Wednesday 9th April 2025

 Returning Staffs 2025 Arrivals

Whitfield Valley CP 

Grasshopper Warbler singing at 05:50, (NHo)

Stanley Pool

Male Ring Ouzel in fields at south end of the lake, 4x Oystercatcher, LRP, (GBr)

Gailey Resv

4x Yellow Wagtail in fields to the NW, Reed Warbler, Great Egret, 3x Oystercatcher, 2x Gadwall, (JIs)

Doxey Marsh

3x Sedge Warbler, 2x Grasshopper Warbler, 6x Willow Warbler, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, 3x Little Egret, 3x Goosander, 6x Water Rail, Wigeon, (MBo, PDy)  -  Female Marsh Harrier at 17:00, (NGr, BA)  -  Also LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, (BGo)

Coombes Valley

6x Pied Flycatcher, (RSPB)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Female Marsh Harrier 17:00 to 17:05 and again at17:40 also Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Curlew, Redshank,  (RPo)

Biddulph

2x Oystercatcher, 11x Lapwing, (SHi)

Whitemoor Haye

3x Black-tailed Godwit, (RBe)

Cannock Chase

6x Brambling, Tree Pipit, 15+ Willow Warbler, 7x Stonechat, (DBa, CE, PB, AB, BJ, DE)

Consall

Dipper on the Churnet, (JJo)

Blithfield Resv

Dunlin, 5x LRP, Redshank, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Egyptian Geese, (JTu)

Tuesday 8th April 2025

Stanley Pool

Male Redstart and male Wheatear in fields south end of lake, male Yellow Wagtail by boats, (GBr)

Middleton Lakes

Reed Warbler singing from causeway, White Wagtail, Avocets, LRP, Willow Warblers (GG)

Blithfield Resv

4x Little Gull briefly of BTP at 11:30, (GJM)  -  4x Great Egret, LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, 5x Shelduck, (CMa, RF)

Wombourne

Pickerills Hill - Ring Ouzel this am, (ADe)

Baggeridge Pool

Reed Warbler (per Trish)

Trentham Estate

Green Woodpecker near the monument, (AR)

Burston Marsh

5x LRP, Little Egret, (AEa)

Essington Pool area

Whitethroat, Blackcap, Skylarks, (DBa)

Berryhill

Wheatear at the Palletstacks mound, (BBo)

Whitemoor Haye

Slavonian Grebe still, Green Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, Willow Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, Blackcap, Shelduck, (PJT)  -  3x Yellowhammer 2x Ringed Plover, Whitethroat at Sittles farm corner, (CMa, RF)

Branston GPs

Little Egret, Curlew, 2x Wigeon, 5x Shelduck, (CMa, RF)  -  2x Redshank, 4x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 7x Curlew, 20x Lapwing, 4x Oystercatcher, 4x Little Egret, 6x Pochard, Mandarin, 36x Shelduck, 6x Egyptian Geese, 32x Little Grebe, 20x GC Grebe, Peregrine, Reed Warbler, 10x Willow Warbler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 7x Swallow, 100x Sand Martin, 14x Linnet, White Wagtail, Stonechat, (JWo, George)

Belvide Resv

4x adult Little Gull still, Ruff, 2x Redshank, Curlew, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 5x LRP, 

Gailey

Red Kite soaring over the A5 between Gailey Island  and Stretton at 12:45, (IGr)

Barton under Needwood

Swallow at Bar Lane, (KBi)

Monday 7th April 2025

Returning Staffs 2025 Arrival

Dimmingsdale (Alton)

Male Pied Flycatcher this am, (TEy)

Belvide Resv

8x ad Little Gull, Sedge Warbler,

Stanley Pool

LRP, 3x Oystercatcher, Goosander, (GBr)

Himley Great Pool

2x Oystercatcher briefly to 11:20 only, (CTi)

Middleton Lakes

Fem type Marsh Harrier, 14x Avocet, Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP, 5+ Redshank, 4x Oystercatcher, 13x Snipe, 2x Bittern, Great Egret, 4x Shelduck, 2x Swallow, (SPA)

Barton Marina

10x Wigeon, (SCo)

Sneyd Green

Osprey over heading north at 15:25, (JOa)

North Staffs Moors

Ring Ouzel, 4x Wheatear, (NDP)

Chasewater

Goshawk flew in across from the Burntwood bypass and flew around the boggy heathland behind the sailing club, 21x Chiffchaff, 11x Willow Warbler, 5x Blackcap, (CMa, LRM)

Branston Leas

Cattle Egret flew up from cattle field, (TWy)

Whitemoor Haye

Slavonian Grebe and the 2x Whooper Swan still, Curlew, 6x Gadwall, 6x Shelduck, 7x Pochard, 2x Wigeon, 3x Goldeneye, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)  -  2x LRP, 4x Yellowhammer, 7x Little Grebe, c20x Linnet, 2x Cetti's Warbler, many Chiffchaff, Skylark, (TSl)

                                                     Yellowhammer by Tony Slater

Burton

Avocet feeding on the patio of a residential garden in Horninglow this am,  (film received by BSt, ASt)

Biddulph

2x Oystercatcher, 4x Lapwing at 17:00, (SHa)

Berryhill

2x Stonechat, Lapwing, (IBu)

Branston GPs

Cattle Egret flew from South Pit to Tucklesholme at 19:30, Reed Warbler singing from the canal plantation, Great Egret, Little Egret, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, Snipe, 2x Curlew, 4x Oystercatcher, 24x Lapwing, 28x Shelduck, 9x Goldeneye, 6x Pochard, 38x Shoveler, 31x Gadwall, 70x Teal, 16x Wigeon, 2x Egyptian Geese, 24x Little Grebe, 20x GC Grebe, Green Woodpecker, 12x Linnet, 2x Redpoll, Grey Wagtail, Stonechat, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 8x Willow Warbler, 8x Swallow, 80x Sand Martin, (JWo)

Trentham Lakes

Cetti's Warbler still, (LSt)

Sunday 6th April 2025

Belvide Resv

5x Little Gull still, 1w Caspian Gull, Yellow Wagtail, Common Sandpiper, LRP, 

Berryhill

Male Ring Ouzel from the Palletstacks track at 09:00, Wheatear in the Lap paddock, (RTo)   -  Ouzel still present in the lower paddocks to 14:00 at least, (IBu)

                                                        Ring Ouzel by Clive Wood

                                                       Ring Ouzel by Steve Edwards

Morfe Lane

Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, Wheatear, (WN)

Doxey Marsh

Whitethroat, Willow Warbler, Cetti's Warblers, Blackcaps, Great Egret, Little Egret, Swallow, Sand Martins, Stonechat, (RSt)

Enville

Yellow Wagtail on farmland, (WN)

Stanley Pool

2x Willow Tit, Goosander, Willow Warbler, Blackcap, 2x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Chasewater

Adult Little Gull this afternoon, (BHa)  -  also 300x Sand Martin, (ICW)

Whitemoor Haye

Slavonian Grebe still, Red Kite, 2x Goldeneye, Common Sandpiper, (ICW)

Burston 

4x LRP, (AEa)

Gailey Resv

4x House Martin, sev Swallows, 50x Sand Martin, also nearby Micklewood Lane, 8x Shoveler, 2x Teal, (RRi)

Tittesworth Water

2x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 8x Curlew, 5x Oystercatcher, 6x Lapwing, 8x Goosander, 3x Mandarin, 4x Teal, Red Kite, 5x Willow Warbler, Blackcap, 30+ Swallow, House Matin, 5x Sand Martin, 7x Fieldfare, (JOa, LH, TE, KH)

Tucklesholme

2x Avocet on the spit 16:25 to 16:32 only, 4x Shoveler, Cetti's Warbler, Willow Warbler, (DSc)

Weeping Cross Stafford

House Martin, (HKi)

Trent Washlands

2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Swallow, 2x Shelduck, 25x Wigeon, 19x Teal, 2x Gadwall, (AJa)

Branston GPs

7x Curlew, Willow Warbler, Sand Martins, (NCo)  -  Great Egret, Little Egret, 28x Shelduck, 2x Mandarin, 15x Wigeon, 50x Shoveler, 4x Pochard, 12x Goldeneye, 8x Curlew, 4x Oystercatcher, 12x Lapwing, Ringed Plover, Snipe, ad YL Gull, Common Gull, Green Woodpecker, 6x Swallow, 60x Sand Martin, Stonechat, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 7x Willow Warbler, 12x Linnet, (DSc)

Blithfield Resv

Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail 3x Great Egret, Common Sandpiper, Ruff, Dunlin, 4x LRP,  4x Oystercatcher, 2x Mandarin, (SRi)

Branston Leas

Mandarin on the River Trent, (TWy)

Saturday 5th April 2025

Returning Staffs 2025 Arrival

Belvide Resv

5x Little Gull off the dam, 

Gailey Resv

Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, Shoveler, 2x Oystercatcher, 19x Sand Martin, 8x Fieldfare over and nearby at Mansty Lane 132x Fieldfare, (SRi)

Whitemoor Haye

Slavonian Grebe still from opposite quarry entrance, 2x Whooper Swan still from S bends near Sittles farm, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 6x Little Grebe, 4x GC Grebe, Redshank, Green Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 2x Great Egret, 38x Shoveler, 3x Wigeon, 6x Gadwall, 2x Willow Warbler, 30x Swallow, 2x House Martin, 5x Sand Martin, 14x Fieldfare thru,  (SCo)

Doxey Marsh

2x LRP, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Snipe,  female Marsh Harrier, 8x House Martin, 4x Swallow, 42x Sand Martin, 2x Willow Warbler, 4x Blackcap, 8x Cetti's Warblers, 2x Shelduck, 40x Teal, 20x Gadwall, 12x Shoveler, 2x Little Egret, (MBo, GPr, RRa)

Mere Farm

Marsh Harrier heading high NE, Red Kite, Swallows, House Martins, Sand Martins, (WN)

Berryhill

Female Wheatear, 2x Sand Martin, (JOa)

Tittesworth Water

Garganey, 4x LRP, 3x Snipe, 5x Oystercatcher, 2x Goosander, 2x Mandarin, 6x Teal, 2x Willow Warbler, 11x Chiffchaff, (SGi, IB)

Longsdon Mill Pool

2x Wheatear, (SGi)

Bobbington

Redstart, (WN)

Blithfield Resv

3x Great Egret, Ruff, Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, (MJa)

Cannock Chase

Cuckoo this morning, called 3 times at the back of Castle Ring, (GTa)  -  4x Swallow, 21x Linnet, 3x Greenfinch, Red Kite, (MKe, JKe)

Rugeley

Red Kite drifting over towards Wolseley at 16:35, (AFi)

Branston GPs

20x Shelduck, 14x Wigeon, 30x Shoveler, Pochard, 6x Goldeneye, Oystercatcher, 6x Curlew, 11x Lapwing, Ringed Plover, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Swallow, 40x Sand Martin, Yellow Wagtail thru north, White Wagtail, Stonechat, Willow Warbler, 12x Linnet, 5x Redpoll, (DSc)

JCB Rocester

29x Barnacle Geese, 2x GC Grebe, Oystercatcher, (JDr)

Rudyard Lake

 Swallow this afternoon, (Laxmi)

Picherills Hill Womborne

Wheatear, (GCl)

Swindon

Green Sandpiper, Goosander at the flood, (GCl)

Staffs Moorlands

2x Curlew, (SHi)

Alrewas NMA

2x Oystercatcher, 2x Little Egret, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Swallow, 15x Sand Martin, Willow Warbler, (JWo)

Wychnor

Redshank, 2x Ringed Plover, 5x Lapwing, Little Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese, (JWo)

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, 8x Little Gull early evening, 

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)  -  2x Ruddy Shelduck, (SE, HF)

                                                    Common Sandpiper by Steve Edwards

Berryhill

Wheatear, Curlew thru, (RTo)

Highgate Common

2x Wheatear on nearby farmland, (WN)

Whitemoor Haye

Slavonian Grebe still, Oystercatcher, Redshank, Shelduck, (PJT)  -  adult Little Gull, 5x Common Tern on main pit, Slavonian Grebe still, (TPe)  -  This evening adult Little Gull, 5x Common Tern, Green Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 10x Oystercatcher, 3x Goldeneye, 2x Shelduck, 4x Little Grebe, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Little Egret, (BHa)

Branston GPs

6x ad Little Gull, 3x Common Gull, YL Gull, Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, Redshank, 9x Curlew, 18x Lapwing, 4x Ringed Plover, Snipe, 4x Oystercatcher, 16x Wigeon, 30x Shelduck, 46x Shoveler, 7x Goldeneye, 7x Pochard, 14x Gadwall, 65x Teal, Great Egret, Little Egret, Water Rail, 36x Little Grebe, 7x Swallow, House Martin, 170x Sand Martin, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Willow Warbler,  Peregrine, Red Kite, Stonechat, Grey Wagtail, (DSc, JWo)

Chatterley Whitfield

Singing Willow Warbler, (SHi)

Cannock Chase

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

Uttoxeter Quarry

Adult winter Little Gull at 16:30 to 18:30 at least, also the Bewick's Swan back at 17:07 to 18:30 at least, Redshank, Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Swallow, House Martin, 20x Sand Martin, (RPo)

Aqualate

17x Little Gull this afternoon, (PJor)

Doxey Marsh

4x ad Little Gull thru, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x LRP, Red Kite, Swallow, 2x Egyptian Geese,(RRa),  -  5x House Martin, Sand Martin, Little Egret, Water Rail, Stonechat, Blackcap, (RSt)

Stanley Pool

Common Sandpiper, (GBr)

Dimmingsdale (Alton)

2x Red Kite, Swallow, (TEy)

Trentham Lakes

Cetti's Warbler still, (LSt)

Thursday 3rd April 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).