Friday 11th July 2025

Gailey Resv

LRP, Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, (JIs)

Belvide Resv

Osprey over this am, 5x Yellow Wagtail, Common Tern, LRP, 

Botteslow Flash

3x Little Egret, juv Redstart, c30x Swift, (RTo)

Thursday 10th July 2025

Tittesworth Water

12x Oystercatcher, 8x Common Sandpiper, 13x LRP, 35x Lapwing, 2x Common Tern (+3 juvs), 4x Mandarin, (JOa, LH) - 20x Swift, (AP)

Cheddleton - Consal

2x Green Woodpecker (ad and juv), (DSc)

Cheadle

2x Peregrine over at 11:21, (TDu)

Burton

25x Swift over Clarence St at 14:45, (AJa)

Rudyard Lake

2x Common Sandpiper at 18:12, (Laxmi)

Cellarhead

Red Kite over the crossroads at 07:30, (PCa)

Leek

Red Kite over town centre at 17:00, (PCa)

Cheddleton Heath

Red Kite over at 19:10, (PCa)

Stone

20x Swift over Swan pub, (MJa)

Branston GPs

Osprey circled high over the Ashy pit then drifted off north, ad Med Gull, 12x Curlew, Avocet, 4x Common Sandpiper, Redshank, 4x Oystercatcher, 93x Lapwing, 3x Great Egret, 16x Little Egret, 55x Pochard, 49x Gadwall, 2x Teal, 8x Shelduck (3juv+1duckling), 11x Egyptian Geese, 38x Little Grebe, 12x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, 4x Linnet, (JWo)

Wednesday 9th July 2025

Tittesworth Water

3x Greenshank, Redshank, 5x Great Egret, 7x Mandarin, (SGi)

                                                       4 Great Egrets by Steve Gibson

Whitemoor Haye

YL Gull, Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 53x Lapwing, 5x Little Grebe, 4x Gadwall, 4x Common Tern, (SCo)

Doxey Marsh

2x LRP, 22x Lapwing, 2x Common Sandpiper, Water Rail (juv), 2x Little Egret, Great Egret, 3x Gropper, 7x Swift, 3x Gropper, 2x Stonechat, (CAFH)

Tuesday 8th July 2025

Doxey Marsh

5x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, Whinchat, 3x Stonechat, Red Kite, Water Rail showing main hide, 3x Great Egret, Little Egret, (MBo, PDy)  -  This pm 5x Shoveler, 21x Swift, 3x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, 3x Great Egret, 7x Reed Warbler, 3x Gropper, Cetti's Warbler, (CAFH)

Blithfield Resv

Blithe Bay only this am, 22x Black-tailed Godwit, 25x Oystercatcher, 10x Ringed Plover, 8x LRP, 5x Dunlin, 142x Greylag Geese, 2x Egyptian Geese (+4 chicks), 2x Shelduck, Swift, (CMa, RF)  -  Tad Bay this pm 24x Black-tailed Godwit, 7x Redshank, 2x Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 5x Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, 10x Shelduck (inc 5juvs), (JHi)

Tittensor

6x Swift around the church on the A34 this am, (DGl)

Branston GPs

Med Gull, 10x Curlew, 4x Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, 142x Lapwing, Great Egret, 12x Little Egret, 38x Pochard, Shoveler, 36x Gadwall, 8x Shelduck (3juv+1duckling), 4x Egyptian Geese, 51x Little Grebe (3juv), 10x Common Tern, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Red Kite, 4x Linnet, (JWo)

Barton-under-Needwood

3x Oystercatcher over south, (JWo)

Monday 7th July 2025

Middleton Lakes

4x Black-tailed Godwit present with a further 7 thru this am, also Green Sandpiper, juv Bittern,  (SPA)

Barlaston Common

2x Red Kite over east at 11:30, (AR)

Tittesworth Water

Green Sandpiper still, 3x Redshank, 6x Common Tern, Mandarin, (SGi)

                                                        Common Tern by Steve Gibson

Branston GPs

19x Black-tailed Godwit, 10x Curlew, Avocet, 4x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, Ringed Plover, 28x Lapwing, 3x Great Egret, 11x Little Egret, Water Rail, 6x Teal, 49x Pochard, 28x Gadwall, 9x Shelduck (2+3 ducklings), 10x Egyptian Geese, 40x Little Grebe, 18x Common Tern, Caspian Gull (2s), YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, 6x Linnet, (JWo)

                                               Black-tailed Godwits by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Sunday 6th July 2025

Croxall

6x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, LRP, Little Egret, 4x Common Tern, (ICW)

Whitemoor Haye

Med Gull, 2x Redshank, Common Sandpiper, 5x Little Egret, 4x Common Tern, (ICW)  -  Hobby, Red Kite, Common Sandpiper, (MBr)

Tittesworth Water

2x Curlew, 11x Oystercatcher, 11x LRP, 9x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 6x Lapwing, 2x Mandarin, Goosander, 2x Common Tern (+3juvs), 2x Willow Tit, (JOa, LH, KH)

Branston GPs

3x Great Egret, 7x Little Egret, 16x Common Tern, 30x Swift, 10x Pochard, 4x Shelduck, Teal, Avocet, 12x Lapwing, Oystercatcher, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, 10x Curlew, Redshank, Ringed Plover, 3x Common Sandpiper, 9x Egyptian Geese, 2x Linnet, Siskin thru south, (DSc)

Belvide Resv

Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, GBB Gull, 

Saturday 5th July 2025

Blithfield Resv

Garganey in Blithe Bay, sec/sum Caspian Gull, 2x Greenshank, several juv Redstarts, (GJM, MPR)

Rudyard

7x Black-tailed Godwit, early morning, (SGi)

Tittesworth Water

Green Sandpiper, 12x Common Sandpiper, 8x LRP, 11x Oystercatcher, 9x Lapwing, 5x Common Tern, Red Kite, (SGi, IB, PS)

                                                      Green Sandpiper by Steve Gibson

Trentham Gardens

Hummingbird Hawkmoth, around shopping village. (HF)

                                                                  By Heather Forbes

Branston GPs

Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 30x Little Grebe, 32x Gadwall, 8x Pochard, Black-tailed Godwit roosted, 8x Lapwing, 10x Curlew roosted, 4x Oystercatcher, 8x Common Tern, (DSc)

Tucklesholme

Great Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese, 2x Common Tern, 2x Linnet, (DSc)

Whitemoor Haye

c300x Sand Martin over fields, 2x Little Egret, 4x Great Egret, 35x Lapwing, 3x Oystercatcher, 8x Egyptian Geese, several Yellowhammers, 5x Gadwall, Garden Warbler, (SCo)

Alrewas NMA

2x Oystercatcher, 4x Common Tern, Cetti's Warbler, Tree Damsel Bug, (JWo)

Barton-under-Needwood

2x Yellow Wagtail, Green Lane, (JWo)

Friday 4th July 2025

Middleton Lakes

Sum/plum Black-tailed Godwit, (GG)

Astonfields Balancing Lakes

2x Peregrine Sandon Road, (RSt)

Blackshaw Moor

Red Kite at 13:15, (KBr)

Branston GPs

Adult Med Gull, Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Common Sandpiper, 2x Redshank (1juv), 9x Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, 38x Lapwing, Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, Water Rail, 48x Pochard, 2x Shoveler, 3x Teal, 6x Gadwall, 5x Shelduck (2ducklings), 40x Little Grebe, 14x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Red Kite, Cetti's Warbler, Hummingbird Hawkmoth, (JWo, CEc, George, MCa)

Claymills

Green Sandpiper, 3x Goosander, Swift, Garden Warbler, Painted Lady, (DSc)

Thursday 3rd July 2025

Tittesworth Water

12x Oystercatcher, 15x LRP, 2x Green Sandpiper, 10x Common Sandpiper, 11x Lapwing, Curlew, 7x Mandarin, 9x Teal, 3x Common Tern (+3juvs), 2x Common Gull, Willow Tit, (JOa, LH). This evening -  Green Sandpiper, Redshank, (SGi)

North Staffs Moors

3x Red Kite, (JOs, LH)

Branston GPs

Snipe, Black-tailed Godwit, 12x Curlew, 3x Common Sandpiper, 62x Lapwing, 2x Oystercatcher, 3x Great Egret, 17x Little Egret, Goosander, 43x Pochard, 6x Gadwall, Shoveler, 4x Teal, 5x Shelduck (3ducklings), 4x Egyptian Geese, 34x Little Grebe, 3x Common Tern, YL Gull, Hobby, Green Woodpecker, Gropper, 2x Garden Warbler, 6x Greenfinch, 4x Linnet, 3+ WL Hairstreak, 5+Purple Hairstreak, 2x Painted Lady, (JWo)

Wednesday 2nd July 2025

Tittesworth Water

16x Curlew, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 5x Lapwing, 3x Common Tern, (Laxmi)  -  Also Green Sandpiper, Peregrine, (SGi)

Brankley Pastures

8x Yellowhammer, 15+Purple Hairstreak, Variable Longhorn Beetle, Welsh Chafer, (JWo)

Silverdale CP

Stonechat, Gropper, (PCa)

Tuesday 1st July 2025

Gailey Resv

9x Common Tern (inc 7 thru east at 06:30), Little Egret, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, (JIs)

Tucklesholme

Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, Wigeon, 4x Egyptian Geese, (JWo)

Branston GPs

Black-tailed Godwit, 12x Curlew, 3x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 109x Lapwing, 4x Great Egret, 15x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, 48x Pochard, 2x Teal, 2x Shoveler, 5x Shelduck(3 ducklings), 6x Egyptian Geese, 41x Little Grebe, 14x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, Gropper, Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Linnet, Grey Wagtail, (JWo)

Doxey Marsh

7x Mandarin(6 ducklings), 2x Gadwall, 2x LRP, 3x Lapwing, YL Gull, 2x Little Egret, 3x Gropper, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Swift,  (CAFH)

Monday 30th June 2025

Doxey Marsh

2x Redstart (one juv), Lesser Whitethroat, 4x Gropper, (RSt)

Stanley Pool

Common Tern, 2x Red Kite, 3x Willow Tit, (GBr)

Belvide Resv

Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, Greenshank, Black-tailed Godwit, 11x LRP, 10x Oystercatcher, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Egyptian Geese, (CMa, RF)  -  4x adult Med Gulls this evening, 2x Greenshank, Black-tailed Godwit, 

Branston GPs

Redstart (juv), at BMP, Black-tailed Godwit(s/p), 12x Curlew, 3x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 81x Lapwing, 2x Great Egret, 14x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, 45x Pochard, Teal, 4x Shelduck (2juv), 16x Gadwall, 10x Egyptian Geese, 28x Little Grebe, 11x Common Tern, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Hobby, (JWo)

Botteslow Flash

Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, 8x Swift, (RTo)

Sunday 29th June 2025

Stanley Pool

2x Redstart(fem and juv), at south side of lake, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, Red Kite, 2x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Rudyard

Common Tern at 09:15, (Laxmi)

Tittesworth Water

2x Black-tailed Godwit, 11x Common Sandpiper, 15x LRP, 13x Oystercatcher, 6x Curlew, 12x Lapwing, 2x Common Tern (+3juvs), Pied Flycatcher, (JOa, LH, TE, KH)

                                                      Black-tailed Godwits by Tom Eeles

Branston GPs

4x Great Egret, 14x Little Egret, 20x Little Grebe, 12x Egyptian Geese, 4x Shelduck(+2juvs),  8x Teal, 12x Pochard, Black-tailed Godwit, 12x Curlew, 26x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, Gropper, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)  - 

Bug Stictopleurus punctatonervosus (or S. abutilon) - no previous Staffs records of S.punctatonervosus, 1 previous record of S abutilon. Caddisfly (Athripsodes bilineatus) - 4 records since 1995, Large Marsh Horsefly, 3+ White-letter Hairstreak, 150+ Large White Butterflies, (JWo)

                                 Stictopleurus punctatonervosus or S abutilon by Jon Woodcock

Alvecote

4x Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, Garden Warbler, 12x Lapwing, (MSc)

Leek

25x Swift again above John Street, (RWi)

Wolseley Centre

2x Common Tern, 2x Oystercatcher, Reed Warbler, (CAFH)

Tucklesholme

Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, (DSc)

Saturday 28th June 2025

Stanley Pool

Redstart at south end, Spotted Flycatcher, Red Kite, Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP, Oystercatcher, 9x Lapwing, (GBr).

Uttoxeter Quarry

3x Common Sandpiper, 7x Oystercatcher, 4x Little Egret, Common Tern, Silver-washed Fritillary, 8x Ringlet, (RPo)

Stafford

11x Red Kite and 17x Raven interacting/soaring over a ridge north of Stafford at 06:20, (RSw)

Blithfield Resv

Hobby, Red Kite, 10x LRP, 8x Oystercatcher, Curlew, c100x Lapwing, Common Terns, 6x Shelduck, (MJa)

Denstone

Red Kite circling over the railway at 12:45, (JTu)

Middleton Lakes

22x Avocet, 5x Oystercatcher, 4x LRP, Black-tailed Godwit, Ringed Plover, 4x Redshank, Little Egret, (MSc)

Freehay

Red Kite over at 17:00, (FCa)

Branston GPs

2x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 10x Egyptian Geese, 14x Pochard, 2x Shelduck (+ducklings), 7x Goosander, 9x Curlew, 40x Lapwing, 6x Oystercatcher, 4x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, Gropper  (DSc)

Blithe Bridge

Red Kite heading west at 12:02, alongside A50 towards the A521 roundabout, (DSc)

Whitemoor Haye

Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 15x Lapwing, 12x Yellowhammer, Cetti's Warbler, Reed Warbler,  Hobby, 5x Gadwall, (SCo)

Belvide Resv

3x Oystercatcher, Greenshank, 4x Egyptian Geese, 4x Teal, 4x Common Tern, 3x Little Egret, Great Egret, Garden Warbler, (CAFH)

Claymills

3x Little Egret, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Skylark, (DSc)

Friday 27th June 2025

Blithfield Resv

43x Oystercatcher (inc 5 juvs), 9x Common Sandpiper, 8x Ringed Plover, 30x LRP, Peregrine, (MDJ)

Leek

Red Kite over Sainsburys at 18:55, (FCa)  -  26x Swift over John St, (RWi)

Berryhill

Little Egret over, (Ed)

Kings Bank Trentham

5x Purple Hairstreak, (SE)

                                                                  By Steve Edwards

Thursday 26th June 2025

Botteslow Flash

LRP, Little Egret, Red Kite, 23x House Sparrow along Fenton Road, 2x Greenfinch, (RTo)

Cheadle

Red Kite over fire station at 08:30, (KR)

Rocester

7x Swift over, (JDr)

Tittesworth Water

15x LRP, 11x Common Sandpiper, 9x Oystercatcher, Curlew, 6x Lapwing, 2x Common Tern (+3juvs), 2x Goosander, (JOa, LH)

Branston GPs

2x Curlew, 2x Avocet, Redshank, 3x Common Sandpiper, 10x Lapwing, 3x Oystercatcher, 14x Little Egret, Water Rail, 43x Pochard, 5x Shoveler, Teal, 2x Shelduck, 12x Egyptian Geese, 30x Little Grebe, 8x Common Tern, YL Gull, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Scarlet Tiger Moth, (JWo)

Wednesday 25th June 2025

Barton-under-Needwood

Red Kite low over heading south, (JWo)

Tittesworth Water

Spotted Flycatcher, Redstart male +3 juv, 19x Linnet, 2x Goosander, (SGi)

                                                          Redstart by Steve Gibson

Branston GPs

Curlew, Redshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, 7x Oystercatcher, 18x Lapwing, 3x Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 54x Pochard, 4x Shoveler, Teal, 6x Shelduck (3 ducklings), 10x Egyptian Geese, 32x Little Grebe, 6x Common Tern,  YL Gull (3s), Garden Warbler, (JWo)

                                                     Scarlet Tiger Moth by Jon Woodcock

Middleton Lakes

Great Egrets, Little Egrets, Bittern, Common Terns, Avocets, Oystercatchers, Redshanks, LRPs, Red Kite, (RBe)

Tuesday 24th June 2025

Rudyard

Adult Spotted Flycatcher with 2 juvs, (Laxmi) 

                                                                    By Laxmi

Beamhurst

Red Kite over at 12:00, (FCa)

Branston GPs

Grey Plover, Curlew, Redshank, 5x Oystercatcher, 2x Little Egret, (CMa, RF)

Blithfield Resv

2nd year Caspian Gull still, (GJM)

Tucklesholme

Green Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, 4x Common Tern, Wigeon(m), 6x Egyptian Geese, 6x GC Grebe, Hobby, Lesser Whitethroat, 5+ Cetti's Warbler, 6+ Linnet, (JWo)

Trentham 

Scarlet Tiger Moth, (JAt)

                                                                  By Jon Attwell

Monday 23rd June 2025

Branston GPs

Grey Plover still, Black-tailed Godwit,  Redshank, Common Sandpiper, 3x Avocet, 6x Oystercatcher, 18x Lapwing, Great Egret, 11x Little Egret, 5x Shelduck(3ducklings), 8x Gadwall, 7x Teal, 5x Shoveler, 31x Pochard, 11x Egyptian Geese(6juv), 28x Little Grebe, 6x Common Gull, YL Gull, Hobby, (JWo, SBI, George, CEc, Dean).

Trentham Lakes

Cetti's Warbler still, (LSt)

Longnor

12x Curlew in silage field, (PJo)

Sunday 22nd June 2025

Doxey Marsh

Marsh Harrier flying over west at 06:00 mobbed by Lapwings, (MGo)

Brocton

Red Kite being mobbed by Crows and Gulls over field adjacent to the Chetwynd Arms at 10:30, (GBe)

Gailey Resv

2x Egyptian Geese, 4x ad Oystercatcher + one well grown chick, Common Sandpiper, 2+ Yellow Wagtail, Marsh Tit, (SRi)

Blithfield Resv

Green Sandpiper, 3x Curlew over, Dunlin, Ringed Plovers, (GJM,MPR)

Middleton Lakes

Bittern, 9x Avocet (inc young), 12x Ringed Plover, 8x Common Tern, (LDa, MKe)  -  Bittern, Cuckoo, Red Kite, 28x Avocet (inc young), 12x LRP, 2x Redshank, (RBr)

Branston GPs

Sum/plum Grey Plover viewed from Ashy pit at 13:35, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper,  4x Oystercatcher, 10x Lapwing, 2x Shelduck, 6x Shoveler, 3x Teal, 12x Pochard, Common Tern, 5x Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, 5x Linnet, Lesser Whitethroat, 50x Swift, (DSc)  -  19:00 - 20:30 S/p Grey Plover still on Ashy pit, 3x  Curlew, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Avocet, Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 3x Oystercatcher, 8x Little Egret, 5x Teal, Gropper, 100x Swift, (JWo)

                                                      Grey Plover by Jon Woodcock

Sandyford

Red Kite over the Tesco express at 07:30, (GPr)

Tittesworth Water

2x Common Tern(+3juvs), 14x LRP, 10x Common Sandpiper, 12x Oystercatcher, 7x Lapwing(+5juvs), Red Kite, (JOa, LH, TE)

Gnosall

Red Kite low over Ginger Hill at 13:30 then drifted north, (GCa)

Tucklesholme

LRP, Lapwing, Common Tern, 20x Swift, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Linnet, (DSc)

Saturday 21st June 2025

Blithfield Resv

3x Common Sandpiper, Redshank, (GJM)  -  7x Little Egret, 2x GBB Gull, 8x Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, c150x Lapwing, (MJa)

Middleton Lakes

Avocets, LRP, Oystercatcher, Little Egrets, Cuckoo, Common Terns, (RBe)

                                                             Cuckoo by Rob Bendelow

Branston GPs

2x Great Egret, 15x Little Egret, 5x Egyptian Geese(+ 6juvs), 40x Gadwall, 2x Shoveler, 4x Teal, 16x Pochard, Mandarin, 2x Shelduck, 4x Curlew, 4x Oystercatcher, 40x Lapwing, Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 6x Common Tern, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Scarlet Tiger Moth, (DSc)

Alrewas NMA

Cuckoo, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Lapwing, 2x Little Egret, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Linnet, (JWo)

Alrewas - Wychnor

2x Oystercatcher, Gropper, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Leek

25x Swift over John Street at 21:45, (RWi)

Friday 20th June 2025

Middleton Lakes

Black-crowned Night Heron flew over East scrape at approx 07:55 then banked and landed in one of the pools to the east inside of the fox fence, also 20x Avocet + 16 well grown young, 3x Oystercatcher plus two well grown young, 10x LRP + 2 chicks, 3x Bittern in flight (2juvs) - (Jake Klavins warden)  - The Night Heron now on west scrape at 19:25, also a Green Sandpiper, over, (TPe)

Rocester

9x Swift over at 07:50, (JDr)

Wedgwood Pools

2x Whitethroat, (NRo)

Branston GPs

Avocet, Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, 65x Lapwing, Great Egret, 10x Little Egret, Water Rail, 32x Pochard, 5x Teal, 7x Shoveler, 12x Gadwall, 5x Mandarin(4juv), 13x Shelduck (3ducklings), 12x Egyptian Geese(6juv), 22x Little Grebe, 2x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo, MCa)

Aqualate

2x Hobby hunting over mere this pm, (KLe)

Claymills

Cattle Egret at 20:07 then flew north over R Dove to Willington Wetlands, Mandarin, 3x Goosander 3x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, 2x Swift, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, (DSc)

Thursday 19th June 2025

Alrewas

Gropper reeling in fields just north of Alrewas also nearby 4x Redshank, 2x LRP, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Grey Wagtail, (SCo)

Trent Washlands

2x Little Egret, Oystercatcher, Cetti's Warbler, Reed Warbler, 7x Swift, (AJa)

River Sow Meadows Stafford

Female Marsh Harrier, Little Egret, (RSw)

Tittesworth Water

2x Common Tern(plus 3juvs), 9x LRP, 8x Common Sandpiper(plus 3juvs), 5x Oystercatcher 6x Lapwing(plus3juvs), 2x Ringed Plover, (JHa)

Brizlincote Valley

Red Kite northbound towards the River Trent, (SJo)

Eccleshall

Red Kite over the tennis club at 19:30, (RGa)

Richmoor Hill

2x Red Kite over the crossroads on the A52, (GSt)

Wednesday 18th June 2025

Stanley Pool

Little Egret, Common Tern, Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 3x LRP, Spotted Flycatcher, (GBr)

Belvide Resv

14x Crossbill west at 15:18, 

Middleton Lakes

9x visible Avocets made up of 4 adults and 5 juveniles, (JTu)

Claymills

4x Mandarin, 2x Green Sandpiper, Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, 8x Whitethroat, (DSc)

Tuesday 17th June 2025

Florence Hill

Grasshopper Warbler, (AMa)

Doxey Marsh

This pm Shoveler, 6x Gadwall, 12x Swift, 3x LRP, Little Egret, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (CAFH)

Yoxall - Ridware - Kings Bromley

Red Kite over, (AGP)

Branston GPs

Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Redshank, Curlew, 33x Lapwing, 2x Ringed Plover, 5x Oystercatcher, 2x Great Egret, 10x Little Egret, 19x Pochard, 7x Shoveler, 5x Teal, 14x Shelduck(3 ducklings), 10x Egyptian Geese(6juv), 32x Little Grebe, 11x Common Tern, Red Kite, Hobby, RL Partridge, Gropper, 6x Linnet, (JWo)

Blithfield Resv

Tad Bay 19:00 to 20:30 - 5x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, 6x Oystercatcher, 2x Egyptian Geese, 8x Shelduck(4juvs), 5x Teal, YL Gull, 2x GBB Gull, Cuckoo, (JHi)

Monday 16th June 2025

Stanley Pool

4x Red Kite over Stanley Head, Spotted Flycatcher, (GBr)

Chasewater

Osprey over north, (GHa)

Wetley Moor

7x Stonechat, Garden Warbler, 12x Whitethroat, 4x Linnet, (LEH)

Middleton Lakes

Bittern, 2x LRP, Redshank, 4x Oystercatcher, 7x ad Avocet (+7 chicks), (CMa, RF)

Tittesworth Water

Green Sandpiper, 4x Curlew, 5x Redstart, 5x Common Tern, 4x Mandarin, (SGi)

                                                      Green Sandpiper by Steve Gibson

Cheadle

2x Red Kite, Hobby, 7x Buzzard, (LEH)

Branston GPs

3x Curlew, Redshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 30x Lapwing, 4x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, 39x Pochard, 4x Teal, 7x Shoveler, 18x Shelduck, 23x Little Grebe, 9x Egyptian Geese, 8x Common Tern, YL Gull, Hobby, 3x Cetti's Warbler,100x Sand Martin, 4x Garden Warbler, (JWo)

Trentham Lakes

Cetti's Warbler still, (LSt)

Sunday 15th June 2025

Stanley Pool

Spotted Flycatcher along path down to lake Stanley head side, Willow Tit by bridge, (GBr)

Cheddleton Heath

Red Kite over 06:00, (PCa)

Blithfield Resv

3x fem Mandarin, 2x Red Kite, Peregrine, 1st Sum Caspian Gull, 1st Sum YL Gull, 40+ Common Tern, 5x Ringed Plover, Curlew, (SRi)

Doxey Marsh

Black-tailed Godwit, 2x LRP, 3x Little Egret, Great Egret, Peregrine, 4x Shoveler, Common Tern, 5x Water Rail, 29x Gadwall, 17x Cetti's Warbler, Gropper, 2x Stonechat, (MBo, PDy, RRa, RSt, DTo)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 8x Oystercatcher, Common Tern, 9x Pochard, 6x Shelduck, (RPo)

Tittesworth Water

3x Common Tern(+3juvs), 8x LRP(+ 4juvs), 6x Common Sandpiper(+3juvs), Oystercatcher, 6x Lapwing, Curlew, 2x Willow Tit, Red Kite, Common Gull, 2x Grey Wagtail, (JOa, LH, TE, KH)

Branston GPs

2x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 10x Egyptian Geese(+6 Goslings), 14x Shelduck(+ducklings), 40x Gadwall, 7x Shoveler, 22x Pochard, Goldeneye Hobby, 4x Oystercatcher, 8x Lapwing, 3x Curlew, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Common Tern, c150x Sand Martin, (DSc)  -  Additional Red Kite over, (JWo)

Saturday 14th June 2025

Blithfield Resv

3x Little Tern off Beech Tree Point this morning, 4x Ringed Plover, Great Egret, 9x Little Egret,  (GJM)

Brookleys Lake

11x Crossbill over towards Alton Towers at 09:42, (RPo)

Cheadle 

Curlew over at 05:26, (LEH)

Belvide Resv

2x LRP, 9x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, 10x Gadwall, Pochard, 2x Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, (CAFH)

Branston GPs

2x Red Kite, 2x Hobby, Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 3x Oystercatcher, 20x Lapwing, Common Sandpiper, 14x Shelduck, 7x Shoveler, 4x Teal, 37x Pochard, 6x Common Tern, (DSc)

Staffs

Marsh Warbler trapped and ringed at a private undisclosed site. No further sign after release,

Friday 13th June 2025

Tittensor Chase

Hobby mobbed by House Martins, (AR)

Tittesworth Water

Juv Redstart, Common Tern (with 3 young), Lapwing (with 3 young), 4x Linnet rare here,  (SGi)

                                                         Redstart by Steve Gibson

Rocester

5x Swift over, (JDr)

Branston GPs

3x Curlew, Redshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 22x Lapwing, 2x Oystercatcher, Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, Goldeneye, 25x Pochard, 4x Teal, 9x Shoveler, 42x Gadwall, 18x Shelduck(4 ducklings), 13x Egyptian Geese(6juv), Gropper, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Grey Wagtail, (JWo, MCa)

Thursday 12th June 2025

Botteslow Flash

Red Kite over at 07:40 heading towards Eaton Park, (RTo)

Baddeley Green

Red Kite up and down A53 by the Nissa shop, (GBr)

Tittesworth Water

2x Common Tern(2juvs), 8x LRP(4juvs), 6x Common Sandpiper(4juvs), Snipe, 6x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher, Mandarin, (JOa, LH)

Middleton Lakes

Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, Bittern, Avocets, LRP, Oystercatchers, 2-3x Red Kite, Cuckoo, Cetti's Warbler, Common Tern, (RBe)

Branston GPs

2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 3x Oystercatcher, 12x Lapwing, Avocet, 5x Great Egret, 11x Little Egret, Wigeon, 44x Pochard, 3x Teal, 6x Shoveler, 76x Gadwall, 14x Shelduck, 10x Egyptian Geese, Black Swan, 28x Little Grebe, 6x Common Tern, YL Gull, Peregrine, Hobby, Gropper, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Wednesday 11th June 2025

Rudyard

Common Tern at 08:57, (Laxmi)

Alton 

8 to 10x Red Kite over mown fields, 2x Willow Tit, (TEy)

Blithfield Resv

2x Dunlin, 16x Ringed Plover, 7x LRP, 13x Oystercatcher, Redshank, 3x Avocet, Cuckoo, Red Kite, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, (AGP)

Chasewater

3x Pochard, 11x Greylag Geese, (CMa)

Cheadle

Hobby over Hales Hall pool late afternoon, (MEd)

Tucklesholme/Branston Leas

Cuckoo, 2x Garden Warbler, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 5x Oystercatcher, 4x Little Egret, 12x Gadwall, 9x Egyptian Geese (5juv), 4x Common Tern, (JWo)

Whitemoor Haye

Red Kite, 5x LRP, (JHi)

Tuesday 10th June 2025

Belvide Resv

Spotted Flycatcher still but elusive, (CMa, RF)

Cannock Chase

2x Cuckoo, Siskin, Sherbrook Valley, (HTy)

Branston GPs

2x Common Sandpiper, 3x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, 8x Oystercatcher, 10x Lapwing, 4x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 12x Pochard, 40x Gadwall, 6x Shoveler, 3x Teal, 18x Shelduck, 10x Egyptian Geese (6juv), 21x Little Grebe, 12x Common Tern, Peregrine, Hobby, 4x Garden Warbler, (JWo)

Monday 9th June 2025

Branston GPs

2x Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, 4x Ringed Plover, 23x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher, 3x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, 30x Pochard, 6x Teal, 8x Shoveler, 43x Gadwall, 21x Shelduck, 12x Egyptian Geese (6juv), 16x Little Grebe, 10x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, Gropper, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Garden Warbler, 100x Swift, 150x Sand Martin, (JWo, CEc, Dean, George)

Alvecote

Cuckoo, 100+ Swift, Common Tern, (MSc)

Sunday 8th June 2025

Tucklesholme

Cuckoo, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Garden Warbler, 4x Cetti's Warbler, Oystercatcher, 4x Common Tern, Wigeon, 6x Gadwall, Shelduck, 9x Egyptian Geese (5+juv), (JWo)

Audley

3x Red Kite over the bowling green at 14:15, (MJW)

Blithfield Resv

Caspian Gull (2y), 43x Ringed Plover, 9x Dunlin, Cuckoo, (GJM)

Tittesworth Water

2x Common Tern, Mandarin, 6x Common Sand (+3juv), 13x Oystercatcher, 5x Lapwing, 2x Curlew, 2x Willow Tit, Cuckoo, (JOa, LH, TE)

Doxey Marsh

Great Egret, Common Tern, 4x Water Rail, 8x Lapwing, Cetti's Warbler, (RSt)

Belvide  Resv

Shoveler, 11x Gadwall, 9x Pochard, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper,

Branston GPs

2x Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 10x Egyptian Geese (+6juvs,+8 young), 18x Shelduck, 38x Gadwall, 5x Shoveler, 2x Teal, 3x Pochard, 8x Lapwing, 2x Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, 3x Dunlin, 4x Common Tern, 200x Swift, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc, PFo) - Additional Spotted Flycatcher at the Deerfield, (JWo)

Trentham Lakes

Cetti's Warbler still, (LSt)

Saturday 7th June 2025

Blithfield Resv

Little Tern thru Blithe Bay  early am, 19x Dunlin, 40x Ringed Plover, Redshank, (GJM)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Cuckoo, Great Egret, (RPo)

Branston GPs

2x Great Egret, 10x Little Egret, 6x Egyptian Geese, 12x Shelduck, 6x Shoveler, 34x Gadwall, 2x Teal, 20x Pochard, Peregrine, Hobby, 3x Curlew, 6x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 4x Common Tern, 150x Swift, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Gropper, Lesser Whitethroat, (DSc)

Alrewas NMA

Cuckoo, 2x Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, 2x Shoveler, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Freehay

A Mandarin family party in the garden, (RCa)

                                                                By Richard Castles

Alvecote

Great Egret, Little Egret, 100+Swift, (MSc)

Friday 6th June 2025

Middleton Lakes

2x Black-necked Grebe North Pit, (GG)

Bignal End

6x Raven over Boon Hill at 09:15, (MJW)

Aqualate

Female Marsh Harrier, Cuckoo this afternoon, (KLe)

Branston GPs

5x Dunlin, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 5x Lapwing, 2x Oystercatcher, 6x Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 21x Pochard, 4x Teal, 5x Shoveler, 66x Gadwall, 15x Shelduck, 28x Little Grebe, Black Swan, 10x Common Tern, Peregrine, Hobby, 2x Stonechat (m+juv), Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 250+ Swift, (JWo)

Doxey Marsh

28x Gadwall, 100+ Swift, 4x Reed Warbler, Gropper, 7x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Stonechat, (CAFH)

Claymills

Adult Med Gull thru north at 20:40, 2x Little Egret, Oystercatcher, 5x Goosander +2juvs, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Garden Warbler, (DSc)

Thursday 5th June 2025

Doxey Marsh

2x Ringed Plover, 9x Gadwall, 5x Swift, 3x Reed Warbler, Gropper, 7x Cetti's Warbler, (CAFH)

Tittesworth Water

2x Common Tern, 8x LRP (+6juvs), 5x Common Sandpiper (+3juvs), 2x Oystercatcher (+2juvs), 5x Lapwing,  Little Egret, 2x Teal, 2x Willow Tit, (JOa)

North Staffs Moors

Hobby, (JOa)

Trentham Gardens

12x Little Egrets, (HFo)

Branston GPs

Redshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, 6x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, 6x Lapwing, 4x Oystercatcher, 5x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, 11x Pochard, 4x Shoveler, 5x Teal, 67x Gadwall, 12x Shelduck, 18x Little Grebe, 10x Common Tern, YL Gull, Peregrine, 2x Hobby, 300x Swift, Gropper, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Grey Wagtail, (JWo, DSc)

Wednesday 4th June 2025

Draycott in the Moors

2x Red Kite over Old Road at 14:30, (AR)

Staffordshire 

Wood Warbler at a undisclosed location.

By Tony Slater

Tucklesholme/Branston Leas

Cuckoo, 8x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Garden Warbler, 6x Linnet, 4x Common Tern, Little Egret, Oystercatcher, Pochard, Shelduck, 7x Egyptian Geese, 8x GC Grebe, (JWo)

Blithfield Resv

Red Kite, c45 Common Tern, 17x Ringed Plover, 5x Dunlin, 

Whitemoor Haye

Dunlin, Redshank, 4x LRP, 2x Common Tern, Yellowhammer, (SCo)

Tuesday 3rd June 2025

Whitemoor Haye

Corn Bunting, Oystercatcher, LRP, Swift, Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, (PJT)

Trentham Gardens

A pair of Little Egrets with five young on nest, (HFo)

Branston GPs

Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, 11x Lapwing, 4x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 24x Pochard, 4x Mandarin, 14x Shelduck, 19x Little Grebe, 14x Common Tern, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, Hobby, Cuckoo, Grey Wagtail, 350x Swift, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Greenfinch, (JWo)

Monday 2nd June 2025

River Sow Meadows Staffoed

Female Marsh Harrier, Cuckoo, Mandarin, Little Egret, (RSw)

Rudyard

2x Sanderling, 6x Ringed Plover, LRP, 8x Oystercatcher, (TEe)

Branston GPs

Sanderling, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 2x Curlew, 4x Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, Redshank, 24x Lapwing, 4x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, Water Rail, 2x Goosander, 12x Pochard, 12x Shelduck, 78x Gadwall, 8x Shoveler, 5x Teal, 9x Egyptian Geese, 23x Little Grebe, 6x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, Hobby, Cuckoo, 4x Stonechat, 2x Grey Wagtail, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 8x Linnet, 200+ Swift, (JWo)

Blithfield Resv

40+ Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, 24x Dunlin, 3x Sanderling, 4x Oystercatcher, 7x Common Tern, 2cy YL Gull, 2x Little Egret, (CMa, RF) -  Wheatear still in Blithe Bay on the broken bridge, 

Sunday 1st June 2025

Blithfield Resv

5x Sanderling, 34x Dunlin, 76x Ringed Plover, 2s YL Gull, (PAn)  -  Little Stint still Tad Bay, (HF, SE)  -  Wheatear, 3x Red Kite, Great Egret, Little Egret, (MJa)

Stanley Pool

2x Barnacle Geese to 04:40, (GBr)

Belvide Resv

Arctic Tern thru, Marsh Harrier, 2x Red Kite, 2x Great Egret, Spotted Flycatcher, Yellow Wagtail, Yellowhammer, 3x Dunlin, 6x Ringed Plover, 8x Common Tern, c250x Swift, 

Rudyard

Little Stint still at north end, (SSe)

Tittesworth Water

10x LRP (+3juvs), 6x Common Sandpiper (+3juvs), 5x Oystercatcher (+3juvs), 6x Lapwing, 2x Mandarin, 2x Common Tern, 2x Willow Tit, Grey Wagtail, (JOa, LH)

Branston GPs

3x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, Peregrine, 14x Shelduck, 3x Shoveler, 30x Gadwall, 20x Pochard, 2x Teal, 22x Lapwing, 4x Oystercatcher, Ringed Plover, 6x Common Tern, c200x Swift, Grey Wagtail, 3x Stonechat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 6x Linnet, (DSc) - Additional Cuckoo, Green Woodpecker, Red Kite, 6x Little Egret, (JWo)

Tucklesholme

2x Little Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese, 16x Gadwall, 50x Swift, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Trentham Lakes

Cetti's Warbler still, Willow Tits, (LSt)

Saturday 31st May 2025

Blithfield Resv

06:00 to late morning Little Stint off Pastry point at 06:25 also 110x Ringed Plover, c19x Sanderling, 40x Dunlin, 40x Common Tern, (SRi)  -  Little Stint still at 09:45, 13x Sanderling at Dairy House, c110x Ringed Plover, c35x Dunlin, (PAn)

Lichfield

Osprey south of Lichfield and east of Wall flew SE over the A5127 at 07:00, (PAn)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Little Tern briefly at 09:43 (site tick), (RPo)

Rudyard

Sum plum Little Stint at north end, 10x Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, (SSe) 

                                                         Little Stint by Steve Gibson

Stanley Pool

Common Tern, Ringed Plover, (GBr)

Middleton Lakes

12x Avocet (+4 chicks), 2x Little Egret, 3x Bittern, (STu)

Rugeley

Osprey over at 15:00 following river towards Wolseley Bridge, Red Kite at 15:30 and a Peregrine shortly after, 12x Swift, (AFi)

Whitemoor Haye

Sanderling, 2x Dunlin, Ringed Plover, (TPe)

Brewood

Red Kite, (JDu)

Alrewas NMA/Catholme

Red Kite, Hobby, Cuckoo, Little Egret, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Shelduck, 10+ Common Tern, Grey Wagtail, (JWo)

Branston GPs

2x Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 16x Shelduck, 5x Shoveler, 4x Teal, 20x Pochard, Hobby, 3x Oystercatcher, 25x Lapwing, 8x Common Tern, 4x Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 6x Linnet, (DSc)

Friday 30th May 2025

Blithfield Resv

Little Tern, 2x Whimbrel early am, 89x Ringed Plover, 13x Sanderling, 38x Dunlin, Hobby, juv Stonechat, (MDJ, GJM)  -  17:50 to 19:05 no sign of the Little Tern, 1s Caspian Gull, 6x Sanderling, c30x Dunlin, c80x Ringed Plover, (TPe)

Belvide Resv

6x Sanderling, Curlew, 13x Ringed Plover, 9x LRP, 2x Dunlin, Spotted Flycatcher, 

Rudyard

Kittiwake on mud at north end but oiled, 3x Little Egret, 5x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 2x Grey Wagtail, (SSe)

                                                             Kittiwake by Steve Seal

Whitemoor Haye

Red Kite, Common Tern, LRP, Oystercatcher, Pochard, Shoveler, Garden Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, Swift, (PJT)

Tittesworth Water

Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, Oystercatcher, Lapwing, Common Tern, Curlew, Hobby, (LEH, AEH)  -  Cuckoo, 8x Goosander, Ringed Plover, (SGi)

Middleton Lakes

3x Bittern, Hobby, Cuckoo, 2x LRP, 2x Redshank, Avocets, Common Tern, Garden Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, (DJB)

Stanley Pool

Osprey over west at 16:45, (GBr)

Doxey Marsh

LRP, Cetti's Warblers, Reed Warblers, Sedge Warblers, (KLe)

Branston GPs

3x Sanderling, Dunlin, Curlew, Redshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, 6x Oystercatcher, 6x Ringed Plover, 18x Lapwing, 2x Great Egret, 10x Little Egret, 2x Goosander, 29x Pochard, 14x Shelduck, 2x Teal, 7x Shoveler, 45x Gadwall, 11x Egyptian Geese, WC Pintail, 22x Little Grebe, 15x Common Tern, 3x YL Gull, 2x Red Kite, 2x Hobby, Peregrine, Gropper, 3x Stonechat, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 5x Garden Warbler, (JWo, DSc, CEc, Dean, MCa)

Little Aston

2x Red Kite west over Recreation ground at 17:30, (PAn)

Trentham Lakes

Cetti's Warbler still, (LSt)

Thursday 29th May 2025

Blithfield Resv

21x Sanderling, (MDJ, GJM)  -  100+ Ringed Plover, 27x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, (GJM)

Rudyard

6x Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x LRP, Common Sandpiper, (SSe)

Doxey Marsh

1-2x Hobby, Common Tern, Lesser Whitethroat, 6x Water Rail, 3x Stonechat, (RSt)  -  2x Shelduck, 4x Gadwall, 29x Swift, Great Egret, Little Egret, Common Tern, Red Kite, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (CAFH)

Tittesworth Water

2x Common Tern, 9x LRP, 4x Common Sandpiper, 8x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher (+3juvs), 3x Grey Wagtail, 2x Teal, (JWo, LH)

Staffs County showground

Red Kite at 11:00, (DGl)

Branston GPs

Redshank, 4x Ringed Plover, 7x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher, 2x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, 7+ Mandarin (6+ducklings), 2x Teal, 9x Pochard, 58x Gadwall, 18x Shelduck, 14x Egyptian Geese, 16x Little Grebe, 18x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, 2x Hobby, 4x Stonechat (2juv), 4x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Garden Warbler, 400x Swift. Also Alder Woodwasp (possibly the 2nd Staffs record).

                                                      Alder Woodwasp by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Wednesday 28th May 2025

Tittesworth Water

Ringed Plover, 23x Mandarin, (SGi)

                                                       Ringed Plover by Steve Gibson

Rudyard

13x Ringed Plover, 6x Oystercatcher, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, (SSe)

Blithfield Resv

Wader count this am, 123x Ringed Plover, 9x Sanderling, 28x Dunlin, also 2x Great Egret, (GJM)  -  This evening Great Egret, 35+ Common Tern, 120+ Ringed Plover, 20+ Dunlin, 8+ Sanderling, (SRi)

Mayfield

6x Swift over at 12:45, (MMe)

Tuesday 27th May 2025

Blithfield Resv

110x Ringed Plover, 10x Sanderling, 23x Dunlin, Great Egret, (GJM)  -  18:00 117x Ringed Plover, 8x Sanderling, 10x Dunlin, (RPo)  -  Also this evening 2x Curlew, ad YL Gull, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, (JHi)

Burslem

Red Kite over Acreswood this am, (PMo)

Croxden Quarry

7x Sanderling at 16:25, (RPo)

Stanley Pool

Common Tern, Yellow Wagtail, (GBr)

Belvide Resv

Cattle Egret, 2x Sanderling, 10x Dunlin, 13x Ringed Plover, 2000x Swift, 

Branston GPs

24x Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, 10x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher, 4x Great Egret, 7x Little Egret, 16x Pochard, 68x Gadwall, 14x Shelduck, 5x Shoveler, 2x Teal, WC Pintail, 2x Mandarin, 11x Egyptian Geese, 18x Little Grebe, 17x Common Tern, 3x YL Gull, Peregrine, Hobby, 4x Stonechat, 6x Cetti's Warbler, 500x Swift, (JWo, CEc, Dean)

Monday 26th May 2025

Stanley Pool

Little Egret, 3x LRP, 4x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Branston GPs

7x Sanderling, Dunlin, Redshank, Oystercatcher, 15x Lapwing,  Red Kite, 2x Hobby, Peregrine, Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, 26x Pochard, 38x Gadwall, 2x Teal, 22x Shelduck, 6x Egyptian Geese, 16x Common Tern, YL Gull, 22x Little Grebe, 500x Swift, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Grey Wagtail, (JWo, DSc)

Blithfield Resv

94x Ringed Plover, 2x Sanderling, 21x Dunlin, (MPR, GJM)  -  96x Ringed Plover, 18x Dunlin, 2x Sanderling, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, 25x Common Tern, Red Kite, (SRi)

Cannock Chase

Red Kite drifted over Sherbrook Valley,  (Baz)

Belvide Resv

2x Sanderling, 

Florence Hill

Red Kite, Little Egret over, 12x Swift, (AMa)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Ringed Plover, 2x Peregrine, Red Kite, 10x Common Tern, 400x Swift, (ICW)  -  Osprey over to the SW at 17:23, (TPe)

Tittesworth Water

2x Osprey together, Cuckoo, Ringed Plover, (SGi)

                                                            Osprey  by Steve Gibson

Staffs

Sunday 25th May 2025

Stanley Pool

2x Ringed Plover, (GBr)

Blithfield Resv

5x Sanderling, 13x Dunlin, 37x Ringed Plover, (MPR, GJM)  -  Afternoon counts 6x Sanderling, 47x  Ringed Plover, 23x Dunlin, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, (SE, HF)

                                                     Sanderlings by Steve Edwards

Branston GPs

Osprey over North pit this am, 16x Dunlin north over Ashy pit at 12:45, (JWo)  -  Osprey headed back south  from Sandy pit at 09:44, Red Kite over west at mid day, 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, 16x Shelduck, 40x Gadwall, 6x Pochard, 2x Hobby, 2x Peregrine, 4x Oystercatcher, Ringed Plover, 8x Common Tern, c150x Swift, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 5x Linnet, 2x Stonechat, (DSc)  -  Additional 6x Oystercatcher, 2x Ringed Plover, 4x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, YL Gull, 12x Common Tern, 52x Gadwall, 16x Shelduck, 6x Pochard, 500x Swift, (JWo, ASt, DSc)

Whitemoor Haye

3x Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, 11x LRP, 9x Oystercatcher, 46x Lapwing, 18x Common Tern, 19x Gadwall, 8x Pochard, Great Egret, 5x Little Grebe, Red Kite, Cuckoo, 2x Cetti's Warbler,  (SCo,WeBS -  Also a Hobby, (MBr)

Silverdale CP

2x Oystercatcher over High Lane car park at 08:00, also Gropper, (PCa)

Doxey Marsh

2x Cuckoo, Red Kite, 2x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 1st year Caspian Gull, Common Tern, (MBo, PDy, RRa, RSt, DTo)

Tittesworth Water

Sanderling, 8x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, 6x Oystercatcher(with 4 juvs), 5x Lapwing, 4x Mandarin, 2x Common Tern, 2x Grey Wagtail, (JOa, LH)

Middleton Lakes

Temminck's Stint still JW north at 15:20, (TPe)

Croxden Quarry

8x Ringed Plover, (RPo)

Belvide Resv

Red-crested Pochard still, 17x Ringed Plover, 4x Dunlin, Sanderling, 6x LRP, Redshank, 4 pairs Common Tern, 

Saturday 24th May 2025

Stanley Pool

5x LRP this am, (GBr) 

Branston GPs

Little Stint, 16x Ringed Plover, 8x Dunlin, 2x Greenshank Redshank, 6x Oystercatcher, Osprey briefly, 2x Red Kite, Hobby, Peregrine, 14x Common Tern, Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 5x Pochard, 20x Gadwall, 8x Mandarin, 14x Shelduck, 10x Egyptian Geese, 90x Swift, (JWo, CEc, PFo)  -  Little Stint to 10:14 only along with 12x Ringed Plover when flushed by a Peregrine, Ruff, 14:50 to 20:50 at least, 4x Sanderling 13:44 to 14:08 at least, 2x Great Egret,  20x Shelduck, 30x Gadwall, 3x Shoveler, 2x Teal, 18x Pochard, 2x Goosander, 14x Common Tern, c200x Swift, Cetti's Warbler, Gropper, 4x Stonechat,  (DSc)

                                                           Little Stint by Jon Woodcock

                                                            Ruff by Dave Scattergood

Blithfield Resv

Pair of Garganey still at 10:13, (RPo)  -  Red Kite, 21x Ringed Plover, 7x Dunlin, 4x Oystercatcher, 32x Lapwing, 2x Little Egret, 25x Shelduck, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, Goosander, Shoveler, 25x Gadwall, 75+ GC Grebe, 2x GBB Gull, 4x YL Gull, (JWo)

Belvide Resv

Red-crested Pochard, Ad Kittiwake to 09:52 only, 2x Sanderling, 11x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 

Whitemoor Haye

Whimbrel, 3x Ringed Plover, Cuckoo, (SCo)  -  Sanderling early am (ICW)

Perton

Cuckoo heard this am grid ref SO8498, (IWi)

Middleton Lakes

Temminck's Stint JW north also 4x Dunlin, (MB)

Tucklesholme

Whimbrel 16:45 t0 17:00 only, Shoveler, LRP, 3x Common Tern, 30x Swift, Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, (DSc)  -  Marsh Harrier thru north at 18:50, (TCo)

Coombs Valley RSPB

4x Pied Flycatcher, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, (Mke, Jke)

Barton GP

Cuckoo calling, 3x Common Tern, Oystercatcher, LRP, (TCo)

Friday 23rd May 2025

Whitemoor Haye

Red Kite, Common Tern, Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, LRP, Oystercatcher, (PJT)

Burston Marsh

5x LRP, Hobby, Little Egret, (AEa)

Belvide Resv

2x Avocet, 

Branston GPs

4x Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, Mandarin, 20x Shelduck, 2x Shoveler, 48x Gadwall, 2x Teal, 22x Pochard, Red Kite, Hobby, 2x Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, 12x Lapwing, 10x Common Tern, 40x Swift, 4x Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Trentham Lakes

Cetti's Warbler, 3x Willow Tit, Peregrine, (LSt)

Thursday 22nd May 2025

Branston GPs

Greenshank, 2x Redshank, 4x Ringed Plover, 6x Oystercatcher, 19x Lapwing, 3x Great Egret, 12x Little Egret, 8x Mandarin (7 ducklings), 3x Pochard, 8x Shoveler, 47x Gadwall, 2x Teal, 24x Shelduck, WC Pintail, 10x Egyptian Geese, 16x Common Tern, 24x Little Grebe, Peregrine, Hobby, 4x Stonechat (2juv), 10x Linnet, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Grey Wagtail, 500x Swift, (JWo)

Belvide Resv

Cattle Egret, Great Egret, 6x LRP, 4x Common Tern, 2x Yellow Wagtail,

Tittesworth Water

2x Common Tern, 2x Oystercatcher (3juvs),  Curlew, 3x Lapwing, 7x LRP, 7x Common Sandpiper, 4x Grey Wagtail, 3x Spotted Flycatcher, (JOa, LH)

Oakamoor

Cuckoo, (TEy)

Brewood

Spotted Flycatcher, Cuckoo, (JDu)

Trentham Lakes

Cetti's Warbler, Peregrine, (LSt)

Blithfield Resv

2x Sanderling, 3x Dunlin, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, 16x Ringed Plover, (GJM)

Wednesday 21st May 2025

Branston GPs

3x Whimbrel, 3x Ringed Plover, 16x Lapwing, 6x Oystercatcher, 3x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, 4x Goosander, 4x Shoveler, 2x Teal, 28x Shelduck, 13x Pochard, 44x Gadwall, WC Pintail, 10x Egyptian Geese, 18x Little Grebe, 18x Common Tern, YL Gull, Water Rail, Peregrine, Hobby, Cuckoo, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 10x Linnet, 100x Swift,  (JWo, DSc)

Blithfield Resv

Little Tern off Beech Tree Point at 10:02, c40x Common Tern, a late Fieldfare along Admaston Reach, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, Hobby, Little Stint, Sanderling, 3x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 23x Ringed Plover, ad YL Gull, Great Egret, (SRi)  -  This pm 1cy Caspian Gull. 4x LRP, 4x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Little Egret, Mandarin with young, (PAn)

Bishton Pools

2x Common Tern fishing this am, (MnA)

Cheddleton - Consall Valley

"The Boat" S to Bascule bridge: 46 species inc 2x Spotted Flycatcher, Red Kite, also 2x Barnacle Geese, and Egyptian Goose amongst wildfowl on pools between bridges 47 and 48, (ALa)

Stafford

Red Kite east over Victoria Park at 14:40, (AR)

Middleton Lakes

2-3x Bittern, 12x Avocet, 2x Redshank, Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, Cuckoo, Water Rail, 2-4x Hobby, (RBe)

                                                             Cuckoo by Rob Bendelow

Staffs

Tuesday 20th May 2025

Branston GPs

Little Stint still, 6x Ringed Plover, 6x Oystercatcher, 20x Lapwing, 3x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, 6x Pochard, Shoveler, 18x Shelduck, 33x Gadwall, 6x Egyptian Geese, 23x Little Grebe, 10x Common Tern, Peregrine, Hobby, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Garden Warbler, 100x Swift, 6x Linnet, (JWo)

                                                          Little Stint by Jon Woodcock

Knypersley Resv

Pied Flycatcher, Redstart, Lesser Whitethroat, (GBr)

Belvide Resv

2x Avocet this afternoon, 

Tittesworth Water

Avocet, 2x Shelduck, Cuckoo, 2x Common Tern, (SGi)

                                                           Avocet by Steve Gibson

Cannock Chase

3x Cuckoo, Hobby, 2x Woodcock, (CMa, RF, LRM)

Monday 19th May 2025

Branston GPs

Temminck's Stint still, Little Stint, 15x Ringed Plover, Curlew, 4x Oystercatcher, 18x Lapwing, Great Egret, 12x Little Egret, 12x Pochard, 36x Gadwall, 4x Shoveler, 2x Teal, 22x Shelduck, 10x Egyptian Geese, 14x GC Grebe, 22x Little Grebe, 12x Common Tern, YL Gull, Marsh Harrier, Peregrine, Hobby, Yellow Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, 4x Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 100x Swift, 8x Linnet, 4x Stonechat (2juv), (JWo, SBI, George, CMa, Ray)

Middleton Lakes

Turnstone on JW south, (SPA)

Blithfield Resv

Temminck's Stint still this am, (GWi)  -  this afternoon, Temminck's Stint, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, (KCl)

Doxey Marsh

2x Wood Sandpiper still from Hexagonal hide this am, (HKi)  -  2x Wood Sandpiper to 15:30 at least, LRP, 2x Common Tern, Cuckoo, Little Egret, (MBo)  -  Red Kite over west, (ASt) - The Wood Sands to 19:50 then flew high NE calling, (SRi)

Rudyard Lake

Cuckoo calling at 04:40, (Laxmi)

Walton

Red-breasted Goose (of unknown origin) along the River Trent, (YBl)

                                                                By Yvonne Bland

Cannock Orbital

Barn Owl outside SCS last night, (JDu)

Sunday 18th May 2025

Branston GPs

2x Temminck's Stint on Ashy pit islands to 08:49 only when they flew off north. A 3rd Temminck's Stint flew from the north side of Ashy pit heading high to the north 30 mins after the other two, (JWo)   -  2x Temminck's again 15:00 to 15:43 then lost view, ad/sum Med Gull, 2x Great Egret, Hobby, Ringed Plover, 10x Lapwing, 12x Pochard, 12x Common Tern, 10x Swift, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Blithfield Resv

Temminck's Stint at Pastry Point, (MPR, GJM)  -  Temminck's Stint still at 10:25 also 3x Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, Great Egret, (PAn)  -  Sanderling Tad Bay, (MJa)  -  2x Knot, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, (LCl)  -  2x Knot, 2x Sanderling, 13x Ringed Plover, Great Egret, (TWo)

                                                        Temminck's Stint by GJ Mant

Tucklesholme

Whimbrel on the wading ponds, (TWy)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Lesser Whitethroat, 11x Reed Warbler, Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, (RPo)

Doxey Marsh

Cuckoo, 2x Common Tern, Oystercatcher, Lesser Whitethroat, Gropper, (RSt)  -  2x Wood Sandpiper mid afternoon, (CS)  -  The  2x Wood Sandpiper still at 19:20 from Octagonal hide at 19:20, (RRa)  -  This evening 8x Shelduck, 20x Swift, 2x LRP, Cuckoo, Gropper, 6x Cetti's Warbler, (CAFH)

Belvide Resv

Osprey thru NW at 14:20, Cattle Egret, 

Tittesworth Water

13x Oystercatcher, (+4juvs), 5x Common Sandpiper, 7x LRP, 4x Lapwing, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, Cuckoo, Redstart, 2x Common Tern, Grey Wagtail, (JOa, LH, TE, KH)

North Staffs Moors

2x Red Kite, Cuckoo, 5x Swift, (JOa)

Stanley Pool

3x Whimbrel this morning, (GBr)

Whitemoor Haye

LRP, Oystercatcher, 36x Lapwing, 5x Common Tern, (LCl)

Churnet Valley Consall RSPB

3x Pied Flycatcher, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, Redstart, Mandarin, 6x Lapwing, Dipper, Grey Wagtail, Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, (DSc)

Saturday 17th May 2025

Doxey Marsh SSSI  (The Shrike is the second record for Staffs, the first was at Whitemoor Haye in 2010)

Woodchat Shrike along railway line by Rugby club, (GHa)  -  Woodchat Shrike still at 15:55 between Stafford Rugby club pitches and Tillington flash Doxey Marsh, (RPo)  -  At 17:10 now very much on the marsh at  Doxey viewable from main track by hide, (MBo).  -  The Shrike showed to 20:26 from path by main hide then flew east towards Dead arm, (DTo),  -  Cuckoo for around 20 mins at 06:30 (MGo).  -  Also 11x Shelduck, Cuckoo still 20:10, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, 7x Cetti's Warbler, (CAFH)  -  In addition Cattle Egret (breeding plumage on Creswell Flash, (TWo)

                                                                 By Bill Goldstraw

Middleton Lakes

Temmincks Stint still, 8x Ringed Plover thru north, Avocets, Bitterns, Cuckoo's, Hobby, 2x Common Sandpiper, Snipe, (RGi)

Rudyard Lake

Osprey circling over at 09:09 then drifted off north, (Laxmi)

Whitemoor Haye

1-2x Hobby, Common Tern, LRP, Cetti's Warbler, (BSa)  -  Black Tern on roadside pit from quarry entrance, 2x Hobby, 4x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Little Egret, 8x Oystercatcher, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)

The Roaches

Cuckoo, (Mke, Jke)

Endon

Red Kite over at 15:30, (DCo)

Tittesworth Water

Pied Flycatcher, (KBr)

Branston GPs

Temminck's Stint, 3x Little Egret, 12x Shelduck, 7x Shoveler, 16x Pochard, 12x Lapwing, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Ringed Plover, 16x Common Tern, 70x Swift, 2x Stonechat, Great Egret, Cuckoo, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)  -  Temminck's Stint still this evening on Ashy pit island, (JWo)

Tucklesholme

Red Kite, 2x Little Egret, 8x Egyptian Geese, Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Garden Warbler, (DSc)

Trentham Gardens

Goosander, 2x GC Grebe, Little Egret, 4x Reed Warbler, (STu)

Leek

11x Swift around John Street at 20:30, (RWi)

Belvide Resv

Cattle Egret, 

Alrewas NMA

2x Hobby, Cuckoo, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Oystercatcher, 4x Common Tern, Shoveler, 2x Shelduck, (JWo)  -  Green Woodpecker, (TCo)

Blithfield Resv

8x Sanderling, 16x Ringed Plover, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, (GJM, MPR)

Barton GPs

Cuckoo, Common Sandpiper, (TCo)