Wednesday 23rd April 2025

Whitemoor Haye

This morning, 14x Arctic Tern, Whimbrel thru, Sanderling, 2x Dunlin, (ICW)  -  This afternoon Arctic Tern, Wheatear, 3x Dunlin, Oystercatcher, LRP, Yellow Wagtail, 4x Whitethroat, 2x Sedge Warbler, (BSa)  -  This evening Sanderling, 5x Dunlin, Black-tailed Godwit, (TPe)  -  also this pm Redshank, 2x Yellowhammer, 8x Oystercatcher,  (JHi)

Gailey Resv

Arctic Tern briefly at 06:30, Yellow Wagtail, Sedge Warbler, Oystercatcher, Gadwall, (JIs)

Stanley Pool

Dunlin, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP, Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Belvide Resv

Wood Sandpiper still, Whimbrel flew out, Greenshank, 5x Black-tailed Godwits thru, Ringed Plover, Black Tern, 4x Arctic Tern, 3x Common Tern, Hobby, 2x Yellow Wagtail,  -  Also Great Egret, Little Egret, 3x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 4x Common Tern, Swift, Garden Warbler, 2x RL Partridge, (CMa, RF)

Furnace Grange Trescott

Whimbrel to 10:44 at least, 5x Wheatear, (IMo)

Trentham Park

Red Kite, Linnets, (BMo)

Branston GPs

3x Black-tailed Godwit briefly at 07:50, 2x Oystercatcher, 18x Shelduck, 20x Gadwall, 3x Common Gull, Green Woodpecker, 2x Stonechat, 2x Gropper, Roe buck Deer briefly unusual here, (DSc)  -  2x Whimbrel flew SW at 06:45, Redshank, Ringed Plover, 3x Common Sandpiper, 14x Lapwing,  4x Oystercatcher, Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 12x Shoveler, 18x Gadwall, 34x Shelduck, 11x Pochard, 2x Mandarin, Goldeneye, 18x GC Grebe, 24x Little Grebe, 5x Common Gull, Green Woodpecker, juv Peregrine, 4x Gropper, 4x Garden Warbler, 6x Cetti's Warbler, 6x Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, 2x Stonechat, 15x Linnet, (JWo)

Blithfield Resv

20x Arctic Tern off Beech Tree Point this afternoon, (JAl)

Berryhill

Whinchat, 3x Wheatear, (RTo, JOa)  -  This evening 2x Whinchat, 2x Wheatear, (IBu)

Chatterley Whitfield

2x Reed Warbler, (SHi)

Croxall Lakes

3x Arctic Tern briefly, Whitethroat, (BSa)

Tucklesholme

Grasshopper Warbler, 3x Whitethroat, 2x Common Tern, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Shelduck, 6x Gadwall, (BSa)

Middleton Lakes

Male Marsh Harrier, Great Egret, Little Egret, Arctic Tern, 12x Avocet, Oystercatchers, 3x Redshank, Greenshank, 2x LRP, Hobby, Bittern, Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, (RBe)

                                                               Hobby by Rob Bendelow

Swallow Moss

Cuckoo this evening, (TEe)

Cannock Chase

7x Tree Pipit, 2x Cuckoo, 4x Whitethroat, 2x Stonechat, (DBa, CEv, MLe, BJo)