Returning Staffs 2024 arrival
Middleton Lakes
Osprey lingered over JW for 5 mins at 08:30, Green-winged Teal still, 3x Greenshank, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, (SPA, MSm) - Garganey pair to left of lookout, (DHu)
Radford Meadows Stafford
Sedge Warbler, Whitethroat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Little Egret, Curlew, Mandarin, 30x Shoveler, 3x Shelduck, 8x Gadwall, (RSw)
Whitemoor Haye
Grasshopper Warbler reeling, 3x Wheatear, 6x Oystercatcher, 4x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 19x Shoveler, 2x Goldeneye, 20x Yellowhammer, Yellow Wagtail, 3x Whitethroat, Grasshopper Warbler, 2x Willow Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, 4x Little Grebe, 2x GC Grebe, Red Kite, 6x House Martin, (SCo)
Alrewas Meadows
Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Sedge Warbler, (SCo)
Belvide Resv
2x Spoonbill from 10:45 to 11:27 only
Amerton flood/Sheep meadows east of Stafford
3x Wheatear, 2x Oystercatcher, 4x White Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail, (RSw)
Berryhill
Tree Pipit briefly, (IBu) - 8x Willow Warbler, 2x Blackcap, 2x Swallow, 4x Wheatear, 2x Stonechat,
Doxey Marsh - Wellies required many paths still flooded
Male Ring Ouzel off Rugby club, LRP, 4x Sedge Warbler, Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, (MBo)
Uttoxeter Quarry
2x Cattle Egret (site tick), from 12:15 to 13:17 then flew south, 5x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, reeling Grasshopper Warbler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Whitethroat, 2x Blackcap, 2x Goosander, 5x Shelduck, (RPo)
Branston GPs
Osprey north over Ashy pit at 07:40, also Garden Warbler, Male Scaup, (PFo) - Green Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Curlew, 8x Dunlin, 8x Yellow Wagtail, 6x White Wagtail, 2x Whitethroat, Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, 1w Common Gull, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)
Croxall
2x White Wagtail, Dunlin, 4x LRP, (TPe)
Blithfield Resv
Curlew over, 2x Oystercatcher, Goldeneye, 10x Shelduck, (MJa)
Endon - Denford
Sedge Warbler, 4x Oystercatcher, Green Wood Woodpeckers, Mandarin, Goosander, (DCo)
Tittesworth Water
Osprey, Green Woodpecker, 2x Common Sandpiper, 12x Swallow, (SGi, IB)
Trentham Gardens
Dipper, 2x Mandarin, Blackcap, (STu)
Tucklesholme
2x LRP, Sedge Warbler, Willow Warbler, (JPa, MPa,)
Ramshaw Rocks
Cuckoo, (NMK)
North Staffs Moors
6x Redstart, 2x Wheatear, (NMK)
Chasewater
Common Sandpiper, Whitethroat, Swallow, (CMa) - Shag, GN Diver, 5x Willow Warbler, 4x Blackcap, 4x Greenfinch, 5x GC Grebe, (MBe)
Calf Heath WMI site
Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, Shelduck, 2x YL Gull, (SRi, KCl)
Cannock Chase
30x Crossbill, 6x Stonechat, Whitethroat, 4x Willow Warbler, (Mke, Lda)
Biddulph Moor - Horton Valley
2x Curlew, (SHi)
