Friday 4th April 2025

Returning Staffs 2025 Arrival

Middleton Lakes

Redstart flew from JW to canal at 10:15, (DCo, RCh)  -  Marsh Harrier this am also Dunlin, (GG)

Belvide Resv

6x Little Gull off the dam at 11:42, Ruff still, 

Gailey Resv

Ad winter Little Gull to at least 09:50, 3x Great Egret, Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, 45x Fieldfare, (JIs)

Blithfield Resv

8x 1w Little Gull, 6x Common Tern, 4x male Ruff, Common Sandpiper, (GJM, MDJ)

Berryhill

Wheatear, Curlew thru, (RTo)

Highgate Common

2x Wheatear on nearby farmland, (WN)

Whitemoor Haye

Slavonian Grebe still, Oystercatcher, Redshank, Shelduck, (PJT)

Branston GPs

6x ad Little Gull, 10x Lapwing, 2x Ringed Plover, Snipe, 10x Wigeon, 20x Shelduck, 40x Shoveler, 2x Goldeneye, Little Egret, 20x Sand Martin, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Chatterley Whitfield

Singing Willow Warbler, (SHi)

Cannock Chase

Tree Pipit east of the Shooting Butts, 3x Bramblings,  3-4x Willow Warbler, (PBa)

Thursday 3rd March 2025

Branston GPs

Brief visit at 09:00 - 2x Ruddy Shelduck, 12x Shelduck, 14x Wigeon, Goldeneye, Little Egret, Oystercatcher, Ringed Plover, 5x Lapwing, 2x Stonechat, Cetti's Warbler, Blackcap, 2x Willow Warbler, 4x Linnet, Redpoll, (DSc)  -  11x Curlew, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Green Sandpiper, 6x Oystercatcher, 18x Lapwing, Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, 27x Shelduck, 8x Goldeneye, 12x Pochard, 16x Wigeon, 24x Gadwall, 56x Shoveler, 36x Little Grebe, ad Caspian Gull, YL Gull, Red Kite, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Willow Warbler, 25x Sand Martin, 2x Redpoll, 3x Greenfinch, 12x Linnet, 2x Fieldfare, (JWo)

Brook village

Swallow over at 11:45, (Laxmi)

Tittesworth Water

3x Goosander, 6x Teal, 5x Oystercatcher, 4x Snipe, LRP, 3x Swallow, 2x Fieldfare, Common Gull, 4x Willow Warbler, (JOa, LH)

Doxey Marsh

3x Black-tailed Godwit, 9x Cetti's Warbler, Great Egret, 2x Shoveler, numerous Chiffchaff, (KLe)

Middleton Lakes

6x Avocet, 2x Redshank, Bittern 3x Blackcap, (CMa, DG)  -  9x Avocet, Ruddy Shelduck, 4x Redshank, Bittern, several Cetti's Warbler, numerous Chiffchaff, (RCa, FCa)

Aqualate

Black-necked Grebe, drake Garganey, 3x Great Egret, Marsh Harrier, 10x Sand Martin, (PJor)

Belvide Resv

Ruff on the north shore, 

Blithfield Resv

Whooper Swan, LRP, (GJM)

Chasewater

Breeding plumage Black-necked Grebe this evening, 25x Sand Martin, 2x Oystercatcher, (CW)

Wednesday 2nd April 2025

Chasewater

One Little Gull this am, (JJH, SJH)  -  this evening Redshank, Little Gull, still, (CW)

Drayton Bassett

2x Red Kite east at 11:05, also House Martin, (MSm)

Branston GPs

SMPit, Sum/plum Med Gull, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x YL Gull, (PCo, CRe)

Tittesworth Water

2x Willow Warbler, Sand Martin, 14x Chiffchaff, Red Kite, 4x Goosander, 3x Mandarin, (SGi)

Tucklesholme / Branston Leas

3x Oystercatcher, 2x Lapwing, 2x Little Egret, Goosander, Goldeneye, 4x Shelduck, 12x Gadwall, 2x Egyptian Geese + 7 Goslings, 10x GC Grebe, Green Woodpecker, 6x Cetti's Warbler, Willow Warbler, 14x Blackcap, Swallow, 10x Sand Martin, (JWo)

Berryhill

Willow Warbler at 18:55, (IBu)

Hem Heath Woods

Blackcap, (AR)

Tuesday 1st April 2025

Returning Staffs 2025 Arrival

Blithfield Resv

5x Little Gull (4adults + 1st sum) south this am, (GJM)  -  Great Egret, Little Egrets, 3x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, (RBe)

                                                               LRP by Rob Bendelow

Doxey Marsh

6x Little Gull from main hide at 10:55, (NGr)  -  Also 2x LRP, (BGo)  -  Still one Little Gull at 15:20, (RRa)

                                                         Little Gull By Bill Goldstraw

Longsdon Mill Pool on Devil's Lane

LRP this morning, (ALa)

Burntwood

Singing Whitethroat along the Burntwood bypass opposite Hammerwich Cemetary, (GHa)

Belvide Resv

3x Little Gull this afternoon, 

Uttoxeter Quarry

Bewick's Swan at 17:10 to 18:34 only, also 3x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper,  (RPo)

                                                        Bewick's Swan by Richard Powell

Chasewater

12x Little Gull at 16:20, (CW)

Branston GPs

Jack Snipe, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Redshank, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Oystercatcher, 26x Lapwing, 7x Curlew, 2x Little Egret, 11x Goldeneye, 12x Pochard, 2x Mandarin, 31x Shelduck, 4x Egyptian Geese, 41x Little Grebe, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Willow Warbler, 9x Blackcap, Cetti's Warbler, Stonechat, 4x Swallow, 50x Sand Martin, 8x Linnet, 4x Greenfinch, Grey Wagtail, (JWo, CEc, George).