Friday 31st May 2024

Belvide Resv

American Golden Plover still on the north shore to 17:25 at least.

Checkley

Red Kite over at 12:30, (FCa)

Middleton Lakes

2x Curlew, Cuckoo, 2x Common Tern, 80x Swift, (SPA)

WMI site near Calf Heath

2nd sum YL Gull, 3x Shelduck, 2x Oystercatcher, 9x LRP, Dunlin, (SRi)

Alvecote

Cuckoo, Hobby, Garden Warbler, 3x Swift, (MSc)

Branston GPs

2x Ringed Plover, 2x Oystercatcher, 3x Little Egret, Water Rail, 25x Pochard, 12x Shelduck, 84x Gadwall, 3x Shoveler, 11x Egyptian Geese (2 juv and 3 goslings), 28x GC Grebe, 28x Little Grebe, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Garden Warbler, 100x Swift, (JWo)

Thursday 30th May 2024

Belvide Resv

American Golden Plover still to 19:50 at least, also Sanderling, 2x Dunlin, Ringed Plover, Hobby

                                                 American Golden Plover by Jon Woodcock
                                                  

WMI site near Calf Heath

Ringed Plover, 6x LRP, 4x Oystercatcher, Shelduck, (SRi)

Tittesworth Water

14x Oystercatcher, LRP, Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, Willow Tit, (LH, JOa)

Doxey Marsh

2x Common Tern, 2x LRP, 2x Little Egret, 7x Cetti's Warbler, Green Woodpecker, Cuckoo, (MBo)

Cannock Chase

Osprey over, (JWo, CEc)

Branston GPs

Sanderling, 4x Ringed Plover, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Little Egret, Goosander, 20x Pochard, 6x Shoveler, 10x Shelduck, 73x Gadwall, 9x Egyptian Geese, 32x GC Grebe, 38x Little Grebe, 32x Common Tern, YL Gull, Water Rail, Hobby, Lesser Whitethroat, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 60x Swift, (JWo)

Cheddleton Heath

Red Kite over at 17:00, (PCa)

Wednesday 29th May 2024

Belvide Resv

First record for Staffs - American Golden Plover on north shore, still present to 19:30 at least.

Chase Terrace

Osprey north this am, (GHa)

Cheslyn Haye

Red Kite over

Fradley

Common Lock - Ringed Plover, Garden Warbler, 

Penkridge

Red Kite over Wolgarston school Cannock Road at 11:50, (JPr)

Tucklesholme

5x LRP, 4x Common Tern, 10x Gadwall, 7x Shelduck, 10x Egyptian Geese (8 goslings), 8x GC Grebe, 6x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Stafford

Green Woodpecker  at the county showground this afternoon as the livestock was being judged, (DGl)

Tuesday 28th May 2024

Blithfield Resv

Sanderling on the causeway, (PBe)

Belvide Resv

Cuckoo, Sanderling, 6x Dunlin, 7x Ringed Plover, 

Branston GPs

1s Little Gull, 4x Ringed Plover, Redshank, 3x Oystercatcher, 4x Little Egret, Water Rail, 17x Pochard, 59x Gadwall, 3x Shoveler, 12x Shelduck, 26x Little Grebe, 28x GC Grebe, 11x Egyptian Geese, 37x Common Tern, YL Gull (3s), ad Common Gull, Green Woodpecker, Hobby, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 250x Swift, (JWo)

Whitemoor Haye

Sanderling on pit opposite quarry  this evening, (TPe)

Monday 27th May 2024

Branston GPs

Little Gull, Hobby, 2x Dunlin, 20x Common Tern, Little Egret, 200x Swift, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Hairy Dragonfly, (DSc)

                                                    Hairy Dragonfly by Dave Scattergood                                              

Belvide Resv

Sanderling, 2x Dunlin, 4x Ringed Plover, 

Aqualate

2x Cuckoo, Red Kite, 5x Cetti's Warbler, (CAFH)

Rocester

4x Swift, (JDr)

Rudyard Resv

7x Spotted Flycatcher, Hobby, Ring-necked Parakeet, (SSe)

Tittesworth Water

Cuckoo, Green Woodpecker, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, (SGi)

WMI site near Calf Heath

Sanderling, Dunlin, 6x LRP, 5x Oystercatcher, 2x Shelduck, (KCl, GCl)

Sunday 26th May 2024

Whitemoor Haye

Turnstone on pit opposite quarry to 08:20, 8x Ringed Plover thru, Hobby, 80x Swift, (ICW)

Belvide Resv

Little Stint thru at 07:30, 31x Ringed Plover and 8x Dunlin thru, Osprey, 5x Red Kite, 2x Goshawk, Peregrine, Hobby, 

WMI site near Calf Heath, 

18x Ringed Plover thru in two flocks this am, (GCl, KCl)  -  6x Oystercatcher, 5+ LRP, Common Sandpiper, 3x Shelduck, Yellowhammer, (SRi)

Blithfield Resv

3x Sanderling on the causeway this am, (GJM)

Stoke

Lordship Lane - Red Kite, Yellow Wagtail, Peregrine, Lesser Whitethroat, (RGi)

Branston GPs

North end so far - 2x Turnstone to 10:15 only, Sanderling, 3x Dunlin, 5x Ringed Plover, 20x Common Tern, 2x Little Egret, 10x Shelduck, 6x Pochard, Peregrine, 100x Swift, Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, (DSc)  -  Little Gull, 2x Redshank, Hobby, (JWo, CEc)

Tittesworth Water

Goosander, 2x Common Tern, Curlew, Common Sandpiper, 14x Oystercatcher, 8x Swift, Willow Tit, (JOa, LH)

Essington

Hobby, (SB)

Gailey Resv

2x Common Tern, Yellow Wagtail, 3x Spotted Flycatcher, (SRi)

The Burntwood (Loggerheads)

Cuckoo, Red Kite, Tree Pipit, (RGi)

Tucklesholme

Cuckoo, 4x Common Tern, 4x Shelduck + 1 duckling, 5x Gadwall, 8x GC Grebe, Little Egret, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Saturday 25th May 2024

The 200th bird for Staffs in 2024 was reported today.

Branston GPs

Marsh Warbler still present from 04:45, (SPA)  -  additional - Short-eared Owl flew north at 20:30, Little Gull, Turnstone, Ringed Plover, 2x Oystercatcher,  4x Little Egret, 40x Gadwall, 32x Pochard, Mandarin, 100x Swift, 4x Cetti's Warbler,  (DSc)  -  11:00 Imm Spoonbill briefly at BMPit then flew north, Red Kite, Yellow Wagtail, (CEc)  - also 2x Hobby, Cuckoo, (JWo)

WMI site near Calf Heath

2x Gadwall, Ringed Plover, 6x LRP, Yellowhammer, (SRi)

Gailey Resv

Spotted Flycatcher this am, (SRi)

Uttoxeter Quarry

3x Great Egret flew SE at 10:10, Red Kite over town centre at 11:05, (RPo)

Trentham Gardens

Common Tern, Hobby, 2x Oystercatcher, (RGi)

Rocester JCB

North Lake - 23x Barnacle Geese, 6x Oystercatcher, 5x GC Grebe, (JDr)

Friday 24th May 2024

Stanley Pool

3x Little Egret, 3x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Branston GPs

Marsh Warbler at SMP2 viewpoint (site first), showed on and off to 20:30 (JWo) - Little Gull,  Turnstone, Osprey, Hobby, Peregrine, 3x Dunlin, 4x Ringed Plover, 3x Oystercatcher, 3x Little Egret, 16x Pochard, 32x Gadwall, 10x Shelduck, 10x Egyptian Geese, 18x GC Grebe, 10x Little Grebe, 30x Common Tern, YL Gull, 100x Swift, Garden Warbler, (JWo, CEc, GWi, DSc, et al) 

                                                         Marsh Warbler by Jon Woodcock

Seisdon

Great Egret low north over at 12:05, (GCl)

Westport Lake

Willow Tit, (AR)

Thursday 23rd May 2024

Stanley Pool

Common Tern, 3x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

WMI site near Calf Heath

6x LRP, Lesser Whitethroat, (SRi)

Blithfield Resv

2x Turnstone briefly on causeway then flew NW, 2x more Turnstone and 3x Dunlin thru, (GJM)  -  Sanderling on the causeway, (JAl)

                                                                Turnstones by GJ Mant

Radford Meadows Stafford

18x Ringed Plover, 4x Dunlin, LRP, Cuckoo, 4x Little Egret, Mandarin, Cetti's Warbler, 140x Swift, 200x House Martin, (RSw)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Sanderling, 6x Dunlin, Cuckoo, (RPo)

Tucklesholme

Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, 2x Common Tern, 14x GC Grebe, 4x Shelduck, 8x Gadwall, 10x Egyptian Geese, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 50x Swift, (JWo)

Burslem Park/High Lane

7x Swift, (PMo)

Chasewater

The Shag still, (SWa)

Kings Bromley

4x Common Tern, 2x Oystercatcher, 5x Egyptian Geese (3 chicks),  and Green Woodpecker at Manor Park sailing club this evening, (BHa)

Wednesday 22nd May 2024

Stoke 

Lordship Lane - Ringed Plover briefly, (RGi)

Belvide Resv

8x Sanderling, 12x Dunlin, 10x Ringed Plover, Arctic Tern, Osprey drake Garganey, 1500x Swift

Branston GPs

Little Gull, 30x Common Tern, Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, 4x Little Egret, 8x Pochard, 29x Gadwall, 3x Shoveler, 2x Teal, 12x Shelduck, 10x Egyptian Geese, 22x Little Grebe, 22x GC Grebe, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 200x Swift, (JWo, SBl)

Tuesday 21st May 2024

Branston GPs

1s Little Gull still, Cuckoo, Hobby, Red Kite, 4x Oystercatcher, 4x Water Rail, Little Egret, 9x Mandarin (7 ducklings), 24x Pochard, 45x Gadwall, Shoveler, 25x Shelduck, 11x Egyptian Geese, 36x Common Tern, 28x GC Grebe, 29x Little Grebe, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Garden Warbler, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 100x Swift, (JWo)

Gnosall

Red Kite over A518 Radmore Lane at 15:37, (RPl)

Chasewater

The Shag still, Cuckoo, Swift, (CC)

Monday 20th May 2024

Middleton Lakes

Drake Garganey on JW north, 3x Cuckoo, 5x LRP, 2x Dunlin, (MSm)

Uttoxeter Quarry

5x Ringed Plover, 4x Common Tern, 50x Swift, (RPo)

Branston GPs

1st sum Little Gull, Hobby, Marsh Harrier (f), Cuckoo, 5x Oystercatcher, 4x Little Egret, 20x Pochard, Mandarin, 26x Shelduck, 39x Gadwall, 10x Egyptian Geese, 32x GC Grebe, 40x Little Grebe, 28x Common Tern, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Garden Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 11x Reed Warbler,  Green Woodpecker, 70x Swift, (JWo, RPo, CEc, Dean)

Rudyard Lake

Cuckoo this am, Red Kite over west, (LRa)

Whitemoor Haye

Whimbrel at roadside pit opposite the quarry entrance at 14:20, (RPo)

Consall area

Red Kite near the hotel, Spotted Flycatcher, Yellow Wagtail, (JBe)

Westport Lake

2x Willow Tit, 

Sunday 19th May 2024

Baldwins Gate

Osprey thru NE at 09:10, (RWh)

Highgate Common

2x Hobby, Cuckoo, (DPo)

Essington - Wyrley Canal

2x Cuckoo, (SB)

Doxey Marsh

3x Common Tern, Hobby, (RRa)

Branston GPs

1s Little Gull still, 14x Shelduck, 2x Mandarin, 20x Gadwall, 3x Little Egret, 2x Oystercatcher, 16x Common Tern, Cuckoo, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, (DSc, JWo)

                                                          Little Gull by Dave Scattergood

Tittesworth Water

Red Kite, 14x Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, Mandarin, 2x Swift, (LH, JOa)

Swallow Moss

Tree Pipit, (HHa)

Saturday 18th May 2024

WMI site near Calf Heath

Common Sandpiper, LRPs, Lesser Whitethroat, (SRi)

Middleton Lakes

Grey Plover, Cuckoo, Garden Warbler, 

Belvide Resv

Osprey this morning, 

Baldwins Gate

2x Red Kite over at 16:30, (CPe)

Whitemoor Haye

5x Dunlin, Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Avocet, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Cuckoo, (SCo)

Uttoxeter

2x Peregrine over, (AR)

Branston GPs

 Little Gull still on SMP2, 14x Shelduck, Mandarin, 30x Gadwall, 16x Pochard, 2x Oystercatcher, 3x Little Egret, 20x Common Tern, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, (DSc)

Friday 17th May 2024

Middleton Lakes

3x LRP, 2x Dunlin, 2x Common Tern, Cuckoo, (MSm)  -  also Redshank, Garden Warbler, (SPA)

Branston GPs

1s Little Gull still, Redshank, 2x Ringed Plover, 5x Oystercatcher, 3x Little Egret, 36x Pochard, 28x Gadwall, 3x Shoveler, 2x Mandarin, 23x Shelduck, 12x Egyptian Geese, 38x Little Grebe, 17x Common Tern, Cuckoo, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Garden Warbler, 5x Cetti's Warbler,  (JWo, DSc, George)

Radford Meadows Stafford

2x Yellow Wagtail, Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 5x Little Egret, Shelducks, Swifts, (DBE)

Rudyard Lake

2x Hobby at north end showing well, (SSe)

                                                                     By Steve Seal

Brocton

Red Kite over at 13:45, (KPo)

Belvide Resv

Drake Garganey still, 

WMI site near Calf Heath

2x Hobby, 3x Common Sandpiper, 5x LRP, (SRi)

Thursday 16th May 2024

Branston GPs

1s Little Gull,  22x Ringed Plover, 3x Oystercatcher, 2x Redshank, 3x Dunlin, 5x Little Egret, 12x Shelduck, 29x Gadwall, 30x Pochard, 3x Shoveler, YL Gull, 38x Common Tern, 10x Egyptian Geese, 27x GC Grebe, 38x Little Grebe, 130x Swift, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Garden Warbler, (DSc, JWo)

                                                          Little Gull by Jon Woodcock

WMI site near Calf Heath

Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 2x Gadwall, Lesser Whitethroat, (SRi)

Tittesworth Water

11x Oystercatcher, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, 2x Shelduck, (JOa, LH)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Sanderling on pit opposite quarry, Greenshank briefly Kestrel pit, (TPe

RSPB Coombes Valley

30x Pied Flycatcher, 5x Redstart, 4x Spotted Flycatcher, (RSPB)

Wednesday 15th May 2024

Middleton Lakes

1s Little Gull on JW south, Marsh Harrier over JW, 3x Ringed Plover, LRP, Redshank, (MSm)  -  also Red Kite, 2x LRP, 2x Redshank, Garden Warbler, 2x Cuckoo, Garden Warbler, (@Ochruros)

Tucklesholme

Great Egret, 5x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, 4x Common Tern, 5x Shelduck, 9x Gadwall, 13x Egyptian Geese, 8x GC Grebe, Cuckoo, Gropper, 6x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Garden Warbler, (JWo)

Alrewas NMA

2x Common Tern, (RBe)

                                                   Common Tern by Rob Bendelow                   

Staffs

Tuesday 14th May 2024

Middleton Lakes

Marsh Harrier thru at 07:30, 14x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, Greenshank, 2x Redshank, 2x Dunlin, 2x Common Tern, 70x Swift, (MSm)

Branston GPs

2x Arctic Tern, 24x Common Tern, 34x Ringed Plover, 7x Redshank, 5x Oystercatcher, 3x Little Egret, Water Rail, 18x Pochard, 28x Shelduck, 2x Shoveler, 21x Gadwall, 38x Little Grebe, Common Gull, Red Kite, Green Woodpecker, Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 200x Swift, (JWo)

Radford Meadows

2x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Hobby, (RBr)  - 10x Swift, (MA)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Red Kite south, Hobby, 2x Avocet, Ringed Plover, 10x Common Tern, 3x Yellow Wagtail, (ICW)  -  6x LRP, 2x Ringed Plover, Red Kite, Little Egret, (JAl)

Tucklesholme

8x Common Tern, 2x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, 5x Shelduck, 7x Gadwall, 2x Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, 18x Whitethroat, 2x Egyptian Geese with 7x Goslings, (MKe, JKe)

WMI site near Calf Heath

Redshank, 5x LRP, Shelduck, (SRi)

Monday 13th May 2024

Radford Meadows Stafford

Drake Garganey on BMW scrape early morning, (RSw)

Seisdon

9x White morph Snow Geese SW over at 09:30, Osprey drifted  NW at 10:00, (GCl)

Whitemoor Haye 

Drake Garganey viewed from quarry entrance, (SCo)  -  Red Kite over, Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, (CMa, RFe)

Caverswall

Red Kite over this am, (BBo)

i54

Barn Owl at 16:00, (JDu)

Berryhill Botteslow Flash

2x Oystercatcher at 07:15, (RTo)

Lichfield

2x Red Kite over Boley park at 16:05, (BHa)

WMI site near Calf Heath

Shelduck, 5x Gadwall, 2x Oystercatcher, 3x LRP, Lesser Whitethroat, (SRi)

Branston GPs

Curlew, 8x Ringed Plover, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Little Egret, 21x Pochard, 18x Shelduck, 23x Gadwall, 2x Shoveler, 8x Egyptian Geese, 28x GC Grebe, 36x Little Grebe, 23x Common Tern, Cuckoo, Green Woodpecker, 60x Swift, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, 4x Garden Warbler, (JWo)

Barton under Needwood

Hobby, (JWo)

North Staffs Moors

3x Hobby, (JJo)

Sunday 12th May 2024

WMI site near Calf Heath

2x Temminck's Stint present to at least 17:25. Best to park with caution along Straight Mile and walk back to Vicarage Road to view, please be aware of fast moving vehicles, also 6x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, (SRi)  -  still to 17:25 at least also 3x Whimbrel (GCl)

Whitemoor Haye

Little Tern from quarry entrance to 09:15 only, 12x Common Tern, 5x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, Whimbrel, Corn Bunting, 2x Grey Partridge, 4x Little Egret, 2x Garden Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Shelduck,  (SCo) - 2x Avocet, 

Middleton Lakes

Curlew, Greenshank, 2x Redshank, Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 3x Common Tern, 2x Cuckoo, (MSm)

Belvide Resv

Drake Garganey, Black Tern thru, Great Egret, 

Aqualate

Black Tern, (IMG)

Gaily Resv

Little Gull, (GCl)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Hobby, 2x Common Tern, Little Egret, Grasshopper Warbler, (RPo)

Radford Meadows Stafford

Greenshank, Great Egret, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (RSw)

Swindon area

Corn Bunting on wires, (DBa)

Doxey Marsh

Black-tailed Godwit, 3x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 5x Common Tern, Red Kite, 7x Cetti's Warbler, 29x Gadwall, (MBo, WeBS team)

Endon - Denford

Hobby, (DCo)

Rocester JCB

Red Kite over main lake at 11:20, 5x Common Tern, 2x Oystercatcher, (STu)

Tittesworth Water

GBB Gull, 2x Common Tern, 10x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 4x Garden Warbler, (JOa, LH)

Endon 

Red Kite over this afternoon, (DCo)

River Sow Meadows

Cuckoo, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Shelduck, (IWi)

Branston GPs

2x Hobby, Greenshank, 8x Ringed Plover, 2x Oystercatcher, 20x Shelduck, 12x Pochard, Cuckoo, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Saturday 11th May 2024

Middleton Lakes

Greenshank, 7x Ringed Plover, 5x LRP, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, female Wheatear on JW south, (MSm)

Blithfield Resv

4x Black Tern this am, (MPR, GJM)  -  6x Black Tern at 15:35 also YL Gull, (PAn)  - 8x Black Tern at 16:50, (TPe)

Belvide Resv

3x Black Tern to 10:55 only and a further 4x Black Tern from 11,24, 3x Whimbrel, Curlew, 2x Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, 2x Common Tern, 

Lichfield

Red Kite and 2x Swift over Boley park coop this am, (BHa)

Whitemoor Haye

Grey Plover on pit opposite quarry entrance, (TPe)  -  3x Whimbrel still from the bend in the rough track, Hobby, (SMG)

Knypersley Resv

Cuckoo on Lodge Barn Road then flew to Marshes Hill at 11:20, 5x Mandarin, Water Rail, 2x Swift, Oystercatcher over, (GBr)

Freehay

6x Mandarin in garden, (FCa)

Checkley

Red Kite over this am, (FCa)

Whitemoor Haye - Elford

3x Red Kite over plough, (TPe)

Gayton

Curlew this am, (IWi)

Gailey Resv

2x Common Tern 2x Yellow Wagtail, Garden Warbler, also nearby Lesser Whitethroats at Calf Heath and Otherton, (SRi)

Branston GPs

Greenshank, 8x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Cuckoo, (PAn)

Alrewas NMA

4x Common Tern, 2x Oystercatcher, Goosander, (JWo)

Friday 10th May 2024

Middleton Lakes

2x Avocet, 6x Oystercatcher, 5x Ringed Plover, 5x LRP, 3x Redshank, Cuckoo, Great Egret, 2x Common Tern, Red Kite, (MSm)

Belvide Resv

24x feral Snow Geese from 07:00 to 08:10 only, 

Chasewater

Shag, 2x Cuckoo, Oystercatcher, 3x Garden Warbler, (SWa)

Tittesworth Water

2x Greenshank (first of the year here), (SGi)

                                                           Greenshanks by Steve Gibson

Stanley Pool

Common Sandpiper, (GBr)

Dimmingsdale

Spotted Flycatcher also Mandarin and Grey Wagtail on the river, (TDu)

Berryhill

Red Kite SW over Mossfield Road end at 11:30, (CSi)

Blithfield Resv

Turnstone on the causeway, (JAl)

Whitemoor Haye

3x Whimbrel from quarry entrance, 11x Oystercatcher, 6x LRP, 3x Common Sandpiper, (SCo)

Cannock Chase

7x Tree Pipit, 3x Cuckoo, 25x Crossbill, 4x Garden Warbler, 2x Stonechat, (CBo)

Knypersley Resv

3x Mandarin, Garden Warbler, (PMo)

Thursday 9th May 2024

First Staffs 2024 arrival

Middleton Lakes

7x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, Avocet, 4x Redshank, 2x Cuckoo, Goosander, (SPA)

Belvide Resv

Drake Garganey, 

Blithfield Resv

Turnstone and Common Sandpiper on the causeway, (PBe)

Tittesworth Water

Osprey thru at 12:00, 12x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, Mandarin,2x Pied Flycatcher, 10x Garden Warbler, (JOa, LH, LF)

Elkstone

Spotted Flycatcher, (SF, LF)

Wolseley Centre

2x Common Tern, Cetti's Warbler, (AR)

Cannock Chase

3x Cuckoo, 7x Tree Pipit, (AR)

Leek

5x Swift, (JOa)

Berryhill Botteslow Flash

Common Sandpiper, (RTo, IBu)

Rocester

5x Swifts, (JDr)

Sandon

Male Whinchat in fields alongside the River Trent this evening, (RSw)

Branston GPs

Greenshank, Redshank, 4x Dunlin, 4x Ringed Plover, 3x Oystercatcher, 2x Little Egret, 8x Common Tern, 14x Pochard, 12x Gadwall, 26x Shelduck, 5x Mandarin, 32x Little Grebe, Cuckoo, Green Woodpecker, Yellow Wagtail, 6x Garden Warbler, 4x Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

                                                       Greenshank by Jon Woodcock

Wednesday 8th May 2024

Belvide Resv

Common Crane this am to 11:17 only, 

Whitemore Haye

7x Whimbrel still, (SCo)

Middleton Lakes

Greenshank, 3x Redshank, 5x LRP, 5x Common Tern, Great Egret, Cuckoo, Hobby, (MSm)

Stanley Pool

3x Little Egret at 05:50, Peregrine over at 07:10, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Berryhill Botteslow Flash

Whinchat on the marsh/scrub between the flash and the Causley brook (first Botteslow record), 2x Ring-necked Parakeet, 3x Garden Warbler, Little Egret, (RTo)

Radford Meadows Stafford

3x Little Gull, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Hobby, (RBr)

Doxey Marsh

Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Shelduck, (CAFH)

Blithfield Resv

Turnstone briefly on the causeway, (GJM)

                                                             Turnstone by GJ Mant

Downs Banks

Redstart, 6x Garden Warbler, 2x Yellowhammer, (CBo)

Wombourne

Ring-necked Parakeet

Draycott in the Moors

Yellowhammer along Old Road, (AR)

Cannock Chase

3x Cuckoo, 4x Garden Warbler, 3x Tree Pipit, (DBa)  -  2x Cuckoo, 2x Redstart, 4x Tree Pipit, Green Woodpecker, (PWo, KWo)

Tucklesholme

Cuckoo, Red Kite, 2x Grasshopper Warbler, 6x Cetti's Warbler, 5x Sedge Warbler, 6x Reed Warbler, 3x LRP, 2x Little Egret, 6x Common Tern, 5x Shelduck, 9x Gadwall, 9x Egyptian Geese, 10x GC Grebe, (JWo)

Berryhill

Female Wheatear in "Lap Bunt" paddock this evening, (IBu)

Boon Hill

Wheatear at 18:45, (MJW)

Branston GPs

Sanderling, Greenshank, 4x Dunlin, 6x Ringed Plover, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Little Egret, 6x Common Tern, 8x Pochard, 19x Gadwall, 6x Shoveler, 19x Shelduck, Mandarin, 24x GC Grebe, 38x Little Grebe, Hobby, Cuckoo, Green Woodpecker, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 4x Garden Warbler, (JWo)

                                                       Sanderling by Jon Woodcock

Tuesday 7th May 2024

Branston GPs

Wood Sandpiper still,  33x Dunlin, 8x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, Little Egret, 11x Pochard, 27x Shelduck, 11x Gadwall, 8x Shoveler, 6x Egyptian Geese, 32x Little Grebe, 26x GC Grebe, Marsh Harrier (f), Cuckoo, Wheatear, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 6x Cetti's Warbler, 5x Garden Warbler, 4x Lesser Whitethroat,  (JWo, GWi, George, Bob)

Middleton Lakes

2x Avocet, 2x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 3x Redshank, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Cuckoo, (MSm)

Belvide Resv

Common Scoter, 

Stoke

Smithpool 6x Swift, Lordship, Lane 4x Swift, (RGi)

Whitemoor Haye

3x Whimbrel, Oystercatcher, LRP, Swift, Shelduck, Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, 2x Pochard, (PJT)

Tittensor Chase

2x Garden Warbler, (AR)

Burslem Park

Swift, (SGi)

WMI site Calf Heath

5x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 2x Shelduck, (SRi)

Monday 6th May 2024

Middleton Lakes

3x Avocet, 2x Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, Dunlin, 2x Common Tern, Cuckoo, (MSm)

Branston GPs

Wood Sandpiper on Ashy pit, (GWi)  -  also Greenshank, Redshank, Common Sandpiper, 7x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, Marsh Harrier (f), Red Kite, 2x Little Egret, 6x Common Tern, Water Rail, 18x Pochard, 12x Shelduck, Cuckoo, Green Woodpecker, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Lesser Whitethroat, 6x Garden Warbler, (DSc, JWo, CEc, ASt, GWi, SBl, PFo)

                                                   Wood Sandpiper by Jon Woodcock

Castlecroft to Dimmingsdale

Garden Warbler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (IMo) - Finchfield Red Kite circling at 11:45 and Hobby low NW, (GCl)

Tittesworth Water

Redstart, Lesser Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, 2x Common Tern, 6x Mandarin, 7x Common Sandpiper, (SGi, PS)

Tucklesholme

Marsh Harrier hunting over the pools at north end,

Belvide Resv

Whimbrel,

Sideway

Cetti's Warbler still, (LSt)

Sunday 5th May 2024

Belvide Resv

2x Hawfinch NE over the dam, Whinchat, Hobby

Blithfield Resv

3x Black Tern, (MPR, GJM)  -  also Sanderling still on causeway, (TPe)

Stone - Moddershall

Little Owl, Green Woodpecker, (BHa)

Knypersley Resv

Pied Flycatcher, 4x Mandarin, Water Rail in Osier beds, Peregrine, 3x Dabentons Bats, (GBr)

Middleton Lakes

Avocet, Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, 2x Common Tern, Cuckoo, Pochard, Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)

Whitemoor Haye

3x Whimbrel Quarry field, (TPe)

Littleton Pit site - Shoal Hill Common

Cuckoo, 7x Garden Warbler, sev Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Oystercatcher over, (SRi)

North Staffs Moors

2x Hobby, (AMa, NCo)  -  2-3 Cuckoo, 4x Curlew, 4x Wheatear, Grasshopper Warbler, 8x Red Grouse, (DCo)

Tittesworth Water

4x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 8x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, 8x Garden Warbler, Cuckoo, (JOa, LH)

The Burntwood (Loggerheads)

4x Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, singing Siskins, (RGi)

Trentham Gardens

3x Oystercatcher, 2x Mandarin, 2x GC Grebe, (STu)

Branston GPs

Marsh Harrier, 2x Oystercatcher, Dunlin, Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 3x Common Tern, Cuckoo, 6x Pochard, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Garden Warbler, (DSc)

Saturday 4th May 2024

First returning Staffs 2024 arrival

Branston GPs  -  101 species all dayer

Quail, Spotted Redshank, Sanderling, 2x Redshank, 4x Dunlin, 6x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 3x Little Egret, Scaup, 22x Pochard, 31x Shelduck, 2x Mandarin, 12x Gadwall, 8x Shoveler, 3x Common Tern, YL Gull, 3x Water Rail, 2x Marsh Harrier, 2x Red Kite, Barn Owl, Green Woodpecker, Cuckoo, 6x Lesser Whitethroat, 6x Garden Warbler, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 9x Yellow Wagtail, 30x Swift, (DSc, JWo, CEc, Dean, PFo, SBl, George, Bob, PAn)

                                                     Spotted Redshank by Jon Woodcock

Whitemoor Haye  -  77 species all dayer

9x Whimbrel, Turnstone, 6x LRP, Common Sandpiper, Cuckoo, 2x Grey Partridge, 2x Peregrine, Red Kite, 2x Hobby,  6x Common Tern, 8x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, Green Woodpecker, (SCo)  -  4x Wheatear at the start of the rough track, (SMcG)  -  Ringed Plover, 

Blithfield Resv  63 species  all dayer

Red-throated Diver, but flew north at 07:50, (MJa)  -  Sanderling on the causeway, (GJM, MPR)

Stanley Pool

Hobby over north at 06:47, Red Kite over over south end at 18:10, (GBr)

Smewstow Valley - Pool Hall

Cuckoo, Tree Pipit, Hobby, 3x Goosander, Barn Owl, Yellow Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, Little Grebe, (GCl, KCl, ADe, IMo, IP, GR)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Dunlin, 4x Swift, 4x Goosander, Cetti's Warbler, Grasshopper Warbler, 2x Garden Warbler, 2x Sedge Warbler, 5x Reed Warbler, 10x Whitethroat, (RPo)

Belvide Resv  -  91 species all dayer

Whimbrel, Greenshank, 13x Dunlin, 10x Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, LRP, Scaup, Osprey thru north, Hobby, Peregrine, 4x Common Tern, Wheatear, 4x Lesser Whitethroat, 4x Garden Warbler, 4x Yellow Wagtail.

Tittesworth Water

Little Tern, 3x Redstart, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, (SGi, IB, DB)

                                                            Little Tern by Steve Gibson

Berryhill

3x Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Garden Warbler, 4x Sedge Warbler, Green Woodpecker, Wheatear, Stonechat still,  (RTo)

Chasewater  68 species all dayer

Shag, 3x Gadwall, Arctic Tern 2x Common Tern, 3x Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, 3x Reed Warbler, 6x Garden Warbler, Water Rail, (CMa, CW)

Rocester

Red Kite over at 17:30, (JDr)

Stoke on Trent

Smithpool park - Common Sandpiper, 2x Garden Warbler, (RGi)

Huntington

Red Kite over west at 16:30, (SRi)

Trentham - Sideway

Cetti's Warbler, Whinchat, 3x Sedge Warbler, (LSt)

Doxey Marsh  -  74 species all dayer

Great Egret, Little Egret, Water Rail, Whimbrel, Oystercatcher, Ringed Plover, LRP, Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, Common Gull, Yellow Wagtail, Swift, Lesser Whitethroat, Gropper, (AHa, RRa, GPr, DCo)

                                                             Whimbrel by Alan Hateley

Handsacre Flash  -  63 species all dayer

Swift, Yellowhammer, Cetti's Warbler, Gadwall, Goosander, Little Grebe, Greenfinch, (GSt)  

Tucklesholme - Branston Leas  -  70 species all dayer

Lesser Whitethroat, Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, Grasshopper Warbler, Common Tern, Great Egret,  Egret, Common Gull, LRP, Common Sandpiper, Egyptian Goose, Goosander, Greenfinch, (TWy)     

Aqualate  -  78 species all dayer

Common Scoter                     

Friday 3rd May 2024

Middleton Lakes

Whimbrel, Curlew, Garganey, 4x Avocet, Cuckoo, (MSm)  -  Redshank, 2x LRP, Garden Warblers, (DCo)

Belvide Resv

2x Whimbrel, Turnstone thru at 11:40, Osprey thru north at 13:00, drake Scaup still, 12x Arctic Tern, 3x Common Tern, 

Whitemoor Haye

2x Avocet on pit by traffic lights, (ICW)

Rudyard Lake

12x Garden Warbler, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, Common Tern, (SSe)

Berryhill Botteslow Flash

2x Shelduck early am, YL Gull, (RTo)

Pendeford Hall Lane

2x LRP, (JDu)

Calf Heath

Hobby from A449 towards i54 and STW at 16:49, (Hoppy)

Radford Meadows Stafford

14x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, 2x Dunlin, Whimbrel, 18x Shelduck, 20x Gadwall, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (RSw)

Branston GPs

5x Common Tern, 4x Dunlin, 6x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, Scaup (m), 20x Pochard, 2x Mandarin, 12x Shoveler, 14x Gadwall, 32x Shelduck, 5x Egyptian Geese, 2x Little Egret, 28x GC Grebe, 28x Little Grebe, YL Gull, 2x Green Woodpecker, Yellow Wagtail, 100x Swift, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, 5x Garden Warbler, 2x Greenfinch, (JWo, DSc, CEc)

                                                            Mandarin by Jon Woodcock

Thursday 2nd May 2024

Middleton Lakes

No sight or sound of the Savi's Warbler by 07:00,  2x Cuckoo, Grasshopper Warbler, (PAn)

Belvide Resv

2x Arctic Tern thru N at 08:20, drake Scaup, Whimbrel, Greenshank, 

Tucklesholme

2x Common Tern, Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, Little Egret, 8x Shelduck, 18x Gadwall, 10x Egyptian Geese, 12x GC Grebe, 8x Cetti's Warbler, 5x Lesser Whitethroat, 5x Garden Warbler, 9x Sedge Warbler, 6x Reed Warbler, 8x Linnet, (JWo)

Rudyard Lake

Hobby over north end at 11:25, and nearby 2+ Tree Sparrow at Greenfield Farm on Dingle Lane,  (GBr)

Gun Hill

2x Hobby, (LHa)

Westport Lake

Reed Warbler on top pool, (AR)

Cannock Chase

Hobby Brindley Heath this afternoon, (GSt)

Berryhill

Stonechat still, Reed Warbler, 4x Sedge Warbler, Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, (RGi)

Dimmingsdale (Alton)

Cuckoo, (TEy)

Tittesworth Water

4x Common Sandpiper, 10x Oystercatcher, 2x Garden Warbler, (JOa, LHa)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Drake Garganey at 16:45, 6x Goosander, Mandarin, Yellow Wagtail, Garden Warbler, (RPo)

Blithfield Resv

Drake Common Scoter from Admaston  car park looking towards Beech Tree Point, (JAl)

Gailey Resv

4x Common Tern, Yellow Wagtail, (SRi)

North Staffs

Pied Flycatcher, Garden Warbler, Red Kite, (BGo)

                                                       Pied Flycatcher by Bill Goldstraw

Doxey Marsh

Great Egret, Little Egret, (JTu)

Endon - Denford

10x Garden Warbler, 2x LRP, Lesser Whitethroat, 4x Sedge Warbler, (DCo)

Wednesday 1st May 2024

Middleton Lakes

Savi's Warbler on Canal Pool, also Garganey, 4x Avocet, LRP, Common Sandpiper, 2x Cuckoo, (MSm)  -  Savi's Warbler reeling at 20:58, Great Egret, 3x Common Tern, Gropper, 2x LRP, Water Rail,  (JWo)  -  Hobby

                                                             Garganey by Jon Woodcock

Belvide Resv

Whimbrel, Greenshank, drake Scaup, Little Tern to 14:15 only, 

Knypersley Resv

Lesser Whitethroat by Lodge Barn Road, Common Sandpiper on causeway, 2x Water Rail in Osier beds, 2x Mandarin, (GB)

Tittesworth Water

Redshank, 9x Common Sandpiper, 9x Oystercatcher, 6x Garden Warbler, Redstart, (SGi)

Rudyard Lake

10x Garden Warbler, 3x Whitethroat, (SSe)

Kings Bromley

Osprey flew NE over Manor Park sailing club at 18:05 also Common Tern, 2x Oystercatcher,  (BHa)

Blithfield Resv

Sanderling on the causeway, (GJM)

                                                            Sanderling by GJ Mant

Cuckoo Bank

Grasshopper Warbler, 5x Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Stonechat, Yellow Wagtail, (GHa)

Branston GPs

Male Scaup, Mandarin, 24x Shelduck, 18x Pochard, 10x Oystercatcher, 3x Dunlin, 4x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Common Gull, 2x Swift, Yellow Wagtail, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 5x Garden Warbler, 15x Redpoll, (DSc, JWo)