Returning Staffs 2024 arrival
Whitemoor Haye
3x Med Gull thru this am, Slavonian Grebe still, 4x LRP, (SCo)
Branston GPs
1w Little Gull, briefly at 12:15 then flew south, 2x Red Kite, 24x Shelduck, 20x Shoveler, 20x Goldeneye, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Redshank, 2x Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 6x Oystercatcher, 18x Curlew, Swallow, 10x Sand Martin, 6x Blackcap, 80x Fieldfare, Redpoll, (DSc, GJM, BSt, ASt, PFo, GWi) - Whimbrel heard over SMP2 heading north at 17:20, (JWo)
Amerton Meadows flood (east of Stafford)
4x Curlew, Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, Snipe, 2x Oystercatcher, 23x Lapwing, Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, 3x Shelduck, 23x Shoveler, (RSw)
Knypersley Resv
Wheatear, 28x singing Chiffchaff, Water Rail, Willow Tit,, Oystercatcher, 3x Roe Deer, (GBr)
Chasewater
Shag, Great Northern Diver, 22x Sand Martin, House Martin, Blackcap, (CMa).
Tixall Canal Wide (west of Great Haywood)
Sedge Warbler singing, (VEm)
Stowe by Chartley
Red Kite near the castle at 13:30, (GHa)
Belvide Resv
9x LRP, 4x Red Kite, 38x Chiffchaff, 2x Mandarin, 8x Blackcap,