Saturday 4th January 2025

Uttoxeter Quarry

2x Whooper Swan, 5x Pintail, 4x Goldeneye, 10x Shoveler, Mandarin, Redshank, Dipper, (RPo)

Stanley Pool

Female Pintail, 10x Goosander, (GBr)

Tittesworth Water

15x Common Gull, 104x Wigeon, 4x Goosander, 19x Teal, 2x Pochard, Snipe, 5x Willow Tit, (SGi)

Cheadle

Hales Hall Pool - Water Rail, Goosander, (RPo)  -  Mill Road 12x Siskin, (TDu)

Church Eaton

16x Goosander on pool, (ABe)

Trentham Gardens

5x Gadwall, 2x Goosander, GC Grebe, (STu)

Belvide Resv

Lesser Scaup still, 2x Pintail, Brambling, 3x Little Egret, 3x Stonechat, 17x Siskin, 4x Snipe

Whitemoor Haye

3x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 3x Goldeneye, Scaup, Greenfinch, 12x Siskin,  (AGP)

Tucklesholme

Green Sandpiper, 4x Snipe, 4x Shelduck, 5x Goldeneye, 2x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 4x Stonechat, (MJ)

Blithfield Resv

2x Goldeneye, 2x Pochard, 5x Goosander, 2x Great Egret, (MJa)

Branston GPs

Fem Marsh Harrier hunting again midday then flew off east at 12:06, 20x Little Grebe, Little Egret, 3x Egyptian Geese, 2x Shelduck, 16x Wigeon, 26x Pochard, 10x Goldeneye, 9x Goosander, 18x Curlew, 200x Lapwing, Water Rail, 4x GBB Gull, Cetti's Warbler, Chiffchaff, 3x Redpoll, (DSc)

Friday 3rd January 2025

Orgreave

Barn Owl over the A513 at 07:30, (SCo)

Whitemoor Haye

Slavonian Grebe still, 2x juv Whooper Swan, 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, 150x Lapwing, 4x Goldeneye, 6x Pochard, 30x Shoveler, 2x Egyptian Geese, 14x Little Grebe, Cetti's Warbler, 50x Fieldfare, 150x Redwing, (JWo)  -  Slavonian Grebe still at 15:25, 500x Lapwing, 2x GBB Gull, 7x Yellowhammer, Stonechat, (DSc)

                                                     Slavonian Grebe by Jon Woodcock

Alrewas NMA

Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 2x Goosander, 12x Wigeon, (JWo)

Catholme (from footpath)

Great Egret, Little Egret, 7x Goldeneye, 4x Goosander, 2x Chiffchaff, (JWo)

Swynnerton

Red Kite alongside the A51 at 12:00, (CPe)

Aqualate

Adult male Garganey, (PJo)

Branston GPs

Female Marsh Harrier hunting at 13:42 then drifted off south, imm Peregrine, 2x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 5x Egyptian Geese, 2x Shelduck, 40x Teal, 16x Pochard, 3x Goldeneye, Goosander, 200x Lapwing, Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 6x Snipe, 2x Redpoll, 2x Siskin, (DSc)

Ipstones

58x Fieldfare, 12x Redwing in a field off Belmont Road,  (PBe)

Chasewater

Roost  -  Ad Iceland Gull, ad Med Gull, 2cy Caspian Gull, ad YL Gull, 59x Common Gull, Shag, (CW)

Tucklesholme

Great Egret, Goldeneye, Stonechat, (NCo)

Thursday 2nd January 2025

Tittesworth Water

38x Common Gull, 3x Pochard, 4x Wigeon, 13x Teal, 3x Goosander, 2x Snipe, 2x Willow Tit, (SGi)  -  4x Willow Tit, Barn Owl, 2x Snipe, 4x Wigeon, Pochard, 23x Common Gull, (JOa)

Stanley Pool

Female Pintail, 3x Goosander, Redpoll, (GBr)

Doxey Marsh

124x Wigeon, 24x Shoveler, 22x Gadwall, 115x Lapwing, 4x Water Rail, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Redpoll, Stonechat, Chiffchaff, (MBo, PDy, GPr, RRa)

Middleton Lakes

Great Egret, Little Egret, 120x Lapwing, 70x Wigeon, 100x Teal, 3x Shoveler, 2x Stonechat, (JDr)

Dimmingsdale

2x Woodcock over at dusk, (TEy)

Branston GPs

Woodcock, 12x Snipe, Ringed Plover, 2x Green Sandpiper, 19x Curlew, 250x Lapwing, Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 14x Goosander, 6x Goldeneye, 28x Pochard, 4x Shelduck, 10x Wigeon, 2x Gadwall, 2x Shoveler, 63x Teal, 2x Egyptian Geese, 42x Little Grebe, 5x GBB Gull, Barn Owl, 12x Stonechat, Cetti's Warbler, Chiffchaff, 15x Fieldfare, 100x Redwing, 30x Linnet, 7x Greenfinch, 10,000x Starling, (JWo, DSc, CEc)

Barton Marina

Green Sandpiper, 26x Pochard, 24x Wigeon, 11x Little Grebe, 5x GC Grebe, Chiffchaff, (JWo)

Chasewater

Roost - ad Iceland Gull, 1200x Herring Gull, 31x Common Gull, Shag still, (CW)

Belvide Resv

Lesser Scaup, Caspian Gull, YL Gull, 24 Pintail, 14x Snipe, Goshawk, Shelduck, 3x Little Egret, Peregrine, 2x Stonechat, 

Whitemoor Haye

Slavonian Grebe still, 2x Whooper Swan, 4x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret,  6x Pochard, 7x Goldeneye, 40x Wigeon, 6x Gadwall, 14x Shoveler, Goosander,  7x Little Grebe, 1w Common Gull, 12x Linnet, (SCo)

Wednesday 1st January 2025

Blithfield Resv

Red-throated Diver still, (GJM)

Uttoxeter Quarry (footpaths along the River Tean are flooded)

10x Whooper Swan, 5x Pintail, 5x Goldeneye, 2x Shelduck, (RPo)

Belvide Resv

Lesser Scaup, 10x Pintail, 2x Water Rail, 

Gailey Resv

Male Merlin, Pintail, 36x Pochard, 8x Goldeneye, 14x Gadwall, Teal, 2x Marsh Tit, Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 8x Little Grebe, 35x Skylark, (SRi)

Radford Meadows Stafford

4x Black-tailed Godwit, 166x Golden Plover, 478x Lapwing, 4x Little Egret, 10x Pintail, 12x Gadwall, 50x Shoveler, 3x Goosander, Shelduck, 100s Wigeon/Teal, (RSw)

Endon - Denford

25x Wigeon, 50x Teal, 2x Mandarin, 4x Fieldfare, Green Woodpecker, Redpoll, (DCo)

Whitemoor Haye

Slavonian Grebe, 2x imm Whooper Swan, 3x Great Egret, 3x Red Kite, 1w Common Gull, Cetti's Warbler, (SRi)  - Slavonian Grebe, 2x Whooper Swan, Merlin, 8x Goldeneye, 14x Shoveler, 21x Gadwall, 51x Wigeon, 6x Pochard, 2x Shelduck, 2x GBB Gull, 4x Great Egret, 2x Stonechat, 9x Little Grebe, 250x Lapwing, Peregrine, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)

Chasewater

Ad Iceland Gull in roost, (SRi)

Trentham Gardens

5x Water Rail, 3x Little Grebe, Wigeon, 12x Greenfinch, 50x Siskin, (HF, SE)

Greenfield Farm (near Rudyard)

Tree Sparrow off Dingle road, (GBr)

Endon area

2x Barn Owl, (GBr)

Knypersley Resv

2x Mandarin, Willow Tit, (GBr)

Holden Lane pool

2x Ring-necked Parakeet, (GBr)

Ford Green NR

4x Ring-necked Parakeet, (GBr)

Branston GPs 

SMPs/Lower Farm only - 2x Green Sandpiper, Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 2x Goldeneye, 4x Pochard, 3x Shelduck, 2x Gadwall, 6x Shoveler, 20x Teal, 2x Egyptian Geese, 16x Little Grebe, ad YL Gull, 5x GBB Gull, 5x ad Common Gull, 2x Stonechat, Siskin, 2x Redpoll, 2x Greenfinch, 2x Skylark, 10x Fieldfare, 5x Goldcrest, (JWo)  -  Male Merlin, 2x Great Egret, 24x Wigeon, 22x Shoveler, 40x Pochard, 9x Goldeneye, 12x Goosander, 16x Curlew, 290x Lapwing, Ringed Plover, 2x Green Sandpiper, Snipe, Woodcock, 2x YL Gull, Cetti's Warbler, Chiffchaff, (DSc)

Rocester JCB

North Lake - 2x Goosander, 2x GC Grebe, (JDr)

Little Bank Top Farm (North of Dilhorne)

3x Red Kite, 20x Raven at 09:25, (DSc)