The weather conditions produced some nice birding in Staffs today including a good movement of Arctic Terns
Belvide Resv
35x Arctic Tern, Little Tern at 11:11 to 11:30 only, 3x Common Tern, 2x Kittiwake, 14x Redshank, Black-tailed Godwit, Scaup, 17x Swift
Blithfield Resv
60x Arctic Tern between BTP and the causeway at 13:30, (JAl), Female Common Scoter this am (GJM) - 49x Arctic Tern still at 17:30, Common Scoter still at 17:50, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Lesser Whitethroat, Mandarin, (RPo) - Sandwich Tern, Swift, (AM)
Branston GPs
28x Arctic Tern on Ashy pit, 18x Bar-tailed Godwit and a Knot on North pit, Whimbrel, Curlew, Dunlin, 3x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 8x Oystercatcher, 5x Little Egret, Scaup, Mandarin, 32x Shelduck, 24x Shoveler, 19x Gadwall, 44x Teal, 5x Egyptian Geese, 26x GC Grebe, 32x Little Grebe, Green Woodpecker, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, 9x Yellow Wagtail, 3x White Wagtail, 16x Swift, 10x Redpoll, 5x Cetti's Warbler, Barn Owl, (JWo, CEc, SBl)
Chasewater
Adult Red-throated Diver at 15:40, Shag still, Dunlin, 9x Swift, 20x House Martin, (CW) - 28x Arctic Tern at 12:30, (CMa, RFe) - Whimbrel thru, (PAn)
Stoke on Trent
Lordship Lane - White Wagtail, House Martin, Snipe, (RGi) - Redshank and LRP this afternoon, (IBu)
Ford Green
Oystercatcher for 5 mins, (JJo)
Tucklesholme
Common Sandpiper, Gropper. Lesser Whitethroat, Reed Warbler, Great Egret over north, (TWy)
Whitemoor Haye
6x Arctic Tern over back pit, 4x Swift over roadside pit, (JAl) - this evening 11x Whimbrel, 2x Med Gull, Ruddy Shelduck, 2x Swift, (TPe) - also Gropper, 4x LRP, Green Sandpiper, Cetti's Warbler, 4x Swift, (SCo)
Middleton Lakes
Turnstone still on JW north, 41x Redshank, 2x Dunlin, 3x Ringed Plover, 2x White Wagtail, Arctic Tern flying upriver, Yellow Wagtail, (SPA)
Rudyard Lake
2x Arctic Tern dropped in this afternoon, (SSe)
Uttoxeter Quarry
Marsh Harrier at 16:45, drake Pintail, 4x Goosander, 6x Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, (RPo)
Gailey
10x Swift, Common Tern, Common Sandpiper, (SRi)
Trentham Gardens
Reed Warbler, (NMK
