Friday 12th September 2025

Middleton Lakes

2x Whinchat on west side of JW, Garganey, Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Green Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, Greenshank, Bittern, Pochard, (SPA)

Stanley Pool

2x Common Sandpiper, (GBr)

Blithfield Resv

20x Curlew Sandpiper, 92x Ringed Plover, 18x Dunlin, 2x Ruff, 3x Greenshank, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, Marsh Harrier, Hobby, Caspian Gull, Common Gull, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, 16x Black Tern, 2x Great Egret, 3x Wheatear, 15x Yellow Wagtail, (HF, SE)

                                                        Wheatear by Rob Bendelow

Middle Mayfield

Swift over this am, (BRe)

Alvecote

Great Egret, Little Egret, 60x Shoveler, (MSc)

Weaver Hills

Wheatear, 60x Linnet, 2x Skylark, (TEy)

Gailey Resv

2x Common Sandpiper, Stonechat, (JIs)

Doxey Marsh

3x Great Egret, 2x Cattle Egret, c60x Lapwing, Green Sandpiper,  Peregrine, (DBr)

Branston GPs

13x Curlew, 3x Greenshank, 2x Dunlin, 4x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 6x Snipe, 3x Great Egret, 28x Little Egret, 141x Pochard, 62x Shoveler, 96x Gadwall, 7x Wigeon, 151x Teal, 10x Mandarin, Barnacle Goose, 7x Egyptian Geese, 81x Little Grebe, 1w Caspian Gull, 4x YL Gull, GBB Gull, Peregrine, 2x Hobby, Wheatear, Whinchat, 2x Stonechat, Swift, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Grey Wagtail, (JWo, CEc)

Thursday 11th September 2025

Middleton Lakes

Ruff, Greenshank, 3x LRP, Ringed Plover, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Garganey, Pochard, Whinchat, Yellow Wagtail, (SPA) 

Branston GPs

2x Red-crested Pochard still, 11x Curlew, 2x Greenshank, 6x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 10x Lapwing, 6x Snipe, 3x Great Egret, 25x Little Egret, 2x Goosander, 147x Pochard, 42x Shoveler, 102x Gadwall, 137x Teal, 4x Wigeon, 10x Mandarin, 9x Egyptian Geese, 85x Little Grebe, 3x YL Gull, GBB Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, Hobby, 7x Siskin, 30x Linnet, 3x Grey Wagtail, (JWo)

Whitemoor Haye

3x Great Egret, 2x Greenshank, 5x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Hobby, 7x Siskin south, (ICW)

Tittesworth Water

23x Mandarin, 6x Goosander, 4x Teal, Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Gull, (JOa)

Blithfield Resv

15x Black Tern, 9x Curlew Sandpiper, 88x Ringed Plover, 18x Dunlin, 6x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 1st winter Caspian Gull, 2x Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, 150+ House Martin, (RPo)  -  This evening 2x Great Egret, 1st w Caspian Gull, sev YL Gull, 17x Black Tern, 3x Common Tern, 90x Ringed Plover, 16x LRP, 10x Dunlin, 17x Curlew Sandpiper, 4x Common Sandpiper, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Ruff, (SRi)

Rudyard

Yellow Wagtail, 33x Lapwing, 161x Teal, Peregrine, (SGi, IB)

Tucklesholme

2x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 3x Little Egret, 8x Goosander (juv), 15x Wigeon, 8x Shoveler, 43x Gadwall, 2x Egyptian Geese, 4x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Wednesday 10th September 2025

Blithfield Resv

c35x Black Tern and a juvenile Arctic Tern this am, (MPR, GJM)  -  15x Curlew Sandpiper, (HF, SE)  - Also Dunlins, Ruffs, Ringed Plovers, LRPs, Black-tailed Godwits, Greenshank, (PJo)

Stanley Pool

Common Sandpiper, also 1249x Swallows south from 07:30 to 08:45, (GBr)

Rudyard

Red Kite over at 10:06, (Laxmi)

Branston GPs

2x eclipse drake Red-crested Pochard, 3x Greenshank, 8x Curlew, 7x Green Sandpiper, 3x Snipe,  3x Common Sandpiper, 3x Great Egret, 17x Little Egret, 172x Pochard, 44x Shoveler, 122x Gadwall, 5x Wigeon, 242x Teal, 2x Mandarin, 9x Egyptian Geese, 61x Little Grebe, 4x Water Rail, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Grey Wagtail, Swift, (JWo)

                                                   Red-crested Pochard by Jon Woodcock

Belvide Resv

2x Black Tern, 

Tucklesholme

2x Greenshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, Lapwing, 2x LRP, 6x Little Egret, 6x Goosander (juv), 19x Wigeon, 16x Shoveler, 42x Gadwall, 20x Teal, 2x Egyptian Geese, 14x GC Grebe (3juv), 5x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Whittington Hall Lane

2x Wheatear, 2x Stonechat, Peregrine, (THi)

Tuesday 9th September 2025

Blithfield Resv

11x Curlew Sandpiper, 4x Common Sandpiper, 7x Ruff, 3x Greenshank, 80x Ringed Plover, 7x LRP, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 50x Dunlin, Curlew, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, 3x Wheatear, 20x Yellow Wagtail, GBB Gull, 7x YL Gull, (RBr)

Tucklesholme

2x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP (juv), Lapwing, 6x Little Egret, 14x Goosander (juv),  8x Wigeon, 56x Gadwall, 4x Shoveler, 20+ Teal, Red-breasted Goose, 3x Egyptian Geese, 6x Little Grebe, 16x GC Grebe (5juv), 6x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Branston Leas

Hobby, Green Woodpecker, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Monday 8th September 2025

Blithfield Resv

13x Curlew Sandpiper, (HF, SE, GJM)  -  13x Common Sandpiper, 2x Greenshank, 21x Dunlin, 4x Ruff, 63x Ringed Plover, 10x Curlew, Whimbrel, 5x LRP, 4x Wheatear, Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, (HF, SE)  -  2x Ruddy Shelduck, 2x Egyptian Geese, 20+ Ringed Plover, 16x Dunlin, 8x Common Sandpiper, 13x Curlew Sandpiper, Red Kite, (CMa, RF)  -  18:40 12x Curlew Sandpiper Admaston Reach, (JKl)  -  Additional evening counts Redshank, Pintail, c25x Dunlin, GBB Gull, 12x Goosander, c85 to 100x Ringed Plover, 5x Wheatear, (PAn, SRi)

                                                    Curlew Sandpipers by Steve Edwards

                                                    Curlew Sandpiper by Rob Bendelow

Knypersley Resv

24x Mandarin, 2x drake Pochard, (GBr)

Belvide Resv

2x Glossy Ibis, 

                                                           Glossy Ibis by Clive Wood

Doxey Marsh

Glossy Ibis from main hide at 15:40, (AHa), - later at the Octagonal hide before flying off NE at 16:30, (GPr, AHa)

Stanley Pool

Little Egret, 2x Hobby, (GBr)

Whitemoor Haye

Garganey, Curlew, Greenshank, 4x Great Egret, YL Gull, (TPe)

Radford Meadows Stafford

2x Whinchat, 3x Stonechat, Great Egret, Little Egret, 2x Wigeon, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (DBa, KMa, CEv, PBe)

Branston GPs

2x Greenshank, 11x Curlew, 5x Common Sandpiper, 5x Green Sandpiper, 15x Lapwing, 5x Snipe, 4x Great Egret, 21x Little Egret. 19x Mandarin, 219x Pochard, 4x Wigeon, 56x Shoveler, 94x Gadwall, 101x Teal, 11x Egyptian Geese, 83x Little Grebe, GBB Gull, YL Gull, Peregrine, 2x Stonechat, 2x Grey Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail, 30x Linnet, 2x Greenfinch, 4x Cetti's Warbler, Reed Warbler, (JWo)

Tucklesholme

2x Common Sandpiper, LRP, Lapwing, Little Egret, 5x Wigeon, 6+ Cetti's Warbler, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (JWo)

Sunday 7th September 2025

Belvide Resv

Glossy Ibis still to 11:00 only,  2x Black Tern and 4x Black Tern dropped in at 11:05, 5x Little Stint to 13:16 only, 

Doxey Marsh

11x Greenshank over south at 08:40, Caspian Gull, (GPr, RRa, WeBS)

Blithfield Resv

240+ Ringed Plover movement 06:30 to 10:30, , Curlew Sandpiper and Turnstone briefly then flew south, fem Marsh Harrier NE. (MPR, GJM)  -  4x Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint, 10x Greenshank, 4x Redshank, 6x Ruff, 5x Curlew, Black-tailed Godwit, 72x Ringed Plover, 20x Dunlin, 7x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, 6x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, Caspian Gull, (HF, SE)  -  This evening 4x Curlew Sandpiper, 70x Ringed Plover, 7x LRP, 20x Dunlin, 10x Greenshank, 4x Redshank, 5x Curlew, 4x Ruff, 2x Wheatear, 2x Great Egret, (SRi)

                                                  Curlew Sandpipers by Steve Edwards

Radford Meadows Stafford

Peregrine, Hobby, 2x Snipe, 81x Lapwing, 4x Swift, Whinchat, 4x Stonechat, 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, high flying flock of 8x Grey Heron SW, (RSw)

Middleton Lakes

4x Ruff (possibly 7), Ringed Plover, 5x LRP, Green Sandpiper, Snipe, 2x Garganey still, (MSm)

Westport Lake

7x Shoveler, 7x Teal, 3x Little Grebe, 6x GC Grebe, 2x Grey Wagtail, 2x Swift, (KSt, WeBS)

Gailey Resv

Cetti's Warbler, juv Shelduck, (SRi)

Tittesworth Water

24x Mandarin, Common Sandpiper, 2x Red Kite, Peregrine, Common Gull, 20x Siskin, Swift, (JOa, LH, TE, KH)

Branston GPs

3x Black Tern on Ashy pit to 13:00 at least, 8x Egyptian Geese, Newbold pit Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 3x Green Sandpiper, 10x Mandarin, 3x ad YL Gull, (DSc)  -  3x Black Tern (2ad+juv), 3x Greenshank, 3x Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, 3x Common Sandpiper, 4x Green Sandpiper, 11x Curlew, 9x Snipe, 11x Lapwing, 2x Great Egret, 14x Little Egret, 6x Water Rail, 3x Wigeon, 9x Egyptian Geese, YL Gull, Peregrine, Hobby, Red Kite, Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 5x Willow Warbler, Stonechat, Siskin, Grey Wagtail, 14x RLP)

                                                        Black Terns by Jon Woodcock

Tucklesholme

Juv Black Tern, (TWy)  -  Juv Black Tern still at 17:25 also Red Kite, Wigeon, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Alvecote

3x Little Egret, 6x Little Grebe, 40x Shoveler, (MSc)

Branston Water Park

Wigeon, 20x Gadwall, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Saturday 6th September 2025

Belvide Resv  (102 species Alldayer count)

Glossy Ibis from 07:00, 2x Lesser Scaup, Black Tern, 2x Greenshank, 17x Ringed Plover, Wood Sandpiper, Pintail, Osprey thru south at 11:53, 2x Whinchat, Redstart, 9x Great Egret, 10x Little Egret, Goshawk, 

Whitemoor Haye (72 species Alldayer count)

3x Great Egret, 11x Little Egret, 2x Greenshank, 2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 118x Lapwing, 2x Hobby, Yellowhammer, 31x Egyptian Geese, 26x GC Grebe, 19x Little Grebe,  12x Pochard, 2x YL Gull, 3x Common Tern, c60 Linnet, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)  -  This afternoon juv/1st win Caspian Gull, ad YL Gull, 2x Greenshank, 2x Green Sandpiper, Snipe, 3x Great Egret, Hobby. (TPe)

Blithfield Resv (103 species Alldayer count)

Marsh Harrier, Greenshank, Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, Caspian Gull, Great Egret, Hobby, Spotted Flycatcher, Wheatear, Tree Pipit, Crossbill, (PAn)

Berryhill

Black Redstart around the shed mid morning, (IBu)  -  Early am Wheatear, 2x Stonechat, Redstart, Tree Pipit,  (RTo)

Middleton Lakes (96 species Alldayer count)

Glossy Ibis flew in to  JW north at 11:55, (SPA)

Stanley Pool

Ring-necked Parakeet, Little Egret, Ringed Plover, (GBr)

Tucklesholme

Greenshank over, 3x Curlew, 3x imm LRP, 4x Wigeon, 8x Goosander on river, 2x Little Egret, (@Ochruros)

Branston GPs (101 species Alldayer count)

Osprey, Peregrine, Hobby, 8x Curlew, 2x Dunlin, 4x Greenshank, Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, 11x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 15x Lapwing, 4x Great Egret, 27x Little Egret, 6x Water Rail, 7x Goosander, 232x Pochard, 39x Shoveler, 109x Gadwall, 3x Wigeon, 123x Teal, 12x Mandarin, 69x Little Grebe, YL Gull, Barn Owl, Green Woodpecker, Whinchat, Stonechat, Yellow Wagtail, 3x Tree Pipit, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, 4x Cetti's Warbler, Reed Warbler, 4x Siskin, 4x Redpoll, 25x Linnet, 5x Greenfinch, 5x Swift, Grey Wagtail, (JWo, DSc, CEc, Dean, PFo, MCa).  -  Newbold pit Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 2x Green Sandpiper, (@Ochruros)

                                              Willow Emerald Damsefly by Jon Woodcock

Doxey Marsh (75 species Alldayer count)

Cattle Egret, 2x Great Egret, Stonechat, 2x Gadwall, 2x Water Rail, (RGi)

Cuckoo Bank (51 species Alldayer count)

Whinchat, female  Goshawk, drifting east, (GHa)

Friday 5th September 2025

Belvide Resv

Glossy Ibis to 09:30 only, Grey Phalarope, 2x Lesser Scaup, 

Stafford

3x Rose-ringed  Parakeet at Exeter Street at 08:00, (MBo)

Branston GPs

Osprey, 2x Red Kite, Peregrine, Hobby, 3x Greenshank, 10x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 4x Curlew, 3x LRP (juv), Snipe, 4x Water Rail, 3x Great Egret, 21x Little Egret, 26x Shoveler, 254x Pochard, 103x Gadwall, 87x Teal, Wigeon, 12x Mandarin, Red-breasted Goose, 4x Egyptian Geese, 86x Little Grebe, Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, Whinchat, 2x Swift, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Reed Warbler, 2x Greenfinch,  (JWo, DSc, CEc, Dean, MCa)

Whitemoor Haye

Osprey south at 10:50, Great Egret, 4x Common Tern, (ICW)

Radford Meadows Stafford

2x Whinchat, 5x Stonechat, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 4x Swift, 150x House Martin, 8x Gadwall, 25x Teal, Snipe, 49x Lapwing, Little Egret, (RSw)

Blithfield Resv

Clowded Yellow on the dam wall grassy bank, (RBe)

                                                                   By Rob Bendelow

Doxey Marsh

Cattle Egret, 5x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, Caspian Gull, Pochard, 4x Water Rail, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Little Grebe, 3x GC Grebe, Reed Warbler, (RSt)

Thursday 4th September 2025

Belvide Resv

Grey Phalarope still Lesser Scaup,

Tittesworth Water

26x Mandarin, Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, (JOa, LH)

Middleton Lakes

4x Hobby, Ruff, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, 9x LRP, Peregrine, 7x Wigeon, Great Egret, (PAn) - Great Egret, Little Egret, Water Rail, Garganey, Common Tern, Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff, Green Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, LRP, Green Woodpecker, Hobby, (RBe)

                                                               Hobby by Rob Bendelow

Gailey Resv

Eclipse drake Lesser Scaup on sailing lake to 17:40 at least, (SRi)

Fordhouses

Osprey over south, (Foz)

Alvecote

Swift Old Orchard, (TPe)

Branston GPs

Greenshank, 9x Green Sandpiper, 4x Common Sandpiper, 3x Lapwing, 10x Curlew, 3x Great Egret, 20x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, Goosander, 143x Pochard, 10x Mandarin, 67x Gadwall, 26x Shoveler, Wigeon, 93x Teal, Red-breasted Goose, 5x Egyptian Geese, YL Gull, 86x Little Grebe, Peregrine, Hobby, 6x Swift, 150x House Martin, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Reed Warbler, 2x Grey Wagtail, Greenfinch, (JWo, DSc)

Wednesday 3rd September 2025

Blithfield Resv

54x Common Tern dropped in on Admaston Reach this am, (GJM)

Belvide Resv

Grey Phalarope still, 2x Lesser Scaup, Garganey, Sandwich Tern, Whimbrel thru, 

Middleton Lakes

2x Great Egret, 2x Greenshank, 8x LRP, Ruff, 13x Snipe, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Common Tern, Hobby, 2x Garganey, 3x Swift, Yellow Wagtail, (SPA)

Tucklesholme/Branston Leas

Red-breasted Goose (of unknown origin), 6x Curlew, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP (juv), Common Tern, 10x Little Egret, 10x Goosander, 8x Wigeon, 32x Gadwall, 4x Egyptian Geese, 6x Little Grebe, 19x GC Grebe (5juv), 5x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo) - 

Branston GPs

18:30 to dusk, Red-breasted Goose on Newbold pit, Great Egret, 16x Little Egret, 11x Egyptian Geese, 130x Pochard, Goosander,  Peregrine, 11x Curlew, 5x Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, ad YL Gull, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Dimmingsdale (Alton)

100+ Siskin feeding on Birch seeds, (TEy)

Whitemoor Haye

Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, (TPe)

Gailey Resv

Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern (ad+juv), (SRi)

Tuesday 2nd September 2025

Westport Lake

Arctic Tern this am, (KSt)

Middleton Lakes

2x Garganey, Ruff, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, 12x LRP, Hobby, (MSm)

Belvide Resv

Grey Phalarope still, Greenshank, Redshank, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Lesser Scaup and Garganey still, 

Stafford

Red Kite over MOD, (RSt)

Tucklesholme

6x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, 2x Wigeon, Red-breasted Goose (unknown origin with no visible rings), 2x Egyptian Geese, (TSl)

                                                Red-breasted Goose by Tony Slater

Branston GPs

Greenshank, 6x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 15x Snipe, 6x Curlew, 5x Lapwing, Great Egret, 19x Little Egret, 4x Water Rail, Goosander, 159x Pochard, Shelduck, Mandarin, Wigeon, 22x Shoveler, 108x Gadwall, 94x Teal, 7x Egyptian Geese, 92x Little Grebe, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Yellow Wagtail, 6x Swift, (JWo)

Blithfield Resv

This evening 18:30 till dusk Great Egret, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, Hobby, 8x YL Gull, 1st S Caspian Gull, Golden Plover, 3x Ringed Plover, 13x LRP, 3x Dunlin, Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, 8x Ruff, (SRi)

Monday 1st September 2025

Middleton Lakes

Earl am 2x Curlew Sandpiper, 2x Ruff, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Green Sandpiper, 16x LRP, Hobby, Peregrine, Whinchat, (SPA)  -  Osprey fishing over reedbed pool, Greenshank, 2x Curlew Sandpiper, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Ruff, Garganey, Whinchat, (JKl)

Stanley Pool

2x Redstart, Swift, (GBr)

Radford Meadows Stafford

Male Whinchat, 4x Red Kite, 52x Lapwing, (RSw)

Belvide Resv

Juv Grey Phalarope from west end hide, Marsh Harrier, 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, 3x Greenshank, 2x Lesser Scaup, Garganey, Ringed Plover, 5x Stonechat, 

                                                   Grey Phalarope by Steve Edwards

Branston GPs

2x Wheatear, Whinchat Stonechat, 5x Greenshank, 3x Curlew, 4x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, Lapwing, Ringed Plover, 2x LRP (Juv), 3x Snipe, Great Egret, 25x Little Egret, Water Rail, 4x Mandarin, 2x Shelduck, 139x Pochard, 126x Gadwall, 26x Shoveler, 162x Teal, 108x Little Grebe, Common Tern, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, Hobby, 24x Swift, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Grey Wagtail, 2x Greenfinch, 2x Linnet, Cetti's Warbler, RLP, (JWo)

Stafford

3x Ring-necked Parakeet over Bodmin Av at 13:24, (AHa)

Alvecote

2x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 20+Shoveler, (MSc)