Sunday 30th April 2023

Blithfield Resv

Black winged Stilt Admaston Reach, 2x Arctic Tern in Blithe Bay, (GJM)  -  4x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Common Sandpiper, 30x Common Tern, 10x Swift, (BHa).  -  The Black winged Stilt flew off high NW at 13:50, (SSe)  -  also YL Gull, Red Kite,  (JWo)

                                                                   By GJ Mant

                                                                     By Steve Seal

                                                                 By Jon Woodcock

Stafford

Hobby heading east over MOD, (RSt)

Stanley Pool

Garden Warbler, Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Radford Meadows

2x Avocet, 7x Shelduck, 8x Gadwall, LRP, Garden Warbler, Whitethroat, 11x Swift, (RSw)

Silverdale CP

Cuckoo, Gropper, (PCa)

Uttoxeter Quarry

24x Whimbrel still, (RPo)

Little Aston

Red Kite over, Grey Partridge, Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat,  (SWa)

Tittesworth Water

Common Tern, 4x LRP, 5x Oystercatcher, 6x Common Sandpiper, 2x Mandarin, Red Kite, Dipper, (LH, JOa)

Dunston

2x Yellow Wagtail, 

Acton Trussell 

Green Sandpiper at the canal, (IWi)

Werrington

Hoopoe on Meigh road bowling green to 16:40 at least, (per Dave Blakeman)

                                                                  By Steve Gibson

i54 floods

Greenshank, 3x LRP, (Foz)

Middleton Lakes

4x Black-tailed Godwit, Avocet, 2x LRP, 4x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, 50x Swift, (MSm)

Trentham Gardens

12x Swift, Reed Warbler, (NMk)

Branston GPs

24x Black-tailed Godwit briefly, 2x Oystercatcher, 36x Shelduck, 10x Pochard, 30x Swift, Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear, 7x Garden Warbler, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, Peregrine, 40x Stock Dove, (DSc)

Belvide Resv

Female Marsh Harrier, Whinchat, 

Outwoods

4x Wood Sandpiper on Park Farm floods, (ABe)

Saturday 29th April 2023

Belvide Resv

Night Heron showing in Gazebo Bay to 14:30 at least, (MFo)  -  6x Whimbrel, 2x Whinchat, 2x Garden Warbler

Blithfield Resv

Black Tern, 25x Common Tern off Beech Tree Point at 08:00, (SRi)

Tucklesholme

Whimbrel 2x Arctic Tern, 4x Common Tern, (TWy)

Endon - Denford

2x Whinchat, 2x Garden Warbler, Gropper, Green Woodpecker, Mandarin, (DCo)

Middleton Lakes

4x Avocet, Greenshank, 7x Ringed Plover thru, 2x LRP, Dunlin, 10x Swift, Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)

Trentham

In paddocks near the canal, Whinchat, Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Gropper, (LSt)

i54 Floods

Greenshank, 3x Common Sandpiper, (JDu)

Stafford

Red Kite drifting west over Rising Brook at 12:40,  (MBo)

Chasewater

Shag, Common Tern, 13x Swift, (CW)

Uttoxeter Quarry

24x Whimbrel, Garden Warbler, (RPo)

Tittesworth Water

8x Common Sandpiper, 8x Oystercatcher, 4x Garden Warbler, Redstart, 2x Mandarin, (SGi)

Silverdale CP

3x Wheatear, 2x Groppers, Reed Warbler, (JHu)

Cannock Chase

2x Cuckoo, 3x Tree Pipit, Garden Warbler, 8x Whitethroat, (IWi)

Alrewas

NMA Cuckoo, 6x Common Tern, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Goosander, 4x Oystercatcher, - Alrewas canal 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Marshes Hill Common

Garden Warbler, Whitethroat, (SSe)

Cuckoo Bank

Cuckoo, Redstart, 4x Wheatear, Whinchat, 2x Reed Warbler, 4x Fieldfare,

Friday 28th April 2023

Middleton Lakes

Wood Sandpiper, 12x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP and 2x Common Tern on JW north, (MSm)  -  2x Whimbrel dropped on JW north, 26x Dunlin thru, Greenshank flew west from north pit, 2x Common Sandpiper,  4x Yellow Wagtail, (SPA)  -  Arctic Tern, 5x Common Tern early evening, (TPe)

Berryhill

Whimbrel in paddock in south side of the Palletstacks track at 07:25, 6x Wheatear, (RTo)  -  Botteslow Flash 2x Common Sandpiper, LRP, Dunlin, (RTo)

Seisdon area

3x Whimbrel over dropping down towards Clive, Ring Ouzel off bridleway, Common Sandpiper,  Commic Tern heading towards Pool Hall, (GCl)

Stoke

Lordship Lane - 18x Dunlin, 2x Shelduck, (RGi)

i54 floods

Pendeford Mill Lane floods - Greenshank, 4x Common Sandpiper, Gadwall, (IMo)

Cuckoo Bank

10x Wheatear, Whinchat, Gropper, 

Blithfield Resv

3x Black Tern still Blithe Bay, (SE, HF)  -  17x Dunlin (9 thru), Whimbrel north, 3x Black Tern still,  Whooper Swan, White Wagtail, (MDJ)

                                                     Whooper Swan by Steve Edwards

                                                         Whooper Swan by GJ Mant

Radford Meadows

The White Stork again this am flew low out behind Windsor Road towards Silkmore (MnA)  -  Common Sandpiper, Cetti's Warbler. (R)  -  9x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 2x Wheatear, Cetti's Warbler, 12x Shelduck, (RSw)

Rudyard Lake

8x Oystercatcher, 3x Common Sandpiper, LRP, Mandarin, Common Tern, (SSe)

Tucklesholme

Whinchat, Gropper, 3x Reed Warbler, 8x Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 7x Common Tern, 3x Little Egret, Goosander, 2x Pochard, (BHa)  -  updated counts  Arctic Tern, 9x Common Tern, 3x Pochard, (DSc, JWo)  -  2x Gropper, (RCB)

                                                       Arctic Tern by Jon Woodcock

Alvecote

Common Sandpiper, Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, Whitethroat, Little Egret, (MSc)

Whitemoor Haye

Whimbrel, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 12x LRP, Wheatear, (SCo)

Trentham

2x Whinchat in horse fields near the canal, (LSt)

Branston GPs

21x Dunlin, 12x Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, Arctic Tern, 9x Common Tern, 10x Pochard, 40x Shelduck, Mandarin, Yellowhammer, 9x Yellow Wagtail, 3x White Wagtail, 2x Greenfinch, Green Woodpecker, (DSc, JWo)

Chasewater

Shag, Common Tern, Swift, (CW)

Thursday 27th April 2023

Blithfield Resv

3x Black Tern, c35 Arctic Tern, (GJM)

Stanley Pool

Yellow Wagtail, Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Highgate Common

Cuckoo calling and seen on north side this am, (DBa)

Middeton Lakes

Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP, Ringed Plover, 2x Dunlin, 3x Swift, (SPA), -  Black Tern on JW at 13:00, (DKe)

Branston GPs

2x 1s Little Gull on Ashy pit, 3x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 4x Redshank, 5x Oystercatcher, 2x Ringed Plover, Goosander, 14x Pochard, 54x Shelduck, 2x Green Woodpecker, Gropper, 5x Reed Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Garden Warbler, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Belvide Resv

Black winged Stilt to 08:00 only, 

Doxey Marsh

Black-tailed Godwit, 2x LRP, Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, 2x Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, Shelduck, Swift, (RRa)

Whitemoor Haye

Whimbrel still, 6x Dunlin, 7x Ringed Plover, 10x LRP, Little Egret, (JAl)

Himley

2x Common Sandpiper, Swift, (CTi)

Wednesday 26th April 2023

Belvide Resv

Black winged Stilt present to 20:00 at least, drake Garganey, Greenshank, 7x Whimbrel, Wood Warbler, 3x Scaup, 4x Common Tern, 

                                                    Black winged Stilt by Steve Edwards

                                                      Wood Warbler by Steve Edwards

Chasewater

2x Common Scoter, Shag, Swift, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, (CW)

Woodhead farm

6x Wheatear still, Gropper, Snipe, (ALa)

Rudyard Lake

Whimbrel, Common Tern, Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, (SSe)

                                                            Whimbrel by Steve Seal

Tucklesholme

10x Common Tern, 2x Gropper, Common Sandpiper, (RCB)  -  4x Whinchat, 2x Arctic Tern thru, 5x Common Tern,  Lesser Whitethroat, 10x Whitethroat, Gropper, 2x Garden Warbler, 8x Reed Warbler, 5x Cett's Warbler, 3x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 6x Goosander, Mandarin, (JWo)

                                                            Whinchat by Jon Woodcock

Branston GPs

Whimbrel, 3x Redshank, Dunlin, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Mandarin, (SB)  -  Garden Warbler, (RCB)

Tittesworth Water

Common Tern, Dipper, (SGi)

North Staffs Moors

Hobby, (SGi)

Whitemoor Haye

Whimbrel still, 2x Ringed Plover, 10x LRP, White Wagtail, Wheatear, (JAl)

Cannock Chase

3x Cuckoo, 8x Tree Pipit, Green Woodpecker, (PNi)

Cuckoo Bank

10x Wheatear, 10x Yellowhammer, Redstart, 7x Whitethroat, (DBa)

Tuesday 25th April 2023

Stanley Pool

2x Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, drake Wigeon, (GBr)

Ramshaw Rocks - Roaches

Cuckoo at 10:21, (LRa)

Tuckesholme

Whinchat still, 2x Avocet briefly, Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, Whitethroat, 3x Cetti's Warbler,  (MPa)  -  3x Whinchat this am by River Trent, (AP)

Branston GPs

2x Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, 2x Redshank, Curlew, Common Sandpiper, 32x Shelduck, 12x Shoveler, 2x Redstart, Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Reed Warbler, (DSc)  updated counts  -  Cuckoo, Red Kite, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 7x Redshank, 6x Oystercatcher, 2x Ringed Plover, Common Gull, 46x Shelduck, 14x Gadwall, 3x White Wagtail, 8x Whitethroat, 2x Garden Warbler, 3x Reed Warbler, Green Woodpecker, (JWo, CEc, Dean)

                                                            Redstart by Jon Woodcock

Middleton Lakes

2x Avocet, Common Sandpiper, LRP, Redshank, (DC)  - also 2x Whinchat, 3x Whimbrel, 4x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Swift, (SB)  -  Barn Owl this afternoon, (DSh)

Doxey Marsh

Goshawk over Boundary Flash at 13:15, 2x Curlew, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, male Redstart by hide, (MBo)  -  2x Whinchat, Gropper, Cetti's Warbler, (BGo)  -  Whimbrel, (DEm)

                                                        Whinchat by Bill Goldstraw

Berryhill

Redstart from the viewpoint, (PBi)

Chatterley Whitfield

2x Grasshopper Warbler, (SHi)

Carmountside Flash

LRP, 5x Teal, (ALa)

Longsdon Mill pool (Devil's Lane)

3x LRP, 2x Wheatear, 

Deep Hayes

Goosander, (ALa)

i54 Floods

 2x Greenshank, (JDu)  -  Lesser Whitethroat, (Foz)  -  White Wagtail, 2x Gadwall, (CVa)

Swindon 

Wheatear in paddocks Chasepool Road, (TW)

Wombourne

Ring Ouzel still on Pickerells Hill this evening, (AMP)

Huntington

9x Wheatear in large paddock along the B5012 just past Cocksparrow Lane this evening also a further 2x Wheatear nearby in sheep field at Otherton, (SRi)

Cheadle area

2x Whinchat and 2x Wheatear at JCB compact products test track grounds, (RPo)

Little Bank Top farm (near Dilhorne)

One Wheatear, (RPo)

Blithfield 

Wheatear, (RSt)

Gunstone

Wheatear, (CVa)

Burston Marsh

2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP, 2x Gadwall, (AEa)

Monday 24th April 2023

Middleton Lakes

Whimbrel early morning, Whinchat by canal pool, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, 2x Avocet, Snipe, 2x Garden Warbler, Common Tern, Peregrine, (MSm)  -  Oystercatcher, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Little Egret, Whitethroat, Shelduck, (MSc)

Stanley pool

2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Branston GPs

Whimbrel, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew, 2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Redshank, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Oystercatcher, 16x Gadwall, 38x Shoveler, 54x Shelduck, 12x Little Grebe, Redstart, Wheatear, Lesser Whitethroat, 5x Whitethroat, 2x Reed Warbler, 8x Swift, White Wagtail, Green Woodpecker, (JWo, CEc)

                                                       Whimbrel by Jon Woodcock

i54 (floods)

2x Greenshank, 3x LRP, Common Sandpiper, Wheatear, 2x Gadwall, (Foz, IMo, GCl)

River Sow Meadows (Baswich - Milford)

Green Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, Gropper, 2x Goosander, 2x Shelduck, Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, (RSw)

Endon - Denford

Redstart, Lesser Whitethroat, Gropper, 4x Whitethroat, Green Woodpecker, (DCo)

Wetley Moor

Whinchat, 4x Wheatear, Gropper, Whitethroat, (ALa)

Highgate Common

Garden Warbler, Tree Pipit, (DBa)  -  Cuckoo, 6x Redpoll, (CTi)

Cuckoo Bank, 

Cuckoo, Garden Warbler, Gropper, Tree Pipit, Peregrine, (JLa)

Berryhill

Whinchat in "Lapbunt" paddock also 10x Wheatear, Whitethroat, (RTo)  -  Redstart from the viewpoint, (HF,SE)

Tittesworth Water 

Common Tern, (SGi)

North Staffs Moors

Cuckoo, Tree Pipit, (SGi)

Little Aston

Yellow Wagtail, 4x Whitethroat, 9x Yellowhammer, (SWa)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Whimbrel by Whitemoor House, 2x Ringed Plover, 10x LRP, 2x White Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail, (JAl)

Rudyard Lake

2x Common Sandpiper, Common Tern, (SSe)

Himley Great pool

Common Sandpiper, (CTi)

Tucklesholme

4x Whinchat still, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Whitethroat, Reed Warbler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Goosander, Little Egret, (BHa)

Belvide Resv

7x Whimbrel, 10x Common Sandpiper, 2x Greenshank, Curlew, 3x Scaup, Yellow Wagtail, Pintail, Common Tern, 2x Wheatear, White Wagtails,

Mere Farm

Ring Ouzel viewed from Staffs way, (MMo)

Sunday 23rd April 2023

Whitemoor Haye

Whimbrel flew off N early am, 2x Sanderling, 8x Dunlin, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Curlew, 12x LRP, 2x Redshank, 4x Shelduck, 11x Gadwall, 2x Shoveler, 9x Teal, 4x Little Grebe, Tree Sparrow, Peregrine, (SCo)  -  8x Bar-tailed Godwit 3x Whimbrel, 10x Black-tailed Godwit flew off, 2x Ringed Plover,  (TPe)  - 3x Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, (@Ochruros)

Huntington

6x Wheatear, 4x Yellow Wagtail in large paddock along B5012, (SRi

Middleton Lakes

53x Black-tailed Godwit on JW also a Knot, (DHu)  -  2x Sandwich Tern thru, Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, 4x Dunlin, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, Arctic Tern thru 16:15, Common Tern, 2x White Wagtail, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Gropper, Lesser Whitethroat, (MSm) - Wheatear, (SPA)

Blithfield Resv

5x Arctic Tern north, (GJM)

Belvide Resv

11x Whimbrel, 3x Common Sandpiper, Greenshank, 8x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Scaup, Arctic Tern, Common Tern  (Foz)

Chasewater

5x Little Gull, 3x Arctic Tern thru E, Whimbrel, Greenshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, Shag still, 2x Swift, (@Ochruros)

Radford Meadows

2x Whimbrel, (CDa)

Westport Lake

Common Scoter, Redstart, (KSt)

Branston GPs

Drake Garganey, Whimbrel, 21x Black-tailed Godwit 10:30 to 12:30 only,  Green Sandpiper, Redshank, 2x Ringed Plover, 5x Dunlin, Curlew, poss Artic Tern thru, 12x Gadwall, Wheatear, Gropper, 2x Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, Cettis Warbler, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (DSc)

                                                Black-tailed Godwits by Dave Scattergood

Wombourne

Ring Ouzel on Pickerells Hill, view from Withymere Lane, (AMP)

Uttoxeter Quarry

5x Bar-tailed Godwit, 5x Whimbrel, 4x Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, Wheatear, Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, (RPo)

Aqualate

10x Whimbrel flew NW at 11:05, fem Ferruginous Duck still, (IGr)

i54

5x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 2x Gadwall, (JDu)

Tittesworth Water

Cuckoo, 2x LRP, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x Redpoll, (PBe)

Doxey Marsh

2x Whinchat, 2x Wheatear, Common Tern thru, 5x Gropper, Whitethroat, (DM

Halfpenny Green

Ringed Plover, 3x Wheatear, (MMo)

Gailey Resv

Whitethroat, Common Tern, 3x Common Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail, (SRi)

Tucklesholme

4x Whinchat by wading ponds, (TWy)  -  2x Wheatear, Common Sandpiper, 3x Whitethroat, (@Ochruros)  -  2x Swift, 2x Reed Warbler, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Common Sandpiper on the river, Goosander, 2x Little Egret, 2x Oystercatcher, (BHa)

Chatterley Whitfield

Reed Warbler, Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, (PMo)

Carmountside Flash

2x Common Sandpiper, 6x Teal, and a Wigeon at Stanley pool, (ALa)

Cuckoo Bank

7x Whinchat, 5x Wheatear, fem Ring Ouzel, 2x Tree Pipit, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 5x Stonechat, Hobby, Yellow Wagtail, 24x Arctic Tern flew low,  Woodlark, 

Forsbrook

Hobby at 15:00, (AR)

Berryhill

2x Whinchat in scrub field up from the Ind estate track, Wheatear, Whitethroat, Botteslow Flash Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 2x Little Grebe, (RTo)

Silverdale CP

2x Wheatear, Stonechat, Gropper, Whitethroat, (PCa)

Ramshorn

Red Kite flying towards Kevin quarry at 18:30, (RWi

Coven Pendeford Hall Lane

2x Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP, 2x Gadwall, Cuckoo, 

Woodhead Farm

6x Wheatear, (COs)

Saturday 22nd April 2023

Chasewater

61x Little Gull, Brent Goose, Goldeneye, Shag, 3x Common Sandpiper, Sandwich Tern, Willow Tit, Green Woodpecker, Arctic Tern briefly, 

Belvide Resv

2x Bar-tailed Godwit, Whimbrel, Greenshank, 2x Dunlin, 3x LRP, Common Sandpiper, Little Gull, 2x Black-necked Grebe, 3x Scaup, Cattle Egret, 2x Common Tern, Yellow Wagtail, 

Stanley Pool

Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Huntington

4x Wheatear in large paddock along the B5012 just past Cocksparrow Lane, also Tree Pipit over,  (SRi)

Branston GPs

3x Bar-tailed Godwit, 18x Black-tailed Godwit, (CEc)  -  16:30 update, 3x Bar-tailed Godwit, 20x Black-tailed Godwit - one of the Blackwits had blue/yellow/black bands on left leg and red/ black/red bands on right leg,  Whimbrel, Curlew, 3x Oystercatcher, Ringed Plover, 2x Redshank, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper,  Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Sedge Warbler, 3x Whitethroat, 2x Reed Warbler, Pintail, 3x Goldeneye, 36x Shelduck, 17x Shoveler, 12x Gadwall, (DSc)

                                                        Whimbrel by Dave Scattergood

Gailey Resv

Whinchat in rapeseed field North of Gailey Lea Lane, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Sedge Warbler, (SRi, IMo)

River Sow Meadows (Baswich - Milford)

Green Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Shelduck, 2x Mandarin, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Gropper, 5x Sedge Warbler, (RSw)

Endon - Denford

Ring Ouzel, Gropper, Sedge Warbler, 2x Whitethroat, (DCo)

Gentleshaw Common

Cuckoo this morning, (S)

Whitemoor Haye

LRPs, Redshank, Oystercatcher, Green Sandpiper, 2x Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 5x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Tree Sparrow, 4x Whitethroat, Yellowhammers, Little Egret, 5x Gadwall, 2x Sedge Warbler, (SCo)

Doxey Marsh

Swift, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Sedge Warbler, 5x Cetti's Warbler, (DM)  -  2x Swift, Gropper, (KHa)  -  also 3x Common Sandpiper, Lesser Whitethroat, 5x Whitethroat, 2x Gropper, many Sedge Warblers, (MBo)

Middleton Lakes

Little Gull on JW, 4x Avocet, LRP, Gropper, (SWa)

Cuckoo Bank

Whinchat, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Wheatear, Gropper, Yellowhammers, 

Highgate Common

Cuckoo at 14:30, (CTi)

Himley Great pool

Common Sandpiper, Gadwall, Sedge Warbler, (CTi)

Radford Meadows

Great Egret, Little Egret, 10x Shelduck, 8x Gadwall, 55x Teal, (RSw)

Alrewas

NMA 2x Sedge Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, Goosander, Alrewas Canal 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Catholme Sedge Warbler, Green Lane 5x Yellowhammer, (JWo)

Bobbington

Mere Farm 2x Whinchat, Wheatear, 

Tuckkesholme

2x Common Sandpiper, Cetti's Warbler, 10x Linnet, (DSc)

Berryhill

2x Wheatear, Whitethroat, (IBu)

Friday 21st April 2023

Chasewater

59x Little Gull,  also the Shag, (CW)  -  60+ possibly 65x Little Gulls ( Staffs county record) at 09:45, (CMa, RF), - Little Gulls still this afternoon  2x Arctic Tern, 2x Common Tern, (CMa, RF, JAl)

Belvide Resv

2x Little Gull, Turnstone, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, Whimbrel, Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, 6x LRPs, 2x Black-necked Grebe, 2x Scaup, Pintail, 2x Black-necked Grebe, Cattle Egret, Yellow Wagtail, 

Blithfield Resv

17x (14 and 3) Bar-tailed Godwit SE this am, (MDJ, GJM)  -  8x Little Gull, Arctic Tern, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Swift, 9x Common Sandpiper, (MDJ)

Middleton Lakes

2x Little Gull, Arctic Tern, Bar-tailed Godwit, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, Redshank, Greenshank, 3x Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP, 2x Avocet, Snipe, 2x Groppers, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (SPA)

Tittesworth Water

36x Little Gull thru NE, also Arctic Tern, Common Sandpiper, 4x LRP,  (SGi)

Doxey Marsh

9x Little Gull on Creswell flash at 10:25, Arctic Tern, (AHa)  -  Great Egret, 2x LRP, 

Stanley Pool

3x Little Gull, Arctic Tern, (ALa)

                                                          Little Gull by Steve Seal

                                                           Arctic Tern by Steve Seal

Whitemoor Haye

2x Bar-tailed Godwit still on Bewicks pit, (SCo)

Baddeley Green 

Flooded field - LRP, Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, Green Woodpecker, (JOa)

Uttoxeter Quarry

3x Bar-tailed Godwit, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail, 177x Teal, 2x Mandarin, (RPo)

Branston GPs

3x Bar-tailed Godwit, 3x Curlew, 6x Redshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, Pintail, Pochard, 3x Goldeneye, 42x Shelduck, 56x Shoveler, 15x Gadwall, 3x Little Egret, Gropper, 3x Whitethroat, 2x Reed Warbler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Yellow Wagtail, 4x White Wagtail, (JWo, CEc)

                                                  Bar-tailed Godwit by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Thursday 20th April 2023

Middleton Lakes

Bar-tailed Godwit still on east scrape, 2x Grasshopper Warbler, 4x Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP, Green Sandpiper, Redshank, 2x Avocet, 7x Shelduck, Reed Warblers. Pochard, (SPA)

Audley

Millend - Yellow Wagtail, 2x Oystercatcher, Little Egret, (JMa)

Blithfield Resv

16x Little Gulls southeast, Bar-tailed Godwit, 6x Arctic Tern,  (GJM)

                                                       Bar-tailed Godwit by GJ Mant

Branston GPs

17x adult Little Gull on Ashy pit, 5x Bar-tailed Godwit, Curlew, 4x Redshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, Common Tern, poss Arctic Tern, 46x Shelduck, 3x Goldeneye, 52x Shoveler, 120x Teal, 16x Gadwall, Water Rail, 2x Little Egret, 2x White Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail, Reed Warbler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

                                                       Little Gulls by Jon Woodcock

Endon - Denford

2x Redstart, 2x Whitethroat, 2x Redpoll, (DCo)

Norton - Stockton Brook

2x Willow Tit, Common Sandpiper, (IMy)

Belvide Resv

5x Bar-tailed Godwit, Whimbrel, Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, 2x Black-necked Grebe, 3x Scaup, Swift, Whitethroat, 

Barton Marina 

Drake Pintail, (AGo)

Knypersley Resv

2x Pied Flycatcher, 2x Mandarin, 4x Tawny Owl, 2x Water Rail, (GBr)

Freehay

9x Mandarin, (FCa)

Carmountside Flash

Common Sandpiper, Ring-necked Parakeet, (COs)

Doxey Marsh

 3x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 2x Whitethroat, Grasshopper Warbler, Sedge Warblers, (MBo)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Bar-tailed Godwit, 2x Ringed Plover, 10x LRP, Dunlin, (JAl)

Tucklesholme

2x Little Gull on the split, 3x Little Egret, 6x Oystercatcher, Sedge Warbler, (BHa)

Huntington

2x Wheatear in large paddock along B5012 just past Cocksparrow Lane this pm, (SRi)

Wednesday 19th April 2023

Middleton Lakes

Bar-tailed Godwit on east scrape, Lesser Whitethroat, Dunlin, 4x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 2x Avocet, 5x Oystercatcher, 5x Shelduck,  Common Tern, (SPA)  -  Bittern, Reed Warbler, Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, (MSc)

Blithfield Resv

4x adult Little Gull Beech Tree point, (GJM)

Berryhill

Whimbrel near the mast this am, (IBu)

Branston GPs

2x Bar-tailed Godwit on Ashy pit,  2x Redshank, Dunlin, Curlew, Common Sandpiper, 2x Goldeneye, Mandarin, 28x Shoveler, 12x Gadwall, 36x Shelduck, 7x White Wagtail, 40x House Martin, 150x Sand Martin,  (JWo)

                                                  Bar-tailed Godwits by Jon Woodcock

Belvide Resv

3x Bar-tailed Godwit, 7x Little Gull, Whimbrel, Greenshank, 2x Scaup, Pintail, Yellow Wagtail,  -  5x Bar-tailed Godwit this afternoon, 

Tucklesholme

Little Gull thru, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Sedge Warbler, (JPa, MPa)

Stoke (Lordship Lane)

Yellow Wagtail, 2x Shoveler, (RGi)

Chatterley Whitfield

2x Whitethroat, Reed Warbler, (SHi)

Freehay

9x Mandarin, (FCa)

Cuckoo Bank

Hobby, Gropper, (GHa)

Endon - Denford

Redstart, Snipe, (DCo)

Titteswoth Water

Pied Flycatcher, Redstart, 2x Goosander, 3x Fieldfare, (SGi)

                                                   Pied Flycatcher by Steve Gibson

Stafford

2x Osprey flew north over the A5013 at 16:10, (NGr)

Sideway

Willow Tit, (LSt)

Rocester

27x Barnacle Geese on JCB north lake, (JDr)

Pattingham

5x Yellow Wagtail from Clive Road, 

Tuesday 18th April 2023

Blithfield Resv

4x Bar-tailed Godwit SE at 10:35, 7x Arctic Tern Beech Tree point, Wheatear, (GJM)

                                                            Wheatear by GJ Mant

Belvide Resv

3x Bar-tailed Godwit and a Whimbrel north shore

Branston GPs

Bar-tailed Godwit at North pit then flew over to near the viewpoint on Ashy pit at 10:55, (CEc)

Stoke on Trent

Green Sandpiper at Carmountside Flash, (ALa)

Radford Meadows

Black-tailed Godwit, 7x Shelduck, Cetti's Warbler, (CDa)

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Redstart, Wheatear, 

Penkridge

Female Goosander with 6 chicks on River Penk under the A449  bridge, (JPr)

Lichfield

2x Corn Bunting on wires on Darnford Lane this evening, (BH

Huntington

10x Yellowhammer, Wheatear, (SRi)

Tucklesholme

Reed Warbler, 2x Whitethroat, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Oystercatcher, (JWo)

Gailey Resv

4x Yellow Wagtail, (SRi)

Monday 17th April 2023

Berryhill

2x male Ring Ouzel at 08:00 on the mound south side of the palletstacks track (RTo), Whimbrel over calling at 08:35 (RTo, IBu), also 4x Redstart, Wheatear, Whitethroat, Yellow Wagtail, 

Middleton Lakes

60x Black-tailed Godwit on JW this am, (SWa, SPA)  -  8x Avocet, 2x LRP, 2x Whitethroat, 2x Reed Warbler, 

Chasewater

2x Common Sandpiper, Shag, 6x Shover, (CW)

Warslow

6x Dunlin over, Lesser Whitethroat, Red Kite, 2x Redstart, (DGH)

Belvide Resv

25x Black-tailed Godwit thru west at 13:40,

Whitemoor Haye

Whimbrel thru north, 5x Curlew, 2x Redshank, Green Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 15x LRP, 2x Comic Tern, 4x White Wagtail, (JAl)  -  18x Yellowhammer, 5x Wheatear, 2x Whitethroat, (ABl)

Radford Meadows

White Stork photographed by farmer, (per CDa)

Tittesworth Water

Common Sandpiper, Redstart, Mandarin, (SGi)

Tucklesholme

Great Egret thru, (BGe)

Blithfield Resv

4x Arctic Tern off Beech Tree point, (JAL,GJM)  -  Common Tern, Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, (CMa, RF)

Branston GPs

Bins only - 3x Goldeneye, 16x Shelduck, 8x Gadwall, Common Sandpiper, 2x Wheatear, Whitethroat, Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Gailey Resv

Arctic Tern over the sailing lake at 19:20, (SRi, IMo)

Seisdon  Quarry

3x Oystercatcher, 10x Goosander, Little Grebe and nearby 15x Corn Bunting off Bridgenorth Road, (CVa)

Sunday 16th April 2023

Stanley Pool

2x Yellow Wagtail, (GBr)

Endon STW

Barn Owl, (GBr)

Branston GPs

Common Swift (first Staffs 2023 record) with c150 Hirundines at Ashy pit at 09:30, Yellow Wagtail thru, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Curlew, 3x Redshank, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, Common Gull, 5x Egyptian Geese, 3x Goldeneye, 40x Shelduck, 3x Mandarin, 36x Shoveler, 32x Gadwall, 7x Pochard, 20x Little Grebe, Wheatear, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Reed Warbler, (DSc)  -  SMP only - 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 3x White Wagtail, 2x Greenfinch, Peregrine, 100x Sand Martin,  (JWo)

Trentham Gardens (dawn chorus event)

Male Ring Ouzel north over the lake at 07:23, Barn Owl, Sedge Warbler, 8x Mandarin, 2x Gadwall, 2x Oystercatcher, (RGi)

Chasewater

Sandwich Tern on buoy viewed from south shore to 08:38 only also the Shag still, (@Ochruros)

Doxey Marsh

White Stork circling above the M6 Jnc 14 having just flown over Boundary Flash, (GPr)

Middleton Lakes

Med Gull over Dosthill NR, Reed Warblers, Whitethroats, 2x LRP, 2x Avocet, Snipe, (SPA)

Whitemoor Haye

4x White Wagtail, Green Sandpiper, Peregrine, (TPe)  -  2x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Redshank, 3x LRP, 20x Linnet, Shelduck, (MBr)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Female Marsh Harrier thru at 08:45, Reed Warbler, Redpoll, (RPo)  -  3x Green Sandpiper, (AM)

Belvide Resv

Common Tern, 2x Whimbrel thru NE at 10:30, 3x Scaup, Pintail, Cattle Egret, 6x LRP, Wheatear, 7x Yellow Wagtail, Red Kite, 

Westport Lake

Common Sandpiper, 4x Goosander, House Martin, (NJS)

Waterhouses

Red Kite Brown End quarry, (K)

Gailey Resv

Cattle Egret again on sailing lake island, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x White Wagtail, 2x Yellow Wagtail and nearby a Wheatear in paddock along the A5012 just after the turning  to Cocksparrow Lane, (SRi)  -  2x Little Egret, Oystercatcher, House Martin, (PAn)

Cannock Chase

2x Cuckoo, 2x Redstart, 3x Tree Pipit, Yellowhammer, 2x Green Woodpecker, (DEl)

Silverdale CP

Wheatear, (PCa)

Blithfield Resv

Osprey, LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail, (NMk)

Tittesworth Water

3x LRP, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Willow Tit, 2x Mandarin, 7x Redpoll, (JOa, LH)

Manifold Valley

Cuckoo, Peregrine, (K)

Mere Farm

Redstart in wide hedgerow and Alpacca field viewed from Staffs way, (WN)

Saturday 15th April 2023

Whitemoor Haye

4x Wheatear by main lake quarry entrance, 3x White Wagtail, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, (TPe)  -  3x Oystercatcher, 3x Redshank, 14x LRP, Wheatear, Grey Partridge, Tree Sparrow, 60x Linnet, Cetti's Warbler, 6x Shelduck, 6x Gadwall, 5x Shoveler, Little Egret, (SCo)

Knypersley

2x Willow Tit at Meadows Green, (SHi)

Branston GPs

2x adult sum Med Gull, 2x singing Reed Warbler Sandy pit, Whitethroat, 15x Blackcap, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Water Rail, 20x Shelduck, 2x Mandarin, 28x Shoveler, 7x Pochard, 2x Mandarin, 4x Goldeneye, 7x Common Gull, 5x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher,  (DSc)

Gailey Resv

Yellow Wagtail, 7x House Martin,  also Cattle Egret along nearby Oak Lane, (SRi)

Furnace Grange Trescott

Green Sandpiper, 2x Little Grebe, Corn Bunting, 10x Yellowhammer, 18x Skylark, (IMo, GCl)

Westport Lake

2x LRP, (NJS)

Radford Meadows

3x Wheatear, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Little Egret, 2x Little Owl, 2x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, 6x Shelduck, House Martin, (RSw)

Wombourne

Whinchat (first Staffs 2023 record) just north of Wombourne on Pickerells Hill from bridal path off Withymere Lane, (AMP)

Berryhill

Redstart, 4x Wheatear and 2x House Martin on Botteslow, (RGi)

Tittesworth Water

Redstart, 2x Willow Tit, Brambling, 3x Tawny Owl, (IB)

Doxey Marsh

Reed Warbler, several Sedge Warbler, Whitethroat, Common Sandpiper, Cetti's Warblers, House Martin, (GHa)

Uttoxeter Quarry

2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Yellow Wagtail, House Martin, Mandarin, (RPo)

Blithfield Resv

4x LRP, Common Sandpiper, Curlew, 2x Wheatear, 5x Yellow Wagtail, (SRi)  -  Red Kite, 10x Yellow Wagtail, Goosander, 4x Oystercatcher,  (MJa)

Cannock Chase

Cuckoo, Tree Pipit, (BSe)

Freehay 

8x Mandarin, (FCa)

Pattingham

Ring Ouzel from Clive ridge (PHo)

Tucklesholme

2x Wheatear, 

Chasewater

Shag still, 

Belvide Resv

3x Scaup, 2x Common Gull, 2x Red Kite, 3x LRP, Cattle Egret, Common Sandpiper, Tree Sparrow, 

Friday 14th April 2023

Middleton Lakes

Whitethroat, Reed Warbler, 6x Avocet, 4x Oystercatcher, 3x LRP, 4x Shelduck, Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, (MSm)

Botteslow Flash

Redstart this am, (IBu)

Freehay

8x Mandarin, (FCa)

Radford Meadows

6x Shelduck, 2x Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, (IWi)

Cannock Chase

Abrahams Valley 6x Tree Pipit, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, Willow Tit, (MKe, JKe)

Chasewater

The Shag still, (CW)

Branston GPs

Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, 4x Ringed Plover, 3x Redshank, 6x Curlew, 8x Oystercatcher, 4x Goldeneye, 6x Pochard, 24x Gadwall, 32x Shoveler, 52x Shelduck, 3x Mandarin, 16x Little Grebe, 7x Common Gull, 4x Wheatear, 7x White Wagtail, 50x House Martin, 250x Sand Martin, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 40x Linnet, 3x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Thursday 13th April 2023

                                                  Apologies for late daily update

Berryhill

Ring Ouzel (NDP per RGi),  -  8x Wheatear, Redstart, (RGi)

Middleton Lakes

Male Redstart on fence line north of the north pit gate, 4x Avocet, LRP, (MSm)  -  5x Oystercatcher, Ringed Plover,  3x Goosander, 12x Shelduck, Cetti's Warbler, House Martins, (MSc)  -  Wheatear, (RBe)

Endon - Denford

Curlew, 6x Snipe, Green Woodpecker, (DCo)

Furnace Grange pool

4cy YL Gull, Yellow Wagtail and Little Owl at Trescott Grange, (IMo)

Little Aston

2x Grey Partridge, 30x Linnet, (SWa)

Bobbington

2x Yellow Wagtail Thimble Lace Lane, (DBa)

Aqualate

2x Wheatear in field on Guild Lane, (R)

Radford Meadows

6x Wheatear (site record) this afternoon, (RSw)

Tucklesholme

Wheatear, Common Sandpiper, 2x Redshank, 2x LRP, Sedge Warbler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 100x Sand Martin, 3x Goosander, (JWo)

Freehay

12x Mandarin, (FCa)

Branston GPs

20x Curlew and Black-tailed Godwit roosted, 2x Oystercatcher, Redshank, 5x (1w) Common Gull, ad YL Gull, 32x Shelduck, 8x Shoveler, 8x Gadwall, 4x Goldeneye, Fieldfare, (DSc)

Wednesday 12th April 2023

Chasewater

370x Sand Martin, 2x House Martin, (CW)

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4x LRP, 

Belvide Resv

Osprey thru north at 11:35, 

Botteslow Flash

Male Redstart, House Martin, (RGi)

Seisdon Quarry

2x Ringed Plover thru, Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, 15x House Martin, 102x Sand Martin and 2x Wheatear nearby at Trescott Grange, (GCl)  - also 4x Snipe, 2x Goosander, Little Grebe, (GCl)

Freehay

14x Mandarin, (FCa)

Radford Meadow

4x Wheatear, Redshank, 2x Oystercatcher, 8x Shelduck, 10x Gadwall, 10x Shoveler, 60x Teal, Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, (RSw)

Branston GPs

Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 4x Ringed Plover, 2x Redshank, 7x Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, Water Rail, 3x Goldeneye, 9x Pochard, 47x Shelduck, 7x Egyptian Geese + 2 Goslings, 19x Little Grebe, 2x Green Woodpecker, 30x House Martin, 3x White Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler, 66x Linnet, 30x Fieldfare, (JWo, CEc)

Tuesday 11th April 2023

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5x LRP, Wheatear, (JDu)

Cannock Chase

Cuckoo (first reported Staffs 2023 record) this morning, 2x Redstart, Green Woodpecker,  (JJH)

Chatterley Whitfield

Whitethroat this am, (SHi)

                                                                  By Sylvia Hill

Rudyard Lake

Osprey over, 3x Redstart, Common Sandpiper, (SSe)

                                                                Osprey by Steve Seal

Freehay 

12x Mandarin, (FCa)

Doxey Marsh

Lesser Whitethroat - first Staffs 2023 record, Whitethroat, Yellowhammer (local rarity), 2x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, 4x Little Egret, 50x House Martin, 000's Sand Martin, 25x Swallow, (MBo)

Middleton Lakes

Drake Garganey, 4x LRP, 4x Oystercatcher, Redshank, 6x Avocet, 5x Yellow Wagtail, Sedge Warbler, House Martins, (SB)  also 2cy Med Gull, White Wagtail, Yellowhammer, (MSm)

Ipstones

Red Kite at 10:00, (SCh)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Avocet, Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, 5x Redshank, 5x White Wagtail, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (TPe)

South Hanford farm/Sideway

Sedge Warbler, Snipe, Redpoll, (RGi)

Manifold

2x Willow Tit, Brambling, 20x Chiffchaff, (PJe)

Alvecote

Green Sandpiper, 3x Little Egret, House Martins, (MSc)

Chasewater

Shag still, (PWa)

Monday 10th April 2023

Middleton Lakes

Sandwich Tern  thru south at 07:25, Common Tern, 2x Dunlin, (SPA)

Belvide Resv

Grey Plover 09:10 to 09:23 only, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, 5x LRP, Dunlin, Red Kite, Peregrine, 

Berryhill

Tree Pipit, 8x Wheatear, 2x LRP, (RTo)  -  Updated count of 10x Wheatear, Sedge Warbler, (RGi)

Tucklesholme

Drake Garganey still, Whitethroat heard, (TWy)  -  Also Tree Pipit, 2x Snipe, (SCo)  -  Garganey still at 17:00, Goosander, 30x Teal, Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, Egyptian Goose, (DSc)

Biddulph Moor

2x Wheatear and single Curlew top road, (SSe)

                                                            Wheatear by Steve Seal

Mere Farm

2x Wheatear viewed from Staffs way opposite Highgate farm, (MMo)

Doxey Marsh

Sedge Warbler, 2x LRP, 10x House Martin, (DM)

Whitemoor Haye

Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 3x White Wagtail, (TPe)  -  2x Little Egret thru, (BGe)

Barton Marina

Drake Pintail still, Dunstall Green Woodpecker, (BGe)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Grey Plover and 3x Ruff until 11:30 only, Redshank, Green Sandpiper, Sedge Warbler, 4x Wigeon, (RPo)

Blithfield Resv

2x Common Tern, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 2x House Martin, (RCB, JMc)  -  Common Sandpiper, 2x Goldeneye, (RPo)  -  Osprey deep end, (PFo)  -  Arctic Tern (JWo)

Rudyard Lake

6x Oystercatcher, 2x Redstart, Mandarin, (SSe)

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5x LRP on the floods, (Foz)

Dimmingsdale (Alton)

5x Blackcap, 3x Siskin, (TEy)

Branston GPs

3x Oystercatcher, 4x Curlew, Redshank, Common Sandpiper, Wheatear, Little Egret, 10x Blackcap, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x House Martin, 16x Shelduck, 20x Shoveler, 2x Pochard, 7x Goldeneye, (DSc)

Sunday 9th April 2023

Consall

Pied Flycatcher at 08:15 - first Staffs 2023 record, also Willow Tit, Dipper, Willow Warbler, Blackcap, 4x Mandarin, Redpoll, (DSc)

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6x LRP, Common Sandpiper, Blackcap, (JDu)

Tucklesholme

Drake Garganey still top NE corner of main pool, (@Ochruros, MYa), SJo)

Berryhill

Grasshopper Warbler briefly singing - first Staffs 2023 record also a Woodcock, 2x Swallow, 2x Willow Warbler, (RGi)

Belvide Resv 

Osprey thru north at 10:40 and a second Osprey thru north at 14:00, 2x Scaup, Wheatear, 2x LRP, House Martin, 2x Willow Warbler, 3x Blackcap, 

Whitmore Bent Lane

Common Sandpiper, 4x Mandarin, (RWh)

Uttoxeter Quarry

4x Green Sandpiper, Curlew, Red Kite, 5x Goosander, 2x Willow Warbler, Blackcap, (RPo)

Silverdale CP

Wheatear, (PCa)

North Staffs Moors

Pied Flycatcher at 10:00 (ACo)

Tittesworth Water

3x LRP, 4x Oystercatcher, (JOa, LH)

Ipstones Edge

2x Curlew, 5x Swallow, 48x Fieldfare, (SCh)

Doxey Marsh

3x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, Swallows, 20+ Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Goosander, 6x Gadwall, (GHa)

                                                    Common Sandpiper by Steve Edwards

Branston GPs

2x Yellow Wagtail at SMP this afternoon, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 2x Redshank, Snipe, 4x Oystercatcher, 7x Curlew, Common Gull, 40x Gadwall, 7x Goldeneye, 4x Mandarin, 3x Pochard, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, Wheatear, 3x House Martin, 40x Swallow, 60x Linnet, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Willow Warbler, (DSc)  -  updated counts 5x House Martin, White Wagtail, Blackcap, 4x Shelduck, 2x Egyptian Geese, 3x Redshank, 9x Curlew, (JWo)

Middleton Lakes

7x Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Avocet, 4x LRP, 2x Redshank, Pintail, 7x Yellow Wagtail, Great Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese, (PAn)

Hanchurch

Tree Pipit, (SE, HF)

Red Street monument

Willow Warbler, Blackcap, (Blu)

Barton Marina

Drake Pintail, (JWo)

Saturday 8th April 2023

Tucklesholme

Garganey still, (TWy)

Belvide Resv

2x Garganey, 3x Scaup, 2x Green Sandpiper thru, Cattle Egret, Ringed Plover, 7x LRP, 3x Tree Sparrow, Red Kite, Dunlin,

Whitemoor Haye

Marsh Harrier flew south, 3x Redshank, 12x LRP, 2x Curlew, Ringed Plover, 10x Oystercatcher, 7x Tree Sparrow, 2x Shelduck, 15x Shelduck, 11x Gadwall,  2x White Wagtail, Grey Partridge, 4x Willow Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, c60x Linnet, Swallow, (SCo)  -  Corn Bunting, (IWh)

Middleton Lakes

5x Avocet, 3x LRP, 4x Oystercatcher, 4x Redshank, Snipe, 8x Shelduck, Goldeneye, (MSm)

Rudyard Lake

3x Redstart, Curlew, 6x Swallow, 18x Chiffchaff, 3x Blackcap, (SSe)

                                                            Redstart by Steve Seal

River Sow Meadows (Baswich - Milford)

Sedge Warbler, Willow Warbler, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Blackcap, Barn Owl, 2x Oystercatcher, (RSw)

Berryhill

Red Kite at 12:35, 2x Swallow, Willow Warbler, (RGi)

Bobbington - Highgate

2x Wheatear Lutley Lane, Yellow Wagtail, (MMo)

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4x LRP, (JDu)

Seisdon Quarry

3x LRP, 3x Snipe, Little Egret, 2x Shoveler, 2x Little Grebe, House Martin, Willow Warbler, (IMo, ADe), 

North Staffs Moors

19x Curlew, 2x Red Kite, 9x Wheatear, (PKe, MKe, JKe)

Uttoxeter Quarry

3x Whooper Swan, 4x LRP, 4x Green Sandpiper, 8x Shelduck, (EFo)

Whitmore Bent Lane

Tree Sparrow, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Willow Warbler, (Blu)

Ipstones Edge

4x Stonechat, Wheatear, 2x Swallow, 2x Curlew, (DPo)

Apedale/Silverdale CP

Willow Warblers, 2x Blackcap, 2x Swallow, 3x Redpoll, (PCa)

Branston GPs

Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Redshank, 3x Goldeneye, 3x Little Egret, White Wagtail, 6x Egyptian Geese, (PAn)

Blithfield Resv

3x LRP, Curlew, 3x Oystercatcher, Yellow Wagtail, 18x Shelduck, 2x Goosander, Red Kite, 4x Swallow, (MJa)

Catholme

2x Shelduck, 8x Shoveler, 8x Gadwall, 2x Oystercatcher, 6x Little Grebe, 100x Sand Martin, Willow Warbler, Blackcap, (JWo)

Alrewas NMA

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

Friday 7th April 2023

Middleton Lakes

11x Avocet. Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP, Ringed Plover, 6x Oystercatcher, 4x Redshank, Snipe, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Sedge Warblers, Willow Warblers, (SPA)  -  8x Black-tailed Godwit flew north over JW, (JAl)  -  Med Gull, (Kay per RBe)

Berryhill

2x Swallow thru, 4x Willow Warbler, 4x Redpoll, 10x Chiffchaff, Little Egret over, - Botteslow 2x Little Grebe, Fenton Park Blackcap. (RGi)

Tucklesholme

Drake Garganey far screen area, (TPe, JAl)

Whitemoor Haye

5x White Wagtail, Wheatear, (TPe)  -  Common Sandpiper, 4x LRP, 3x Redshank, Oystercatcher, Swallow, (PAn)

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3x LRP, 2x Green Woodpecker, (JDu)  -  Goosander, (CVa)

Belvide Resv

2x Garganey, Scaup, 2x Brambling,

                                                         Garganey by Steve Edwards

                                                        Brambling by Steve Edwards

Enville

Redstart, Green Sandpiper, Goosander, c250 Fieldfare, (IWh)

Bateswood CP

Osprey over NW at 12:06, (JHu)

Aqualate

Reed Warbler (first Staffs 2023 record), 2x Great Egret, fem Scaup, Green Woodpecker, Willow Warbler, (KHa)

Blithfield Resv

Osprey over the reach (BRo)  -  Red Kite 14:00 and again at 14:45 from the causeway. (LK, EJK)

Cannock Chase

Redstart this afternoon, (DSt)  -  20+ Brambling and Willow Warbler at Brocton Heights, (RBr)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Redstart by the river, Green Sandpiper, Shelduck, (Blu)

Radford Meadows

2x Swallow, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Little Egret, 2x Oystercatcher, 20x Wigeon, 10x Shoveler, 8x Gadwall, 70x Teal, (RSw)  -  Male Redstart, (RBr)

Ipstones Edge

Red Kite over at 12:15, Curlew, 3x Tree Sparrow, (SCh)

Branston GPs

Greenshank, Redshank, 6x Curlew, 31x Shelduck, 15x Shoveler, 12x Gadwall, 3x Pochard, 2x Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, 10x Little Grebe, 2x Swallow, Cetti's Warbler, (JKe, MKe)  - updated counts  3x Green Sandpiper, 2x Redshank, 10x Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, 7x Goldeneye, 4x Pochard, 32x Shoveler, 16x Gadwall, 36x Shelduck, Mandarin, Water Rail, 3x Common Gull, YL Gull, 2x Green Woodpecker, 5x Blackcap, Cetti's Warbler, 4x Swallow, 20x Sand Martin, (JWo, DSc, CEc Dean, MCa)

Drayton Bassett

2x House Martin over, (MSm)

Catholme

 2x Cetti's Warbler, Blackcap, (JWo)

Thursday 6th April 2023

Rudyard Lake

21x Chiffchaff, Blackcap, 2x Swallow, House Martin, LRP, Mandarin, Willow Tit, (SSe)

Berryhill

Woodcock, Fenton Park 2x Blackcap, (RGi)  -  Botteslow Flash Redshank this evening also 2x LRPs, (RTo)

Stoke (Lordship Lane

3x Gadwall still, Willow Warbler, 2x Blackcap, (RGi)

Freehay

Blackcap, (FCa)

Alvecote

Red Kite, Great Egret, 6x Swallow, 3x House Martin, (MSc)

Whitmore Bent Lane

Redshank, Green Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, (DKe)

Belvide Resv

Cattle Egret, 3x Scaup, 6x LRP, Ringed Plover, Red Kite Brambling, 

Whitemoor Haye

15x Oystercatcher, 10x LRP, Ringed Plover, 2x Redshank, fem Merlin, 2x Tree Sparrow, c70x Linnet, Great Egret, Willow Warbler, c200x Sand Martin thru, (SCo)

Wednesday 5th April 2023

Middleton Lakes

2x adult Med Gull west thru JW at 07:30, 8x Avocet, 6x Oystercatcher, 4x Redshank, 3x LRP, Ringed Plover, Great Egret, Pochard, Goldeneye, 2x Goosander, (MSm)  -  also 8x Yellow Wagtail including a Channel Wagtail, 3x Sedge Warbler, 2x Swallow, Willow Warbler, (SPA)

Chasewater

Black-necked Grebe along sailing shore, the Shag still. (CW)

Stoke (Lordship Lane)

3x Gadwall, Little Egret, Willow Warbler, Blackcap, (RGi)

Alvecote

Great Egret, Little Egret, 3x Swallow, 7x House Martin, Blackcap, (MSc)

Branston GPs

2x Ringed Plover, 2x Redshank, 3x Green Sandpiper, 6x Curlew, 4x Oystercatcher, 5x Goldeneye, Pochard, 2x Mandarin, 32x Shelduck, 36x Shoveler, 22x Gadwall, 4x Egyptian Geese, 22x Little Grebe, 3x Green Woodpecker, 4x White Wagtail, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 22x Swallow, 100x Linnet, 70x Fieldfare, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Tuesday 4th April 2023

Westport Lake

5x Goosander, Goldeneye, 2x Willow Warbler, 3x Swallow, (DK, NJS)

Endon - Denford

2x Curlew, Willow Tit, Green Woodpecker, Mandarin, (DCo)

Blithfield Resv

Yellow Wagtail, (MPi)

Cannock Chase

Tree Pipit, (first reported Staffs 2023 record), (MPi)

Cuckoo Bank

Wheatear, 5x Yellowhammer, 100x Linnet, Greenfinch, Castle Ring Green Woodpecker, (DBa)

Fradley Junction

Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Longdon Green

Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Ingestre - Tixall

Osprey flying south at 19:15, (RCB)

Monday 3rd April 2023

Middleton Lakes

Sedge Warbler again, 8x Avocet, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Redshank, 4x Pochard, 6x Goldeneye, (MSm)

Seisdon Quarry

Green Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, 2x Shoveler, 4x Goosander, 2x Little Grebe and along the Clive Road c20x Corn Bunting, 10x Yellowhammer, Peregrine, Swallow, (IMo, GCl, CVa)

Belvide Resv

3x Scaup, drake Garganey

Westport Lake

Gadwall, 2x Willow Warbler, 2x Blackcap, (NJS)

Tittensor Chase

4x Yellowhammer, Blackcap, 12x Linnet, (AR)

Branston GPs

Jack Snipe, 2x Snipe, 9x Curlew, 6x Oystercatcher, 3x Redshank, 2x Green Sandpiper, 4x Little Egret, 12x Goldeneye, 12x Pochard, 28x Gadwall, 84x Shoveler, 46x Shelduck, 9x Egyptian Geese, Snow Goose, 26x Little Grebe, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Willow Warbler, 4x Blackcap, 3x Swallow, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Green Woodpecker, 3x Redpoll, 2x Greenfinch, 40x Linnet, (JWo)

Hixon Airfield

5x LRP, (RCB)

Berryhill

2x Curlew, (RTo)  -  Oystercatcher, (AJo)

Sunday 2nd April 2023

Blithfield Resv

Greenshank calling over Blithe Bay, (GJM)  -  Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, Red Kite, (RBe)

Middleton Lakes

2x Kittiwake this morning, (MSm, TPe), - Sedge Warbler (first Staffs 2023 record), (MSm)

Tucklesholme

Adult Med Gull, ad Kittiwake, (@Ochruros, MYa)

Endon - Denford

3x Curlew, Jack Snipe, 4x Snipe, 2x Mandarin, (DCo)

i54

2x LRP, 3x Goosander, 80x Skylark, (JDu)

Berryhill

3x Wheatear beyond the masts, (ALa)

Branston GPs

4x Kittiwake, 6x Pink-footed Geese, 2x Redshank, 7x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, 2x Mandarin, 56x Shoveler, 40x Shelduck, 13x Wigeon, 12x Pochard, 10x Goldeneye, Common Gull, Green Woodpecker, Willow Warbler, 5x Blackcap, Swallow, 4x Sand Martin, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

                                                     Pink-footed Goose by Jon Woodcock

                                                        Kittiwake by Dave Scattergood

Aqualate

Black-necked Grebe still. (PJo)

Freehay

Brambling near the church, (FCa)

Seisdon Quarry

Barn Owl, 2x LRP, 24x Goosander, 4x Shoveler, Little Grebe, (CVa)

Chasewater

Shag, 150x Sand Martin, 3x Oystercatcher, (CW)

Saturday 1st April 2023

Westport Lake

Adult Kittiwake, 13x Goosander, Blackcap, (NJS)

Belvide Resv

2x adult Kittiwake 08:10 to 08:35 only, 

Middleton Lakes

6x Avocet, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Shelduck, Pochard, 4x Goldeneye, (MSm)

Fisherwick

4x Corn Bunting, (TPe)

Enville

2x Hawfinch flew thru south at  09:10, Red Kite, 250x Fieldfare, (IWh)

Whitemoor Haye

2x White Wagtail, (TPe)  -  2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 3x Redshank, 13x LRP, 2x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 4x Tree Sparrow, 26x Wigeon, 7x Goldeneye, 12x Shoveler, Merlin, 4x Blackcap, 80x Linnet, (SCo)  -  Yellow Wagtail, Great Egret,

Knypersley Resv

Blackcap, Redpoll, 19x Chiffchaff, Daubentons Bat, (GBr)

Doxey Marsh (Wellies needed)

3x Willow Warbler, Blackcap, 14x Chiffchaff, 10x Cetti's Warbler, LRP, (MBo)  -  Swallows, Sand Martins, Little Egret, 12x Siskin, (GHa)

Uttoxeter Quarry

2x Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, 10x Curlew, 3x Green Sandpiper, 13x Oystercatcher, 2x Goldeneye, Pochard, 6x Goosander, 6x Shelduck, 15x Wigeon, 22x Shoveler, 196x Teal, 2x Mandarin, 24x Common Gull, 2x Redpoll, (RPo)

Aqualate

Brent Goose, Marsh Tit, (PJo)

Berryhill

3x Wheatear, Swallow, Willow Warbler, (JOa)

Tucklesholme

2x Black-tailed Godwit (the same birds that were at  Branston until 14:00), Snipe, 10x Wigeon, Goosander, Peregrine, Cetti's Warbler, 6x Chiffchaff, (DSc)

                                              Black-tailed Godwits by Dave Scattergood

Branston GPs

6x Pink-footed Geese to 14:00 only, 2x Black-tailed Godwit to 14:00 only, 3x Redshank, 5x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, 2x Little Egret, 40x Shelduck, 46x Shoveler, 9x Goldeneye, Peregrine, 4x Blackcap, Willow Warbler, 30x Linnet, (DSc)

Ellastone

Red Kite over early pm, (JDr)

Catholme

Green Sandpiper, 4x LRP, 6x Shelduck, 8x Shoveler, 5x Little Grebe, 2x Willow Tit, (JWo)

                                                        Willow Tit by Jon Woodcock

Alrewas NMA

6x Oystercatcher, 2x Goosander, 6x Gadwall, Cetti's Warbler, 20x Sand Martin, Alrewas canal Goosander, Green Lane Barton 4x Yellowhammer,  (JWo)