Thursday 31st March 2022

Rugeley

Osprey drifted over this morning, (GRo)

Aqualate

Osprey caught a Pike at 11:00, (DBl)  -  also 2x Garganey, 2x fem Scaup, 2x House Martin, 2x Swallow, 2x House Martin, 10x Sand Martin, Red Kite, (PJo)

Drointon Pool

9x Shelduck, 25x Shoveler, Egyptian Goose, (PBe)

Berryhill

Wheatear from the Palletstacks track mid morning, also nearby Green Woodpecker, 2x Snipe, (RTo)

Audley

Mill End - Great  Egret, Little Egret, 2x LRP, Green Sandpiper  -  Park Lane 2x Shelduck, 2x Oystercatcher, 4x Wigeon, (JMa)

Middleton Lakes

3x LRP, 3x Ringed Plover, 4x Avocet, 6x Redshank, 2x Shelduck, (SPA)

Trentham Gardens

30x Brambling, 3x Little Egret, 12x Mandarin, 4x Blackcap, (HF)

Tittesworth Water

36x Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, 4x Snipe, Goosander, 3x Barnacle Geese, Willow Tit, (JOa, LH)  -  Osprey thru  north at 13:14 also 5x Willow Tit, (JCl)

Blithfield Resv

Osprey over causeway early afternoon, (AWa)  -  Great Egret, (RCB)

Doxey Marsh

3x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 10x Shelduck, 6x LRP, Swallow, 5x Sand Martin, (DB)

Branston GPs

12x Swallow, 15x Redshank, 7x Ruff, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 13x Curlew, 10x Ringed Plover, 4x Green Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher,  2x Green Woodpecker, Jack Snipe, 6x Snipe, 78x Shoveler, 14x Goldeneye, 27x Wigeon, 26x Gadwall, 35x Shelduck, 89x Shoveler, 12x Mandarin, 4x Water Rail, YL Gull, Barn Owl, Peregrine, 2x Green Woodpecker, 30x Sand Martin, 3x White Wagtail, 4x Brambling, 3x Blackcap, Cetti's Warbler, 80x Linnet, (DSc, JWo)

                                                          White Wagtail by Jon Woodcock

i54

4x LRP, Green Sandpiper, (JDu)

Burston

2x Shelduck, 2x Gadwall, (ISS)

Hixon Airfield

Wheatear, (RCB)

Wednesday 30th March 2022

Middleton Lakes

7x Avocet, 2x Oystercatcher, 4x LRP, Dunlin, 3x Snipe, 6x Redshank, 12x Sand Martin, 4x Shelduck, 5x Goosander, (MSm)  -  3x Swallow over Dosthill NR at 15:00, (PAn)

Westport Lake

Swallow, House Martin this morning, (both Staffs 2022 first records),  (NJS)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Drake Garganey, fem Ferruginous Duck, 2x Swallow, House Martin, 3x Sand Martin, 

                                                      Ferruginous Duck by Steve Edwards

Alvecote

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

Tucklesholme

100x Sand Martin, 4x LRP, 2x Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, 8x Little Egret, 8x Goosander, 9x Pochard, 37x Wigeon, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Blackcap, (JWo)

                                                       Sand Martins by Jon Woodcock

Aqualate

2x Garganey, 2x fem Scaup and a Red Kite this afternoon, (PJor)

Gailey Resv

8x Sand Martin, 19x Wigeon, (SRi)

i54

Green Sandpiper, LRP still, (JDu)

Branston GPs

2x Swallow, 2x Sand Martin, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 8x Curlew, Ruff, 3x Redshank, Snipe, YL Gull, 4x Common Gull, 20x Shelduck, 9x Pochard, 6x Goldeneye, Peregrine, (DSc)

Tuesday 29th March 2022

Cuckoo Bank

Ring Ouzel just past horse paddocks in first arable field on right, 

Middleton Lakes

6x Avocet, 4x Oystercatcher, Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, Dunlin, 4x Snipe, 5x Redshank, 2x Sand Martin, 2x Shelduck, (MSm)

                                                              Avocet by Rob Bendelow

Doxey Marsh

Great Egret, 7x Little Egret, 2x LRP, 10x Shelduck, (DB)

Okeover Estate fields

2x Curlew, 29x Wigeon, Peregrine, (JDr)

Endon - Leekbrook

4x Willow Tit, 2x Curlew, 2x Blackcap, (DCo)

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Green Sandpiper, LRP, 2x Green Woodpecker, 38x Lapwing, (JDu)

Kinver Edge

Woodcock, (TWo)

Gailey Resv

9x Shoveler, 2x Wigeon, (SRi)

Branston GPs

6x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Dunlin, 12x Ruff, 2x Ringed Plover, 14x Redshank, 12x Curlew, 4x Oystercatcher, 7x Snipe, 25x Lapwing, 10x Goldeneye, 12x Pochard, 79x Shoveler, 28x Wigeon, 42x Gadwall, 14x Mandarin, 26x Shelduck, 4x Egyptian Geese, 23x Little Grebe, 3x Water Rail, 2x Little Egret, 2x Green Woodpecker, 6x Brambling, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Sand Martin, 2x Blackcap, (JWo)

                                                       Green Sandpiper by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Monday 28th March 2022

Berryhill

Ring Ouzel at the mast paddocks area, (PFo), 3x Wheatear and the very mobile Green Woodpecker still, (RTo) 

  

                                                                   By Russell Toon

Newcastle

Barn Owl over May Bank 04:00 and 06:30, (PCa)

Doxey Marsh

Osprey circled over Boundary Flash at 13:30 and drifted off east, (RRa)

Lichfield

Red Kite over early afternoon, (PFo)

Upper Elkstones

Red Kite over at 10:15, (ALa_

Cauldon Low

Red Kite over mid afternoon, (DPo)

Branston GPs

4x Black-tailed Godwit, 7x Ruff, 2x Ringed Plover, 7x Redshank, 3x Dunlin, 2x Oystercatcher, 4x Snipe, 6x Curlew, 2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper,  2x Green Woodpecker, 3x Blackcap, 5x Egyptian Geese, 8x Shelduck, 10x Goldeneye, 6x Pochard, 62x Shoveler, 24x Shelduck, 3x Mandarin, 4x Brambling, (JWo, CEc, Dean, JAl, DBa)

Hanbury

Red Kite, Curlew, (JWo)

                                                           Red Kite by Jon Woodcock

Whitemoor Haye

2x Great Egret, Little Egret, Yellowhammer, (DBa)

Stoke

Pink-footed Goose over west end at 21:21, (RGi)

Sunday 27th March 2022

Berryhill

2x Willow Tit, (IBu)

Endon STW

Barn Owl this am, (GBr)

Doxey Marsh

LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Water Rail, 4x Shelduck, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (Andym)

Tittesworth Water

LRP, 5x Oystercatcher, 8x Snipe, (JOa, IB, LH)

Enville

2x Egyptian Geese Mere Lane, (DBa)

Trentham Gardens

5x Little Egret, 8x Mandarin, 14x Chiffchaff,  (PBi)

Uttoxeter Quarry

LRP, 6x Sand Martin, Dipper, 6x Pochard, (RPo)

Kingswood area

Willow Tit, Brambling, (AHa)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Med Gull, Merlin, Brambling, 

Rudyard Lake

LRP, 5x Oystercatcher, Goosander, (SSe)

Whitegate Farm (near Belvide)

Red Kite low SW over the A5 at 17:15, (TMG)

Middleton Lakes

6x Avocet, 4x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Snipe, 6x Redshank, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Med Gull, 6x Sand Martin, 2x Blackcap, 7x Shelduck, 2x Pochard, Goldeneye, Goosander, 30x Chiffchaff, (MSm, DCo)

Branston GPs

4x Black-tailed Godwit, 7x Ruff, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Ringed Plover, 5x Redshank, 11x Curlew, 11x Snipe, Jack Snipe, 7x Goldeneye, Little Egret, (DSc) - also 10x Gadwall, 6x Egyptian Geese, Green Woodpecker, 2x Blackcap, (JWo)  -  6x Brambling, (SE,HF)

                                                          Fieldfare by Dave Scattergood

Stoke on Trent

2x Blackcap at Smithpool park. (RGi)

Saturday 26th March 2022

Tatenhill

Singing Willow Warbler (first Staffs 2022 record), in Pond Green Wood just north of Tatenhill near the adventure farm, (SGa)

Middleton Lakes

4x Avocet, 2x LRP, 6x Redshank, 2x Pochard, Goldeneye, Blackcap,  (MSm)

Westport Lake

2x LRP, Water Rail, 3x Chiffchaff, (KSt)

i54

LRP on the floods, 20x Chiffchaff, 2x Green Woodpecker, Blackcap, (Foz)

Uttoxeter Quarry

4x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, Snipe, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Goldeneye, 14x Wigeon, 7x Shoveler, 6x Shelduck, Green Woodpecker, (RPo)

Aqualate

2x fem Scaup, 31x Goldeneye, 4x Oystercatcher, 6x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Chiffchaff, (RSw)

Berryhill

Curlew over, mobile Green Woodpecker still, 8x Chiffchaff, 

Knypersley Resv

Blackcap, 22x Chiffchaff, 4x Mandarin, 4x Tawny Owl, (GBr)

Blithfield Resv

Pink-footed Goose, 2x Barnacle Geese, (SMG)

Dimmingsdale (Alton)

Brambling, 2x Siskin, 4x Chiffchaff, (TEy)

Highgate Common

2x Woodcock, (DBa)  -  Mere Farm - Highgate Common 2x Curlew, (TWo)

Baswich - Radford Meadows

2x Shelduck, Blackcap, 2x Wigeon, 5x Chiffchaff, (GHa)

Cannock Chase

6x Crossbill, Brambling near the Tring Point, (BSt)

Alvecote

Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 4x Goosander, 3x Shelduck, (MSc)

Cuckoo Bank

White Wagtail, Stonechat, 30x Chiffchaff, 

Catholme

Great Egret, 2x Green Sandpiper, Redshank, 3x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, Goosander, 8x Gadwall, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Alrewas NMA

2x Little Egret, 2x Oystercatcher, 3x Goosander, 8x Gadwall,  Alrewas canal 2x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Green Lane Barton

2x Yellowhammer, (JWo)

Branston GPs

Red Kite thru east at 10:00, 10x Curlew, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Ruff, Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 8x Redshank, 4x Snipe, White Wagtail, Sand Martin, 2x Mandarin, 30x Wigeon, 6x Goldeneye, 10x Fieldfare, 4x Blackcap, Brambling, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Friday 25th March 2022

Radford Meadows

3x LRP, 50x Wigeon, 4x Shelduck, Goosander, 2x Little Egret, (RSw)

Middleton Lakes

2x Avocet, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x LRP, Curlew (till 05:50), Ruff, 8x Snipe, 6x Redshank, 3x Blackcap, 5x Shelduck, Pochard, 2x Goldeneye,  (MSm)  -  Osprey over early afternoon, 

Branston GPs

10x Curlew, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Ruff, 5x Redshank, 2x Oystercatcher, 60x Shoveler, 28x Shelduck, 2x Mandarin, 5x Goldeneye, Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Blackcap, Brambling, (DSc)

Alvecote

Great Egret, 4x Goosander, 3x Shelduck, (MSc)

Tittesworth Water

19x Snipe, 6x Oystercatcher, 4x Willow Tit, 6x Mandarin, 5x Goosander, 6x Chiffchaff, Green Woodpecker, (SGi, PB)

Silverdale CP

LRP at the Void, (BCa, LCa)

Rocester JCB North lake

11x Barnacle Geese, 2x Pochard, (JDr)

Tucklesholme

Ringed Plover, 2x Oystercatcher, Little Egret, 4x Goosander, Goldeneye, 8x Pochard, 52x Wigeon, 2x Green Woodpecker, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Blackcap, 12x Chiffchaff, (JWo)

Baswich

Singing Blackcap around the railway bridge area, (GHa)

Thursday 24th March 2022

Middleton Lakes

Red Kite thru at 09:10, 2x Avocet, 4x Oystercatcher, LRP, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Ruff, Dunlin, 2x Snipe, 6x Redshank, Great Egret, 7x Shelduck, 2x Pochard, 3x Goldeneye, (MSm)  -  also Curlew, 4x Little Egret, Goosander, (PAn)

Doxey Marsh

 LRP, Pintail, 8x Shelduck, 3x Goosander, (RRa)  -  Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, (DB)

Aqualate

Adult Little Gull this afternoon, (PJor)

Barton under Needwood

2x Brambling, (AP)

                                                                       By Alan Pauline

Rudyard Lake

LRP, 3x Oystercatcher, 24x Chiffchaff, 2x Willow Tit, SSe)

Tittesworth Water

Ringed Plover, 2x Oystercatcher, 5x Snipe, 8x Goosander, (JOa, SF)

Trentham Gardens

12x Mandarin, 6x Gadwall, 2x Oystercatcher, Little Egret, (PBi)

Ipstones

2x Curlew, (SCh)

River Sow Meadows (Baswich - Milford)

4x Green Sandpiper, Little Egret, Mandarin, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Chiffchaff, (RSw)

Branston GPs

Yellow Wagtail (first Staffs 2022 record),  2x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Ruff, 15x Redshank, 2x Ringed Plover, 3x Green Sandpiper, 12x Curlew, 5x Oystercatcher, 14x Snipe, 5x Little Egret, 6x Water Rail, 11x Goldeneye, 18x Pochard, 28x Shelduck, 28x Gadwall, 66x Shoveler,  32x Wigeon, 6x Mandarin, 6x Egyptian Geese, 30x Little Grebe, Peregrine, 3x Green Woodpecker, 12x Sand Martin, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

                                                           Goldeneye by Jon Woodcock

Wednesday 23rd March 2022

Marshes Hill 

Ring Ouzel (first Staffs 2022 record), in horse grazing field just to east of Marshes Hill at 15:35 (JTy, GTy)

                                                                 By Geoff Tyndall

Middleton Lakes

2x Garganey by riverside benches, 4x Avocet, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x LRP, 6x Redshank, Ringed Plover, 4x Snipe, 2x Ruff, 6x Shelduck, 2x Pochard, 8x Goldeneye, (MSm)  -  additionally a Dunlin, (PAn)

Blithfield Resv

Adult Little Gull this morning, (GJM)

Barlaston Downs

Tree Sparrow, Yellowhammer and a Red Kite over Hem Heath wood heading east at 10:01, (RGi)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Adult Little Gull off the dam this afternoon, 

Knypersley Pool

Singing Blackcap, (NHo)

Tittensor Chase

23x Chiffchaff, (AR)

Branston GPs

3x Ruff, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 12x Redshank, 6x Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 4x Mandarin, Little Egret, White Wagtail, (PAn)  -  Jack Snipe, (PCo)

Baswich

Singing Blackcap, (GHa)

Yoxall Ford

32x Raven, 

Woodmill

7x Little Egret, (JWo)

Tuesday 22nd March 2022

Radford Meadows Stafford

Sand Martin, Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 2x Goosander, 5x Shelduck, 100x Wigeon, 2x Chiffchaff, (RSw)

Middleton Lakes

2x LRP, 6x Redshank, Dunlin, 4x Oystercatcher, 5x Shelduck, 2x Pochard, 11x Goldeneye, Goosander, (MSm)  -  Black-tailed Godwit, (PAn)  -  3x Sand Martin and a second Black-tailed Godwit, (SPA)

Doxey Marsh

LRP on Creswell flash, (GPr)  -  10x Little Egret, (DB)

Wolstanton

Barn Owl at 02:00 at a rather unexpected location, (CBa)

Wolseley SWT

Pintail near bridge between cafe and main pool, Chiffchaff,  (JPe)

Rocester JCB

2x Pochard, 6x Barnacle Geese, 3x Oystercatcher, (JDr)

Trentham Gardens

3x Little Egret, 4x Mandarin, 2x Goosander, 8x Gadwall, Shelduck, 2x Oystercatcher, 8x Chiffchaff, (RTo)

Endon - Denford

2x Curlew in field north of the old rail line, Mandarin, 7x Chiffchaff, (DCo)

Branston GPs

15x Ruff, 16x Redshank, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 7x Curlew, 2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, 32x Lapwing, 13x Goldeneye, 20x Pochard, 56x Shoveler, 32x Wigeon, 36x Gadwall, 8x Mandarin, 6x Egyptian Geese, 50x Shelduck, Great Egret, 26x Little Grebe, 3x Water Rail, Common Gull, 2x Green Woodpecker, 23x Chiffchaff, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 23x Sand Martin, (JWo, DSc)  -  Common Pipistrelle, Soprano Pipistrelle, Daubenton's Bat, Leisler's Bat, (Using an Echo Meter Touch 2 Bat Detector). 

                                                   Black-tailed Godwit by Jon Woodcock

                                                                 By Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Monday 21st March 2022

Cannock Chase

Wheatear, 19x Crossbill, Siskins, 2x Stonechat, 9x Chiffchaff, (DBa, CEv, PBe, )

Middleton Lakes

Black-tailed Godwit, 4x LRP, 6x Redshank, 2x Avocet, (MPo)

Drointon Pool

11x Shelduck, 15x Shoverler, 4x Wigeon, (PBe)

Freehay

2x Brambling, 3x Siskin, Chiffchaff, (RCa)

Tittesworth Water

4x Willow Tit, 21x Mandarin, 6x Oystercatcher, 9x Snipe, Common Gull, 5x Chiffchaff, (SGi, IF)

i54

12x Golden Plover over, (JDu)

Branston GPs

3x Ringed Plover, 11x Golden Plover, 9x Redshank, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Ruff, 5x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 28x Shelduck, 9x Mandarin, 32x Wigeon, 26x Shoveler, 15x Pochard, 12x Goldeneye, Peregrine, 24x Sand Martin, 10x Chiffchaff, (DSc)  -  25x Golden Plover, (JAl)  -  another 10x Chiffchaff at the north end, Stonechat, (JWo)

Whitemoor Haye

Great Egret, (STi)  -  2x Red Kite over south, (GAW)

Sunday 20th March 2022

Chasewater

Marsh Harrier over this am,  (GHa)

Middleton Lakes

Ad Med Gull on JW, -  pair of Garganey on JW north from benches, 5x Dunlin, 2x LRP, Black-tailed Godwit, (TPe)

Silverdale CP

Brambling, (PCa)

Whitemoor Haye

4x Corn Bunting by Sittles farm, (BSt, ASt)

I54

Red Kite over, (Foz)

Baswich

Brambling, 4x Redpoll, 4x Siskin, (GHa)

Radford Meadows Stafford

Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 281x Wigeon, 3x Goosander, 8x Gadwall, 5x Shelduck, (CDa, RSw)

Branston GPs

2x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 3x Ruff, 9x Curlew, 5x Redshank, Oystercatcher, Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, 2x Mandarin, 11x Goldeneye, 17x Shelduck, 3x Little Egret, 3x Egyptian Geese, Water Rail, Cetti's Warbler, 45x Linnet, Green Woodpecker, Sand Martin, (CEc, TWy, Dean)  -  additional White Wagtail, 6x Egyptian Geese, 32x Wigeon, 8x Gadwall, (JWo)

Pool Hall area

Little Owl, Green Woodpecker, 9x Chiffchaff, c200 Fieldfare, (IMo, CVa, GCl, ADe)

Smestow Valley

Little Owl, 2x Little Egret over, Yellowhammers, (CVa, IMo, GCl)

Westport Lake

2x Curlew over south, 3x Goosander, 4x Chiffchaff, (KSt)

Cheddleton Heath

Red Kite circling over at 11:00 before heading east, (PCa)

Forsbrook - Draycott in the Moors

Willow Tit, 2x Chiffchaff, (AR)

Saturday 19th March 2022

Middleton Lakes

Med Gull on west bund of east scrape, 2x Avocet, 4x Redshank, 7x Oystercatcher, 9x Shelduck, 9x Goldeneye, (SPA)

Gailey Resv

2 pairs of Garganey on sailing lake this am, (MGo)

Radford Meadows

2x Pink-footed Geese still, (RSw)

Lichfield 

Red Kite over east at 10:10, (CFe)

Branston GPs

Ringed Plover, 3x Ruff, 13x Curlew, 6x Redshank, Oystercatcher, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 4x Mandarin, 17x Shelduck, 3x Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, (CEc)

Elford

2x Red Kite over Peggs Lane at 13:00, (PTh)

Trentham Lakes Sparrow, 

3x Little Egret on one of the balance ponds, (KDa)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Grey Partridge, 3x Sand Martin, 62x Wigeon, 3x Pochard, 60x Shoveler, 9x Gadwall, Redshank, Great Egret, Little Egret, Peregrine, Tree Sparrow, 80x Linnet, (SCo)

Uttoxeter Quarry

6x Curlew, 2x Green Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, Snipe, 2x Goosander, 3x Goldeneye, 30x Wigeon, 2x Shelduck, 3x Chiffchaff, 4x Sand Martin, (RPo)

Sneyd Green

Osprey over north this am, (JOa)

Doxey Marsh

4x Little Egret, 2x Pochard, 3x Shelduck, Goosander, 3x Chiffchaff, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (DM)

Cuckoo Bank

172x Golden Plover, 2x Stonechat, 

Tucklesholme

Wheatear early evening, (RSi)

Burston Marsh

9x Gadwall, (AEa)

Catholme

Green Sandpiper, 2x Redshank, Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, Shelduck, 10x Wigeon, (JWo)

Alrewas NMA

2x Oystercatcher, 2x Little Egret, 2x Goosander, 17x Gadwall, 2x Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler and Alrewas to Wychnor Great Egret, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Berryhill

5x Redpoll, (BM)

Friday 18th March 2022

Berryhill

Wheatear in the "Lap Bunt" paddock at 08:00, (RTo)

                                                               By Russell Toon

Endon to Leekbrook

6x Willow Tit along disused rail line, (DCo)

Knypersley

Chiffchaff, (SHi)

Dimmingsdale (Alton)

2x Chiffchaff, 5x Siskin, (TEy)

Thursday 17th March 2022

Whitmore Bent Lane

White Wagtail this morning, (SJT)

Berryhill

Curlew low over NW, (RTo)

Tittesworth Water

5x Goosander, Mandarin, 24x Snipe, 2x Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, Chiffchaff, (JOa, LH)

Branston Leas

5x Brambling, 4x Redpoll, (RSi)

Chasewater

4x YL Gull in the roost also 4x Sand Martin, 2x Oystercatcher, 

Branston GPs

2x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 3x Ruff, 9x Redshank, 3x Snipe, 70x Lapwing, 2x Oystercatcher, 15x Curlew, 32x Mandarin, Goosander, 10x Goldeneye, 6x Pochard, 36x Wigeon, 37x Gadwall, 38x Shoveler, 4x Egyptian Geese, 31x Little Grebe, YL Gull, 2x Water Rail, 4x Little Egret, Peregrine, 3x Green Woodpecker, 2x Greenfinch, 46x Linnet, 22x Chiffchaff, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Doxey Marsh

2x Sand Martin over Creswell Flash, (RRa)

Wednesday 16th March 2022

Middleton Lakes

LRP, 4x Redshank, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Avocet, 4x Snipe, 17x Goldeneye, 7x Shelduck, 3x Pochard, Goosander, Great Egret, (SPA)

Chasewater

3x YL Gull in the roost, 

Tuesday 15th March 2022

Berryhill

Osprey over east at 09:00 (first Staffs 2022), Woodcock, 2x Snipe, (AJo)

Middleton Lakes

Wheatear on JW, 6x Redshank, 4x Avocet, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Ringed Plover, Dunlin,  10x Goldeneye, 4x Pochard, 2x Egyptian Geese, 

Doxey Marsh

Dunlin on Creswell Flash, (GSa)

Cannock Chase

14x Crossbill, 2x Brambling, (JDu)

Rudyard Lake

Cliffe Park Goldeneye, 2x Chiffchaff, Sand Martin, (BBo)

Whitemoor Haye

3x Grey Partridge, LRP, Redshank, 5x Oystercatcher, 2x Goldeneye, 45x Wigeon, 28x Shoveler, Little Egret, Peregrine, 30x Linnet, (SCo)

Hen Cloud (The Roaches)

2x Red Kite over, (JDr)

Radford Meadows

2x Pink-footed Geese, 8x Shoveler, 4x Shelduck, 4x Gadwall, 4x Little Egret, 2x Oystercatcher, 100s of Wigeon,  (RSw)

Branston GPs

2s Med Gull on Sandy pit, 2x LRP, 5x Ringed Plover, 3x Ruff, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 17x Redshank, 12x Curlew, 5x Oystercatcher, Snipe, 68x Lapwing, 7x Goldeneye, 12x Pochard, 42x Wigeon, 36x Shoveler, 26x Gadwall, 35x Shelduck, 2x Water Rail, 3x Little Egret, Peregrine, Green Woodpecker, 7x Chiffchaff, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo, CEc, SCo)

Rocester JCB Lake

2x Oystercatcher, (TEy)

Yarnfield - Swynnerton

20x Yellowhammer, Green Woodpecker, 4x Snipe, (SMN)

Monday 14th March 2022

Middleton Lakes

2x Avocet, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 6x Redshank, Great Egret, 9x Shelduck, 5x Pochard, 9x Goldeneye, (MSm)  

Branston GPs

4x Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, 11x Redshank, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 7x Curlew, 4x Oystercatcher, 4x Snipe, 3x Ruff, Green Sandpiper, 2x Dunlin, 2x Little Egret, 2x Goldeneye, 2x Mandarin,  Green Woodpecker, Water Rail, Peregrine, (DBa, PAn)  -  6x Sand Martin, (AGP)

Chasewater

Ad Med Gull, 4x YL Gull,

Enville

Crossbills, also Green Sand on the Mill Lane flood, (MMo)

Whitmore Bent Lane

3x Brambling, 3x Tree Sparrow, (KSt)

Stoke on Trent

Common Scoters over Penkhull at 21:00 calling almost continually, (RGi)

Sunday 13th March 2022

Middleton Lakes

Avocet, 2x Dunlin, 3x Redshank, ad Med Gull, (ARa)

Doxey Marsh

2x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 3x Shelduck, 2x Chiffchaff, (DM)

Gailey Resv

21x Pochard, Goldeneye, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Chiffchaff, (SRi)

Aqualate

Avocet, and the Imm/Fem Scaup still, (IGr)

Knypersley Resv

Red Kite over NW at 11:15, 3x Goosander, 2x Chiffchaff, (SSe)

Biddulph Moor

Red Kite over at 11:50, (SSe

Rudyard Lake

Curlew, 5x Oystercatcher, 7x Chiffchaff, (SSe)  -  Heron Marsh Water  Rail next to canal feeder, (CAl)

Drointon pool

15x Shoveler, 9x Shelduck, (PBe)

Tittesworth Water

30x Curlew, 5x Snipe, 15x Common Gull, 8x Goosander, 8x Mandarin, 6x Pochard, 2x Chiffchaff, (SGi, KH)

Baldwins Gate

2x Brambling, 2x Siskin, (CPe)

Branston GPs

2x Ringed Plover, 3x Ruff, 8x Curlew, 5x Redshank, 2x Dunlin, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Green Sandpiper, 5x Goldeneye, 8x Mandarin, 21x Shelduck, 3x Little Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese, 40x Linnet, Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler, (CEc)  -  additional 14x Pochard, 12x Goldeneye, 13x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, 7x Snipe, 2x YL Gull, (DSc)

Rocester  (JCB lake)

2x Goosander, 4x Pochard, 15x Barnacle Geese, (JDr)

Pendeford Hall Mill (Billbrook)

4x Little Egret, (JDu)

Trentham Gardens

2x Shelduck, 2x Goosander, 2x Mandarin, 2x Oystercatcher, (JGl)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Red Kite thru south, 2x Sand Martin, 

Saturday 12th March 2022

Middleton Lakes

4x Avocet, Peregrine, adult Med Gull briefly on North pit, Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Redshank, 4x Oystercatcher, 14x Goldeneye, Goosander, (SPA)

Aqualate

3x Sand Martin, Chiffchaff, (KHa)

Coven

200x Linnet, 15x Skylark, 200x Fieldfare, (JDu)

Doxey Marsh

Common Gull, Great Egret, Little Egret, 2x Shelduck, Pochard, Goosander, Oystercatcher, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Chiffchaff, (DM)

Audley Millend

Great Egret, 2x Oystercatcher, 10x Snipe, 100x Golden Plover, 4x Chiffchaff, (SJT)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Chiffchaff, Cetti's Warbler, Green Sandpiper, 5x Goldeneye, 30x Wigeon, (RPo)

Whitemoor Haye

Corn Bunting, Tree Sparrow, 30x Yellowhammer, Green Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, Snipe, 98x Wigeon, 87x Shoveler, (site record), 27x Pochard, 4x Goldeneye, 3x Little Egret, Peregrine, 42x Stock Dove, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)

Radford Meadows

Wheatear (first Staffs 2022 record), Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 350x Wigeon, 10x Gadwall, 3x Goosander, 2x Shelduck, 2x Oystercatcher, also a Green Sandpiper on River Sow Meadows, (RSw)

Catholme

Great Egret, Green Sandpiper, 3x Little Egret, 6x Greenfinch,  2x Chiffchaff, (JWo)

Tittesworth Water

4x Curlew, 14x Snipe, 5x Oystercatcher, 4x Willow Tit, 6x Pochard, 3x Mandarin, 8x Goosander, 8x Wigeon,  3x Chiffchaff, (SGi, IB)

Baswich

2x Redpoll, 3x Siskin, (GHa)

Rudyard Lake

8x Oystercatcher (site record), 4x Chiffchaff, 3x Common Gull, (SSe)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Red Kite, 200x Golden Plover, Curlew, 5x Oystercatcher,  5x Sand Martin, 204x Shoveler, 

Alrewas NMA

4x Goosander, 12x Gadwall, Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, 4x Chiffchaff and Alrewas canal Cetti's Warbler, 3x Chiffchaff, (JWo)

Barlaston - Tittensor (River Trent)

4x Mandarin, 5x Goosander, (RGi)

Chasewater

Ad Med Gull, 3x YL Gull, (JAl)

Branston GPs

2x Black-tailed Godwit, 10x Curlew, 3x Oystercatcher, 2x Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, 3x Ruff, 8x Redshank, 6x Snipe, 4x Mandarin, 28x Shelduck, 73x Wigeon, 37x Shoveler, 15x Pochard, 14x Goldeneye, Peregrine, 2x YL Gull, Common Gull, 2x Sand Martin, Cetti's Warbler, 8x Chiffchaff, (DSc)

Friday 11th March 2022

Middleton Lakes

2x Oystercatcher, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Dunlin, 5x Redshank, 2x Shelduck, 9x Pochard, 13x Goldeneye, Goosander, (MSm)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Sand Martin this am, 

Keele 

Hawfinch still, 

Stoke (River Trent)

Little Egret, Chiffchaff, (SJT)

Hatherton Resv

2x Chiffchaff, (SB)

Rudyard Resv

8x Oystercatcher, 

Chasewater

2x Med Gull and 2x YL Gull in the roost, (JAl)

Aqualate

2x Sand Martin this afternoon, (PJor)

Bumblehole Locks

Chiffchaff, (AJ)

Branston GPs

Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 3x Ruff, 12x Redshank, 75x Golden Plover, 5x Ringed Plover, 150x Lapwing, 15x Curlew, 3x Oystercatcher, 4x Water Rail, Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 2x Goosander, 12x Goldeneye, 30x Pochard, 38x Gadwall, 89x Wigeon, 54x Shoveler, 10x Mandarin, 36x Shelduck, 4x Egyptian Goose, 22x Little Grebe, YL Gull, 2x Common Gull, 4x Green Woodpecker, Brambling, 135x Linnet, 4x Chiffchaff, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo, DSc)

                                                      Mandarins By Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Thursday 10 March 2022

Middleton Lakes

Adult Med Gull on JW, Avocet, Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Redshank, 5x Oystercatcher, 3x Chiffchaff, 7x Shelduck, 7x Pochard, 12x Goldeneye, Goosander, Stonechat, 40x Redpoll, (MSm, SPA)

Pendeford Hall Lane (Bilbrook)

30x Yellowhammer, and at I54 3x Chiffchaff, (JDu)

Cannock Chase

14x Crossbill, Woodcock, (ABa)

Chasewater

Ad Med Gull, 4x YL Gull in the roost, (JAl)

Wooton - Ramshorn

 Red Kite over, (JDr)

Branston GPs

Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Ruff, 18x Redshank, Dunlin, 7x Ringed Plover, 9x Snipe, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 21x Curlew, 124x Lapwing, 3x Little Egret, 4x Water Rail, 15x Goldeneye, 3x Goosander, 28x Pochard, 73x Wigeon, 62x Shoveler, 24x Gadwall, 27x Shelduck, 2x Mandarin, 2x Egyptian Geese, 33x Little Grebe, 2x YL Gull, 3x Common Gull, Peregrine, 4x Green Woodpecker, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 8x Chiffchaff, 12x Siskin, (JWo)

                                                             Siskin by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Wednesday 9th March 2022

Middleton Lakes

5x Oystercatcher, 3x Redshank, Shelduck, 9x Pochard, 13x Goldeneye, 3x Goosander, Common Gull, Great Egret, Peregrine, 2x Stonechat, (MSm)

Strongford

2x Mandarin, (PFo)

Cannock Chase

200-300x Siskin, Crossbill, Peregrine, Stonechat,  (DBa)

Tittesworth Water

Little Egret, (SGi per IF)

Jackson's Bank/Bracken Hurst Wood

Peregrine, 80x Linnet, 30x Siskin, (JWo)

Knypersley Resv

3x Water Rail, Chiffchaff, 2x Goosander, 2x Mandarin, Shoveler, (GBr)

Tuesday 8th March 2022

Middleton Lakes

4x Oystercatcher, 3x Ringed Plover, 2x Redshank, 4x Shelduck, 3x Pochard, 13x Goldeneye, 3x Goosander, Common Gull, 3x Stonechat, (MSm)  -  also Black-tailed Godwit on JW, Goosander, (PAn)

Bentilee

Red Kite drifting south towards Berryhill at 10:00, (PCa)

Coombes Valley

Red Kite over

Branston GPs

Little Ringed Plover on Ashy pit, (JAl)  -  12x Redshank, 14x Curlew, 15x Golden Plover, Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 3x Ruff, 4x Egyptian Geese, Chiffchaff, (PAn)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Red Kite over SE, 

Chasewater

2w YL Gull in the roost, 

Marchington Woodlands

20x Brambling, 20x Siskin, 50x Chaffinch, (JWo)

Monday 7th March 2022

Tittesworth Water

An Otter captured on a trail camera on the 4th February. Its the first photo at the resv and possibly only the second photographed in Staffs. (SGi)

       

Whitemoor Haye

2x Peregrine, (RBe)

Pool Dam Marsh

Little Egret, Willow Tit, Snipe, Chiffchaff, (SJT)

Chasewater

1w Caspian Gull, 4x YL Gull in the roost, and a Oystercatcher on the jetty (JAl)

Branston GPs

Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Ruff, 14x Redshank, Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, 16x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 400x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher, 14x Snipe, 2x Little Egret, 8x Mandarin, 5x Goosander, 9x Goldeneye, 16x Pochard, 71x Wigeon, 59x Shoveler, 35x Shelduck, 5x Egyptian Geese, 32x Little Grebe, Common Gull, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)  -  also Sand Martin, Brambling, (GWi)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

2x Med Gull, 110x Goldeneye, 194x Shoveler, 

Sunday 6th March 2022

Aqualate

Drake Garganey at 07:35, (first in Staffs 2022), (KHa)

Blithfield Resv

Sand Martin Blithe Bay, (GJM)

Tittesworth Water

4x Willow Tit, Woodcock, 9x Curlew, 15x Snipe 4x Oystercatcher, 14x Goosander, Goldeneye, 4x Pochard, (SGi)

Fenton (Lordship Lane)

Dunlin still on marl pit, 2x Water Rail on uni pool, Woodcock, Chiffchaff, (RGi)

Botteslow Flash

4x Stonechat, Jack Snipe, Green Woodpecker, Water Rail, (RTo)

Doxey Marsh

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

Pool Hall area

Little Owl, Yellowhammer, 60x Stock Dove, (IMo)

Branston GPs

Merlin, 2x Ringed Plover, Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Dunlin, 3x Ruff, 5x Redshank, 5x Oystercatcher, 9x Curlew, 15x Snipe, 200x Golden Plover, 4x Goldeneye, 2x Pintail, 4x Egyptian Geese, Little Egret, 2x Green Woodpecker, 60x Linnet, TWy, CEc, Dean)  - additional 11x Mandarin flew over at dusk, 32x Shelduck, 12x Goldeneye, Peregrine, ad YL Gull, 2x Common Gull, 2x Stonechat, (DSc)

Trentham Gardens

2x Oystercatcher, 4x Little Egret, (PBi)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Red-crested Pochard, 

Alvecote

4x Goosander, 2x Stonechat, (MSc)

Saturday 5th March 2022

Whitemoor Haye

Drake Red-crested Pochard on new workings, (MSm)  -  also 26x Pochard, 77x Wigeon, 9x Goldeneye, 40x Shoveler, 2x Shelduck, Green Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, Little Egret, 14x Little Grebe, (SCo)

                                                Red-crested Pochard by Jon Woodcock

Doxey Marsh

2x Snipe, 2x Water Rail, 6x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Pochard, Little Egret, 8x Siskin, (DM)

Tittesworth Water

22x Curlew, 38x Snipe, 4x Oystercatcher,5x Pochard, 6x Goosander, 5x Wigeon, 3x Mandarin, Common Gull, 2x Willow Tit, (SGi, IB, AP, EWi)

Audley

Red Kite over east at 13:30, (JMa), Mill End pool - Great Egret, Little Egret and 2x Shelduck at Park Lane flood, (BCa)  -  Red Kite over east

Fenton (Marl tip)

Dunlin, Peregrine, Chiffchaff, (NDP)

Middleton Lakes

20x Goldeneye, 7x Shelduck, Redshank, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Great Egret, (SPA)

Baswich  (Two Waters Bridge)

2x Goosander, Mandarin, (GHa)

Alrewas 

NMA - 2x Goosander, 2x Oystercatcher, Junction pit - 11x Gadwall, Chiffchaff, Cetti's Warbler, - Alrewas GPs 196x Wigeon, 2x Chiffchaff, (SCo)  -  Great Egret, (JWo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Ad Med Gull, 3x Curlew, Pintail, Barn Owl, 3w YL Gull, 4x Chiffchaff, 

Radford Meadows

Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, 4x Shelduck, 2x Mandarin, 15x Shoveler, 450x Wigeon, Little Egret, also a Peregrine at Hixon airfield, (RSw)

Branston GPs

11x Curlew, 3x Ruff, 130x Golden Plover, 3x Ringed Plover, 5x Redshank, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Dunlin, 8x Little Egret, 28x Shelduck, 43x Shoveler, 35x Wigeon, 10x Pochard, 12x Goldeneye, 7x Goosander, Peregrine, (DSc)

Friday 4th March 2022

Middleton Lakes

5x Shelduck, 4x Pochard, 16x Goldeneye, Oystercatcher, 4x Stonechat, (MSm)  -  Dunlin, 

Westport Lake

Med Gull at 09:00, (NJS)

Branston GPs

First Staffs Sand Martins with 3x over Ashy pit, (CHi)  -  Ad Med Gull, Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Ruff, 5x Redshank, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x Dunlin, 5x Ringed Plover, 418x Golden Plover, 500x Lapwing, 6x Oystercatcher, 20x Curlew, 2x Snipe, Goosander, 10x Goldeneye, 14x Pochard, 52x Shoveler, 48x Wigeon, 36x Shelduck, 9x Little Egret, 2x YL Gull, GBB Gull, 3x Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, Chiffchaff, 60x Linnet, 2x Stonechat, (JWo, DSc, SCo, JAl, SE, HF)

                                                              Ruff by Jon Woodcock

Berryhill

Curlew on mound above the Viewpoint at 10:20, (RTo)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Grey Partridge, 59x Wigeon, 5x Goldeneye, 29x Shoveler, Great Egret, Stonechat, (SCo)

Doxey Marsh

Jack Snipe, Little Egret, Stonechat, (DB)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Avocet this afternoon, 50x Curlew, 4x Dunlin, 5x Oystercatcher, 6x Goosander, 4x Goldeneye, 5x Pochard, 6x Shelduck, 280x Lapwing, (NDP)

                                                         Avocet by Nick Pomiankowski

Parkhall CP

3x Willow Tit, two flocks of Siskins, (DCo)

Carmountside Flash

Little Egret, (SGi)

Chasewater

Ad Iceland Gull, 3x 2w YL Gull, 

Dimmingsdale (Alton)

Brambling, 9x Siskin, (TEy)

Thursday 3rd March 2022

Keele

2x Hawfinch still on Lymes Road

Gailey Resv

20x Pochard, 2x Goldeneye, 2x Oystercatcher, also 7x Wigeon at Micklewood Lane, (SRi)

Branston GPs  (Mini scope found on track between  Ashy pit and the woods)

350x Golden Plover, 5x Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, 7x Redshank, Black-tailed Godwit, 9x Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 3x Little Egret, 3x Egyptian Geese, 27x Wigeon, 3x Goldeneye, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Water Rail, Green Woodpecker, 50x Linnet, (DSc, CEc, CMa, RFe)  - Additional  late pm - 2x ad Med Gull, 2x ad YL Gull, 3x Ruff, 2x Common Sandpiper, (DSc)

                                                         Med Gull by Dave Scattergood

Stoke on Trent (Blurton )

1 - 2 Willow Tit Cockster Valley also 27x Siskin, (PFo)

Middleton Lakes

2x Redshank, (SPA)

Rocester

4x Oystercatcher, JCB lake, (JDr)

Tucklesholme

Willow Tit, 2x Chiffchaff, Cetti's Warbler, 4x Stonechat, Green Woodpecker, 5x Oystercatcher, Little Egret, 2x Goldeneye, 2x Goosander, 12x Pochard, 75x Wigeon, (JWo)

                                                      Willow Tit by by Jon Woodcock

Holden Lane

2x Ring-necked Parakeet, (JJo)

Chasewater

Ad Iceland Gull, 2x 2w YL Gull in the roost, 

Wednesday 2nd March 2022

Tamworth

Borrowpit - Great Egret, Oystercatcher, (MSc)

Keele

Hawfinch in trees on Lymes Road

Tuesday 1st March 2022

Middleton Lakes

8x Shelduck, 4x Pochard, 12x Goldeneye, Goosander, 4x Oystercatcher, Dunlin, (MSm), Redshank and a further 2x Dunlin

Stoke

Singing Chiffchaff at Sideway 365 bridge, (RGi)

Silverdale CP

Singing Chiffchaff, also a Stonechat, (NDP)

Baddeley Green

Red Kite over Leek New Road at 12:25, (GBr)

Doxey Marsh

Curlew on Creswell Flash 14:40 to 15:25, (RRa) also 2x Oystercatcher, 

Marchington Woodlands

2x Marsh Tit - Thorney Lane - 16x Brambling, 5x Greenfinch, 50x Chaffinch, 3x Yellowhammer, c5000 Starling, (JWo)

Branston GPs

Ashy pit (from gate only), 9x Ringed Plover, 5x Dunlin, 6x Curlew, 8x Shelduck, Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Colwich

Pink-footed Goose by the River Trent, (SE,HF)

                                                     Pink-footed Goose by Steve Edwards

Endon to Denford

2x Green Woodpecker, 25x Wigeon along the disused railway, (DCo)

Berryhill

2x Jack Snipe, (KSt)