Returning Staffs 2024 arrival
Wetley Moor
Grasshopper Warbler, Willow Tit, Stonechat, Whitethroat, c30 Willow Warbler, 7x Linnet, (DCo)
Shoal Hill Common
6x Willow Warbler, 3x Blackcap and at Otherton a Wheatear, (SRi)
Uttoxeter Quarry
Sandwich Tern, 2x Whimbrel flew west with 2x Curlew at 11:50, 4x Common Sandpiper, Lesser Whitethroat, (RPo)
Stanley Pool
2x Common Sandpiper, (GBr)
Wombourne
White Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail and Wheatear in ploughed field opposite Garden village, (WN)
Trescott
Opposite Garden centre on Bridgenorth Road - Corn Bunting, Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, Whitethroat, (GCl)
Pendeford Hall Lane- i54
2x LRP, 2x Goosander, 2x Gadwall, Stonechat, Green Woodpecker, 7x Whitethroat, 6x Willow Warbler, (JDu)
WMI site near Calf Heath
9x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, White Wagtail, Whitethroat, 3x Gadwall, (SRi)
Berryhill
11x Wheatear this am also 4x Whitethroat, 12x Willow Warbler, 2x Blackcap, 12-15x Skylark, 6x Greenfinch, (RTo)
Dimmingsdale pool Lower Penn
5x Common Sandpiper, (per @Tricastgaz)
Belvide Resv
Lesser Whitethroat,
River Sow Meadows Baswich-Milford
11x Little Egret on the floods, 6x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, 2x Shelduck, 4x Gadwall, Whitethroat, 5x Willow Warbler, Swallow, (RSw)
Doxey Marsh
Adjacent flood meadow 2x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, (NGr) - Common Sandpiper, Water Rail, Great Egret, Little Egret, 3x Sedge Warbler, Blackcap, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Willow Warbler, Swallows. (GHa)
Beacon Hill Stafford
Yellow Wagtail, (IWi)
Middleton Lakes
Osprey over North Pit, Green-winged Teal still, (TPe)
Branston GPs
Swift over North pit to 18:30 at least, Great Egret, Little Egret, female Marsh Harrier, Scaup, 16x Shelduck, 20x Teal, 5x Goldeneye, Goosander, Mandarin, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Ringed Plover, Curlew, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 2x White Wagtail, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Whitethroat, 4x Reed Warbler, 5x Cetti's Warbler, Peregrine, Redpoll. (DSc)
Tittesworth Water
2x Common Sandpiper, 7x Oystercatcher, 3x Goosander, 19x Swallow, (JOa)
Silverdale CP
Stonechat, Whitethroat, Blackcap, Linnet, (PCa)
Whitemoor Haye
Red Kite hunting fields towards Sittles farm at 15:45 then drifted towards Elford. (JAl)
Rudyard Lake
2x Dunlin this am, 5x Oystercatcher, 2x Redstart, (SSe)
Weston Coyney - Cellerhead
Red Kite over Dalecrete quarry at 11:50, (SFe)
Loggerheads
Cuckoo at Bishops Wood, (CBa)
Cannock Chase
2x Tree Pipit, Redstart, (JMa)
Chatterley Whitfield
Cetti's Warbler, Whitethroat, 2x Blackcap, 3x Willow Warbler, Ford Green 8x Swallow, (CBo)
Chasewater
The Shag still, (CW)
