The Cuckoos at at Highgate Common and Cannock Chase were possibly the first Staffs 2022 records although there was a unconfirmed report of a Cannock Chase bird a few days previously.
Whitemoor Haye
12x White Wagtail in ploughed field, 8x Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear, (SCo, JAl)
Berryhill
Ring Ouzel still in paddocks below the mast but illusive, 2x Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, 4x Redstart, 2x Wheatear, 3x Swallow, (RTo, RGi, NDP) - Red Kite over SSW at 10:50, (RGi) - Osprey over at 12:30, (JEv)
Westport Lake
Osprey over north, (NJS)
Biddulph
Osprey over north at 07:00, (LH)
Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Whooper Swan, 2x Black-necked Grebe,
Middleton Lakes
Pink-footed Goose, Whitethroats,
Highgate Common
Cuckoo this morning, (WN) - Tree Pipit, (MMo)
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Whitethroat, (Foz)
Churnet Valley
Male Pied Flycatcher, (DS)
Tittesworth Water
9x LRP, 6x Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, 3x Barnacle Geese, 3x Willow Warbler, 2x Blackcap, Green Woodpecker, Willow Tit, Sand Martin, (LH, JOa)
Cannock Chase
Cuckoo, Whitethroat, 4x Redstart, 4x Tree Pipit, (ABl)
Kings Bromley
6x Swallow, (AGP)
Branston GPs
Reed Warbler, 3x Sedge Warbler, 2x Whitethroat, 5x Willow Warbler, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Yellowhammer, 10x Ruff, 2x Dunlin, 7x Redshank, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Ringed Plover, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Curlew, 3x Oystercatcher, 2x Water Rail, Green Woodpecker, 150x Sand Martin, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 16x Shelduck, 7x Mandarin, 4x Wigeon, Cetti's Warbler, YL Gull, 4x Fieldfare, (DSc, JWo, CEc, SCo, JAl)
Chasewater
Osprey over north at 16:50,
Cuckoo Bank
Ring Ouzel, Redstart, Whitethroat, 6x Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, Golden Plover,
Hanchurch Woods
3x Tree Pipit, Redstart, 10x Willow Warbler, Woodcock, (DKe)
