Returning Staffs 2024 arrival
Middleton Lakes
Green-winged Teal still JW south, (MSm)
Pendeford Hall Lane
2x LRP, Stonechat and 52x Skylark at i54, (JDu)
Branston GPs
Common Tern feeding over Ashy pit, 10:08 to 10:26 at least, (DSc) - 1w Little Gull, 2x ad Med Gull, Scaup, Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, Snipe, 2x Redshank, 8x Oystercatcher, 14x Curlew, 4x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, 32x Goldeneye, 16x Pochard, 30x Shoveler, 28x Gadwall, 6x Wigeon, 30x Shelduck, 12x Egyptian Geese, 42x Little Grebe, Common Gull, Barn Owl, Green Woodpecker, 120x Fieldfare, 10x Swallow, 150x Sand Martin, 4x Willow Warbler, 7x Cetti's Warbler, 2x White Wagtail, (JWo)
Bagnall - Wetley Moor
2x Green Woodpecker, Oystercatcher and at Wetley Moor, 5x Willow Warbler, Stonechat, Snipe, (DCo)
Chasewater
Osprey seen to the west of Chasewater flying north at 14:35, (JDa) - this evening Common Tern, 70x Sand Martin, Swallow, GN Diver, Shag, 2x Oystercatcher, (CW)
Essington farm
Wheatear with the cows, also present yesterday (per DCr)
Whitemoor Haye
LRP, Green Sandpiper, 18x Goldeneye, (ICW)
Berryhill
Male Ring Ouzel in paddocks north side of the Palletstacks track this afternoon, (MKe, JKe) - still present at 17:33 also a Little Egret. (IBu)
Alrewas
4x LRP next to River Trent near Cotton Close, (MJo)