

Alvecote

15x Goosander, (MSc)

Sunday 20th February 2022

Aqualate

Adult Kittiwake, 2x imm fem Scaup, (IGr)

Doxey Marsh

8x Cetti's Warbler, 10x Water Rail, 3x Great Egret, 100x Golden Plover, 350x Lapwing, 12x Snipe, 4x Goosander, (DBM MBo, RRa, PDy)

Radford Meadows

7x Goosander, 277x Wigeon, 13x Pintail, 200x Lapwing, 350x Golden Plover, Shelduck, 40x Siskin, (CDa, RSw)

Blithfield Resv

Adult Med Gull in Blithe Bay, (MYa)

Westport Lake

7x Pochard, 3x Goosander, Peregrine, 53x Siskin, (KSt)

Chasewater

2x adult Kittiwake at Pimpernel point, adult Med Gull, 5x  YL Gull

Branston GPs

140x Golden Plover, 900x Lapwing, 14x Ringed Plover, 2x Dunlin, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Oystercatcher, 8x Curlew, 2x Redshank, 12x Common Gull, 4x YL Gull, 13x Little Egret, 38x Shelduck, 50x Wigeon, 5x Goldeneye, (DSC)  -  additional 17x Little Egret, 2x Common Gull, 4x Egyptian Geese, Green Woodpecker,  (JWo)

                                                         Ringed Plover by Dave Scattergood

Alvecote

Great Egret, Little Egret, 4x Goosander, (MSc)

Saturday 19th February 2022

Gailey Resv

27x Pochard, 3x Goldeneye, 4x Oystercatcher, Cetti's Warbler, (SRi)

Middleton Lakes

17x Goldeneye, 7x Pochard, 4x Shelduck, 2x Oystercatcher, Dunlin, Great Egret, 2x Stonechat, (MSm)

Chasewater

Adult Iceland Gull, Ad Med Gull, 4x YL Gull in the roost, 

Rocester

4x Oystercatcher JCB north lake, (JDr)

Branston GPs

330x Golden Plover, 1000x Lapwing, 3x Ruff, 6x Ringed Plover, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Dunlin, 4x Oystercatcher, 8x Curlew, 2x Redshank, 43x Snipe, Green Woodpecker, 30x Siskin, (DSc)

                                                           Snipe by Dave Scattergood

Catholme - Alrewas NMA

6x Shelduck, 2x Goosander, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Enville

Bramblings, 2x Crossbill, Green Sandpiper, (MMo)

Friday 18th February 2022

Middleton Lakes

Curlew, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Oystercatcher, Dunlin, 2x Shelduck, 2x Pochard, 8x Goldeneye, 4x Goosander, 2x Great Egret, (MSm)

Chasewater

Ad Iceland Gull, 1w Caspian Gull, 3x YL Gull in the roost, Woodcock, 2x Brambling, 

Blithfield Resv

2nd winter Kittiwake roosted tonight, (GJM)

Thursday 17th February 2022

Enville

Green Sandpiper on flooded field at top of Mill Lane, (DBa)

Middleton Lakes

Redshank, 2x Oystercatcher, Dunlin, 6x Shelduck, 3x Pochard, 20x Goldeneye, Goosander. Adult Med Gull this pm on Dosthill NR,  (MSm)  -  also 100x Wigeon, 2x Little Egret, (MSc)

Tittesworth Water

22x Snipe, 4x Oystercatcher, 3x Goosander, 2x Mandarin, Willow Tit, (JOa, LH)

Deep Hayes CP

8x Goosander, 5x Wigeon, (JOa)

Westport Lake

Common Gull, 4x Goosander, 5x Pochard, Willow Tit, (AR)

Chasewater

Juv Iceland Gull also the adult Iceland Gull again, 4x YL Gull, 26x Goldeneye, 15x Goosander, 

Dimmingsdale (Alton)

Red Kite over west (TEy)

Branston GPs

2x Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, 5x Ringed Plover, 3x Ruff, 3x Redshank, 3x Dunlin, 12x Curlew, 352x Golden Plover, 1074x Lapwing, Oystercatcher, 10x Snipe, 16x Goldeneye, 12x Pochard, 62x Wigeon, 2x Mandarin, 41x Shelduck, 3w Caspian Gull, 5x YL Gull, 14x Common Gull, 4x Stonechat, 2x Green Woodpecker, Great Egret, 10x Little Egret, 3x Water Rail, (JWo)

Wednesday 16th February 2022

Middleton Lakes

2x Oystercatcher, Dunlin, 27x Goldeneye, 12x Shelduck, Pochard, 3x Great Egret, (MSm)  -  also 2x Goosander, Stonechat, (SPA)

Tucklesholme

Ringed Plover, Oystercatcher, 2x Goldeneye, 17x Pochard, 46x Wigeon, 2x Stonechat, (JWo)

Branston GPs (Ashy Pit)

c1000 Lapwing, 150x Golden Plover, 7x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, Oystercatcher, Redshank, 4x Curlew, 7x Little Egret, 50x Wigeon, 4x Shelduck, 3x Goldeneye, 4x Common Gull, (DSc)

Tuesday 15th February 2022

Uttoxeter Quarry

9x Oystercatcher, 8x Curlew, 37x Barnacle Geese, 6x Shelduck, 5x Goosander, 6x Goldeneye, 150x Wigeon, 6x Pochard, 510x Lapwing, (NDP)

Chasewater

1w Caspian Gull, 5x YL Gull in the roost, 

Branston GPs

6x Ringed Plover, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Ruff, Dunlin, 2x Redshank, Oystercatcher, 12x Curlew, 19x Snipe, 400x Golden Plover, 3x Goldeneye, 2x Mandarin, 4x Egyptian Geese, 27x Shelduck, 2x Green Woodpecker, (CEc)

Monday 14th February 2022

Chasewater

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

i54

3x Ring-necked Parakeet over, (JDu)

Audley

200x Golden Plover on the Park Lane flood with 100x Lapwing, (JMa)

Branston GPs

9x Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, 3x Ruff, 4x Redshank, Common Sandpiper, 400x Golden Plover, 1000x Lapwing, 22x Curlew, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Oystercatcher, 10x Snipe, 12x Goldeneye, 16x Pochard, 68x Wigeon, 32x Shelduck, 2x Egyptian Geese, 29x Little Grebe, 3x Common Gull, 4x YL Gull, 3x GBB Gull, Peregrine, 2x Stonechat, (JWo)

Sunday 13th February 2022

Middleton Lakes

Ringed Plover, 2x Dunlin, 2x Oystercatcher, 5x Shelduck, 4x Pintail, 11x Goldeneye, 4x Goosander, Great Egret, 2x Stonechat, (MSm)

Tittesworth Water

Willow Tit, 2x Oystercatcher, 6x Snipe, 7x Goosander, 13x Pochard, (EWi)

Berryhill

Woodcock, 14x Snipe, (IBu)

Chasewater

4x YL Gull in the roost, 

Branston GPs

270x Golden Plover, 800x Lapwing, 3x Ruff, 3x Dunlin, 6x Ringed Plover, Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, 5x Curlew, 4x Snipe, 4x ad YL Gull, 3x Common Gull, 5x Mandarin, 24x Shelduck, 63x Wigeon, 20x Pochard, 12x Goldeneye, 2x Goosander, 3x Little Egret, 2x Stonechat, (DSc)  -  additional, 11x Little Egret, Brambling, 2x Egyptian Geese, (JWo)

Saturday 12th February 2022

Radford Meadows

600x Golden Plover, 150x Wigeon, 3x Little Egret, (RSw)

Middleton Lakes

Curlew, 17x Goldeneye, 2x Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, 5x Oystercatcher, Pochard, 8x Shelduck, Great Egret, 

Whitemoor Haye

89x Wigeon, 63x Pochard, 3x Goldeneye, 30x Yellowhammer, 23x Redpoll, 

Cuckoo Bank

2x Crossbill, 11x Yellowhammer, 50x Redpoll, 30x Siskin, 

Tittesworth Water

64x Snipe, 4x Oystercatcher, 16x Pochard, 2x Willow Tit, 3x Barnacle Geese, (SGi, IB)

Apedale CP

9x Goosander, still, (BCa)

Chasewater

3w Caspian Gull, ad Med Gull, 5x YL Gull, 

Doxey Marsh

3x Great Egret, (TWo)

Stoke on Trent

Red Kite over Cobridge, (per JOa)

Catholme

3x Great Egret, 12x Shelduck, 6x Goosander, (JWo)

Alrewas NMA

Little Egret, 10x Goosander, (JWo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Ad Med Gull late morning, 

Branston GPs

320x Golden Plover, 800x Lapwing, 3x Ruff, 7x Ringed Plover, 2x Dunlin, 14x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, 2x Redshank, 2x Little Egret, 16x Shelduck, 50x Wigeon, 14x Pochard, 4x Goldeneye, Green Woodpecker. 30x Redpoll, (DSc)

Tucklesholme

20x Wigeon, 10x Pochard, 2x Goldeneye, Goosander, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Friday 11th February 2022

Middleton Lakes

2x Oystercatcher, 2x Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, Snipe, Great Egret, 7x Shelduck, 2x Pochard, 6x Goldeneye, 2x Goosander, Peregrine, 2x Stonechat, (MSm)  -  21x Goldeneye Dosthill NR, 

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Glossy Ibis in flight at 16:25 east of dam and appeared to drop then lost to view

Apedale CP

10x Goosander on a small fishing pool, (SJT)

Branston GPs

Woodcock, 7x Ringed Plover,  3x Dunlin, 3x Ruff, 4x Redshank, 4x Snipe, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 14x Curlew, 4x Redshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 454x Golden Plover, 1422x Lapwing, 14x Curlew, 22x Shelduck, 64x Wigeon, 18x Pochard, 12x Goldeneye, 3x Mandarin, 28x Little Grebe, 5x Little Egret, Water Rail, 4x YL Gull, 5x Common Gull, 2x Barn Owl, Peregrine, 2x Green Woodpecker, 2x Stonechat, 100x Linnet, (JWo, DSc, GWi)

                                                      Ringed Plovers by Jon Woodcock

Rudyard Lake

3x Willow Tit, 

Hanley Park

3x Goosander, (AR)

Chasewater

3w Caspian Gull, 6x YL Gull in the roost

Thursday 10th February 2022

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Imm White-tailed Eagle at 14:10 then drifted SE, 

Enville

8x Hawfinch near the Temple Sheepwalks, (DJa)

Middleton Lakes

2x Ringed Plover, 2x Dunlin, 2x Oystercatcher, 19x Goldeneye, 2x Pochard, 2x Goosander, 3x Shelduck, 2x Great Egret, Stonechat, (SPA)

Tittesworth Water

46x Snipe, 4x Oystercatcher, 16x Pochard, 9x Goosander, 4x Mandarin, 3x Barnacle Geese, (JOa, LH)

Tucklesholme

4x Oystercatcher, 2x Goldeneye, 8x Pochard, 55x Wigeon, 4x Stonechat, (JWo)

Branston GPs

330x Golden Plover, 800x Lapwing, 6x Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, 4x Redshank, 3x Ruff, 7x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Oystercatcher, Snipe, 2x Common Gull, 2x ad YL Gull, 5x Little Egret, 26x Shelduck, 52x Wigeon, 20x Pochard, 9x Goldeneye, 2x Stonechat, Green Woodpecker, (DSc)

                                                      Golden Plovers by Dave Scattergood

Alrewas NMA

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

Chasewater

6x YL Gull, 

Doxey Marsh

2x Great Egret, 7x Little Egret, 2x Pintail, 15x Goosander, 100x Golden Plover, (DB)

Wednesday 9th February 2022

Yarnfield

20x Yellowhammer, 30x Linnet, 60x Siskin, (RRa)

Chasewater

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

Pool Hall

3x Little Egret, 2x Goosander, 

Marchington Woodlands

20x Brambling, 100x Chaffinch, (JWo)

                                                        Bramblings By Jon Woodcock

Branston GPs (Ashy Pit)

5x Ringed Plover, 2x Dunlin, 2x Ruff, 2x Redshank, 300x Golden Plover, 300x Lapwing, 11x Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, 2x Stonechat, (JWo, TWy)

Anslow

Woodcock briefly along Bellhouse Lane, (JWo)

Tuesday 8th February 2022

Whiston

Red Kite over this am, (per GSt)

Middleton Lakes

2x Pintail, 7x Shelduck, Pochard, 21x Goldeneye, 6x Oystercatcher, Dunlin, Great Egret, Stonechat, (MSm)  -  Ringed Plover

Tittesworth Water

2x Oystercatcher, 41x Snipe, 3x Barnacle Geese, 15x Pochard, Mandarin, 4x Goosander, 3x Willow Tit, (SGi)

Pendeford Mill Lane

Shelduck on flooded field, 

Branston GPs

Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, 3x Ruff, 4x Redshank, 3x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 300x Golden Plover, 868x Lapwing, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 18x Curlew, 26x Snipe, 12x Little Egret, 14x Goldeneye, 18x Pochard, 12x Mandarin, 66x Wigeon, 26x Shelduck, 6x Egyptian Geese, Snow Geese, 31x Little Grebe, 2x Common Gull, 5x YL Gull, 9x GBB Gull, 4x Green Woodpecker, 2x Stonechat, 100x Linnet, (JWo)

                                                      Ringed Plover by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

7th February 2022

Branston GPs

Ringed Plover, (SBI), 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Ruff, 2x Dunlin, 4x Redshank, Oystercatcher, 6x Curlew, 18x Snipe, 309x Golden Plover, 11x Little Egret, 5x Goldeneye, 5x Egyptian Geese, 14x Shelduck, 2x Green Woodpecker, 3x Stonechat, (CEc)  -  also 2x Green Sandpiper, (JWo)

Marchington Woodlands 

Set-aside 4x Brambling, 3x Yellowhammer, 30x Chaffinch, (JWo)

Chasewater

5x YL Gull in the roost,

Sunday 6th February 2022

Aqualate

3x imm/female Scaup and fem Ferruginous Duck at the far end, (IGr)

Radford Meadows

550x Golden Plover briefly, 250x Lapwing, 147x Wigeon, Goosander, Little Egret, (RSw)

Keele

5x Hawfinch around the Uni this morning, 

Middleton Lakes

3x Great Egret, 6x Golden Plover, Dunlin, 10x Goldeneye, 8x Shelduck, 7x Goosander, 

Tittesworth Water

80x Common Gull, 37x Snipe, 15x Pochard, 5x Goosander, (JOa, LH)

Branston GPs

133x Golden Plover, 700x Lapwing, 3x Oystercatcher, 2x Dunlin, 3x Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, Redshank, 13x Curlew, 16x Snipe, 6x GBB Gull, 2x Stonechat, (DSc)

                                                       Golden Plovers by Dave Scattergood

Staffs

Saturday 5th February 2022

Burton

Red Kite west over Stretton at 07:50, (BSt, ASl)

Doxey Marsh

Pintail, 2x Pochard, Shelduck, Goosander, 2xt Great Egret, Little Egret, 200x Lapwing, (DM)

Middleton Lakes

9x Shelduck, 5x Pochard, 22x Goldeneye, Goosander, 2x Oystercatcher, Dunlin, 8x Snipe, 2x Great Egret, (MSm)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Grey Partridge, 39x Pochard, 67x Wigeon, Peregrine, 30x Redpoll, (SCo)

Keele

Hawfinch at the Uni, 

Tittesworth Water

48x Snipe, Oystercatcher, 9x Pochard, 8x Goosander, 3x Willow Tit, (SGi)

Newcastle

3x Brambling in Clayton,  (COH)

Chasewater

2x Caspian Gull, 3x YL Gull, 

Branston GPs

3x Ruff, Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 7x Curlew, 10x Shelduck, 60x Wigeon, 4x Goldeneye, 500x Lapwing, ad YL Gull, 8x GBB Gull, 50x Linnet, (DSc)

Tucklesholme

Oystercatcher, 2x Goosander, 2x Goldeneye, (DSc)

Catholme

Great Egret, (JWo)

Alrewas NMA

2x Oystercatcher, 6x Goosander, Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

                                                      Oystercatchers by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Friday 4th February 2022

Doxey Marsh

2x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 4x Pintail, 6x Goosander, (JJH, SJH)

Radford Meadows

2x Pink-footed Geese with the Canada flock, (JJH, SJH)

Yarnfield

2x Brambling, (SMN)

Alvecote

Pintail, 7x Goosander, 2x Little Egret, (MSc)

Silverdale CP

Ad Med Gull this afternoon, also a Woodcock, (KSt)

Chasewater

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

Aqualate

Female Ferruginous Duck and 2x Scaup at the far end this afternoon, (PJor)

Branston GPs

Woodcock, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Ruff, 3x Redshank, Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 22x Curlew, 27x Snipe, 200x Golden Plover, 700x Lapwing, 11x Little Egret, 14x Goldeneye, 22x Pochard, 68x Wigeon, 15x Shelduck, 6x Egyptian Geese, Mandarin, 27x Little Grebe, 2x Common Gull, 4x YL Gull, 2x GBB Gull, Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Thursday 3rd February 2022

Middleton Lakes

16x Goldeneye, 5x Pochard, 5x Shelduck, 3x Oystercatcher, Dunlin, Great Egret, Stonechat, (MSm)  

Doxey Marsh

Greenland White-fronted Goose back end of Creswell Flash, 15x Goosander, 3x Pintail, 2x Pochard, 3x Shelduck, Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, Oystercatcher, (RRa)

Keele

1-2 Hawfinch still at the Uni, 

Marchington Woodlands

Thorney Lane Bramblings, Yellowhammers

                                                        Brambling by Rob Bendelow

Chasewater

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

Croxall  lakes

Great Egret, Little Egret, Goosander, (AGP)

Branston GPs

4x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Ruff, 4x Redshank, 289x Golden Plover, Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 17x Curlew, Oystercatcher, 789x Lapwing, 22x Snipe, 8x Little Egret, 21x Shelduck, 6x Mandarin, 16x Goldeneye, 43x Pochard, 64x Wigeon, 8x Egyptian Geese, 31x Little Grebe, 2x Water Rail, 4x YL Gull, GBB Gull, Barn Owl, Peregrine, 4x Stonechat, Cetti's Warbler, 120x Linnet, (JWo, GWi)

Tittesworth Water

10x Mandarin, 15x Pochard, Goosander, 19x Snipe, 2x Oystercatcher, 20x Siskin, (JOa, LH)

Wednesday 2nd February 2022

Blithfield Resv

Crossbill SE over Tad Bay, (GJM)

Keele

3x Hawfinch at the Uni, 

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Green-winged Teal still, 3x Pintail, 10x Shelduck, 2x Oystercatcher, 

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2x Little Egret, 2x Stonechat, also 200x Linnet at Coven, 

Branston GPs

124x Golden Plover, 52x Snipe, 2x Dunlin, 3x Ruff, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, 17x Curlew, 2x Redshank, 3x Oystercatcher, 3x Stonechat, (GWi, AGP) -  also Merlin Sandy pit, (AGP)

Forsbrook - Draycott in the Moors

Willow Tit, (AR)

Chasewater

5x YL Gull in the roost

Tucklesholme

Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 2x Goldeneye, 8x Goosander, 16x Pochard, 76x Wigeon, Chiffchaff, (JWo)

Tuesday 1st February 2022

Keele

4x Hawfinch this morning, (MSu)

Middleton Lakes

3x Great Egret, 7x Goldeneye, 5x Pochard, Peregrine, 

Doxey Marsh

Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 2x Pochard, 7x Goosander, 5x Shelduck, (RRa)

Chasewater

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

Marchington Woodlands

Thorney Lanes set-aside 8x Brambling, 6x Yellowhammer, 50x Chaffinch, (JWo)

Branston GPs (Ashy pit)

2x Dunlin, 3x Ruff, 12x Curlew, 500x Lapwing, Green Woodpecker, 2x Goldeneye, (JWo)  -  Merlin this morning, Oystercatcher, (APa)

Alvecote

Pintail, 3x Goosander, 2x Shelduck, 4x Little Egret, (MSc)

Highgate Common

10x Brambling, 150x Linnet, 50x Chaffinch, (WN)