Wednesday 31st May 2023

Middleton Lakes

Green-winged Teal still on JW north, 2x Sanderling, 7x Ringed Plover, (MSm)

Aqualate

Black Tern, (MGG)

Tittesworth Water

Sanderling, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Greenshank, (SGi)

                                                      Ringed Plover by Steve Gibson

                                                        Sanderling by Steve Gibson

Branston GPs

North pit - 32x Ringed Plover, 4x Sanderling, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, 22x Shelduck, (CEc)  -  19:00 to 20:00 -  57x Ringed Plover on north pit which is a site record count, 4x Sanderling, Greenshank, Lesser Whitethroat, Little Egret, c300x Swifts, (DSc)

Uttoxeter Quarry

5x Black Tern, 3x Black-necked Grebe, 5x Sanderling, (RPo)

Belvide Resv

Cattle Egret again on north shore, 

Tucklesholme

2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 4x Common Tern, Cuckoo, 6x Cetti's Warbler, 100x Swift, (JWo) 

Whitemoor Haye

Wood Sandpiper briefly on roadside pit, 5x Black Tern at back pit, (TPe, SCo)

Tuesday 30th May 2023

Branston GPs

Grey Plover, 3x Sanderling, 11x Ringed Plover, Greenshank, 4x Oystercatcher, 4x Curlew, Common Sandpiper,  Cuckoo, Hobby, Red Kite, YL Gull, Common Gull, 9x Common Tern, 5x Shoveler, 28x Gadwall, 9x Mandarin, 30x Shelduck, 20x Pochard, 8x Little Grebe, 250x Swift, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Garden Warbler, Little Egret,  (JWo)

                                                        Sanderlings by Jon Woodcock

                                                           Hobby by Jon Woodcock

Middleton Lakes

Green-winged Teal, (DCo),  -  16x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 6x Redshank, Cuckoo, Hobby, (MSm)  -  This afternoon 9x Black Terns dropped in feeding over north pit, 

Belvide Resv

2x Black-necked Grebe, 6x Black Tern, Cattle Egret, Osprey thru north at 14:45, 8x Red Kite thru, 

Blithfield Resv

4x Black Tern briefly at 10:20,  (GJM)

Westport Lake 

Willow Tit, (NJS)

Pool Hall Seisdon

5x Corn Bunting, 3x Yellowhammer, (GCl)

Aqualate

Osprey thru heading north at 15:15, (PJor)

Whitemoor Haye

Black Tern on back pit this evening viewed distantly from bewicks viewing area,  (TPe)

Gailey Resv

2x Oystercatcher, Yellow Wagtail, Lesser Whitethroat, Shoveler, (SRi)

Whiston

2x Red Kite, (GSt)

Monday 29th May 2023

Middleton Lakes

16x Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, Dunlin, 3x Redshank, 2x Med Gull over, 3x Common Tern, Hobby, (MSm)  -  also Sanderling, 3x Hobby, (@Ochruros)  -  4x Redshank late afternoon and 18x Ringed Plover, (SPA)

Branston GPs

8x Grey Plover of which 4 flew off north at 08:15, Greenshank, Dunlin, 24x Ringed Plover, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x ad Med Gull briefly at 09:00, 2x 1s YL Gull, 2x Common Tern, Red Kite, Cuckoo, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 34x Shelduck, 26x Gadwall, 3x Shoveler, Lesser Whitethroat, Green Woodpecker, 3x Garden Warbler, (JWo, DSc, CEc, Dean)  -  This evening 10x Black Terns on Ashy pit 20:30 to 21:30 at least, 3x Mandarin, 19x Pochard, Hobby, 3x Curlew, 6x Oystercatcher, 5x Common Tern, c200x Swift, Yellow Wagtail, (DSc)

                                                          Med Gull by Jon Woodcock

                                                       Grey Plover by Jon Woodcock

Tucklesholme

2x Avocet, (JWo)

Silverdale CP

Red Kite, Peregrine, (PCa)

Belvide Resv

2x Black-necked Grebe at west end, 

Aqualate

8x Black Terns dropped in at 14:50, (IGr)  -  Flew south at 15:50, (AWa)

Doxey Marsh

4x LRP, Oystercatcher, 3x Little Egret, Gropper, Cetti's Warblers, (GHa)

North Staffs Moors

15x Tree Pipit, Red Kite, (Jke, Ake, Mke, ROw)

Sunday 28th May 2023

Stanley Pool

Cuckoo at 05:30, 3x Common Tern, 3x Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, (GBr)

Belvide Resv

Female Red-backed Shrike at west end on Hawkshutts ridge but no further sign by 11:49, 

Weston Coyney

Red Kite over east at 09:12, (COs)

Middleton Lakes

3x Cuckoo, 10x Ringed Plover, 3x Oystercatcher, 4x LRP, Dunlin, 2x Snipe, 4x Redshank, 4x Common Tern, 4x Hobby, Yellow Wagtail, Pochard, (MSm)

Branston GPs

North pit - 4x Grey Plover still, 2x Sanderling, 22x Ringed Plover (fresh passage), 2x Redshank, 2x Oystercatcher, 32x Shelduck, 3x Shoveler, Cuckoo, Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, (DSc)

Tittesworth Water

8x LRP, 8x Oystercatcher, 4x Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern and a Red Kite on the Moors, (JOa, LH)

Burston

Red Kite circling this am, (IWi)

Whiston

2x Red Kite over mown fields, (GSt)

Whitemoor Haye

3x Turnstone on roadside pit, (TPe)

Saturday 27th May 2023

Middleton Lakes

7x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Redshank, 4x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 4x Common Tern, 2x Cuckoo, Gropper,  (SPA)  -  also Med Gull, Snipe, (MSm)

Blithfield Resv

Grey Plover in Blithe Bay, (GJM)  -  Sanderling on causeway, 

                                                           Grey Plover by GJ Mant

                                                            Sanderling by GJ Mant

Whitemoor Haye

2x Little Stint at roadside pit, (TPe)

Gailey Resv

Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, Lesser Whitethroat, (SRi)

Branston GPs

4x Grey Plover still, Sanderling, 2x Oystercatcher, (JWo)  -  2x Ringed Plover, 45x Shelduck, 10x Gadwall, 12x Pochard, Hobby, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, (DSc)

Tucklesholme

Avocet briefly 17:52 to 17:55, 2x Common Tern, 4x Gadwall, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Belvide Resv

Red Kite thru, Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, 10x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, Little Egret, 

Talke

Red Kite over, (DKe)

Friday 26th May 2023

Middleton Lakes

Greenshank, 5x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 2x Redshank, 7x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Cuckoo, (SPA)

Stafford

White Stork drifting west over Jnc 15 of the M6 at 10:30, (NGr)

Armitage

Cuckoo heard south of Plum Pudding pub, (SCo)

Branston GPs

4x Grey Plover this am, (CHi)  -  4x Little Stint on North pit also 4x Grey Plover still, Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher,  52x Shelduck, 14x Gadwall, 2x Shoveler, 2x Pochard, 11x Little Grebe, 4x Common Tern, Peregrine, Green Woodpecker, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Yellowhammer, (JWo, DSc, Dean, MCa, BSt, ASt, PJo)

                                                    Little Stints by Dave Scattergood

                                                      Little Stints by Dave Scattergood

                                                       Grey Plover by Jon Woodcock

Belvide Resv

Drake Lesser Scaup off the dam, 

Chatterley Whitfield

Barn Owl at 20:50, (PMo)

Thursday 25th May 2023

Blithfield Resv

Second winter Caspian Gull also 3x Ringed Plover thru, (GJM)

Tittesworth Water

8x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, 7x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, Lesser Whitethroat, (JOa, LH)  -  also Cuckoo, (SGi)

Stanley Pool

2x Common Tern still, (ALa)

North Staffs Moors

Hobby, 2x Cuckoo, (SGi)

Stafford

Red Kite over Baswich, (Baz)

Middleton Lakes

Osprey thru late afternoon, (MPr)  -  13x Black-tailed Godwit early afternoon, (MSm)

Branston GPs

Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, 3x Ringed Plover, 6x Oystercatcher, 2cy Caspian Gull, 4x Common Tern, 5x Pochard, 56x Shelduck, 14x Little Grebe, Peregrine, Cuckoo, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

                                                         Caspian Gull by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Wednesday 24th May 2023

Branston GPs

2x Little Stint on North pit this evening, Ringed Plover, 6x Oystercatcher, Common Tern, 30x Shelduck, (DSc)  -  Cuckoo, Redshank, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, Yellow Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler, (CMa, RFe)  -  Greenshank, (CEc)

Stoke - Hanford

Cetti's Warbler along the Trent, (RGi)

Tucklesholme

Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, Little Egret, Yellow Wagtail, 7x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Garden Warbler, (JWo)

Middleton Lakes

Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP, 2x Redshank, 5x Oystercatcher, 5x Ringed Plover, 4x Common Tern, 

Tuesday 23rd May 2023

Middleton Lakes

Female type Marsh Harrier, a late Green Sandpiper, 5x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 2x Redshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Common Tern, (MSm)

Stanley Pool

2x Common Tern over north at 06:15, Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Belvide Resv

Drake Garganey still, 

Baswich

Ring-necked Parakeet, (IWi)

Tittesworth Water

Cuckoo, Redstart, (SGi)

Branston GPs

Common Sandpiper, Redshank, 5x Oystercatcher, 11x Pochard, 14x Gadwall, 42x Shelduck, Shoveler, 15x Little Grebe, 4x Common Tern, Peregrine, Green Woodpecker, 6x Garden Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Monday 22nd May 2023

Stanley Pool

7x Shelduck, Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, (GBr),   -  2x Common Tern, (ALa)

Middleton Lakes

Drake Garganey on JW south,

Branston GPs

Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, 29x Shelduck, 2x Mandarin, 12x Pochard, 6x Gadwall, 12x Little Grebe, 4x Common Tern, Common Gull, 3x Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, (JWo)

Sunday 21st May 2023

Whitemoor Haye

10x Yellowhammer, Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, Cuckoo, Yellow Wagtail, (PJe)

Doxey Marsh

Marsh Harrier late morning, (WeBS team)

Furnace Grange Trescott

Corn Bunting, 6x Yellowhammer, Little Grebe, (IMo, GCl)

Belvide Resv

Drake Garganey still, 

Knypersley Resv

Common Sandpiper, Green Woodpecker, 2x Mandarin, (PMo)

Tittesworth Water

Redshank, 4x Common Sandpiper, 4x LRP, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, 6x Mandarin, Willow Tit, (JOa, LH, KH)

Saturday 20th May 2023

Whitemoor Haye

Red Kite over, 4x Tree Sparrow, Corn Bunting, 5x Oystercatcher, 2x Ringed Plover, 8x LRP, 26x Common Tern, 12x Shelduck, 16x Gadwall, 2x Shoveler, 4x Little Grebe, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)

Middleton Lakes

Avocet, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Ringed Plover, 6x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, Greenshank, 2x Med Gull over, 6x Common Tern, (MSm)

Talke

Quail in field by the Old Queens Head pub.

Belvide Resv

Drake Garganey, Avocet, 

Highgate Common

2x Tree Pipit, Red Kite, 2x Cuckoo, 6x Garden Warbler, (IMo)

Blithfield Resv

LRPs, Oystercatchers, Common Terns, (RBe)

                                                         Common Tern by Rob Bendelow

Alrewas

NMA - 2x Common Tern, Goosander, Cetti's Warbler, Canal - 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Catholme - 6x Shelduck, Brown Argus, Common Blue, (JWo)

Friday 19th May 2023

Middleton Lakes

Temmink's Stint still on JW south also a Greenshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x LRP, (SPA)  -  Also Redshank, 2x Oystercatcher, Snipe, 4x Common Tern,  2x Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)  -   Also Wood Sandpiper on JW north, Hobby, 2x Snipe, (BHa)

Stone

Red Kite over A34 at Fillybrooks, (BJo)

Kings Bromley (A515 layby)

2x Little Egret, also 4x Barnacle Geese over Yoxall, (BGe)

Thursday 18th May 2023

Middleton Lakes

Temminck's Stint on JW south, (MSm)

Blithfield Resv

Turnstone on the causeway early am, (GJM)

                                                                     By GJ Mant

Gentleshaw Common

3x Cuckoo, (GSt)

Rocester JCB

4x Common Tern, 4x Oystercatcher, 3x Pochard, 7x Barnacle Geese, (JDr)

Branston GPs

Cuckoo, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 6x Garden Warbler, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, 5x Oystercatcher, 8x Little Grebe, 14x Pochard, Mandarin, Shoveler, 14x Gadwall, 36x Shelduck, 2x Common Tern, (JWo)

Belvide Resv

Drake Garganey west end. 

Wednesday 17th May 2023

Chasewater

The Shag still, 

Belvide Resv

2x Hobby this afternoon,

Loggerheads

Red Kite near Bens's Eggs farm at 14:30, (DPC)

Astonfields Balancing lakes

2x Gadwall, Reed Warbler, (GHa)

Shoal Hill common

Cuckoo, 2x Garden Warbler, (SRi)

Hanchurch

Cuckoo, Tree Pipit, (CBa)

Tuesday 16th May 2023

Alton

Red Kite, (TEy)

Boon Hill

Hobby over at 11:30, (MJW)

Middleton Lakes

6x Avocet, 4x LRP, Med Gull, 2x Common Tern, Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)

Ellastone

Red Kite over at 10:35, (JDr)

Blackbrook

Cuckoo and a further Cuckoo below the Roaches, (JDr)

Branston GPs

2x Pochard, 24x Shelduck, 12x Gadwall, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, 6x Garden Warbler, Oystercatcher, (JWo)

Chasewater

The Shag still, 

North Staffs Moors

9x Curlew, (JDr)

Monday 15th May 2023

Westport Lake

Arctic Tern at 07:230, (NJS)

Outwoods

3x Wood Sandpiper at Park Farm floods from the old rail line late morning.

Middleton Lakes

Drake Garganey JW south, (MSm),  -  Spoonbill at 15:00 at least, (BAs)

Ipstones Edge

Red Kite, 2x Tree Sparrow, 2x Swift, (SCh)

Branston GPs

10x Pochard, Mandarin, 12x Gadwall, 24x Shelduck, 8x Little Grebe, 2x Common Tern, YL Gull, Lesser Whitethroat, 7x Garden Warbler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Oystercatcher,  (JWo)

Sunday 14th May 2023

River Sow Meadows

Cuckoo, 4x Cetti's Warbler, (RSw) 

Belvide Resv

Arctic Tern from 11:15,

Tittesworth Water

4x Oystercatcher, 6x Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, 2x Mandarin, 3x Garden Warbler, (JOa, LH)

Baswich STW / Baswich Meadows

Hobby, 2x Yellowhammer, Shelduck, 2x Oystercatcher, Reed Warbler, (RSt)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Grey Partridge, (MBr)

The Burntwood

2x Red Kite, Redstart and a further Redstart at Park Springs farm, (RGi)

Aqualate Mere

6x Hobby, (RPo)

Outwoods

2x Wood Sandpiper at Park Farm flood from the old rail line, SJ768183, (RPo)

Barton under Needwood

Whimbrel over north at 22:50, (JWo)

Highgate Common

3x to 5x Woodcock, 2x Cuckoo, Garden Warbler this evening, (IMo, ADe)

Saturday 13th May 2023

Gailey Resv

2x Common Tern, Common Sandpiper, 4x Yellow Wagtail, Spotted Flycatcher, 10x Reed Warbler, (SRi, IMo)

Belvide Resv

2x Marsh Harrier over high to the east at 13:40

Stafford

Ring-tail Hen Harrier flying north over Rowley park at 16:30, (SFi)

Tittesworth Water

2x Common Tern, 4x Oystercatcher, 4x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, Wheatear on the conservation. (IB)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Whimbrel, Great Egret, (RPo)

Friday 12th May 2023

RSPB Coombes Valley

3x Hobby hunting along Apesford Lane between the A523 and Basford at 10:15.

Hanchurch Woods

3x Cuckoo, Tree Pipits, Green Woodpecker, (RGi)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Whimbrel over, Hobby, (JAl)

Tucklesholme

10x Common Tern, LRP, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Garden Warbler, (JWo)

Thursday 11th May 2023

Branston GPs

Greenshank, 5x Oystercatcher, 8x Pochard, 14x Shelduck, 12x Gadwall, 2x Shoveler, 14x Little Grebe, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, 6x Garden Warbler, 60x Swift, (JWo)

Botteslow Flash

2x Little Egret, 3x LRP, Lesser Whitethroat, 4x Greenfinch, (RTo)

Wednesday 10th May 2023

Middleton Lakes

Pair of Black necked Green on JW, Ruff, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, (MSm)

Blithfield Resv

Turnstone briefly on causeway, (GJM)

Dimmingsdale (Alton)

Cuckoo, (TEy)

Tuesday 9th May 2023

Middleton Lakes

Ruff, 3x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 2x Dunlin, 5x Common Tern, c100 Swift, (MSm)  -  2x Oystercatcher, 4x Shelduck, Cetti's Warbler, 

Highgate Common

2x Tree Pipit, 2x Garden Warbler, (KWa)

Branston GPs

Hobby, Peregrine, 12x Pochard, Mandarin, 31x Shelduck, Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, Yellow Wagtail, 5+ Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 6x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Whitemoor Haye

Ruff, Sanderling, 11x Dunlin, 5x Ringed Plover, 8x Oystercatcher, Hobby, (TPe)

Monday 8th May 2023

Middleton Lakes

5x Avocet, 6x Oystercatcher, 2x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, Ruff, Dunlin, 2x Redshank, 6x Common Tern, 7x Shelduck, Cuckoo, 100x Swift, (MSm)  -  drake Scaup, (MSc)

Uttoxeter Quarry

No sign of the Lesser Scaup but 5x Ringed Plover, (RPo)

Stoke

Lordship Lane Ringed Plover still, 2x Little Egret, 4x Swift, (RGi)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Hobby, 2x Avocet, 3x LRP, 2x Dunlin, Yellow Wagtail, (THo)

Kings Bromley

A515 layby Great Egret thru, (BGe)

Tucklesholme

Little Egret, Shelduck, 4x Gadwall, (BGe)

Hanchurch

Cuckoo, 3x Tree Pipit, (JKe, MKe)

Sunday 7th May 2023

Knypersley Resv

Drake Common Scoter over SE at 08:40, (GBr)

Middleton Lakes

Ruff on JW south, (MSm)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Drake Lesser Scaup at 10:20, 2x Common Tern, Red Kite, 2x Dunlin, Curlew, 6x Reed Warbler, 4x Garden Warbler, (RPo)

                                                       Lesser Scaup by Richard Powell

Westport Lake

2x Garden Warbler, 3x Reed Warbler, Green Woodpecker, (NJS)

Little Aston

Gropper, Lesser Whitethroat, (SWa)

Trentham Estate

Common Tern at 05:25, 7x Little Egret left the roost, 5x Reed Warbler, 3x Garden Warbler, 2x Oystercatcher, 15x Swift, 7x Mandarin, Goosander, 4x Gadwall, released Beaver, (RGi)

Codsall 

2x Red Kite over, (HLT)

Tittesworth Water

2x Common Tern, 4x Oystercatcher, 8x Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP, 2x Goosander, Garden Warbler, (JOa, LH)  -  Ringed Plover, (NMk)

Belvide Resv

Quail still at the west end, Red Kite, Whinchat, Whimbrel, Dunlin, 3x Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP, Hobby, 

Longsdon Mill pool (Devils Lane)

4x Oystercatcher, Wheatear, Redstart, (ALa)

Alrewas NMA

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

Cannock Chase

12x Tree Pipit, 5x Cuckoo, 13x Stonechat, Hobby, Lesser Whitethroat, (JMa)

Saturday 6th May 2023

Whitemoor Haye  -   Alldayer 77 species

9x Whimbrel on Bewicks pit, 14x LRP, 3x Ringed Plover, 5x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 3x Arctic Tern thru, 20x Common Tern, 5x Wheatear, 2x Grey Partridge, 3x Tree Sparrow, Cuckoo, Cetti's Warbler, Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, Garden Warbler, Yellow Wagtails, Peregrine, (SCo)

Gailey Resv

2x Spotted Flycatcher below the dam, (SRi, IMo)

Belvide Resv  -  Alldayer 91 species

Quail calling west end, Spoonbill briefly 15:20 - 15:25 only, Cuckoo, 

Middleton Lakes  -  reserve Alldayer total 92 species

2x Arctic Tern on JW, (MSm)

Branston GPs  -  Alldayer 96 species

Lesser Scaup still, Dunlin, 5x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Curlew, ad YL Gull, Cuckoo, 3x Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, (DSc)  -  Short eared Owl, 

Tittesworth Water

4x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 2x Goosander, 3x Garden Warbler, 2x Redpoll, (PBe)

Chasewater Cuckoo Bank  -  All dayer 87 species

Red Kite, Shag, Goosander, Tree Pipit, 

Red Kite at 10:15, 

Aqualate Mere

Female Ferruginous Duck, 2x Cuckoo, Red Kite, 3x Great Egret, (KHa)

Stoke

Lordship Lane - Ringed Plover still, 2x Little Egret, 6x Swift, (RGi)

Berryhill

Wheatear, - Botteslow 3x LRP, Lesser Whitethroat, Little Egret, 

Friday 5th May 2023

Blithfield Resv

9x Whimbrel south east Blithe Bay, just one Black Tern present this am only, (MDJ, GJM)

Stafford

Hoopoe in field at top of Kingston Hill at noon, (MEa)

                                                                 By Michelle Eastwood

                                                              By Steve Edwards

Stoke

Lordship Lane - Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, (RGi)

Belvide Resv

Bar-tailed Godwit and Whimbrel still, 8x Ringed Plover, LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, Hobby over, Osprey thru north at 13:42, 6x Common Tern, Tree Sparrow

Middleton Lakes

2x Arctic Tern thru at 12:30, 4x Common Tern, 6x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 3x Dunlin, 2x Avocet, 2x Common Sandpiper,  2x Hobby,  (SPA)

Wombourne

Red Kite over at noon, (AJo)

Berryhill - Eastwood

Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, (IBu)

Tittensor Chase

Red Kite over at 14:05, Garden Warbler, 3x Yellowhammer, (AR)

Branston GPs

Lesser Scaup back on BMP this afternoon, Sanderling on north pit, Little Gull, 2x Ruff, 2x Redshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, 10x Ringed Plover, Water Rail, YL Gull, 2x Common Tern, Peregrine, 4x Garden Warbler, (JWo)  -  Hobby briefly, Green Woodpecker, Cettis' Warbler, (BHa)

        

                                                             Sanderling by Jon Woodcock

Doxey Marsh

2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x LRP, Redshank, Oystercatcher, 2x Arctic Tern, Common Tern, 6x Gropper, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, (RSt)

Cannock Chase

2x Cuckoo, 6x Tree Pipit, 3x Garden Warbler, 50x Redpoll, Green Woodpecker, (DBa, CE, IG, GH)

Hixon Airfield

3x Yellow Wagtail, (RCB)

River Sow Meadows

Cuckoo, (RSw)

Thursday 4th May 2023

Tucklesholme

Knot out on the point also a Dunlin, (GLy)  -  also Dunlin, LRP, Oystercatcher, 16x Common Tern, 30x Swift, 2x Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

                                                                Knot by Jon Woodcock

Radford Meadows

32x Black-tailed Godwit, (AHa)

Stafford

Hoopoe in a garden this morning, (RG)

Middleton Lakes

7x Hobby over JW early afternoon,  2x Black Tern thru JW at 15:20, 4x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, Dunlin, 5x Common Tern, (MSm)

Branston GPs

2x Grey Plover on Small Meadows pit2, 2x Ruff, 12x Ringed Plover, Curlew, Common Sandpiper, 7x Oystercatcher, 4x Common Tern, YL Gull, 20x Shelduck, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 100x Swift, 2x Cetti's Warbler,  (JWo)

Blithfield Resv

2x Black Tern, (GJM)

Belvide Resv

Bar-tailed Godwit, Whimbrel, 

Doxey Marsh

Greenshank this pm also Black-tailed Godwit still, (JHu)

Norton - Stockton Brook

Yellow Wagtail, Gropper, LRP, (IMy)

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2x LRP, Gadwall, (IMo, Foz, JDu)

Wednesday 3rd May 2023

Berryhill

Female Ring Ouzel flew from the Palletstacks towards Eaton Park paddocks but no further sign, Whinchat, 7x Wheatear, Swift, (IBu)

                                                          Whinchat by Steve Edwards

Branston GPs

Drake Lesser Scaup (first site record) on Black Meadows pit, (CEc),  also 4x Ruff on BMP, (JWo)

                                                        Lesser Scaup by Jon Woodcock

                                                       Lesser Scaup by Jon Woodcock

Barlaston - Tittensor

Wheatear, LRP, 2x Goosander, 2x Gadwall also a Wheatear at the Monkey forest car par, (RGi)

Tittesworth Water

5x Redstart, 8x Garden Warbler, 2x Common Tern, 8x Common Sandpiper, Goosander, (SGi)

Longsdon Mill Pool

2x Whimbrel, 2x Wheatear, (SGi)

Croxall Lakes

2x Common Tern, 3x Oystercatcher, 2x Reed Warbler, Great Egret thru, (BGe)

Rudyard 

Hobby thru, (SSe)

Doxey Marsh

2x Hobby, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, (MBo, RRa)

Whitemoor Haye

Whimbrel in field by Whitemoor House, 2x Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 10x LRP, 6x Wheatear, (JAl)

Cannock Chase

Whinchat, Tree Pipits, (CMa)  -  2x Cuckoo, 7x Tree Pipit, 6x Garden Warbler, 3x Stonechat, 

Blithfield Resv

Whinchat in field below the dam, (AWa)

Radford Meadows

Wood Sandpiper on Rickerscote side scrape early evening, (RSw)

Rudyard

Spotted Flycatcher (first reported Staffs 2023 record), at north end, (DKe)

Tuesday 2nd May 2023

Seisdon

Female Ring Ouzel in paddock north east of Seisdon along Staffs Way, (GCl)

Middleton Lakes

2x Cuckoo ranging along the riverside Willows, 3x LRP, Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 3x Common Tern, Yellow Wagtail, c30 Swift, (MSm)  -  Greenshank and Avocet reported earlier.

Endon - Denford

3x Garden Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, Water Rail, 3x Willow Tit, 2x Green Woodpecker, (DCo)

Doxey Marsh

3x Black-tailed Godwit, Oystercatcher, Gropper, Lesser Whitethroat, (RSt)

Berryhill

5x Wheatear, Reed Warbler, LRP, (RGi)

Lordship Lane

2x Little Egret, (RGi)

Moreton

Red Kite over, (ABe)

Whitemoor Haye

Whimbrel, 2x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 12x LRP, Ringed Plover, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 14x Wheatear, (JAl)

North Staffs Moors

8x Curlew, Cuckoo, (SCh)

Branston GPs

Dunlin, Curlew, 2x Redshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 6x Oystercatcher, Hobby, 3x Wheatear, 5x Lesser Whitethroat, 8x Garden Warbler, 7x Reed Warbler, 100x Swift, 2x Green Woodpecker, 2x Wigeon, 10x Pochard, 41x Shelduck, 4x Common Tern, (JWo, CEc)

Rudyard Resv

Common Tern, 3x Common Sandpiper, 3x Garden Warbler, 5x Oystercatcher, (SSe)

Ipstones Edge

2x Curlew, (TDu)

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2x LRP, Yellow Wagtail, (JDu)

Monday 1st May 2023

Hatherton Resv

Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, Reed Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, (SB) 

Westport Lake

LRP, Common Sandpiper, 2x Ring-necked Parakeet, (NJS)  -  2x Reed Warbler, 4x Swift, (AR)

Whitemoor Haye

6x Oystercatcher, 8x LRP, Ringed Plover, 4x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Curlew,  2x Shelduck, 4x Gadwall, Great Egret, Swifts, 4x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Common Tern, 2x Tree Sparrow, (SCo) - Hobby (IWh)  -  additional this evening fem Merlin, 5x Wheatear, 4x Common Tern, (TPe)

Croxall

3x Whimbrel over at 07:15, 2x Common Tern, Cuckoo, Garden Warbler, (IWh)

Tittesworth Water

Cuckoo, 2x Common Tern, Dipper, 8x Common Sandpiper, Mandarin, 7x Redpoll, (SGi, PS, KH)

Gentleshaw Common

2x Cuckoo, (GSt)

Uttoxeter Quarry

18x Whimbrel still, Curlew, Little Egret, 6x Goosander, (RPo)  -  also 3x Oystercatcher, 5x Shelduck, c1000x House Martin (MKe, JKe)

Hanchurch Woods

2x Cuckoo, 5x Tree Pipit, 9x Garden Warbler, Swift, (RGi)

Cuckoo Bank

10x Wheatear, Tree Pipit, Whinchat, Hobby, 2x White Wagtail, Cuckoo, 4x Gropper, 3x Garden Warbler, 

Tucklesholme

26x Common Tern, 3x Reed Warbler, Greenfinch, 3x Oystercatcher, Cetti's Warbler, 32x House Martin, (MKe, JKe)

Belvide Resv

5x Whimbrel, 10x Dunlin thru, 6x Common Sandpiper, Scaup, 10x Common Tern, 100+ Swift, 4x Garden Warbler, 

Berryhill

10x Wheatear, Curlew, Little Egret, LRP, (RTo, PBi)

Butterton

Osprey circling over from Ipstones direction and after landing briefly flew north, (PCa)

i54 Floods

Greenshank, 2x LRP, Gadwall, Goosander, (Foz)

Branston GPs

Black winged Stilt (first site record), on Ashy pit at 20:43 also 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, 2x Redshank, 3x Oystercatcher, 36x Shelduck, 3x Mandarin, 9x Pochard, c150 Swift, Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, 4x Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)