Returning Staffs 2025 Arrival
Tucklesholme
Whinchat still, (SMG) - 3x Whinchat, (MPa, JPa), 2x Whinchat by first pond along railway, (JAl) - - 2x Whinchat, 2x Gropper, 8x Reed Warbler, 11x Sedge Warbler, 9x Cetti's Warbler, Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, Goosander, 4x Shelduck, 18x Gadwall, 2x Egyptian Geese, 2x Little Grebe, 9x GC Grebe, Grey Wagtail, 5x Linnet, (JWo)
Endon - Denford
2x Wheatear, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Gropper, Whitethroat, Green Woodpecker, 2x Lapwing, (DCo)
Branston GPs
Cattle Egret still on Newbold pit, (SMG)
Blithfield Resv
White Stork over causeway (Knepp bird ?),
Berryhill
5x Wheatear also 3x Little Egret at Botteslow, (RTo)
Westport Lake
Red Kite over east at 12:45, (AR)
Doxey Marsh
Redstart, 2x Garden Warbler, Grasshopper Warbler, 12x Cetti's Warbler, 7x Sedge Warbler, 4x Reed Warbler, 9x Willow Warbler, 8x Blackcap, 3x Whitethroat, 5x Shelduck, 2x Common Sandpiper, 6x Snipe, Great Egret, Little Egret, (MBo, PDy, DTo)
Barton Turns
Cuckoo calling but mobile, (SCo)
Carmountside Flash
Green Sandpiper, Whitethroat, 3x Teal, (ALa)
Stanley Pool
4x Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, (ALa) - Wheatear, Goosander, 3x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, (GBr)
Longsdon Mill Pool (Devil's Lane)
2x Oystercatcher, 3x Snipe, (ALa)
Deep Hayes
Mandarin, 3x Teal, (ALa)
Cheddleton Valley
From The Boat 4x Teal, Sedge Warbler, 2x Oystercatcher, (ALa)
Tittesworth Water
8x Common Sandpiper, 7x LRP, 7x Oystercatcher, Snipe, 3x Goosander, Pied Flycatcher, 3x Blackcap, Siskin, 20x Swallow, Mute Swan, (JOa, LH, TE, KH)
North Staffs Moors
Yellow Wagtail, 2x Wheatear, (JOa)
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4x Wheatear, (JDu)
Belvide Resv
11x Wheatear (inc 3x Greenland), 2x Redstart, Hobby, 6x Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail,
Astonfields Balancing Resv Stafford
2x Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, (RSt)
Chatterley Whitfield
4x Whitethroat, Cetti's Warbler, Sedge Warbler, this afternoon, (SHi)
Whittington STW
23x Wheatear, some males showing Greenland plumage, (MDJ)
Shenstone
5x Wheatear in Derry farm horse paddocks along Footherley Lane this evening also Yellow Wagtail over, (PAn)
Whitemoor Haye
This evening Red B Goose, 3x Dunlin, 4x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, (TPe)
Consall Forge
Lesser Whitethroat, (PWi)
WMI site near Four Ashes
Wheatear, 2x LRP, (JDu)
Middleton Lakes
Wheatear, 9x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 16x Avocet, Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, LRPs, Ringed Plovers, Redshank, (MB)
Chasewater
Sand Martin roost increased to 925, Water Rail, Cuckoo, Reed Warbler, (CW)
