Saturday 11th January 2025

Uttoxeter Quarry

6x Whooper Swan, Pink-footed Goose, Goldeneye, Goosander, 2x Pochard, 8x Shoveler, 20x Gadwall, 280x Wigeon, 450x Teal, 2x Snipe, 600x Lapwing, Dipper, (RPo)

Belvide Resv

One redhead Smew still, 2x Pintail, Mandarin, 15x Shelduck, 

Alrewas NMA

8x Goldeneye, 2x Goosander, 3x Little Egret, Water Rail, Redshank, Green Sandpiper, Snipe, 4x Chiffchaff, (ICW)  -  2x Redshank, 16x Snipe, Great Egret, Little Egret, 6x Goldeneye, 18x Goosander, 4x Little Grebe, 2x GC Grebe, (JWo)

Gailey Resv

Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, Egyptian Goose, 40x Pochard, 14x Goldeneye, 250x Golden Plover, Peregrine, (SRi)

Stanley Pool

2x Woodcock, 2x Pintail, 10x Goosander, 5x Common Gull, (GBr)

Baldwins Gate

2x Little Egret, 150x PFG heading SW this morning, (RWh)

Little Bank Top Farm (north of Dilhorne)

6x Red Kite, 40x Raven at 13:00, (DSc)

Tucklesholme

90x Wigeon, 30x Gadwall, 62x Teal, 4x Pochard, 68x Lapwing, (DSc)

Branston GPs

Limited visibility - 30x Teal, 2x Lapwing, Curlew, 4x Snipe, (DSc)

Tittesworth Water

Goldeneye, Pochard, 27x Wigeon, 13x Teal, 8x Goosander, 17x Common Gull, 5x Willow Tit, 19x GC Grebe, 21x Lapwing, Snipe, (SGi, IB, AP)

                                                         Goldeneye by Steve Gibson

Biddulph Moor

8x Tree Sparrow, (ALo)

Gun Hill Moor

20x Reed Bunting, (ALo)

Trentham Gardens

3x Goosander, 4x Snipe, (STu)

154

200x Pied Wagtail on the sewers, 5x Snipe, Green Woodpecker, 2x Chiffchaff, (JDu)

Wychnor

5x Snipe, 8x Wigeon, (JWo)

Friday 10th January 2025

Aqualate

Female Merlin at 09:15, (KHa)

Blithfield Resv

11x adult Whooper Swans dropped in at 11:50,  c180 PFG NW at 11:40, (GJM, MDJ)

                                                        Whooper Swans by GJ Mant

Middleton Lakes

3x Goldeneye, Goosander, 2x Great Egret, Peregrine, 3x Chiffchaff, (SPA)

Radford Meadows Stafford

44x Snipe, 7x Pintail, 5x Goosander, Common Gull, (CDa)

Trentham Gardens

Jack Snipe and 6x Snipe feeding on the Trent, 3x Shoveler, 18x Gadwall, 6x Goosander, juv YL Gull, 32x Redwing, (RGi)

Branston GPs

14x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 3x Lapwing, Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 2x Goldeneye, 32x Pochard, 3x Shelduck, 17x Wigeon, 4x Shoveler, 15x Gadwall, 316x Teal, 5x Egyptian Geese, 37x Little Grebe, 3x ad Common Gull, 2x ad YL Gull, 10x ad GBB Gull, Green Woodpecker, 7x Stonechat, 6x Skylark, 10,000x Starling, (JWo)

Branston WP

16x Gadwall, 2x Little Grebe, (JWo)

River Sow Meadows Baswich - Milford Canal)

Green Sandpiper, 3x Snipe, 150x Wigeon, 120x Teal, 10x Gadwall, 6x Shoveler, 8x Little Grebe, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Stonechat. At Tixall Wide a Barn Owl, (RSw)

Chasewater

Roost - 1w Caspian Gull, Shag, (JAl)  -  WeBS count - 22x Teal, 12x Shoveler, 19x Goldeneye, 13x Goosander, 14x Little Grebe, 13x GC Grebe, Shag, (CW)

Belvide Resv

3x redhead Smew still and Lesser Scaup still, 

Thursday 9th January 2025

Blithfield Resv

9x Whooper Swan moving NW at 10:15, Pink-footed Goose, Red Kite, (GJM)  -  Red-throated Diver and drake Common Scoter off the dam, (AWa, MPi)

Tittesworth Water

4x Whooper Swan, (AMay)

Belvide Resv

3x Redhead Smew at west end, Lesser Scaup still,

Stoke 

A Chiffchaff feeding around the edge of Sainsbury's car park in the centre of Stoke, (STu)

Whitemore Haye

Female Merlin, (RBe)

                                                                  By Rob Bendelow

Keele

Female Hawfinch at the Uni, (MSu)

Branston GPs

20x Curlew, 2x Green Sandpiper, 8x Snipe, 60x Lapwing, 2x Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 6x Goosander, 2x Goldeneye, 10x Pochard, 24x Gadwall, 4x Shoveler, 20x Wigeon, 271x Teal, 2x Shelduck, 5x Egyptian Geese, 41x Little Grebe, ad Common Gull, 3x ad YL Gull, 12x GBB Gull, ad Peregrine, 6x Stonechat, Chiffchaff, 2x Skylark, 10,000x Starling, (JWo)

Chasewater

Ad Iceland Gull, 3w Caspian Gull, Shag, (JAl)

Endon - Denford

46x Snipe, 11x Lapwing, 5x Mandarin, 14x Redpoll, Water Rail, (DCo)

Wednesday 8th January 2025

Cannock Chase

Great Grey Shrike still this am, (GJM)  - additionally 6x Stonechat, 29x Reed Bunting in same tree, (DBa, KM, CE, ML, PB)

Gailey Resv

12x Golden Plover, 59x Pochard, 9x Gadwall, 8x Goldeneye, (JIs)

Wergs Hall

Hawfinch at private site, (NMo)

Blithfield Resv

Red-throated Diver still, 2x Great Egret, YL Gull, GBB Gull, Shelduck, (DBa, KM, CE, ML, PB)

Chasewater

Roost - Ad Iceland Gull, 2x Caspian Gull (1w and 3w), Med Gull, Shag still, (JAl)

Branston GPs

20x Curlew, 4x Green Sandpiper, 14x Snipe, 160x Lapwing, 3x Great Egret, Little Egret, 32x Goosander, 3x Goldeneye, 24x Pochard, 12x Wigeon, 266x Teal, 2x Shelduck, 46x Little Grebe, 1w Caspian Gull, 3x ad YL Gull, 9x GBB Gull, Green Woodpecker, Barn Owl, 6x Stonechat, Chiffchaff, 4x Siskin, 2x Redpoll, 10,000x Starling, (JWo)

Barton Marina

2x Goosander, 46x Pochard, 10x Wigeon, 6x Little Grebe, 15x Fieldfare, (JWo)

Calf Heath WMI site

Ad YL Gull, 60x Golden Plover, 7x Shoveler, (SRi, KCl)

Tuesday 7th January 2025

Blithfield Resv

Tundra Bean Goose briefly then flew south, (GJM)

Stanley Pool

Female Pintail briefly at 09:30, 6x Snipe, (GBr)

Whitemoor Haye

2x juv Whooper Swan still, Great Egret, 2x Stonechat, no sign of the Slav Grebe, (JAl)

Dimmingsdale (Alton)

6x Woodcock over at dusk, (TEy)

Chasewater

Roost - Ad Iceland Gull,  Caspian Gull, 2x ad YL Gull, Shag, (JAl, CW)

Branston GPs

Woodcock, 9x Snipe, 20x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, 320x Lapwing, Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, 2x Goosander, 4x Goldeneye, 21x Pochard, 3x Shelduck, 23x Gadwall, 328x Teal, 12x Wigeon, 38x Little Grebe, 5x Egyptian Geese, 1w Caspian Gull, ad YL Gull, 2x Common Gull, 8x GBB Gull, imm/f Marsh Harrier, ad Peregrine, Green Woodpecker, 5x Stonechat, 2x Chiffchaff, 6x Greenfinch, 70x Fieldfare, 150x Redwing, 10,000x Starling, (JWo)

Barton Marina

36x Pochard, 13x Wigeon, 4x Little Grebe, (JWo)

Monday 6th January 2025

Chasewater

Roost - Ad Iceland Gull, 3x ad YL Gull, Shag, (JAl)

Sunday 5th January 2025

Branston GPs

Tundra Bean Goose (site record) flew into the John Taylor School field from SMP2 feeding with Greylags at 15:30, 4x Shelduck, Green Sandpiper, ad YL Gull, 9x ad GBB Gull, 5x ad Common Gull, juv Peregrine, (JWo)

                                                 Tundra Bean Goose by John Woodcock

Alrewas NMA

3x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 8x Goldeneye, 2x Goosander, 6x Chiffchaff, (SCo)

Alrewas GP

279x Wigeon, 2x Pintail, 33x Teal, 7x Shelduck, 7x Chiffchaff, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)

Baldwins Gate

Little Egret, (RWh)

Denford - Endon

12x Snipe on Ashes Pool, 100x Lapwing, 37x Wigeon, 39x Teal, 3x Redpoll, 3x Fieldfare, (DCo)

Gailey Resv

Great Egret, 50x Pochard, 5x Goldeneye, (SRi)

Calf Heath WMI

7x Shoveler, 33x Golden Plover, (SRi)

Belvide Resv

Lesser Scaup still, YL Gull, GBB Gull, 7x Common Gull, 

Madeley STW

3x Chiffchaff this afternoon, (TRo)

Cheddleton - Consall

2x Willow Tit, 100x Redwing, 8x Goldcrest, Teal, (DSc)

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

96x Wigeon, 28x Gadwall, 82x Pochard, 39x Shoveler, 43x Teal, 5x Shelduck, Pintail, 7x Goldeneye, 2x Whooper Swan, 4x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, Green Sandpiper, Merlin, Peregrine, 2x GBB Gull, 2x Egyptian Geese, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo).  -  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)

Little Bank Top Farm (North of Dilhorne)

3x Red Kite, 20x Raven, (DSc)

Alrewas NMA

3x Snipe, Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 3x Goosander, 30x Wigeon, Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Wychnor

4x Snipe, Little Egret, (JWo)

Chasewater

Adult Iceland Gull and adult YL Gull in the roost,  (BSt)

Radford Meadows

10x Goosander, 5x Pintail, 3x Shelduck, 417x Wigeon, 91x Shoveler, 148x Golden Plover, 200x Lapwing, Snipe, (RSw)

Audley (Park Lane)

11x Shoveler, 40x Wigeon, 55x Teal. Also nearby 2x Little Egret, 60x Golden Plover. 100x Lapwing, (STu)

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)